Archive for January, 2008
It’s a wrap
The inaugural Founders & Funders went off without a hitch. It was a fantastic evening. It wouldn’t have been possible without our sponsors, thank you very much Microsoft and JLA Ventures, the event wouldn’t have happened without their support.
Jess and Chris from Istoica snapped a fantastic pictures of the event and the attendees. The gallery [...]
Location - Reminder
For anyone coming here at the last minute looking for the address:
Monsoon
100 Simcoe Street
Toronto, Ontario
(Yahoo! Maps, Google Maps)
Founders and Funders Toronto Kickoff Questions
The Founders and Funders dinner takes place tonight in Toronto. We really wish we could have invited everyone who asked for a ticket, but we have been sold out for a while now.
I really don’t want to miss out on hearing from all of you, even if you can’t make it to Toronto for the [...]
JLA Ventures is a sponsor
We’re excited to announce that Rick Segal and JLA Ventures are sponsoring Founders & Funders. We’ve need to raise sponsorship money to help cover the costs of holding the event, basically the ticket price does not fully cover the costs of attendence (read: this is why I’m not in charge of finance). And gracious sponsors [...]
Dinner Menu
We finalized the menu for Monday night at Monsoon.
Appetizer, choice of:
seasonal daily soup
baby greens in pappadum cup with yuzu vinaigrette and seedlings
Main course, choice of:
organic “firecracker” chicken supreme with azuki forbidden rice and tiger lilly buds
beef tenderloin on garlic chive mash and tosa-zu king oyster mushrooms
arctic char with wild mushrooms and e-fu longevity noodles
vegetarian option [...]
Third round of founders
Chris Sukornyk, Kaboose, Inc.
In between startups
Evaluating ideas. Currently VP Product Development at Kaboose Inc. Formerly founder of BubbleShare (sold in 2007) & founder of Fivelimes (sold in 2007).
Leila Boujnane & Paul Bloore, Idée, Inc.
Expansion
Idée is the first company to introduce an image monitoring service allowing image providers to track where their images appear in print [...]
Funders attending in Toronto
There are still a few invitations out to funders in Toronto, i.e., everyone has responding and we’re just waiting for a couple of folks to purchase their tickets. There are 23 24 Funders, thanks for correcting me Rob, who have purchased tickets.
Rick Segal, JLA Ventures
JLA Ventures invests in Internet, digital media, e-commerce, communications security, [...]
Second round of Founders
Next round of 10 founders. Some chose to meet the requirements of the form, but missed the spirit of including the details about their company. These details are being used to help both other founders and funders figure out who to connect with.
Ian Bell, Something Simpler
Series A Complete: Building Series B
Something Simpler builds [...]
Badges, we need stinkin’ badges
The Founders & Funders event is a social event . Our goal is to help connect the people who fund web and emerging technology companies with those that start them. The first part of these efforts is to host an event. Well the first Founders & Funders - Toronto event is happening January 21, 2008. [...]
First round of Founders
Founders & Funders is about helping to connect the founders of early-stage, venture fundable web and technology companies with the funding community in Canada. We’ve asked all founders to describe their company and the stage they are current at using a short format.
Name, Company
Please describe your Company if explained in a single twitter post [...]
