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Family Day – Rescheduling
We’ve had some feedback about hosting Founders & Funders on Feb 15, 2010 (Family Day). And the feedback has been, I love the event, but can you do it on a different day. We like to think this is all about entrepreneur enablement. So if no entrepreneurs show up, it’s pretty hard to do the [...]
Toronto on Feb 15, 2010
Wow, as I’m writing this, it has been 18 months since the last Founders & Funders in Toronto. There have been a plethora of other events like StartupEmpire, Canadian Innovation Exchange, DemoCamp and others. It’s time we do this again.
Founders & Funders Toronto is booked for Februrary 15, 2010.
How do I attend?
Founders & Funders is [...]
Ottawa – Dec 3, 2009
Allan Isfan and Rick O’Connor are hosting another Founders & Funders – Ottawa on December 3, 2009. This is a great event for the Ottawa community. The goal continues to be connecting the people who start companies with the people that fund them. It’s a very simple piece of the social fabric in the emerging [...]
Founders & Funders – Ottawa
Allan Isfan of Favequest has taken up the challenge of connecting “the people that start companies, and the people that fund them” in Ottawa. This is the fourth regional venue. We’ve hosted events in Montreal and Toronto. The Communitech team is hosting a Founders & Funders in Waterloo on October 9, 2008. Ottawa is the [...]
Founders & Funders Waterloo
I’ve been working with the fantastic of folks (Kevin Tuer, Iain Klugman, Gary Will and the team at Communitech) to get a Founders & Funders event to happen at Entrepreneur Week. The event is sponsored by Communitech, Microsoft and TechCapital.
What is Founders & Funders?
Founders & Funders is a social event aimed bringing [...]
Founders & Funders Toronto – June 4, 2008
Jevon MacDonald and I are please to announce the second Toronto Founders & Funders dinner on June 4, 2008.
What:
Founders & Funders TorontoFounders & Funders is a private, invite only social event. Founders and Funders is dedicated: to helping Canadian entrepreneurs to meet each other; meet potential funders: angel, VC or other [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
