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Boot Camp for Technology Startups

Posted by Rob Lewis on Thu, February 5, 2009 10:53 AM · Filed under Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo , Startups · Comments

Is your tech startup looking for access to US Venture Capital and Angel networks?

The Canadian Regional Boot Camp for Technology Start-Ups looks like the event for you. The Canadian Trade Commissioner Service, in partnership with Canadian IT cluster organizations is inviting startups to the this Boot Camp series from March 16-20th in select locations on the East Coast. The first round of regional boot camps will include stops in the following cities:

Monday, March 16th - Location TBC, Halifax
Tuesday, March 17th - CEIM, Montréal
Wednesday, March 18th - OCRI, Ottawa
Thursday, March 19th - MaRS, Toronto
Friday, March 20th University of Waterloo Accelerator Centre, Waterloo

This one-day boot camp will feature Silicon Valley and other US investors and is specifically designed to facilitate your market access to the US venture capital, angel networks and ICT companies. Interested? More information is available on the Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada website.

Will there be a Western Tour? According to Boris Mann of Bootup Labs, the Western roadtrip is tentatively scheduled for May/June.

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Rob Lewis
Rob is the President of Techvibes Media Inc. and Editor-in-Chief of Techvibes.com. His diverse background includes stints in International Trade Finance, Web Development, and Enterprise Software and he is a graduate of the University of British Columbia, British Columbia Institute of Technology, and Simon Fraser University. When not blogging on...[more]