Jean-David Begin

High conviction, hands-on capital for early stage startups

buzzd inc. aggregates real-time, social media content to provide local tools bridging consumers, merchants and brands. Get the buzzd app for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Nokia or any phone with internet at http:buzzd.com/download. See what people are saying about any place right now & discover the most popular spots in your city. buzzd partners with carriers and content providers such as Helio, Virgin Mobile, metroPCS, AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Flavorpill, ZAGAT, Metromix, Citysearch and many more. The company is based in New York City and backed by Monitor Ventures, Greycroft Partners, Blackberry Partners Fund, and Qualcomm Ventures. The company was founded by Nihal Mehta and Deepen Shah from ipsh!, the first mobile marketing agency in the U.S. which was acquired by Omnicom Group in 2005

SiGe Semiconductor designs and delivers innovative radio frequency (RF) solutions for next-generation wireless applications including voice, data, and video. Known for innovative approaches to design and manufacturing, our engineers work closely with customers in order to develop industry-leading designs that can provide a competitive edge. As a result of this technological expertise, SiGe is the market-leading supplier of RF front end solutions and modules that allow today's top consumer equipment manufacturers to provide high-performance WiFi links in their products. SiGe products also offer the right combination of features to enable location-based services in consumer and computing applications. Our GPS line of products deliver state-of-the-art levels of efficiency as well as high levels of integration to enable small, flexible hardware and software based GPS designs. Providing unprecedented levels of performance, SiGe's devices have what it takes to support the delivery of highly accurate positioning data. In fact, every SiGe product features a unique combination of low power consumption for longer battery life, superior signal handling techniques, and highly integrated functionality. We take advantage of multiple manufacturing technologies in order to deliver devices with the industry’s best cost/performance ratios. Global partnerships enable SiGe to meet the high volume production demands that characterize the demands of the wireless consumer electronics and computing industries.

Glimmerglass is a close knit team of talented and dedicated employees who work together to develop complex, innovative solutions to counter cyber attacks for corporations and nations. Distinguished by a history of inventing and developing the world's most advanced products from the Intelligent Optical System to Path Manager, and ultimately the CyberSweep™, we take on hard engineering to solve the world's most intractable problems. We are a tightly connected community working together, cooperating to accomplish the impossible. Glimmerglass professionals are accomplished, talented, and driven to deliver the best performance of their careers. We also have fun along the way - every day! Are you interested? If you are, we want you to apply. For further information, please visit www.glimmerglass.com.

As a leader in Lawful and Location Intelligence, SS8 helps make societies safer. Our commitment is to extract, analyze, and visualize the critical intelligence that gives law enforcement, intelligence agencies, and emergency services the real-time insights that save lives. Our high performance, flexible, and future-proof solutions also enable mobile network operators to achieve regulatory compliance with minimum disruption, time, and cost. SS8 is trusted by the largest government agencies, communications providers, and systems integrators globally.

Accovia is a Canadian and French Company, which designs, builds and implements IT solutions and services to Tourism professionals. The company provides world travel industry leaders with solutions adapted to the market demands. The company's solutions are aimed at industry businesses (such as tour operators, airlines, and hotels...) which supply tour packages and sell more than one travel component... Please, send your resume at : rh@accovia.fr Accovia est une société canadienne et française, qui édite et intègre des logiciels pour le monde du Tourisme. La société propose aux leaders mondiaux des solutions adaptées aux attentes du marché. Ces solutions sont destinées à tous les voyagistes (tour-operators, compagnies aériennes, hôtels, …) qui mettent à la disposition de leur clientèle des packages, et vendent plus d’une composante de voyage. Pour envoyer votre CV, écrivez à : rh@accovia.fr

Voice portal company acquired by America Online. Quack.com was founded in 1998 by Steven Woods, Jeromy Carriere and Alex Quilici as a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, based voice-portal infrastructure company originally named Quackware. Quack was the first company to try to create a voiceportal, or a consumer-based destination "site" in which consumers could not only access information by voice alone, but also complete transactions. Quackware launched a beta phone service in 1999 that allowed consumers to purchase books from sites such as Amazon and CDs from sites such as CDNow simply by answering a short set of questions. Quack followed on with a set of information services from movie listings (inspired by, but expanding upon, Moviefone) to news, weather and stock quotes. This concept introduced a series of lookalike startups including much-heralded Tellme Networks which went on to raise more money than any single Internet startup in history on a similar concept.

Founded by Professor Yoshua Bengio of the University of Montreal, Mila is a research institute in artificial intelligence that now brings together over 1,200 specialized researchers in machine learning. Based in Montreal, Mila’s mission is to be a global center for scientific advancements that inspire innovation and the growth of AI for the benefit of all. Mila is a globally recognized non-profit organization for its significant contributions to deep learning, especially in the fields of language modeling, automatic translation, object recognition, and generative models. Scientific Mission: Understanding of fundamental principles Supervised learning and pattern recognition Unsupervised and semi-supervised learning Representation learning, and deep learning of representations Computer vision applications Applications in natural language processing Applications in modelling signals such as speech Applications to healthcare Applications on large scale data (big data)

The Holt Xchange is Canadas most active seed fintech investor.  Supported through five generations of experience and a robust global network, Holt Xchange is powering innovative tech products, world-class companies, and entrepreneurs, helping shape the future of their businesses and technology in the financial services sector. Tracking over 10,000 early stage fintechs globally. We utilize our advanced data platform; algorithms enhanced with human capital, to seek best matches with our investment thesis and Advisor network (ie: individuals who represent financial institutions, institutional investors and domain experts). We enable through our network, new revenue opportunities as well as growth funding for our portfolio companies.  The Holt family has a history of investing, growing, supporting, and building financial companies for the past five generations. With the rising need for AI throughout all aspects of our daily lives, we have decided to launch Holt Fintech Accelerator that focuses on boosting AI capabilities of Fintech businesses and expanding their international network.

The Founder Institute is the World’s Largest AI-Native Company Builder, where ambitious professionals, solo founders, and first-time entrepreneurs go to turn ideas into funded, AI-powered startups. Since 2009, our structured methodology, global mentor network, and platform have helped over 8,900 founders across 100+ countries raise more than $2BN in funding. Whether you’re an employee ready to make the leap, a solo founder with a big idea, or a first-time entrepreneur looking for direction, we provide the AI toolkit, structured sprints, expert feedback, and investor network to take you from Zero to Founder, faster and cheaper than ever before. And when you’re ready, our venture fund Founder Capital and global investor network are there to write your first check.

High conviction, hands-on capital for early stage startups

Guestful is the only dining destination that creates unique experiences with top chefs for Montreal foodies (and foodie wannabees) who want new memorable experiences in a city where restaurant choices are overwhelming. Guestful c'est la seule destination culinaire qui crée des expériences uniques avec les tops chefs pour les foodies de Montréal qui recherchent des nouvelles expériences mémorables dans une ville ou le choix de restaurants est déconcertant.