Mashable’s Piece on Quebec’s Startup Climate Twisted Reality
Mashable’s January 30th article entitled “Quebec’s Preoccupation With French Is Limiting It’s Startup Scene” didn’t…
Montréal
FounderFuel’s Mentor Day is Under Way
Montreal’s FounderFuel accelerator program is knee-deep into its mentor day, the event that typically inaugurates the…
Montreal’s Fundica Beefs Up Its Funding Road Show for Second Year
Fundica is bringing the Funding Road Show back, nearly doubling the amount of cities on this year’s tour. The Montreal-based…
Montreal-Born 5by Unveils Android App for Video Recommendation Engine
5by, the San Francisco-based company that was founded in Montreal in 2012, has launched its app in the Google Play store, for…
Confoo Conference for Web Developers to Hit Montreal Next Month
The Confoo web techno conference for web developers is coming to the Hilton Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Montreal February…
The Bitcoin ATM Craze Continues in Montreal and Ottawa
The craze for Bitcoin ATMs continues this week as CoinDesk has reported that Ottawa installed a crytocurrency-spitting machine.…
Startup Weekend Takes Montreal Next Month
Startup Weekend, the global, grassroots community that put on 54-hour marathon events where entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs…
Hopper, the Startup That’s Been in Stealth for Six Years Finally (soft) Launched This Week
It’s been six years since a bunch of ex-Expedia and TripAdvisor engineers started working on Hopper, a Montreal and Boston-based…
Solver’s Market is a Marketplace for Tough Science and Engineering Problems
A story on Montreal TechWatch caught my eye last week when I read about Solver’s Market, a question and answer marketplace…
Wearable Electronics Company to Invest in Greater Montreal Area
Montreal wearable electronic and quantified-self company Motion Engine is set to invest and expand into the “Greater…
CBC’s Dragons’ Den Announces Audition Dates for Canadian Entrepreneurs
Dragons’ Den has announced the dates for its upcoming audition tour. Some of the highlights include Toronto on January…
Lost or Dead Smartphone? You’re Safe with Ppl Connect’s Web-Based Solution
After a conversation with Montreal startup Ppl Connect, I still can’t figure out if their technology amplifies humanity’s…
Montreal’s FixMeStick is on the cusp of reaching its $50,000 crowdfunding goal
It’s not too often that a pair of entrepreneurs walk into CBC’s Dragons’ Den, impressing all five dragons.…
Montreal’s International Startup Festival Reveals 2014 Theme
Montreal-based International Startup Festival has revealed in a blog post this week by Alistair Croll that the theme for the…
Real Ventures’ New Fund Could be $100 Million, But Still Uncertain
PEHub this morning reported that Real Ventures is approaching its “first close of its third $100 million partnership,”…