Founders

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]