Results from PACT event from Canadian Trade Commissioners

Published by Boris Mann on November 12, 2008 under Canada, Incubators and Accelerators

The PACT event that we attended just had a release from the Trade Commissioners out of the San Francisco office. It looks like some of our feedback — specifically, moving the “Boot Camp” programs of prepping companies for investment and pitches to regional locations in Canada — are going to go ahead. We’ll keep everyone up to date on how this program evolves, it looks like there are definite plans for a similar event April / May 2009.

Thanks Guillaume, Thierry, and the rest of the San Francisco and Palo Alto office teams for putting this event on. We’re looking forward to be involved in the regional Boot Camps as well. Full post of the results / press release after the jump.

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Headed to Under the Radar

Published by Danny Robinson on May 29, 2008 under Events, U.S.

I’m off to Under the Radar Monday. Looks like Colleen, CEO of hot, recently funded, Vancouver startup Movieset will be presenting, or should I say representing. And also I’m looking forward to hearing Lowell talk about Loud3r. He’s good friends with my brother and has been keeping me up to date as he progressed with his company — very cool concept. Other companies that will be there are:

PRESENTING COMPANIES:

  • 33Across - Identifies influential online users
  • Animoto - Create personalized, professional-quality videos from images and music, offering a new alternative to traditional online photo slideshows
  • AudioMicro - Stock music and sound effects licensing platform
  • Aviary -Suite of web-based applications for people who create and a marketplace to sell that content
  • BigStage - Animate yourself with cutting-edge virtualization technology
  • Comedy.com - aggregated comedy entertainment site
  • CrowdSPRING - crowdsourcing of creative talent.
  • Curse - MMO gamer community.
  • Dizzywood - A virtual world that allows kids to dress up 3D avatars, play games, explore worlds and meet new friends in a safe environment
  • ffwd - Organized, multi-platform, video content delivered via a browser, with social network awareness, and predictive recommendations.
  • GumGum - A licensing and distribution platform for online content
  • Hollywood Interactive Group - A mass casual mmo based on reality TV concepts and Hollywood stardom.
  • Jacked - Browser-based “second screen” for TV viewers, which provides synchronized content and a real-time interactive experience that complements what they’re watching on TV
  • Jygy - Mobile social networking with SMS
  • Keibi - Moderation and classification of user generated content (UGC)
  • Kosmix - Categorization engine that crawls billions of Web pages in a unique manner to create algo-generated home pages
  • Lil’Grams - Tracking your babies memories in real time.
  • Loomia - Social recommendations bridging established social networking sites with media websites
  • Loud3r - Aggregating and publishing semantically searched content
  • MediaForge - We’ve got widgets comin’ out our ads
  • Mochi Media - Provides independent game developers with analytics, distribution, tools and monetization while providing advertisers with turnkey opportunities to reach the one in three Internet users who play online games.
  • MovieSet - Platform that brings behind-the-scenes filmmaking online, giving fans authentic access through its proprietary toolkit for Producers.
  • Mytopia -Social gaming community for Web, Mobile, Smartphone and TV
  • Nesting - Organizing family activities; scheduling, networking and more
  • Overlay.tv - video commerce platform that overlays contextual information directly onto online video content
  • Pikum! - A new kind of betting game
  • PluggedIn - Enjoy stunning, broadcast-quality music videos from your browser
  • PutPlace - Media storage all the way from Ireland
  • Shift Control Media - Shift Control Media is a branded entertainment company, specializing in the creation of original Brandworthy Games, as well as the development of game and emerging media strategy
  • SocialMedia Networks - enables developers of social media applications to monetize their traffic
  • Sometrics - Social Analytics and Social Ad Platform
  • Verismo Networks – High quality video over broadband without a pc.
  • Vivaty - Brings together your friends, photos and videos into a personal virtual scene, in your browser
  • Vusion - HD Quality Video over the internet
  • Wetpaint - Wiki powered websites
  • Xumii - Take all your contacts from your social networks with you — on your phone!