FounderFuel just announced today that accepted applicants to the FounderFuel program for the spring 2013 and forward will get $50,000 instead of the past $25,000. In exchange, the Montreal-based startup accelerator will ask for 9% equity instead of 6% equity. The $50,000 comes up with the existing advantages and offers that the program offers, such [...]
Like weather, stock market prediction has always grasped imagination. If you can get one step ahead, through fast computers, superior intuition or advanced interfaces, you could beat other traders and get superior returns. The development of social media, mainly Twitter and Facebook, where hundreds of millions of users announce their small and big daily victories, [...]
Check out iNovia’s announcements this week: Bomoda, a Chineese fashion startup, Top Hat Monocle, a startup in education gamification, AppDirect, cloud computing for millions of SMBs, and 33Across, which is in social graph. You can see more comments here to get context about those investments. What I was interested though was to get the big [...]
FounderFuel graduated 11 teams May 23rd, at Monument National. AccelerateMTL was scheduled in the same day and CVCA in the same week, and it’s in a room full of investors, “alumni”, and entrepreneurs that the startups delivered their pitches to potential investors. Like in the first cohort, what stands our from FounderFuel cohorts is their [...]
The International Startup Festival organizers, Phil Telio, Alistair Croll, and other partners, such as Anna Goodson, has announced yesterday they will invest up to $50,000 in a startup present at the startup summer festival. The startup festival aims to explore the business side of startups, and with the goal of making connections happen between investors [...]
Editor’s note: Post by Jake Hirsch-Allen (@ jakehirschallen). Jake is currently Director of Business Development for Wall Street Survivor and consults on business development for the Multiplicity Accelerator and several Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto-based tech startups. Having practiced international criminal and intellectual property law, he has founded health technology and startup development organizations and currently [...]
In the past 6 months, we’ve seen several initiatives in Montreal, such as HackingHealth, the cloud robotics hackathon, Startup Weekend. These events are open to anyone and is a good opportunity to start a project. Participants and partners also love the intensity and the fact that there’s a prototype and a (glimpse of) a business [...]
This weekend, a hundred and more programmers, geeks and hardware hackers gathered at Notman House for the Robotics Hackathon. The goal was simple: work on robots for the weekend, learn how to program them, and also at the same time discover new robots and new devices like 3D printers. Here are selections of pictures taken [...]
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