Silicon Valley-based startup AppDirect, a cloud service marketplace company dedicated to connecting businesses, brands, and developers through a global network of partner marketplaces, has opened a Montreal office.
The startup has some local family connections in Montreal as well, as co-CEO Daniel Saks is the cousin of FounderProject‘s Ilan Saks.
To date AppDirect has raised $20.8 million in funding from iNovia Capital and Stingray.
Here’s what the company had to say in a blog post:
San Francisco is a world-famous hub for tech talent, but in todayâs global cloud economy, awesome software engineers can be found just about anywhere. Thatâs why weâre incredibly excited to announce the opening of AppDirectâs new office in one of the worldâs premier citiesâMontreal, Canada.
Montreal is famous for having the largest French-speaking population outside of Paris, the NHL team that has won the most Stanley Cups (the Canadiens), and Canadaâs largest church, St. Josephâs Oratory. Increasingly, itâs also being seen as a thriving city for startups and engineers. Itâs the ideal environment for growing our technology team, not to mention AppDirectâs global footprint as a whole.
After the office opening, we officially welcomed our Montreal crew to the AppDirect team with a two-week session in San Francisco. Remy, Francois, Marc, Dave, Pierre, Daniel, and Christian met their Bay Area colleagues, and were given a proper introduction to all of the sights and sounds of the City by the Bay, including trips to Alcatraz and Napa Valley. Since then, another engineer, Guillaume, has also joined the Montreal team.
We now have offices in San Francisco, Boulder, Ottawa, and Montreal, with additional presence in London, Munich, and Hamburg. Weâve more than doubled the size of our team in the past year, and weâre on pace to grow even faster in the next few months.