November 29, 2008 – 6:11 pm
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 [...]
November 29, 2008 – 6:08 pm
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 [...]
August 29, 2008 – 10:40 am
Last night, Akoha gave a sneak preview of their product offering to a number of their friends, family and investors in Montreal (disclosure - MSU is an investor).
The founders, Austin Hill & Alex Eberts (along with PR guru Dov) are no strangers to creating buzz and excitement about their projects and once again they made [...]
In my last post I mentioned that MSU looked at 94 potential investments in the last few months but only five got us excited. So, what was wrong with the other 89?
While we don’t expect any company to be perfect, we do expect it to have at least two things going for it. First, the [...]
One of the questions I’m most often asked at Startup networking events is “What’s going on with Montreal Start Up?” so I thought I give the community a little update.
John and I first started thinking about MSU less than 18 months ago. As it took about nine months to close the first fund, we’ve [...]