Jasmine Antonick (@jasmineAntonick), a Canadian living in the valley, calls out for Canadian startups to present at Under the Radar Nov. 09. I’m looking to find some killer Canadian mobile startups, as I want to showcase innovative companies from outside the borders of Silicon Valley ;) And, I’m a Canadian living in San Francisco… It’d [...]
Mobile in Montreal
Reportage released
Buzzwords in a newly released product this morning: cloud twitter iphone mobility, location-based service app store apocalypse Yes, it’s reportage! (I’m sad there’s no mention of Facebook, that’s also a buzzword these days) Now available on the App Store
Reportage, an upcoming iPhone/Twitter application
Fred Brunel has a teaser and an introduction about Reportage on his blog Reportage works with the way you already tend to use Twitter; by firstly, scanning for the avatar of people you care most about and then browsing for second tier interest people. We’ve leveraged the ability of your brain to quickly recognize faces, [...]
Web 2.0 Expo: Making Money
San Francisco is a cold and windy place this year. Even though O’Reilly’s European conference got canceled, attendance here is visibly reduced. There are fewer booths, fewer attendees, the parties offer a little more room to breathe than a year ago. We were still technically in a recession last year, a year of record attendances, [...]
Xobni raises additional $3.2 million from Blackberry Partners Fund
Xobni, a startup offering a power plugin for Microsoft Outlook, announced last week 2 major news: their software is now officially out of beta, after 10 months of beta-testing, and the Blackberry Partners Fund has added $3.2 million in their series B round. The main investor remains CISCO, which puts in $7 million. See original [...]
Thoughts
Number of the day: 58 millions mobile phone subscribers now in France, with 1 million having 3G access. That’s a penetration rate of 91.3%, while Canada is at 51.3%62% (last stats from cwta.ca). So one could think: Canadians don’t know about mobile phones, OR they are “culturally” attached to landlines, Canadian mobile carriers don’t know [...]
Neuralitic Systems raises $3million from the Blackberry Partners fund
Neuralitic Systems, a company which provides marketing insights for operators and mobile service providers, has announced a $3m investment from the Blackberry Partners fund last week. The company also raised additional funds from Vertex Capital, BDC Venture Capital, and Go Capital Fund in the past 4 months, in a total of $10million. See this post [...]
Airborne Mobile Announces $2 Million Growth financing round
Airborne and iNovia Capital announced last week a $2million financing round. Airborne is a Montreal tech company producing mobile tools and applications, with a very diverse product line, from games, SMS apps, to wallpapers, ringtones and mobile marketing tools. The financing round by iNovia Capital has been presented by both companies as a renewal, after [...]
Wireless innovation in Canada despite the carriers
The first edition of the CWMF was held on Thursday in Montreal. We were 200 business people with a strong interest in wireless management and in wireless innovation. I see in this event as well as in the recent Rogers data plans drop the possibility for Canada to remain a place where wireless world leaders [...]
Neuralitic raises $7m from Vertex Venture Capital, BDC and Go Capital Fund
Neuralitic Systems has announced a $7 million funding from Vertex Venture Capital, an Israel-based venture Fund, as well as from BDC and Go Capital Fund, to fund their expansion. Neuralitic makes SevenFlow, an analytics software that allows telecom companies to see how wireless data access is consumed by their customers. Neuralitic states that since “voice [...]
