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Year One Labs "Office Hours" in Waterloo, Toronto and Ottawa

The Year One Labs team will be in Waterloo and Toronto tomorrow, September 28th for “Office Hours” and follow that up with a visit to Ottawa as well (on Wednesday.)

“Office Hours” gives entrepreneurs the chance to meet the partners, talk about the program we offer and connect with fellow entrepreneurs. It’s extremely informal. We’re not doing formal pitches, but we do encourage entrepreneurs (regardless of the stage you’re at with your startup!) to pitch us and talk to us about your ideas.

You can learn more on the Year One Labs blog.

Here’s the quick itinerary:

  • Waterloo – Tuesday September 28th 1:00PM – 3:30PM (Velocity Centre – U Waterloo) RSVP
  • Toronto – Tuesday September 28th 5:30PM – 8:00PM (Jet Cooper offices – 20 Maud Street) RSVP
  • Ottawa – Wednesday September 29th 4:00PM – 6:00PM (Code Factory – 246 Queen Street – 2nd floor) RSVP

If you can, please RSVP. But you don’t need to RSVP – all entrepreneurs are welcome.

Year One Labs is an early stage accelerator. StartupNorth wrote a brief post about Year One Labs when we launched.

dna13 acquired by CNW Group

dna13 acquired by CNW

This was a crazy weekend for Canadian startup acquisitions.

First there was Bumptop announced their acquisition by Google. There is StandOutJobs.com being acquired by an unnamed company. Now Ottawa-based dna13 has been acquired by CNW Group. Read the Social Media Release for more details

“This acquisition reinvents the newswire and we’re terribly excited about it. It’s of benefit to our clients because we’re taking dna13’s technology platform, which is best-in-class, and marrying it with CNW’s suite of offerings. For the first time we’ll be providing an end-to-end solution that will really allow communicators to manage every facet of the communications process. Everything from creating content; targeting your message; distributing your news and information; understanding how that information is being received by your audience to further refining your message and developing metrics. That will all be available to CNW clients in one, single platform.”
– Carolyn McGill-Davidson, President and CEO, CNW Group

This makes a lot of sense since CNW Group is a reseller of the dna13 platform under the MediaVantage brand. No details about the purchase price have been disclosed. 

Looking at the cached Board of Directors page we find:

We can hope that this was another 10 banger for a Canadian startup.