StartupCampMontreal2
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[edit] Overview
This is the second edition of Startup Camp Montreal, 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 organizers and supporters of this event are: Embrase, Austin Hill, 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] Previous Events
To see complete details on past events (Speakers, startup companies represented, sponsors, etc.), please follow the links below.
StartupCampMontreal - January 23rd 2008
[edit] Event Details
Date : May 15th, 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://startupcampmontreal2.eventbrite.com/
Seats are limited. We have made a first release of tickets available. If tickets for your category are sold out, you can send us an email and we'll let you know when a second release of tickets will be available.
[edit] Keynote Speaker
We are happy to announce that Dan Mothersill and Austin Hill have accepted to be our keynote speakers.
[edit] Dan Mothersill - Chairman and CEO Ciris Group
Daniel is a serial Angel entrepreneur. In the last decade, he has founded and financed seven companies and spun off three as profitable enterprises in addition to having funded early-stage companies in the IT, communications, and environmental sectors.
Among his current positions, he is:
- founder and chair of the Ciris Group;
- president and founding member of the National Angel Organization (the national voice of Canadian Angels);
- NAO board representative to the Canadian Venture Capital Association;
- founder and CEO of the Centre for Commercialization;
- chair, Toronto Network of Angels;
- chair, Angel Capital Network (providing serious science for serious investors);
- member and "coach-in-residence" of the Toronto Angel Group; and
Daniel founded the boot-camp concept for the Toronto Venture Group, which in the last five years has proliferated across Canada to become a fixture at major venture forums. At more than 80 boot camps, Daniel has trained some 2,300 SME executives to raise money effectively. These executives have gone on to capture more than $850 million in seed, Angel, and follow-on venture capital.
With 30 years of investor-relations experience in Canada, the US, and the UK, Daniel's clients have included Cara, Canadian Pacific, Quebecor, CGI, Noranda Forest, Fidelity, BFI Canada, UAP, Newbridge, Kodak, CAE, Honeywell, and dozens of SMEs. Previously, he was head of investor relations/corporate communications/technical marketing for a Fortune 100 company with departments in Toronto, Ottawa, Raleigh, Dallas, and London, England.
Daniel studied at York (Political Science), and Wharton (Finance & Accounting) as well as the Royal Conservatory of Music (harmony, history, theory, and counterpoint). He plays three instruments very badly.
[edit] Austin Hill - Executive Instigator
CEO of Akoha, Chairman of Standout Jobs, Principal at Brudder Ventures
Austin Hill is a Canadian entrepreneur who has been creating technology startups for 15 years. He was a founder of Zero- Knowledge Systems (now called Radialpoint) and as its President helped the company raise $75 million between 1997 and 2001.
In addition to his time as President with Zero-Knowledge Systems Austin Hill served as the Chief Technology Officer and Chief Strategy Officer, the CEO of Synomos Inc. (a subsidiary of Zero-Knowledge Systems) and as the Executive-Vice President of Research for Radialpoint (Zero-Knowledge Systems was renamed Radialpoint in 2002). Radialpoint was honored by Deloitte & Touche one of Canada’s fastest growing technology firms in their 2006 Technology Fast 50 award.
[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.
Event Sponsors:
[edit] Format of Event
Five companies will be selected to give a brief 5 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 May.
[edit] Presenting Companies
Slot 1 - LoyaltyMatch
Slot 2 - CAMWII
Slot 3 - Healthivate
Slot 4 - StartYourTube
Slot 5 - VenCorps
[edit] Startup Companies Attending
If you would like to attend Startup Camp Montreal, please register before entering your information below.
If you are a startup, and you successfully registered, please enter your information below in the sample format below.
[edit] CO2 Vortech Inc.
URL : www.co2vortech.com
Elevator Pitch : CO2 Vortech is a cleantech, green power and carbon capture technologies development firm.
Stage : Self-funded.
Person attending : Jacques Cantin
[edit] Videorix
URL : www.videorix.com
Elevator Pitch : Videorix is a unique and easy self-service marketplace connecting advertisers with publishers of online-videos. We provide advertisers with a network of publishers willing to get sponsors for their videos. We help publishers make money with their videos. It's simple and it works.
