Category Archives: Finance Dept

Solidarity Fund QFL invest $2Million in Montreal Start Up

It has been a busy few months behind the scenes at MSU and we’re really pleased that we are able to make the following announcement:

Montreal Start Up, a venture investor dedicated to supporting Montreal based entrepreneurs in their quest to create and build successful companies, today announced the closing of a $2 million investment in [...]

Le FTQ investit 2 millions $ dans Démarrage Montréal

Nous avons été très occupés ces derniers mois et en voici une des raisons:

Démarrage Montréal, un spécialiste du capital d’amorçage, dont la mission est d’appuyer les entrepreneurs montréalais qui bâtissent les succès de demain, a aujourd’hui annoncé avoir reçu du Fonds de solidarité FTQ un investissement de 2 millions $ dans son fonds de capital [...]

How to say “hello” to montrealstartup

On our CONTACT page we invite entrepreneurs to drop us an e-mail if they have any questions or an investment opportunity for us. We get a lot of e-mails and they range from the short and sharp;

"I have a startup with a completed Beta, let’s talk."

to the long winded;

"The idea my father and I have [...]

Founder get Founder campaign launch !

Investissement Quebec is piling a lot of money into promoting the benefits of succession planning recently and whilst not directly relevant to our area of interest (start-up’s) there is a mutually important economic message:
Get the money into the hands of the next generation of guardians in a timely, smooth manner !
I mentioned in a previous [...]

Start-Up Hubs

Y-Combinator’s Paul Graham has raised the hackles of a Brit or two recently by suggesting that startups would do better if they moved to Silicon Valley!
In as much as Silicon Valley has a greater density of all the aspects of a start-up hub - great human networks, a willingness to support innovation, a community appreciation [...]