StartupCampMontreal
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[edit] Overview
Startup Camp Montreal is an event dedicated to everything Startup. It is the forum where early stage companies, investors and on-lookers alike can share information and validate pitches live. Join us as we learn from each other about the ins and outs of starting up. This event is not just for Montrealers, all are welcome. Space is limited, so you need to register soon .
A “Camp” event is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, presentations, and interaction from participants. The “Camp” event concept is inspired from Bar camp and Foo camp events originally started in California, but now held worldwide.
The initiators and instigators of this event are: Embrase, Jevon Mac Donald, Jonas Brandon, Sylvain Carle, and Heri Rakotomalala. Anyone else interested in helping with the organization of the event can send us an e-mail at ptelio@startupcampmontreal.org.
[edit] Event Details
Date : January 23rd, 2008
Time : 6pm to 10pm EST
Location : SAT - Société des arts technologiques
Address : 1195 Saint-Laurent boulevard, Montreal, Québec, H5B 1C2 (GOOGLE MAP)
[edit] Registration
Registrations are being managed through Event Brite. The official registration site can be found at http://startupcampmontreal.eventbrite.com/
Registration is now closed.
[edit] Keynote Speaker
We are happy to announce Graham Hill, Founder TreeHugger.com and Vice President, Interactive Media, Planet Green as our keynote speaker.
Alternately described as Serial Entrepreneur, Do-Gooder and Designer, Graham Hill certainly enjoys variety, although now finds his future happily confined to the social entrepreneurship arena. Past businesses include forays into fashion, web-development, viral email and plant-based air filters. In 1995, with his cousin, he started and grew the web-development firm, SiteWerks, to 60 people doing work for large companies such as Microsoft and sold the company to a New York based company in 1998.
He currently focuses on pushing sustainability into the mainstream through TreeHugger.com, which in 4 short years has become one of the most respected and trafficked environmental sites on the web. Graham and the TreeHugger.com team recently joined the Discovery Communications family of networks as part of its Planet Green multi-platform, global environmental initiative.
Additionally, he owns a product business that sells a New York souvenir he designed a few years ago into 150 stores including MOMA. Originally from the Montreal area, Graham has a Bachelor of Architecture with distinction from Carleton University in Ottawa and did advanced studies in Industrial Design at E.C.I.A.D, Vancouver. Graham has lived all over the world and his guiltiest sin is air travel (offset of course). He speaks English, French, German and Spanish and is addicted to squash.
He doesn't get home too often, so we are extremely pleased Graham is making the trip up north to inspire local entrepreneurs and startups.
[edit] Additional reading on Graham Hill
Time Magazine article - Link
Discovery Channel Acquires Treehugger.com For $10 Million Link
[edit] Albert Lai - closing remarks
Albert Lai will be providing the closing remarks.
[edit] Sponsors
If you are interested in being a sponsor at Startup Camp Montreal, please send us an email. Official sponsors receive a mention on the website, in our press communications, and will be thanked in opening and closing remarks.
Confirmed sponsors to date:
BCF - Lawyers, Patent and Trade Mark Agents
BDC Venture Capital - Business Development Bank of Canada
Embrase Business Consulting
Microsoft Canada
Build Great Software Products..Faster
[edit] Format of Event
Five companies will be selected to give a brief 10 minute presentation on their startup. Following which, the audience will ask questions and give 5-10 minutes of valuable feedback to the startup in an open forum format.
After the 5 presentations, all startups will have the chance to demo their startup in an informal networking environment.
Note: Presenting companies will be selected from the list of attending startups. The panel of Gurus (Startup experts and VCs) will make their selection in early January.
[edit] Presenting Companies
Votes are in...
28 participants (Gurus and Organizers) were asked to cast votes for the top 5 presenting companies at Startup Camp Montreal. A total of 27 votes were cast. 96% is an excellent conversion rate; Thank you to our dedicated Gurus!
