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TagFundica Roadshow offers big prizes
The 2016 Fundica Roadshow is ready to hit Montreal to offer prospective entrepreneurs some enviable prizes.
The Roadshow is back in..
Unito raises $575,000
Unito, a Montreal-based startup that builds specialized connectors for business apps, has raised $575,000 from Real Ventures, Pascal Pilon..
Clearing the fog: A 1-on-1 chat with Montreal startup investor John Stokes
In December 2012, I wrote a piece about Real Ventures investor John Stokes, calling him “the Gordon Ramsay of Canadian Startups.”
For a..
Montreal NewTech helped plant the seeds of a community
Heri Rakatomalala, Greg Whiteside and Ilias Benjelloun sit around piping hot pizzas fresh out of the oven at Rue Du Square Phillips’ Il Fo..
Blockstream raises mega $55 million round
Blockstream has raised a $55 million Series A round of funding to continue its work expanding the bitcoin code base for commercial use, pe..
iNovia’s own portfolio CEOs came back to invest in new fund
Montreal-based venture capital fund iNovia Capital has raised a new fund worth $175 million. Along the way, it received some help from fam..
The biggest Montreal tech news stories from 2015
With another great year for the Montreal startup community set to pass as New Year’s comes upon us, we thought we’d choose our favourite n..
9 things I learned in my first year of running a startup
Starting a new company is hard. Let me rephrase that, starting a new company is like getting kicked in the pants every single day of the w..
Orckestra’s Commerce Cloud solution gets $12 million series B round
Orckestra, a Montreal-based provider of an ecommerce tool for retailers, grocers and branded manufacturers, has raised a series B round of..
FounderFuel graduates newest cohort of startups
Montreal’s FounderFuel accelerator program is graduating seven tech startups Wednesday evening. The companies will all make their way on s..
Athlete-focused crowdfunders MAKEACHAMP prepare for the big leagues
It’s going to be a big year for Montreal-based MAKEACHAMP, according to the company’s unique cofounders David Barkay and Michael Shpigelma..
Young, successful founders at OpSkins are doing it their own way
Nobody expected 21-year-old web entrepreneur Artur Minacov and his cofounder John Brechisci to make a fortune in the startup game, but the..
It ain’t easy…anywhere!
My father was a business person who worked in a corporate environment his entire life. He did well for himself, my mom, my brother and I, ..
Private investor behind ‘YOLO Ventures’ makes a bet on unproven startups
There’s a wealthy Montreal entrepreneur-investor who holds a unique mantra when he writes cheques.
He lives life according to the phras..
Blockstream is making bitcoin ‘Sidechains’ a reality
Blockstream, a Montreal startup made up of some of the best-known Bitcoin architects, cryptographers, cypherpunks, and entrepreneurs, has ..