Une semaine après le 3ème #founderfuel demo day, nous avons voulu revenir sur cette soirée que nous avons suivi des balcons, puis dans la foule, pour mieux saisir l’esprit qui y régnait.. et afin aussi de donner la chance à tous ceux qui n’ont pas pu y assister, de se replonger dans cette soirée très [...]
Quick but great news of the day: Venturebeat reports Playerize has closed its series A, getting $1m from Real Ventures, Rho Ventures, as well as invidual investors such as Mike Edwards of Initio Group, David Chamandy of Machkor, Martin-Luc Archambault of Bolidea, Dan Robichaud, and Jason Bailey. It’s a diverse group of investors, with investors [...]
A program made to accelerate startups The FounderFuel program is the best effort I have seen in Montréal to get a startup accelerator. What they do is invest $10k plus $5k per co-founder in early stage startups willing to move to the Notman House for 3 months and work on their startup. If you’re mobile [...]
Today was demo day for FounderFuel, a program managed by Real Ventures, which takes on the “accelerator” trend in startup circles all around the world. The idea is to invite and select teams from all over the world interested in focusing on their startup project for a period of x months, generally in exchange for [...]
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, [...]
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, 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 [...]
Given FounderFuel’s new accelerator program, it’s interesting to see what’s done elsewhere. GrowLab is a new accelerator initiative, with startups given between $20,000 and $25,000 in funding. Interestingly, they’re also beginning today, with 4 months to get to the next level. The winnning startups joining the Vancouver-based accelerator’s first edition are cloud-based education platform matygo, [...]
MTW is Montreal's Startup and IT community Hub. If you have an enquiry or a news tip, contact us !
You, yes, you there! Your articles on MTW? We would be glad to read your articles and post them here. More informations
featured storyopen sourcevideo gameshackmtlcommunityhostingnewtechlegalMobileconferencemontrealuistartupsfounderfuelandroidmontrealouvertEntrepreneurshipsecuritytwittergooglemtlnewtechiweb
Subscribe and get daily articles with our RSS feed