Based 100% on votes from Gurus and organizers, the 5 selected presenting companies at Startup Camp Montreal are as follows (in no particular order):
Slot 1 - Cozimo
Slot 2 - Tungle
Slot 3 - Streametrics
Slot 4 - iGotcha Media
Slot 5 - YourTeleDoctor
[edit] The selection process - NOW CLOSED
If you are interested in having the opportunity to present your startup idea or company at the event, here are the steps to follow.
1. Post your company details below, or send us your one line elevator pitch by email, or optionally, complete the company positioning template at Embrase. Let us know if you need any help e-mail.
2. The event Gurus (investors, startup experts) will review all companies (and websites if they exists). And through a voting process will select the top 5 Startups that will officially present in front of everyone.
3. All other Startups will have the opportunity to present themselves at the event. Tables will be setup, with wifi access.
4. Selected companies will each give a 10-minute presentation, following which they will each receive 5-10 minutes of feedback and questions from the audience.
[edit] Dates and Deadlines
Deadline to indicate interest - ASAP (Max Jan 10th)
Deadline for posting one-liner on wiki – Jan 10th
Gurus vote for top 5 Startups – Jan 14th
Announcement made – Jan 15th
Presenters' PPTs prepared for – Jan 21st
Event - Jan 23rd
[edit] Startup Companies Attending
If you would like to attend Startup Camp Montreal, please register before entering your informationbelow.
If you are a startup, and you successfully registered, please enter your information below in the sample format below.
[edit] Azzahra E-Learning
Elevator Pitch: Azzahra E-Learning's philosophy is about engagement and empowerment. We build original Arabic language online video tutorial content, and create a supportive community of active users.
Stage : Seed stage, looking for financing
Person attending : Fatima Elmasri
[edit] MaestroReading Inc.
URL : www.MaestroReading.com
Elevator Pitch: MaestroReading Inc. is a literacy education software development company and application service provider based out of Montreal, Canada. Our mission is to simplify the learning process in order to give children the motivation and confidence to develop elementary reading skills and an enthusiastic love of reading. Our vision is for all children to experience the fantasy of reading and develop the inspiration and empowerment for them to reach their potential.
Stage : We have adequate funding at this time (private investors, grants and competition victories)
Person attending : Danny Iny
[edit] VoIPGizmos.ca
URL : www.Voipgizmos.ca
Elevator Pitch: Recent reports state that 1 in 12 Canadians use VoIP at home or at work. That # is continuing to increase at very rapid trends. At VoIPGizmos.ca we provide our customers with top of the line VoIP equipment such as IP phones, PBX for business, etc. Our sales for 2007 have exceeded our expectation. We want to be leaders in this market and make VoIP to be within reach to all Canadians and potentially expand to other markets.
Stage : Self financed / looking for angel or VC investment
Person attending : Alex Kovalenko
[edit] iGotcha Media Inc.
URL : www.i-gotcha.com
Elevator Pitch: An interactive digital signage agency, providing strategy and turnkey solutions to clients with a clear value proposition and measurable ROI. iGotcha has developed its own proprietary technology and is cash-flow positive with Fortune 500 clients. iGotcha is focused on several industry sectors that are experiencing tremendous growth and iGotcha has the potential to be a market leader in this space (retail, transportation, waiting-room).
Stage : Angel/VC funding
Person attending : Michael Terni and Greg Adelstien
[edit] BigBrotherPRO.com
URL : www.BigBrotherPRO.com
Elevator Pitch: Public Safety 2.0: We capture secured camera feeds from retail, institutional and governmental locations, archive the feeds in the cloud, and provide a monthly DVD of all the highlights for review and safe-keeping. You'll save money, be safer, and your insurance company will love you.
Stage : Launching soon; looking for customers and enablers
Person attending : Louis-Eric Simard
[edit] MoreIdeas Inc.
URL : www.moreideas.ca
Elevator Pitch: Innovative Interactions between web users and online photos : Photos generating MetaData / User Input generating MetaPhotos.
Stage : Self financed / looking for angel or vc investment; Recently awarded a financial contribution from Alliance NumériQC's Fonds d'Expérimentation Multimedia.
