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Handful of Canadian Start-ups at DEMO 08

Posted by Rob Lewis on Fri, January 25, 2008 2:41 PM · Filed under Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver , Tech Events, Start-up · 6 Comments

The DEMO conferences, known for launching some of the technology industry's biggest innovators, announced today that there will be 77 new products launched at DEMO 08. In its 18th year, the DEMO conferences have hosted a Who's Who of company product debuts, including those from Google, Apple, Salesforce.com, Palm, Intel, HP, Yahoo!, Logitech, and TiVo. 77 companies have been selected from hundreds of applications and will launch their new products in a 6 minute live demo attended by journalists, investors, and business professionals from around the globe. DEMO 08 will be held January 28-30 in Palm Desert. As hinted by Tris Hussey over at Maple Leaf 2.0 a couple weeks ago, five canadian companies have made the list:

HealthPricer Interactive, Ltd., Vancouver, BC
Rove Mobile, Inc., Ottawa, ON
SceneCaster, Richmond Hill, ON
Standout Jobs, Inc., Montreal, QC
xtranormal, Inc., Montreal, QC

Look out for profiles on these five companies leading up to DEMO 08 on Jan. 28th.

Company:: HealthPricer.com
Website:: http://www.healthpricer.com
Location:: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

HealthPricer.com - owned by Healthpricer Interactive Ltd. - is a leading comparison shopping engine focusing on consumer health products and... [more]

Company:: Standout Jobs
Website:: http://www.standoutjobs.com
Location:: Montréal, Québec, Canada

Standout Jobs is a new Montreal-based startup founded by Fred Ngo, Benjamin Yoskovitz and Austin Hill. We believe: The job market is broken.... [more]

Company:: Xtranormal
Website:: http://www.xtranormal.com
Location:: Montréal, Québec, Canada

xtranormal’s mission is to bring movie-making to the people. Everyone watches movies and we believe everyone can make movies. Movie-making, short... [more]

Company:: Rove
Website:: http://www.roveit.com
Location:: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Rove is the leading provider of network administration software that allows for unified management of all IT systems from a handheld device or... [more]

6 Comments

Canadians at DEMO–Good stuff and I’ll be looking for them! said on Fri, January 25, 2008 at 3:33 PM

[...] beat me to the post about who will be at DEMO. But no hard [...]

Standout Jobs Raises $2 Million said on Mon, January 28, 2008 at 1:58 PM

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Healthpricer brings the Priceline model to health products said on Mon, January 28, 2008 at 3:53 PM

[...] Handful of Canadian Start-ups at DEMO 08 [...]

xtranormal brings 3D avatars to content creation said on Tue, January 29, 2008 at 8:47 AM

[...] Handful of Canadian Start-ups at DEMO 08 [...]

Scenecaster monetizes open 3D space for the web said on Tue, January 29, 2008 at 8:48 AM

[...] Handful of Canadian Start-ups at DEMO 08 [...]

CIX: Standout Jobs & Streametrics | Techvibes Blog said on Wed, April 30, 2008 at 9:30 AM

[...] and team using social media and multimedia tools such as video. Techvibes covered Standout’s launch at DEMO in January as well as their recent funding announcement. Yoskovitz used the event to announce [...]

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Rob Lewis
Rob is the President of Techvibes Media and Editor in Chief of Techvibes.com. His diverse background includes stints with 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.