Founders & Funders – Ottawa
Allan Isfan of Favequest has taken up the challenge of connecting “the people that start companies, and the people that fund them” in Ottawa. This is the fourth regional venue. We’ve hosted events in Montreal and Toronto. The Communitech team is hosting a Founders & Funders in Waterloo on October 9, 2008. Ottawa is the next to pick up the torch.
Founders & Funders is a social event. It was conceived by the awesome Austin Hill and the preeminent Patrick Lauzon in Montreal. The goal was to provide a social setting to help bring the people that start companies and the people that fund them together. This is not a pitch event. It is an opportunity to find out who is doing and funding what in your region.
What is Founders & Funders?
Founders & Funders is a social event aimed bringing together the people that start the next big successful company with the people that fund these companies in their earliest stages. The event is social. It is not a pitch fest. It is not a DemoCamp. It is an opportunity to meet other entrepreneurs and funders in your local community. The goal is to help facilitate opportunities for people to meet, share and build relationships that will grow into the NEXT BIG THING.
Founders and Funders is dedicated:
- to helping Canadian entrepreneurs to meet each other;
- meet potential funders: angel, VC or other money sources;
- to have fun;
- and see how we can help each other create the NEXT BIG successful company.
How do I get involved?
The event is "by invitation only’ and is limited in terms of availability. Please send Allan Isfan allan.isfan@favequest.com a note and let him know why you should participate. You will be contacted no later than October 20 with a confirmation, payment details and location.
| What: | Founders & Funders - Ottawa Cost: $100 The event is "by invitation only’ and is limited in terms of availability. Please send Allan Isfan allan.isfan@favequest.com a note and let him know why you should participate. You will be contacted no later than October 20 with a confirmation, payment details and location. |
| When: | Wednesday, October 29, 2008 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM |
| Where: |
Ottawa, ON Canada
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Founders & Funders Waterloo
I’ve been working with the fantastic of folks (Kevin Tuer, Iain Klugman, Gary Will and the team at Communitech) to get a Founders & Funders event to happen at Entrepreneur Week. The event is sponsored by Communitech, Microsoft and TechCapital.
What is Founders & Funders?
Founders & Funders is a social event aimed bringing together the people that start the next big successful company with the people that fund these companies in their earliest stages. The event is social. It is not a pitch fest. It is not a DemoCamp. It is an opportunity to meet other entrepreneurs and funders in your local community. The goal is to help facilitate opportunities for people to meet, share and build relationships that will grow into the NEXT BIG THING.
Founders and Funders is dedicated:
- to helping Canadian entrepreneurs to meet each other;
- meet potential funders: angel, VC or other money sources;
- to have fun;
- and see how we can help each other create the NEXT BIG successful company.
How do I get involved?
The event is “by invitation only’. The easiest way to get invited is to send Kevin Tuer – kevin@communitech.ca a note explaining why you should participate.
| What: | Founders & Funders Waterloo |
| When: | Thursday, October 9, 2008 10:00 AM |
| Where: |
Waterloo, ON Canada
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Founders & Funders Toronto - June 4, 2008
Jevon MacDonald and I are please to announce the second Toronto Founders & Funders dinner on June 4, 2008.
| What: | Founders & Funders Toronto Founders & Funders is a private, invite only social event. Founders and Funders is dedicated: to helping Canadian entrepreneurs to meet each other; meet potential funders: angel, VC or other money sources; to have fun; and see how we can help each other create the NEXT BIG successful company. |
| When: | Wednesday, June 4, 2008 5:30 PM to 10:00 PM |
The inaugural Toronto event sold out. And we’re expecting this event to reach capacity very quickly.
We are limited to 100 seats. The fee for the dinner is $100 which will include drinks and dinner. This is a private networking event and we are selecting the audience to ensure a quality group of attendees. And to provide the best chance to network together.
How do I get an Invite?
If you would like to attend the dinner, please fill out the following form and let us know who you are.
We will be contacting those invited with details on the registration and attendance details for the dinner in the coming weeks.
Special Guest
- Dan’l Lewin
We’re incredibly lucky to have Dan’l Lewin scheduled to be in attendance (Dan’l is the Corporate Vice-President, Strategic and Emerging Business Development for Microsoft). Check out GigaOM’s interview with Dan’l where he talks candidly about his role in Microsoft and how Microsoft works with other emerging technology companies.
Dan’l Lewin is corporate vice president of Strategic and Emerging Business Development, responsible for managing worldwide strategic business relationships with venture capitalists and emerging venture-capital-backed businesses, as well as managing the business relationship with leading global industry partners such as SUN, Adobe, Intuit and BEA to ensure their applications interoperate with and run well on the Microsoft platform – for the benefit of the companies’ common customers. Lewin is based at Microsoft’s Mountain View, Calif. campus.
A 25-year Silicon Valley veteran, Lewin was most recently CEO of Aurigin Systems Inc., an enterprise software company focused on intellectual property asset management. He also spent 18 years as an executive, leading sales and marketing divisions for companies including Apple Computer Corp., NeXT Inc. and GO Corporation. In addition, Lewin has served as a consultant for emerging companies, venture capital firms and corporate joint ventures.
Lewin holds an A.B. in politics from Princeton University.
Sponsors
We’re working with a number of great organizations to sponsor the event.
If you would like to sponsor this event or other Founders & Funders events across Canada please feel free to contact David Crow or Jevon MacDonald.
2nd Montreal Founders & Funders to occur May 14th - Invite registration now open
2nd Founders & Funders Montreal AnnouncedPatrick Lauzon and I are pleased to announce that we are going to be holding the second Montreal Founders and Funders dinner on the evening of May 14th.
To help expand the community of people we can be invited, we are opening up a registration system for invites allowing anyone who is a founder, angel investor or VC investor to register for an invitation.
We are limited to 100 seats for the dinner. The fee for the dinner will be $100 which will include drinks and dinner. This is a private networking event and we select the audience to ensure a quality group of attendees have a chance to network together.
Given the interest we received after the first event and the fact that we won’t be able to invite everyone who has expressed interest to the dinner. As a result we are also going to be hosting an after dinner open cocktail networking (A nice roof top terrace party). The networking event will cost $20 and include two drink tickets.
Attendees to the dinner will be able to attend the networking event. The networking party afterwards is open to anyone interested in the technology community in Montreal (not just Founders & Funders).
All profits from the event will go to support Barcamp events in Montreal.
How to Get An Invite
If you would like to attend the dinner, or the networking event after the dinner please fill out the following form and let us know who you are.
We will be contacting those invited with details on the registration and attendance details for the dinner in the coming weeks.
We will also be announcing the great sponsors who are supporting us throw the event.
If you would like to sponsor this event or other Founders & Funders events across Canada please feel free to contact Austin Hill or David Crow.
