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First Edition of the Tremblant Venture Forum: an inspirational Success
Eastern Canada’s premier company financing event brought together leading venture capitalists from Canada and the United States and the most innovative Canadian early-stage companies with high growth potential |
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Montréal, Quebec, May 26, 2009 – The first edition of the Tremblant Venture Forum, held on May 13 and 14, 2009 at the Fairmont Tremblant Hotel, was highly successful. Eastern Canada’s premier company financing event provided a forum for leading North American venture capitalists representing a total of over C$10 billion, including BDC Venture Capital, Desjardins Venture Capital, Solidarity Fund QFL, Arcapita Ventures, Internet Capital Group, Entrepia Ventures, Emerald Technology Ventures, J.L. Allbright Ventures and BlackBerry Partners Fund, to assess investment opportunities in the most promising Canadian early-stage innovative technology companies. For the event, 16 entrepreneurs from the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector and the Clean Technology (Cleantech) sector presented their business plans to secure C$2 million to C$15 million of financing for their development and marketing operations. Three of them won a $5,000 award presented by Samson Bélair/Deloitte & Touche, the platinum sponsor of the event.
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CRIM representative to serve on the Organizing Committee of the 2009 Tremblant Venture Forum
CRIM intends to use this major Eastern Canadian venture capital event as a catalyst
for financing small businesses and IT startups in Québec |
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| Montreal, Quebec, March 12, 2009 – Denis Roy, Vice-President, Business Development of Centre de recherche informatique de Montréal (CRIM), has been appointed to the Organizing Committee of the 2009 Tremblant Venture Forum. CRIM's presence will help secure financing for the most promising small businesses and startups in the IT sector, and will contribute to the success of this major event. |
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