We’ve been pretty quiet on the blogging front recently. Whilst I can assure you that doesn’t mean we haven’t been doing anything – perception is reality !

The truth is that we’ve already made two more investments this year – giving us a total of 10 companies in our portfolio – and if we keep this rate up we will have invested our first fund in about six more months !

Most of our companies are still in development or beta so we aren’t trying to raise their profile yet but but over the next few days I’m going to give a quick shout-out to the companies we have backed so far.

To get the ball rolling i’ll start with the companies that we have announced:

Standout Jobs has developed a Saas platform that powers and centralizes companies’ online recruiting efforts. The company is being driven by Montreal tech community activists (Instigators) Ben Yoskovitz and Fred Ngo.

Akoha is a developer of online and real-world social games designed to make the world a better place. Alex Eberts and Austin Hill (the quiet guy in the background ) are Akoha’s Founders.

We quietly announced our investment in Evan Prodromou’s latest startup Identi.ca. Having started both Wikitravel and Vinisimo, Evan has proven his abilities to build communities and execute open source/collaborative projects.

And here are a couple more of our yet to launch investments:

Keenkong is currently in private beta so why don’t you sign up to keep posted of developments. The company’s CEO, Olivier Berger, is bringing his six sigma training to the startup world – watch this space.

The Book Oven is also in private beta but it wouldn’t take a genius to work out that Stephanie Troeth and Hugh McGuire’s latest startup has something to do with books – it looks like they are working on something very appetizing!

Whilst doom and gloom may be all around us, we continue to be excited by the entrepreneurs we meet and by the strength of their ideas – and we are happy to keep funding the best of them ! 

There will be more shout-outs next week.