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CategoryOsmos Academy’s VR Passport helps sick kids see the world
As you approach the activities room at the Centre de Réadaptation Marie-Enfant, you can hear the children’s laughter before you’re halfway..
How I’m leaving my mark on Notman House
I have a long affiliation to Notman House: I joined Real Ventures in 2011 and I moved in to their offices, at Notman; I started building F..
C2MTL, AccelerateMTL to do ‘VIPish’ event + Startup Program
This summer’s C2 Montreal festival will host an “extremely VIPish” AccelerateMTL event, presented by iNovia and C100. Along with the yearl..
Comic Bento delivers a mystery box full of comics to your door
Comic Bento founder Jeff Moss seems like a pretty satisfied guy. After all, he does something for a living that makes a lot of people gidd..
This five letter word will make your startup
No, M O N E Y ain’t the word…
In my last post I wrote the key to a startup’s rapid growth is its capacity to exploit the success..
Will braindrain be the continued fate of Montreal’s Machine Learning community?
Montreal’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning community arguably started out as leaders in their trade, but community exper..
Kam Lal makes a hit in Nashville with Notetracks
Kam Lal hasn’t yet gone to a Predators NHL hockey game yet, but the startup founder in town for Nashville’s Project Music Accelerator says..
Inspiring Founders: Salima Visram and the Soular Backpack
Growing up in a small village in Kenya, Silima Visram saw everyday the effects of poverty. She was fortunate enough to receive a good educ..
Yackathon 2.0’s ‘smart city’ weekend will be a busy one
Yelp’s Montreal office is putting the final organizing touches on its upcoming Yackathon 2.0, set to take place April 1-3 at La Gare cowor..
How Hykso rubbed Y Combinator the right way
They were the very last team of 6,000 to have the chance to wow Y Combinator brass, and they pulled it off.
After completing the second..
Algolux’s band of PhD researchers take on big challenges in image processing
The latest safety-savvy vehicles may have as many as eight to ten embedded computer vision cameras in them, mostly to assist with autonomo..
Monthly product meetups flourishing in Montreal
Product aficionados have an abundance of choice these days in Montreal when it comes to monthly events. That’s because two meetup groups -..
Lightspeed unveils its ecommerce weapon
Lightspeed, Montreal’s point of sale (POS) system for retailers and restaurateurs, is launching its ecommerce tool for North American busi..
15th CRC Robotics Comp brings lessons beyond the classroom
For 15 consecutive years, hundreds of high school and CEGEP students have flocked to the Montreal-based CRC Robotics Competition, tasked w..
Letter to my younger self as a woman in technology
Last month, I was privileged to have been invited to participate on an entrepreneurship panel at the Annual Women in Computing Conference,..