Founders & Funders in Ottawa - I’ll be there.
Posted by austin under Canada Tech Scene, Founders & Funders
Ottawa based entrepreneur, Allan Isfan who is founder of FaveQuest (who was also formerly EIR with Skypoint Capital) contacted David Crow and I a few months ago about wanting to bring Founders & Funders to the nation’s capital.
Ottawa has been a long time hot bed of technology activity in Canada, but recently has undergone a lot of difficulties and changes.
He has done a great job of organizing the first Founders & Founders in Ottawa which is occurring next Wednesday, October 29. The event is invite only (in the tradition of other Founder & Funder events). There are few tickets left - you can email Allan at allan.isfan [@] favequest.com letting him know why you think you should get an invite if you would like to join the event.
Allan asked me to do a small speech to help kick off the inaugural event in Ottawa. I’ll be speaking about why now is a great time to do a startup, and some of the opportunities I’m seeing in the angel, entrepreneur and Canadian startup scene.
On a personal note, I’m very excited at the success that Founders & Funders has achieved. Since Patrick Lauzon and I started the concept, there have been Founders & Funders events in Calgary, Waterloo, Toronto, Montreal and now Ottawa. I know that there is a pending event in Vancouver to be hosted & organized by Boris Mann at BootupLabs.
David Crow & Jevon MacDonald have been instrumental in helping spread these events.
With the changes in the global economy and dark clouds of startup funding forming over Silicon Valley and the tech world I think these events are going to be an important part of ensuring our early stage innovators continue to have opportunities for funding, learning and peer support.
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