Under the Radar to highlight 5 Canadian startups in Mountain View

Posted by Rob Lewis on 2011-09-22 12:43:00 PM

This summer's GROW 2011 Conference in Vancouver has does wonders to help connect Canadian tech startups with Silicon Valley.

A prime example of this is the five confirmed Canadian startups that will be representing Canada at the upcoming Under the Radar conference on November 9th & 10th in Mountain View, California. This is most Canadian startups to ever participate in an Under the Radar event.

  • Halifax's GoInstant
  • Toronto's Rypple
  • Waterloo's TribeHR
  • Waterloo's Vidyard
  • Toronto's Wave Accounting

As Silicon Valley’s most effective innovation showcase and business development conference, Under the Radar continues to bring leading decision makers together with pre-vetted startups that are disrupting the way traditional business is run.

This 18th Under the Radar event tagged Under the Radar: Work Smarter, Not Harder will bring together innovative startups with industry leaders in hopes to create distribution partnerships, give major brands and corporations offerings their customers are asking for, and ease decision making for the business owner. 

Under the Radar has been recognized as the most important showcase of innovation and deal-making forum in Silicon Valley. Under the Radar is NOT a funding event, however, in the past three years alone, 67% of their presenters have gone on to raise major funding and/or been acquired by companies such as Google, Yahoo!, Cisco, BT, Microsoft, Twitter, and Fox Interactive.

Want to attend?  Use our discount code "TCVB" to save $200 off your ticket when regsitering online.

Company:
Rypple
Website:
http://www.rypple.com
Location:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Long before Rypple, we started a software company called Workbrain. Workbrain helped huge companies schedule and pay people. Within a few years, we grew to over 650 people. Like every big company, we set up a "Performance Management" program. We thought that formal reviews would help us manage people and the business. They did. Sort of. Our process helped the company but not our people. It calculated bonuses and... more

Company:
Wave Accounting Inc.
Website:
http://www.waveaccounting.com
Location:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Wave Accounting is aimed at small business owners who hate doing accounting. It’s been designed to be easy and to give business owners a view of their business that they can’t easily achieve through other accounting applications. Because it is web-based it offers benefits over traditional desktop applications. 1. Access your data anywhere. 2. Invite collaborators (such as business partners, bookkeepers or your... more

Company:
Tribe HR
Website:
http://www.tribehr.com
Location:
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

TribeHR is the easiest way to manage your human resources. Manage vacation time, job descriptions, performance, skills, goals, job postings and applicants. Perfect for teams with 2 to 200 employees that are looking for a way to centralize their information and improve employee engagement. more

Company:
GoInstant
Website:
http://www.goinstant.com
Location:
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

GoInstant brings you, your customer and your product together within seconds, so you can focus on what's really important.For sales, GoInstant lets you put the prospect in front of your product faster than anything else. For Customer support, it means you can solve problems faster and make customers happier by turning a bad situation in to a positive one. GoInstant allows you to engage your customers on your... more

Company:
VidYard
Website:
http://www.vidyard.com
Location:
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Video has come a very long way in a few short years. Print, Television and Radio Media have been converging on the web since it’s very inception. Web-video has become a piece of everyone’s life, especially everyone at VidYard. We believe in the communication power of video to promote a product, educate a user-base, or simply keep in touch with those around you. At Vidyard, our goal is to help businesses, bloggers,... more


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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 running Canada's leading technology media property, Rob can... more



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