Stage : Public beta. Self-funded.
Person attending : Nadim Elgarhy, Carmen M.
[edit] VenCorps
URL : www.vencorps.com
Elevator Pitch : VenCorps is an online platform for discovering, funding, and growing startup companies. We let you decide who should get 50k in funding.
Stage : Brought to you by Spencer Trask
Person attending : Will Pate
[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] Goldeneye Solutions
URL: www.golnetwork.com
Elevator Pitch: Golnetwork.com is an exciting product under development at Goldeneye that will offer sport amateurs a unique portal to track and manage their sports teams.
Stage : Self funded, interested in ANGEL funding only
Person attending : Jonathan Bond-Caron
[edit] MaestroReading Inc.
Elevator Pitch: MaestroReading is an online edutainment destination merging fun activities and literacy development with social interaction and networking. Children interact with one another, and earn points to develop their virtual characters (avatars) by participating in literacy activities like games and interactive storybooks. The content has already received recognition and awards for educational excellence – we help children learn to love reading.
Stage: Privately funded, looking for angel/VC investment
Person attending: Danny Iny, Founder/CEO
[edit] VoIP Gizmos
URL: www.voipgizmos.com
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: Leading online store for VoIP gadgets in Canada - privately financed. Opening soon in the US.
Person attending :Alex Kovalenko
[edit] Avalda Corp.
URL: www.avalda.com
Elevator Pitch: Avalda's FPGA software development platform enables any software developer to create custom hardware logic which can run in parallel on a powerful, widely available, morphing, programmable logic chip known as a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). Avalda is leading the computer industry to a new phase of its extraordinary evolution.
Stage: Privately funded, looking for angel/VC investment. Preliminary software soon to be released.
Person attending :Stephen Afande
[edit] LoyaltyMatch
URL: www.loyaltymatch.com
Elevator Pitch: Convert your points or miles into cash. LoyaltyMatch is a new and exciting way to get the things you want from the 1000’s of loyalty programs around the world.
Stage: Live beta with members from 40 countries, self-funded, seeking VC funding.
Person attending :Mike Ball [1]
[edit] RFPPro.com
URL: www.rfppro.com
Elevator Pitch: RFPPro is a silent bidding system that brings together print buyers and printers. RFPPro allows buyers to find local printers, qualified printers and printers that match their needs. With RFPPro, buyers save money by securing the best bid on the market and save time using a centralised page for communication with printers. As for printers, RFPPro gives them access to unsollicited buyers increasing their revenue and saving on their market development costs. Please contact Sandro for any questions/comments
Stage: Beta phase complete. System fully operational and generating revenue. Seeking funding to increase sales and develop the Provincial, National and International markets...
Person attending :Sandro Tiseo [2]
[edit] chide.it
URL: www.chide.it - get feedback. give feedback.
Elevator Pitch: chide.it is a FREE web tool for getting feedback and giving feedback.
Stage: Early Development Cycle. Looking to get feedback from the audience to learn about what other features should be added in order to make chide.it more useful.
Person attending :Aydin Mirzaee [3]
[edit] Healthivate
URL: www.healthivate.com
Elevator Pitch: Healthivate allows people to compare and purchase private healthcare services on a global scale. It allows purchasing high-quality medical services, be treated faster and get a competitive price. The long-term vision is to give people more control over their personal healthcare environments in terms of cost, overall quality and relationships.
Stage: Seeking seed funding.
Person attending :Yan Simard [4]
[edit] Feeling Software
Elevator Pitch: Feeling Real enables anyone to easily create 3D models of everyday objects and environments in a few minutes, with a regular camera. Feeling Software also offers 3D graphics consulting services to high-profile clients like Google, Adobe and Sony.
Stage: Self-funded, working prototype
Person attending :Christian Laforte [5]
[edit] Mobivox
URL: www.mobivox.com
Elevator Pitch: Mobivox makes it possible to call family and friends around the world for free from any phone. Just call a local Mobivox number and say who you'd like to speak with.
Stage: Commercial. Raised private funding. Selling in 40 countries.
