International Startup Fest Winners: a recap

Posted: July 16, 2012   by: Jennifer Marron

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“All aboard the startup train!” Three members of the ICE team were lucky to attend this year’s International Startup Fest in Montreal: Nathan Monk, Ryan Poissant and Leona Teixeira and travelled to the conference in true startup style.

Those travelling from Toronto boarded the “startup train” – one train car of the train solely dedicated to starting up (pun intended) the conference, and included a DJ, a pitch competition and powerpoint kareoke.

 

 

Here are the winners of the startup competitions (a couple wins for MaRS!):

1. $50k seed capital, syndicate lead: Chris Arsenault
Jintronix: http://www.jintronix.com/
Based in Montreal, Jingronix is a physiotherapy platform for patients to augment their therapy (often very boring) with animated and interactive video sessions integrated with your medical records

2. Founder Fuel Fall Cohort Winner
Openera: http://openera.net/
Find, share and manage any file from any device and from any cloud anywhere.

3. Teen’s Pick
MaRS clients: StoryPanda and Foodo
StoryPanda: http://storypanda.com/storypanda-app/
Create, share and read kids stories all from your family iPad
Foodo: http://gofoodo.com
Discover, view menus and buy food from your location-based services-enabled smartphone. Avoid the lineups, discover new restaurants, reviewed and rated.

4. Elevator Pitch (yes, startups were asked to pitch inside a real elevator!)
Bridge4Events.com: http://www.bridge4events.com
Based in Montreal, B4E is a platform/ecosystem for event planners and suppliers

Internation Startup Fest (hashtag #startupfest) is a definite “must-attend” event for Canadian startups and we can’t wait to go back next year!