Founders and Funders » innovation+exchange http://foundersandfunders.org Helping entrepreneurs meet each other, meet funders and have fun! Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:32:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 First round of Founders http://foundersandfunders.org/2008/01/12/first-round-of-founders/ http://foundersandfunders.org/2008/01/12/first-round-of-founders/#comments Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:48:05 +0000 David Crow http://foundersandfunders.org/2008/01/12/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 (140 characters max)
If asked to describe what “stage” your startup is at in 10 words or less

You can follow the Tweets at http://twitter.com/foundersfunders

We’re assembling a great group of founders.

  • Michael Garrity, CommunityLend
    Funded and prepping for Beta Launch
    Peer to Peer Lending Service for Canada
  • George Favvas, SmartHippo
    Public beta; very early revenue
    SmartHippo is the first ever site that uses the power of the community to help people find the best rates and save money. Based in Montreal.
  • Craig Fitzpatrick, DevShop
    Commercialization
    A project management application that gets to know the team members’ behavior to predict & insulate projects from risk.
  • Ali Asaria, Well.ca
    Early-stage Startup
    Well.ca is a Canadian online health & beauty store and a leader in the online Canadian retail health market. We’re also super friendly.
  • Scott Brooks & Bernie Aho, ConceptShare
    Growth Phase poised for expansion.
    ConceptShare has developed a web application that allows users to easily share, discuss and mark-up designs for review over the web.
  • Kevin Thomason & Ilya Grigorik, AideRSS
    An early stage ready to dominate the RSS filtering market
    AideRSS helps you breakthrough RSS information overload and read what matters.
  • Stephen Benson, Innovation Exchange
    revenue generating
    IX is a platform corporations use to accelerate their ability to innovate by connecting them with a Global Community of innovative thinkers.
  • Sandy Ward, HomeZilla
    Alpha!
    HomeZilla is a one-stop shop for home buyers and agents to find neighbourhood information about a home.
  • Chris Ragobeer, Nametaggs
    Beta and Unfunded
    Nametaggs is a social media service that allows people with a domain name registered with their name on it to promote their content.
  • Christopher Golda, IPartee
    Early-stage
    IPartee provides the tools to plan, publish and promote events. Find events and venues you and your friends want to attend.
  • Ross Bennet, SlashID
    Beta launch, boot strapped, looking for Angel investment
    SlashID will increase the number of registrations your website receives, to improve your business.Solves the identity problem for your users
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