Person attending : René Saint-Pierre and Thomas Jelonek
[edit] MonRoi
URL : www.monroi.com
Elevator Pitch: MonRoi is a leader in live chess tournament technology, offering the only certified, patented electronic chess recorder for chess players and tournament organizers around the world. MonRoi has been used at over 100 tournaments to date. Spectators from over 70 countries are using MonRoi’s portal to follow live matches.
Stage : Commercial. Raised private funding. Selling in 7 countries. Looking for advertisers and expansion capital.
Person attending : Brana
[edit] Kovasys Inc.
URL : www.kovasys.com
Elevator Pitch: IT Recruitment and Consulting firm, helping new start-ups and established companies.
Stage : In a process of growing
Person attending : Alex Kovalenko
[edit] ZuperStock.com
URL : www.zuperstock.com
Elevator Pitch : Online and Catalogue Retailer. Provides Customers with Tools to Facilitate an Event Targeted Shopping and Gift-Giving Experience.
Stage : Launching Soon
Person attending : Vladimir Vervelsky
[edit] DocuDrama
URL : www.barcamp.pbwiki.com/DocuDramaBayArea
Elevator Pitch : Specializes in producing feature-length docudrama films about government corruption.
Stage : Currently working with more than 40 committed researchers, and "finished" script. Looking for investors and sponsorships.
Person attending : Robert Evans
[edit] Standout Jobs
URL : www.standoutjobs.com
Elevator Pitch : Online and social media tools to help companies recruit.
Stage : Launching Soon
Person attending : Benjamin Yoskovitz
[edit] Clavardon
URL : www.clavardon.com
Elevator Pitch : Co-browsing and social networking for online stores
Stage : Launched
Person attending : Jonathan Stoikovitch
[edit] UrbanCowgirl
URL : www.urbancowgirl.com
Elevator Pitch : Giddi Up Girlfriend: Cosmetics for the Fresh Sexy Savvy young woman on the go. Create yourself with palettes of color that radiate beauty from the finest ingredients around the world. The line is designed by real girls for real girls. Powerful and Feminine, UrbanCowgirl.
Stage : Self Funding, 1st generation products launched through retail store, pr tour, boutique shops, grass roots word of mouth. Reorganizing to relaunch in spring.
Person Attending : Margeaux Mann, Founder mail to; manndesign@aol.com
[edit] MOBIVOX
URL : www.mobivox.com
Elevator Pitch : Connect to Your World: Free calls from any phone
Stage : Commercial: Raised $14M to date. Selling in 44 countries.
Person attending : Mark MacLeod, CFO
[edit] Kryptiva
URL : www.kryptiva.com or blog
Elevator Pitch : Unified Collaboration Through Email.
Stage : Angel funding, 1st generation products launched earlier this year, 2nd generation products in pilot mode.
Person attending : Karim Yaghmour
[edit] Streametrics
URL : www.streametrics.tv
Elevator Pitch : Streametrics launches Vstat ; the first third party solution that measure online video content for publishers.
Stage : Beta test as been made. Getting ready to launch in Jan 08. Looking for funding.
Person attending : Loïc Guillard
[edit] YourTeleDoctor
URL : www.yourteledoctor.com
Elevator Pitch : Live Medical Consultation over Internet.
Stage : Testing prototype with 3 doctors, Doctor in the advisory board, Looking for seed funding.
Person attending : Younes Alaoui
[edit] YulNews
URL : www.yulnews.com
Elevator Pitch : Social news platform for users and communities.
Stage : Building a prototype and looking for funding.
Person attending : Denis Canuel
[edit] MP3.net
URL : www.mp3.net
Elevator Pitch : Social network for independent music and supporting community.
Stage : Getting ready to launch in Dec 07.
Person attending : Jeff Thomas
[edit] Praized Media
URL : www.praizedmedia.com
Elevator Pitch : Praized Media is building an app that will capture, structure and aggregate local conversations happening in social media sites.
