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WMN in Tech: Annick Charbonneau on Becoming CEO of Soul.City
How do you negotiate your way into owning 33.3% of a travel app startup? For Annick Charbonneau, CEO and co-founder of Soul.City, it took an impromptu trip to Strasbourg.
15 interesting things you didn’t know about Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke
As the CEO of Canada’s biggest technology company by market value, Tobias Lütke is part of a new wave of Canadian business royalty. In lat..
Ecofuel’s Boston program takes buy-in from both sides
Montreal’s Ecofuel accelerator program is offering a unique program for startups looking to expand into Boston.
The notable organizatio..
Robots in the kitchen? It’s closer than you might think
Around the world more and more industries are leveraging new technologies and automation to make themselves more efficient, increase margi..
WMNinTECH: From Academia to Google: Narjès Boufaden of Keatext on Building a Text Analytics Startup
For Narjès Boufaden, creating Keatext, her cloud-based AI-powered text analytics platform, was relatively easy.
But everything else, incl..
WMNinTECH: Julie Han on Launching Airix, the Pharmacy on Your Phone
According to pharmacist-turned-entrepreneur Julie Han, “Pharmacy hasn’t evolved much since the 1970s, so the whole process in which you go..
A year in review: the top Montreal tech stories of 2018
Several fascinating developments happened in Montreal’s tech community over the course of 2018.
For starters, we continued a nice, grow..
TechNoel, Montreal tech’s favourite holiday party is back
Montreal’s holiday tech party is back for another year. This time around the annual TechNoel party will happen on Wednesday December 5th a..
Pair of Montreal startups land investment from BDC’s Women in Technology fund
Two startups in Montreal are among four total recipients of investment from the BDC’s new $200 million Women in Technology fund.
The tw..
Big Data meets cancer: Montreal’s Streamline Genomics helps clinicians analyze gene mutations
In just four months, co-founders Josette-Renée Landry and Brian Wilhelm went from their idea of a genome sequencing analysis service to fi..
Women in Tech – StartupFest, Day 2
Day 2 of StartupFest 2018 will be remembered for 2 things, a near perfect day for learning, networking and outdoor deal making, and a whol..
WMNinTECH: Interview with The Mindful Scholar cofounder Rekha Magon
Five months of bed rest, flat on her back, was exactly what Mindful Scholar co-founder Rekha Magon needed to launch her company. The forme..
WMNinTECH: Marie-Pier Hébert Launches Montreal On-Demand Babysitting Company
“Do you need a drink tonight? We’ve got you covered!” That’s part of the branding for Kiid, the on-demand babysitters web app (think Uber ..
Four golden tickets up for grabs as New York’s Zola plants a stake in Montreal
New York-based ‘wed-tech’ startup Zola is headed to Montreal, ready to hand out four golden tickets to talented engineers in the city.
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WMNinTECH: on BDC’s “Women In Tech: Finding Opportunity on the Challenging Path to Success”
On Wednesday, May 23, BDC, BDO and MontrealNewTech hosted an event at Salon 1861 called “Women In Tech: Finding Opportunity on the Challen..