Category: Week in Review

• Waldii is the product that came out of Startup Weekend Halifax (http://www.halifaxweekend.com/ ). Really solid app: http://www.waldii.com/ #
• Fonolo now available for Google Android – http://www.shaiberger.com/?p=213 #
• voices.com featured by the globe and mail in an article on our collective shift to cloud computing – http://bit.ly/kD8ux #
• LoyaltyMatch launches a SaaS platform to power online customer loyalty programs – http://www.loyaltymatch.com/ondemand #
• RT @chrisarsenault: @CVCACanada Our CND VC industry should promote/use std initial financing round Termsheet & Closing templates like #NVCA #
• Tungle leaves Beta – http://tinyurl.com/dbxvok #
• BumpTop Founder Anand named a Top Young Entrepreneur by Biz Week. http://tinyurl.com/c67def #
• Tribal Nova, Virtual Worlds for Kids, closes $3M with iNovia Capital & ID Capital – http://tinyurl.com/dguooo #
• Radialpoint acquires Casero. Congrats! Grows customer base to 20 leading ISPs and 50M addressable subscribers – http://tinyurl.com/c8ppaj #

• RT @johnelton iNovia’s latest investment: Collective Media $20 million in Series B led by Accel Partners http://bit.ly/l78LV (corrected) #
• RT @stoweboyd:Open Enterprise 2009: Jeremiah Owyang Inteview http://bit.ly/gfTBi 53% of marketers increased social media investment #oe09 #
• RT @TechCrunch:Venture Capital Fundraising Is Down Nearly 40 Percent In First Quarter of 2009 http://bit.ly/Frpbx by @erickschonfeld #
• Canada’s StumbleUpon a startup again, having been divested by eBay – http://tinyurl.com/c8v26a #
• Check out projects from Ryerson’s Web 2.0 Competition (aka CPS630). We need more of these classes across Canada – http://tinyurl.com/dmyn8z #
• RT @davidcrow:Room booked Apr 23 for TO entrepreneur community convo. cpcty is 24. DM me why you want to particpate & what you bring to … #
• Learn more about the meaningless paperwork choking off foreign direct investment in Canada: http://www.vcrants.com/?p=76 #
• having server issues. Should be resolved soon #

• “Today’s market represents an outstanding time to cull the weak and under performing from our herds” – http://www.vcrants.com/?p=67 #
• Despite the meaningless paperwork, GrandBanks Capital is looking to invest in more Canadian tech companies – http://tinyurl.com/csv9xy #
• Don’t forget about the MeshU/Startupnorth party tonight at The Drake Hotel. Starts at 6pm http://tr.im/il7y #
• BumpTop is now public,. congrats @anandx http://bumptop.com/ #
• Nice review of Bumptop on RWW http://tinyurl.com/dna4ov #
• Flow Ventures invests in Toronto based Symtext – http://tinyurl.com/djze45 #
• Buying or selling a home? Check out http://www.agentinvitation.com/ which launched earlier today. #
• Early Bird Registration for OCE Discovery 09 ends today! Get your tickets and booth here: http://www.ocediscovery.com/register2009.aspx #
• get your #Mesh09 photos here – http://www.rannieturingan.com/events/ thanks @photojunkie #
• Here is a wrap up of this semester’s winners from Velocity at UofW – http://news.therecord.com/article/513072 #
• RT @zunaid RT @startupnorth: get your #Mesh09 photos here – http://www.rannieturingan.com/events/ thanks @photojunkie #
• RT @CVCACanada:Teradici closes funding w/TELUS, Alloy Ventures, GrowthWorks, Skypoint, BDC VC, Alta Berkeley VP. http://bit.ly/12CFG #

• Being a VC just isn’t as fun as it used to be: http://tinyurl.com/d7t472 #
• LoyaltyMatch and PlanetEye partner up – http://tinyurl.com/cpv7sn #
• Flow Ventures’ announces an investment in Symtext: http://bit.ly/eXnAG Nice work guys! #
• RT @CVCACanada: your startup needs an Unfair Advantage: http://www.vcrants.com/?p=64 #
• Only a couple tickets left for MeshU! Great lineup this year. If you plan to attend, better register asap – http://www.meshu.ca #
• b5media makes tough decisions, reduces head count and burn rate, CEO on minimum wage – http://tinyurl.com/ddxd3k http://tinyurl.com/cfu3hh #
• RIM launched BlackBerry App World http://tinyurl.com/c368do BlackBerry Partners consider funding a fart app http://tinyurl.com/dhyw2x #
• Wishing I had a Blackberry to test out Parkvu #
• Don’t forget about the StartupNorth/Meshu after party next week. Entertainment includes @jaygoldman doing the sprinkler http://tr.im/i9NY #
• Don’t forget to post on or read http://www.meshjobs.com during the next week. Great place to find new hires and to find a new gig. #
• “The VC industry is broken. Let’s build our own non VC startups.” @MarkSkapinker – http://tinyurl.com/dxf73b #

• RT @bmann: Beers with @bfeld on April 22nd in Vancouver, first 50 tickets are available now: http://tr.im/hK9r #
• CoolIT Systems, based in Calgary, secures a $6.2M follow on round led by iNovia Capital – http://tinyurl.com/dg2cdu #
• A great overview of SR&ED for startups: http://tinyurl.com/c8p2x7 #
• BlackBerry Partners Fund invests in Xobni – http://tinyurl.com/c5tf7z #

• The right way to do bonuses: http://tinyurl.com/cc8w82 #
• TeamPages scores a second round: http://tinyurl.com/cpghvl #
• Ontario Government as VC? – http://tinyurl.com/cap7jh #
• Quebec comes out swinging with big numbers and bigger ambitions: http://tinyurl.com/dzcors click on Budget Plan #qcbudget hat tip @rayluk #
• iNovia’s Chris Arsenault on the $825M Quebec Gov VC Fund of Funds – http://tinyurl.com/dgqg4f #

• Overlay.tv launches iJustine for SXSW win a Wii contest, hilarity ensues: http://ijustine.overlay.tv/ #

Changed behavior an indicator of customer satisfaction vs. requiring a change of behavior as a sure way to fail.

Success is never a straight line, Mark MacLeod on iskoot.

When asked for an employee number… here is what to say.

And some great announcements you might have missed:

SmartHippo added 200 new lenders to its mortgage comparison engine.

GigPark announced a great new partnership with Autohound.ca, where they are powering a dealer testimonial tool. This partnership is part of a bigger strategy to open up GigPark so other companies can use their social recommendation tool.

fOTOGLIF announced making available over one million free images for embedding across the web.

Akoha launched TED inspired mission cards.

Airborne Mobile raised $2M from iNovia Capital.

Mashup Arts raised $1.6M in seed financing.

Happy belated Valentine’s Day! Here are a couple links we wanted to share to celebrate the occasion:

Omnidate caught a wink from the Discovery Channel.

Lavalife cofounder Bruce Croxon was interviewed by Fortune Hunters on how it all got started.

After watching from afar for 2 years, W Media Ventures invested in Vancouver based FitBrains.