Stage : Seed funding by Garage Technology Ventures. Currently alpha. Launch in Q1/Q2 2008.
Person attending : Sebastien Provencher, Sylvain Carle
[edit] Akoha
URL : akoha.org
Elevator Pitch : Sssssh.
Stage : Super-secret stealth mode
Person attending : SimonLaw
[edit] TimmyOnTime
URL : TimmyOnTime
Elevator Pitch : Time Management meets Intant Messaging
Stage : Launched and self-funded
Person attending : Dan Simard dan@timmyontime.com, François Lamontagne frank@timmyontime.com
[edit] earideas.com
URL : earideas.com
Elevator Pitch : a collection of the best audio on the web, updated hourly
Stage : Launched and self-funded
Person attending : Hugh McGuire
[edit] CentPapiers.com
URL : www.centpapiers.com
Elevator Pitch : Citizen journalism platform.
Stage : Launched and self-founded.
Person attending : Jean-Philippe Wauthier Email and Olivier Niquet Email
[edit] See Your Hotel
URL : www.seeyourhotel.com
Elevator Pitch : We made a first app with Google Maps. Now we want to make more.
Stage : Working on a second prototype.
Person attending : Jean-Francois Noel
[edit] Cozimo
URL : www.cozimo.com
Elevator Pitch : Cozimo lets creative designers and producers review and collaborate on images, video and other digital media from any online web browser. Clients and colleagues in any location can review and markup content on their own time or you can collaborate together in real-time.
Stage : Our service is now commercially available and we are currently seeking investment for marketing and ongoing development.
Person attending : Stuart Feldman email, Juan Pablo Di Lelle email.
[edit] SEO ROI Services
URL: http://seoroi.com/seo-consulting-services
Elevator Pitch : As seen on the Sphinn frontpage, Sitepoint, ISEdb, Pandia, BrandCurve, Youmoz (SEOmoz's UGC area), etc. Get leads and sales from your SEO investment. SEO ROI - Because leaders demand results.
Stage : Launched, self-funded, looking for more clients, guest-writing and speaking opportunities.
Person attending : Gabriel Goldenberg Email Gab
[edit] Roll A Name
URL : www.rollaname.com
Elevator Pitch :Get Noticed! Self Promote.
Stage : Beta version released on December 18th, 2007.
Person attending : Vasily Klimko
[edit] Defensio.com (Karabunga Inc.)
URL : defensio.com
Elevator Pitch : Outsmarting Evil Spam - We make a better spam filter for the web.
Stage : Public beta / growth
Person attending : Carl Mercier
[edit] iLovetoPlay.com
URL : ilovetoplay.com
Elevator Pitch : iLovetoPlay.com is a sports recruiting and networking destination where people and organizations find each other, organize play time, and more. These include players, teams, coaches, games, tournaments, leagues, schools, camps, clinics, and facilities. Finally, never be without a goalie again!
Stage : Bootstrapped, V1 launched, early adopters on board, feedback and feature requests collected, rainmaking pending. Amen.
Person attending : Marc Chriqui (Team Captain), Sandy Dahan (Right Wing)
[edit] Workspace
URL : createworkspace.com
Elevator Pitch : Web-based development environment with fully integrated syntax highlighting and application development.
Stage : Currently working towards our first release and looking for investment to take it to the next level
Person attending : Obaid Ahmed, Aayiz Abbassi
[edit] Perennia
URL : perennia.org
Elevator Pitch : Perennia is the first non-profit ecodesign and sustainable solutions company in Quebec. We are a seasoned team of change agents, designers and communicators who target corporations willing to start or further the greening of their operations and/or products in an authentic, measurable way
Stage : Operational since 2006. About to get round 1 of community-based financing. Moving into our new digs March 1st. Implementing new biz strategies.
Person attending : Luce Beaulieu and Rebecca Khoury
[edit] zookeepr
Elevator Pitch : Project management made easy; Manage your zoo.
Stage : Self-funded; in heavy development.
Person attending : James Golick
[edit] CyberSomething
Elevator Pitch : CyberSpace is our home.
