People, ideas, finance and luck

These four factors are necessary to create any successful company; Montreal Start Up provides start-up finance to people with ideas... and maybe even some input on how to create your own bit of luck!

Alan MacIntosh

Wrangler

Alan has over 20 years of international business experience, working for Schlumberger and Hewlett-Packard before joining Canada’s Telesystem group in 1990. At Telesystem he established TIW’s mobile operations in eight countries including the UK, where he managed operations for three years. In 1997, he moved to sister company Microcell and co-founded GSM Capital, the first global wireless fund, backed by nine of the world’s leading operators.

Alan currently sits on the boards of WaveMetrix, Millennial Media, Cellfish Media and OZ and is a Managing Partner of Acta Wireless, a Montreal based provider of Advisory Services and Venture Capital to the Wireless industry.

A native of Scotland, he holds a BSc (Hons) in Offshore Engineering from Heriot-Watt University and MBA from INSEAD.

  • Having a small fund is going to force Montreal Startup to act and behave just like a startup. They are going to know exactly what you are going through, because they will be dealing with many similar bumps themselves.

    Jevon Macdonald
    www.startupnorth.ca

  • One of the great things about Montreal Start Up is the number of high quality investors and entrepreneurs supporting it.

    Ben Yoskovitz
    Co-Founder, Standout Jobs