Person attending : Jerome Arnaud, Darren Yaphe
[edit] Your TeleDoctor Inc.
Elevator Pitch: Live Consultations Over Internet. Since last presentation, we have noticed a growing interest for this kind of service. Events like Health 2.0 are emerging and are getting more and more specialized and focused. Our intelligent plateform is to be plugged in the current medical system in a matter of friendlessness and accessibility.
Stage: Seeking very early seed funding to launch an alpha version of the service.
Person attending :Mehdi Akiki mehdi.akiki@gmail.com
[edit] RaceDV Inc.
URL: www.racedv.com
Elevator Pitch: RaceDV provides motorsport media services enabling race schools and tracks to offer their customers with a unique in-car video of themselves on DVD and on the web. Through customized branding of videos, we provide a platform that brings advertisers to automotive enthusiasts through videos they repeatedly watch and share with others online.
Stage: Launched and generating revenue. Seeking funding to expand operations and services.
Person attending :Kareem Sultan [6]
[edit] Scuup.Net Inc.
URL: www.scuup.net
Elevator Pitch: Scuup.net is developing an infrastructure aimed at greatly improving the ability of a community to exchange information on a complete range product and service experience.
Here's a simple example of how the system will eventually work. Imagine you are looking for a house painter. Simply type in "house painter" and the system will automatically return to you the three house painters, located nearby, who would best meet your needs.
Stage: Alpha stage of development. Seeking investments.
Person attending : Minh Ho [7]
[edit] PPI multimedia Inc.
Elevator Pitch: We produce personnalised and economical communication tools to simplify E-learning projects/Nous produisons des outils de communication personnalisés et abordables pour simplifier la formation continue.
Stage: Continous developpment and generating revenue/En développement continu générant des revenus. Seeking Projects partners and clients/recherche partenaires de projets et clients.
Person attending :Benoit Lamontagne and Pierre-Yves Beaulieu [8]
[edit] NeoAid
URL: www.neoaid.com
Elevator Pitch: NeoAid.com develops ways to generate revenues for good causes using the power of the Internet, the open source movement and any person who wants to become a user or a contributor to the organisation.
Stage: Commercial. Raised private funding.
Person attending : Vincent Cassar
[edit] Project Sola - working title
URL: tbd, but here are some pics of the 1st prototype of our new Solid-State Light Engine
Elevator Pitch: We make it possible for architectural lighting designers to develop beautiful and highly functional full-color LED lighting installations. Our integrated LED module includes conditioning, driver and control electronics, enabling designers to develop advanced lighting products using High Brightness Light Emitting Diodes (HB-LEDs) to generate rich, vibrant, energy-efficient, light in any color of the visible spectrum.
Demo Plug: Ours is a technology that must be experienced to be fully appreciated. Allow us to demonstrate. You won't be disappointed
Stage: Entering test production run for selected clients. Seeking capital, advice, and experience in commercializing innovation in the architectural lighting design, home renovation, or custom lighting installation markets.
Persons attending: Alok Mohindra[9], Gerry Briggs[10]
[edit] StartYourTube - create your own video sharing site in 2 minutes for free
Elevator Pitch: StartYourTube is an instant running "Tube" Creation Engine powering a network of vertical UGC sites owned and controlled by passionate leaders for passionate users. Our rich multimedia content features and complete web based control enable users to manage and monetize their content and community.____ Startyourtube est un service clé en main qui permet à chaque Internaute passionné de créer et de contrôler son propre site de partage vidéo et blog. Tout en restant, l'unique propriétaire du site et des contenus, et l'unique décideur du type de monétisation qu'il souhaite utiliser.
Stage: Self funded working Beta version, we are seeking for venture capital to commercialize worldwide ____ Le service est en Beta opérationnel et auto-financé, nous recherchons des investisseurs afin de lancer la commercialisation à l'échelle mondiale.
Persons attending: Jean Philippe Gousse [11]
[edit] Retail Sale Alert - Your favorite retailers' sale alerts
URL: tba
Elevator Pitch: There was a sale at you favourite retailer, and you didn't know about it? Retail Sale Alert allows you to receive sales notifications, directly to your email, from the retailers you choose.