Stage : Early, as a startup. Developpement has been going on for some time.
Person attending : Eric Defouni, Luc Charland
[edit] TUNGLE
URL : www.tungle.com
Elevator Pitch : Tungle makes meeting coordination fast and easy. It is a simple tool that dramatically reduces the amount of communication required to find a suitable meeting time, allowing users to share their availability without requiring recipients to download an applet.
Stage : Seed funding by JLA Ventures and Desjardins Venture Capital. Launch in Q1 2008.
Person attending : Marc Gingras
[edit] No Name Yet
Elevator Pitch : An innovative way to prevent against XSS (cross site scripting) and phishing attacks through machine learning.
Stage : Seeking Angel Investors
Person attending : Morgan Tocker
[edit] gigDoggy
URL: www.gigDoggy.com
Elevator Pitch: Indie musicians play live shows. Gigdoggy makes it easy.
Stage :Self-funded; early development
Person attending : Gregory Whiteside
[edit] Zeleg Inc.
URL: zeleg.com
Elevator Pitch: We started this company because we couldn't find what we needed. We just then invented it. We are proudly introducing a device for couch potatoes that are laptop users. Or maybe it is for laptop users who are at the same time, watching TV in their couch. But it is also a useful add-on to any big chair or sofa. No TV needed.
Stage: Mostly self-funded; in development; seeking Investors/partners for second prototype
Person attending : Martin & Eric Lebel
[edit] Brain20 Labs
URL: www.brain20.com
Elevator Pitch: Brain20 Labs research and develop technologies that assemble cognitive preferences profiles of users of a networked environment. The primary application for the company’s technologies is advanced recommendation engines for Ad Optimization applications.
Stage: Self-funded; initial product in final stage of development; seeking strategic partnership for core product
Person attending : M. Tremblay
[edit] MateMaker
URL: Don't Have Yet
Elevator Pitch: A Web 2.0, AJAX powered, full featured and FREE Online dating servi ce. The number of relationships started online has been quickly growing worldwide. We intend to make the best match-making site on the web, intelligent enough to make good matches while being secure and respectfull of privacy.
Stage: Self-funded; Early development.
Person attending : Diego Puertas
[edit] zedmo
URL: www.zedmo.com
Elevator Pitch: zedmo is the next mobile community and search engine. Wherever you are, you can easily find or be notified instantly of the most up-to-date and unique news - from around the corner or around the world. zedmo also gives you the opportunity to create and contribute to feeds - and share what you know.
Stage: Self-funded; Early development.
Person attending : 2 of 3 Co-Founders
[edit] Mobitween
URL: www.mobitween.com
Elevator Pitch: Mobitween, is a developer and publisher of Flash™ based games for mobile and online worlds. The company works with mobile operators, handset manufacturers, leading publishers, media companies and third party developers.(www.mobigamz.com is about to be introduced at Verizon Wireless + Orange Group}. The company has announced recently www.ugenGames.com, its web 2.0 User Generated Content and Social Networking Service. Mobitween’s goal is to be the first Game 2.0 company bridging the gap between online & mobile game developers and players, allowing them to create, customize, embed and share games.
Stage: Angel-funded.
Person attending : Marc Alloul
[edit] CakeMail
URL: www.cakemail.com
Elevator Pitch: CakeMail is a multilingual white label email marketing platform with an architecture that is open to extension by third parties. It's designed to be resold by agencies under their own brand and domain name, or embedded by developers into their Web applications as an email delivery tool.
Stage: Launched public beta in early November of 2007. Privately funded.
People attending : François Lane & Duncan Moore
[edit] Startup Camp Montreal Language Policy
The language policy of Startup Camp Montreal is simple, and reflects Montreal’s bilingual heritage and cosmopolitan nature.
Some of the attendees will not be from Montreal and may not speak French. However, individual speakers are permitted to present in either of the official languages in which they are most comfortable. It would be appreciated if any handouts and notes provided are in both official languages, though not required.
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