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TagAll the best moments from TechNoel 2016
Another TechNoel has come and gone, celebrating the year that was for Montreal’s tech community. Special thanks to Le Drink, as well as ou..
Deadlines near for McGill Dobson Cup, InnoCité, EcoFuel
Several accelerators and startup programs in Montreal are accepting applications right now. Here’s what you need to know:
McGill Dobson..
Felix & Paul Studios will develop VR content for 20th Century Fox
Montreal’s Felix & Paul Studios has inked a multi-picture production deal with one of the world’s most acclaimed film houses, 20th Cen..
Airfare finder app Hopper gets mammoth $82 million deal
Montreal and Boston-based Hopper has raised $82 million in funding. The deal is being led by the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec al..
Former hacker gets $1.8M for security startup, opens Boston office
Gabriel Tremblay and his team at Delve Labs have cashed in on a $1.5 million seed round from Real Ventures, Desjardins Innovatech and Queb..
MTL➡️SF: Eric Aubertin vies for the big exit with Yadle
Life could have been so different for Yadle cofounder Eric Aubertin, a Montrealer-turned-San Franciscan.
Just over 30 years ago he was ..
Maluuba and McGill U to teach common sense to machines
Can we teach robots to think like humans? How about teaching them to feel human emotions and even dream? These are all subplots within the..
The guy who wants to build Montreal’s LoRaWAN network from scratch
There’s a new wave in connecting together “smart” objects and one local non-profit wants to build out Montreal’s entire network.
It all..
Business insurance startup Zensurance gets $1 million
Toronto’s Zensurance, a startup offering curated commercial insurance packages for startups, has raised $1 million in seed cash. The round..
MTL ➡️ SF: Paper Anniversary by Anna V. eyes $1 million in 2017
MTLinTECH visited with Montreal entrepreneurs who made the jump and moved their startup to Silicon Valley. Here’s their stories.
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Nice guys finish last? New startup game ‘Control Alt Deceit’ finds out
Montreal seems to be the place where building startup-themed board games is a popular thing to do.
Just a few months ago we featured a ..
Breather raises $40 million, triples spaces to more than 300
Breather on Wednesday said it has raised $40 million in a Series C round led by Menlo Ventures.
The Montreal-born, New York-based start..
Shopify, Ubisoft highlight Glassdoor’s ‘Best Places to Work’ 2017
Glassdoor has named Ottawa’s Shopify the best place to work in Canada in its latest rankings that came out today.
Also making their mar..
‘We’re 100% Montreal now,’ mldb.ai CEO on acquisition
In October Montreal startup Datacratic announced it had been acquired by iPerceptions, a move that continued a trend of convergence in mar..
$100,000 McGill Dobson Cup returns for student startups
McGill University’s $100,000 annual student startup competition is back for 2017. The Dobson Cup will be hosted by the McGill Dobson Centr..