Quebec Valley

Here’s some news that literally went under the radar for most people. CEIM (Centre d’entreprise et d’innovation de Montreal) received 800,000$ from the Quebec government.  Funny enough, the CEIM which helps startups in very specific domains by provinding an incubator-style environment, is complaining about the lack of startup financing. I knew about CEIM but what [...]

Tungle, one of Montreal’s famous startup is becoming even more famous. They announced today that that it has secured 5 million dollars in Series A funding. That’s more than good news to me! The round was led by Waltham, MA-based Commonwealth Capital Ventures. Existing investors, including JLA Ventures and Desjardins Venture Capital, also participated in [...]

Interesting article by the StartupCFO pointing to another post by Silicon Alley about early stage funding. My feeling is that VC’s tend to wait for the deal of the century in order to throw in as much money as possible in order to get a large part of the pie. While this might work for [...]

iNovia was kind enough to work with BlitzWeekend in order to make the event happen. You might not know but BlitzWeekend’s success really comes from them as they worked very hard with two different organisations to look for a very large space to accommodate 100+ people for 2 days. Let me tell you that it [...]