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Montreal Start Up

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Montreal Start Up provides seed-level financing to entrepreneurs aspiring to establish companies in Montreal, with the focus being on software based services in the internet, wireless and media space.

The Fund invests in entrepreneurs with very early stage concepts and ideas that need a bit a financing and some strategic and operational input in order to help them progress their idea towards being a successful company or at least a company that is fundable by other VC’s.

Milestones

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  Montreal Start Up invested in Beyond the Rack. (1/28/10)
  Posted 1/28/10 at 5:56pm
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  Montreal Start Up invested in Vanilla Forums. (1/19/10)
  Posted 1/19/10 at 9:02pm
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  Montreal Start Up invested in StatusNet. (10/27/09)
  Posted 10/27/09 at 8:10am
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  Montreal Start Up — MSU leads Beyond the Rack's seed round (2/10/09)
  Posted 12/10/09 at 3:32pm
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  Montreal Start Up invested in StatusNet. (1/15/09)
  Posted 1/16/09 at 1:39pm
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  Montreal Start Up invested in Emotify. (2009)
  Posted 1/20/10 at 12:10am
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  Montreal Start Up — MSU invests into Book Oven's seed round. (11/08)
  Posted 4/8/09 at 6:03am
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  Montreal Start Up — MSU invests in Oneeko's seed round (11/08)
  Posted 4/8/09 at 6:03am
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  Montreal Start Up — MSU invests into KeenKong's seed round (9/08)
  Posted 4/8/09 at 6:03am
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  Montreal Start Up — MSU Invests into Akoha's seed round. (4/28/08)
  Posted 8/18/08 at 5:53am
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  Montreal Start Up invested in Standout Jobs. (1/28/08)
  Posted 3/7/08 at 2:23pm

Investments

Videos

Sources

1. MSU I first closing (m.techvibes.com) [edit]
2. Akoha investment (montrealstartup.com) [edit]
3. Web startups in Montreal (montrealstartup.com) [edit]
4. Web startups in Montreal (montrealstartup.com) [edit]
5. More investment news for Montreal (montrealstartup.com) [edit]
6. More investment news for Montreal (montrealstartup.com) [edit]
7. Canada, Beyond the Rack Raises $2M in Equity Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
8. Vanilla Forums Raises $500,000 For Open-Source Forum Software (techcrunch.com) [edit]
9. TechCrunch (ilovetheopenweb.com) [edit]
10. Control Yourself Gets Seed Round For Identi.ca Microblogging Service (paidcontent.org) [edit]
11. Citation Needed [add]
12. Standout Jobs Raises $2 Million Financing from iNovia Capital (blog.standoutjobs.com) [edit]