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05/26/2018

Life is a pitch - as an entrepreneur, the number one thing you need to master is the art of creative, clear and concise communication. This is a good read.

Entrepreneurs need to be ready to pitch any time, anywhere. Jake Jorgovan, an alumnus from Belmont’s Entrepreneurship program, is always ready to give his

05/22/2018

«Any company sporting a little AI in its business model can apply». That’s how badly Techstars, the prestigious Colorado-based fund and seed accelerator, wants to be a part of the Montreal booming AI ecosystem.

«Any company sporting a little AI in its business model can apply». That’s how badly Techstars, the prestigious Colorado-based fund and seed accelerator, wants to be a part of the Montreal booming …

05/22/2018

In this episode of Workmode, Masha talks about the importance of distinguishing between working a lot and working productively. She discusses the potential of good design to establish trust between user and technology. Masha reveals the neurological evidence of empathy, and her objective to scale that empathy into technology-enabled kindness.

Welcome to Workmode, the podcast from our friends at Dynamo. Masha Krol led design crews at IBM and Kinaxis, and co-founded Postcard, a way to help people travel more and better, before taking on …

05/22/2018

Unito.io syncs a company’s to-do lists and all of the context around them — such as assignees, attachments, comments, and due dates — across different tools used to manage team task lists, such as Asana, Jira, Trello, and GitHub.

Montreal-based Unito has raised $2M in seed funding. Per Funding Portal, the round was led by Mistral Venture Partners with help from 500 Startups, Social Capital, Real Ventures, YUL Ventures and T…

05/22/2018

The startup was founded by Hamed Al-Khabaz and Andrew Lockhead. Al-Khabaz was once the centre of a national news story back when he was a CEGEP student. His college at the time, Dawson College, accused him of “cyber-attacks” when he tried to show them the vulnerability of their student management software’s “sloppy coding.” They expelled the then-18-year-old, who promptly received job offers from tech giants around the world. Eventually he founded his first startup before Stay22.

Stay22, a Montreal startup that improves the event-goer experience, has attracted $750,000 in seed funding from 7 Gates Ventures, Real Ventures and Travelport. The company offers embeddable accommo…

05/18/2018

BCF Ventures will earmark $500,000 for 10 Canadian startups starting this year, though they are open to American and European companies with Canadian operations. The money is coming from the 70 partners that work at BCF, and will have to be re-approved every year that the program runs.

Montreal-based law firm BCF is launching what it calls a 'super angel fund,' a funding initiative to invest $5 million over 10 years.

05/18/2018

After the success of last year’s inaugural program, AI for Social Good is back for the second year.

McGill Innovation launched the one month Summer Lab in collaboration with McGill Reasoning and Learning Lab. It teaches technical concepts in machine learning, in addition to digital product development and design applied to a specific social problem.

After the success of last year’s inaugural program, AI for Social Good is back for a second year. McGill Innovation launched the one month Summer Lab in collaboration with McGill Reasoning an…

05/18/2018

There are other skills beyond coding used by teams to build innovative software that people want to use. With the growing recognition of the value in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) over STEM, Canadian tech leaders are looking for people who are not just great at coding, but are also great at understanding for whom they are coding.

In this op-ed, Rangle.io shares why it's important for developers to have both technical and human skills.

05/18/2018

Spaces cited a report by Business Insider, which ranks Montreal as one of the most high-tech cities in the world, as one of the reasons to bring its collaborative workspaces to the city. The company said it hopes to become the biggest creative workspace provider in the Greater Montreal Area with plans to open opening five coworking locations in the region over the next two years.

Amsterdam-based coworking company Spaces is opening its second Canadian location in Montreal's Mile End neighbourhood on May 22.