Montreal Tech Watch

Technology Entrepreneurs Stars

- Emile Girard bio

- Austin Hill

- Chrystian Guy (cguy.org) – founder of La Toile du Québec, probably the biggest takeover of web 1.0 in Québec, now at Transcontinental.

Yves Williams – founder with Chrystian of la Toile, now CEO of agentsolo.com

François Lane – sold *2 * internet businesses now working on the Code Kitchen / Cake Mail.

Alexandre Taillefer, another two-times buyout, Intellia and Hexacto.

Gautham Sastri, founder of Terrascale which he and I sold to Rackable Systems (NASDAQ: RACK) for over 10x the amount of capital we raised.

Marc Gingras – founded and sold one startup + closed the deal that led to Avaya buying Nimcat Networks.

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