Stage: Concept finalized and ready for development
Persons attending: Vasily [12]& David [13]
[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 funded by JLA Ventures and Desjardins Venture Capital. Launched April 16th 2008.
Persons attending : Marc Gingras, Mark MacLeod
Note: We will not be presenting, since we had a great experience at the 1st MTL StartupCamp. We just want to attend and listen and learn from the great presentations.
[edit] Sitezoogle
URL: www.sitezoogle.com
Elevator Pitch: Sitezoogle provides a complete website solution for niche markets. Our initial product Bandzoogle lets bands create a professional website with features like a mailing list, member community, and digital download store. In 2008 we are expanding to other vertical markets, including starzoogle.com for actors and models.
Stage: Bootstrapped, launched in 2004. Profitable since 2005.
Person attending : Chris Vinson
[edit] Podbean.com
URL: www.podbean.com blog
Elevator Pitch: After one and half years in Podcast publishing service, we hear the user’s voice and see the problems in this field. Surprisingly seeing no perfect solution on market yet, we are developing our own solution -- a Podcast social subscribing network to let users easily find, download and share podcasts from anywhere. We are actively seeking funding to accelerate the process.
Stage: Self-funded. Seeking VC.
Person attending : David Xu, Henry Zhang
[edit] VisiMatik
URL: www.visimatik.com
Elevator Pitch: VisiMatik is developing automatable image analysis software for Life Sciences researchers with applications in general microscopy, functional biology and digital tissue pathology. The value of our offering will lie in the combination of state of the art imaging tools, a new approach to image analysis inspired by Test Driven Software Development and a scalable desktop/web architecture.
Stage: Seeking seed funding.
Persons attending : Louis Dagenais[14], Marcin Swiatek[15]
[edit] EmbeddedCookbook
Elevator Pitch: Community for electronic developers. A website to improve the documentation of electronic parts and to avoid reinventing the wheel each time developers need to use a new component.
Stage: Self-funded. Seeking VC and partners.
Persons attending : Alexandre Forget[16], Mélissa Ducharme[17]
[edit] CAMWII
URL: www.camwii.com
Elevator Pitch: CAMWII brings visual context to telephone conversations. CAMWII provides high performance, utmost simple and industry specific desktop sharing applications. It is the ideal tool to complement sales forces, tech support, online collaboration and e-learning. Camwii's truly innovative approach to screen sharing allows customers and partners to customize the application with their own brand thus benefiting from the inherent viral impact.
Stage: Self-funded. Seeking VC and partners.
Person attending :Marc Lefrancois [18] ,Marek Krepec [19]
[edit] Buy Canadian First
Elevator Pitch: BuyCanadianFirst.ca is dedicated to making it easy for you to find made in Canada products. We’re gathering the most accurate and comprehensive made in Canada products from Canadian retailers, manufacturers and artisans and we’re bringing it all together in one easy-to-use web site that will make it simpler than ever to Buy Canadian First!
Stage: Self funded. Seeking VC, partners and vendors.
Persons attendings :Isabelle Remy [20] + 1
[edit] MonRoi
URL : www.monroi.com
Elevator Pitch : MonRoi is a world leader in live chess technology. The Company uses proprietary software and hardware to enable people worldwide to view live chess tournaments on their computers. They can choose which matches to watch, just like sport events on television.
Stage : Private Investor funded. Launched April 21th 2005.
Persons attending : Brana Giancristofaro [21]
Note: I just want to attend (not present) and see the presentations.
[edit] MoreIdeas
URL : moreideas.ca
Elevator Pitch : MoreIdeas unlocks image content for web publishers and online advertisers wanting to fully monetize user photos with our proprietary computational vision applications PixxMeTM and MetaPixxTM; increasing pageviews, time per visit, ad relevancy, and ad value.
Stage : Self-funded
Person attending : Thomas Jelonek, Rene Saint-Pierre
[edit] TimmyOnTime
URL : www.timmyontime.com
Elevator Pitch : TimmyOnTime is an online real-time project monitoring
Stage : Self-funded
Person attending : Dan Simard, Frank Lamontagne
[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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