If you are a startup entrepreneur, a programmer looking to be in the next startup, or a designer, you’re invited to the next Co-Founders, a MTL NewTech this upcoming wednesday 16th at Notman House. The networking event is dedicated to bring together entrepreneurs, and hopefully start building new relations so you can get a kick-ass [...]
Context.IO, Recoset, Fabric Engine and other 14 other Canadian startups going to the valley
48 Hours in the valley
FounderFuel unveils first batch of 9 ready-to-invest startups
Montreal’s accelerator program
wavo.me, a new music player made for the web
Conor Clarke, one of Wavo.me’s cofounders, took a stab today at the iTunes player, and most of the iTunes clones for its bland design. That was a very ballsy comment, in a world where most designers have granted God status to Apple and its design sense. In lieu of the boring grey and “swedish-style” design, [...]
vuru validates investment ideas
vuru was presented today at FounderFuel demo day as a breakthrough in the finance world, much alike expedia or airbnb revolutionnized their respective industries by giving back the control to final customers. With a simple and easy-to-use page for each stock, vuru lets self-directed investors reach a qualified decision. Assumptions can be tweaked, and compared [...]
Willet converts “window shoppers” into customers
Willet has a little neat trick for ecommerce sites. Visitors who are casually browsing products are invited to ask their friends if they should buy or not the product. The call to action question is plugged into Facebook, and presented as if it was a dire question for the user. It’s fun, simple and turns [...]
Playerize announces $374k revenues and closed funding round
Playerize, with an all-star team from Vancouver, jumps on the social gaming opportunity, and is providing an ambitious set of tools to game publishers, to acquire new players, and also increase engagement. Playerize was introduced today by one of their new investors (Rho Ventures) as opportunistic entrepreneurs. With the explosion of social gaming, mainly on [...]
Oohlala hopes to reach 4 million students
Ooh la la, a team from Toronto, had a fun presentation today at FounderFuel, recalling everyone how college equals to parties, people and pizza. With a team made of 9 co-founders, they’ve done a lot, from groups, to events to many other social features. The application presented though focused on 3 main features though, and [...]
Blame Stella monitoring 1000 sites
BlameStella, which was launched in January this year, made an appearance today at FounderFuel. Delano Mandelbaum came with his new co-founder, Chris Murtaugh, announcing at the same time new ambitions. The product in itself isn’t much different from its launch; we’ve seen the unique presentation from the 19th century, the open source availability, as well [...]
