Familiar names on the Founders & Funders list
I’ve been following the Founders & Funders site of late, just keeping tabs on this very interesting event in Toronto in about a week:
Founders & Funders - Toronto
A evening of socializing and dinner for entrepreneurs, angel investors and venture capitalists
January 21, 2008
$75/person - Limited to 75 attendees
Private 3 course dinner at Monsoon Restaurant
Not that I could attend, since I am neither a founder nor funder, but looking at the site there is a very impressive list of attendees. As I was looking through the list are some familiar names on the lists of folks:
Founders:
- 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. - Mike McDerment, FreshBooks
gathering steam
FreshBooks is online invoicing and time tracking for service-oriented professionals. - Ian Bell, Something Simpler
Series A Complete: Building Series B
Something Simpler builds rich consumer applications leveraging its unique content matching platform. - Boris Mann, Bootup Labs
Website is up
Bootup Labs helps you quit your day job: we help startups get started. - Stuart MacDonald, TripHarbour
Will be in to beta in Q1 2008.
Tripharbour.com connects you to your ideal cruise holiday with the web’s first combined cruise community and cruise planning/booking site. - Jeremy Wright, b5media
- Mark Ruddock, Viigo
Funders:
- Rick Segal, JLA Ventures
JLA Ventures invests in Internet, digital media, e-commerce, communications security, mobile computing, and enterprise software companies. Portfolio candidates typically possess superior technology, a sustainable competitive advantage, and exceptional growth prospects. - Rob Hyndman, Hyndman Law
From Start to Exit, Business Law for Technology Companies.
Looks to me that there is a good cross-section of people from across Canada and not just Toronto. To be a fly on the wall at the event … you could probably learn a lot from the attendees. Probably best and brightest we have right now in Canadian tech startups and those who fund them. Props to the organizers!
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5 opinions for Familiar names on the Founders & Funders list
Chris R
Jan 19, 2008 at 9:46 am
It’s sure to be a great event! It’s something Toronto needed for a while.
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Jan 19, 2008 at 11:17 am
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Aaron Brazell
Jan 19, 2008 at 11:38 am
Looks like a great mix.
Boris Mann
Jan 19, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Technically, we’re in *both* categories — we founded companies, but we’ll also be funding them.
Thanks for the link, Tris.
Mike McDerment
Jan 21, 2008 at 5:51 am
I’m pysched to see a founder’s community emerging in Toronto…it’s one of the things drives the valley from what I’ve seen - very exciting for the community and it’s long term success.
thanks for posting Tris
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