Toronto
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
