Montreal Startup Festival
Today
was the final day of the 2013 Startup Festival of Montreal, an event
which was held in the Old Port area for the third year. The goal of
these events is to export a bit of Silicon Valley up north. In this
edition, over 50 exposits could be seen. Many people attended,
including inventors, entrepreneurs, investors and clients. Most of
the startups are unsurprisingly focused on high end technologies, and
keynotes talked of the latest news and tactics used by new
businesses.
While
most tents showcased new startups from Canadian innovators, there
were also some big names like Google, Altimeter and Indiegogo.
According to their mission statement, this startup festival is the
perfect place for collaboration between global leaders and the
startup scene. There were keynote speakers, contests, prizes and
funding drives.
While
this kind of event may be common in California’s tech scene, this
sort of event is fairly new and growing around the world. This type
of startup festival is key to networking and can be invaluable to
inventors trying to fund their new business. If you don’t happen to
live near a technology hotbed, chances are you may find such an event
happening soon which could give you opportunities you otherwise would
not have. If you live in Montreal, then you may be interested to know
the 2014 version will be occurring on July 9-12.
