Montreal Startups

Andrew Lockhead is a serial entrepreneur exploding with passion. When a new idea comes to him, he just can’t get it out of his head. So when Andrew and his co-founder Hamed came up with the idea for S...

In 2006, Ian Jeffrey left Montreal to join the startup world in Silicon Valley. Three years later, his company “Tiny Pictures” was acquired by Shutterfly. The experiences he gained in San Francisco al...

Financial literacy and personal finance are topics that are widely covered today. Blogs, magazines, and books are quick to offer tips, tricks and lessons to improve your finances. Philip Barrar, howev...

Julien Smith has always been a forward thinker. He consistently adopted new technologies before the masses did and loved envisioning how they can create new business opportunities. In 2014 he set out ...

While solar energy is notoriously efficient, oddly enough the industry itself is actually quite inefficient. This is an issue Lennie Moreno picked up on pretty quickly working in the industry. His ans...

Felipe Coimbra is a rare bread. He’s a serial entrepreneur who started a non-profit focused on helping Syrian refugees, got featured on Tech Crunch and has lived in 19+ cities throughout his life. Fel...

Eamonn O’Rourke made a significant observation in the construction industry that would change his life forever. The serial entrepreneur noticed the incredible man-hours wasted from contractors making ...

It’s fair to say Marc’s never been one to shy away from hard work or a challenge. In 2016, he left the landscaping company he helped build for a new, bigger challenge. His plan was to change the way l...

At the age of 23, Maxime found himself unsure of his career path. Having spent the million dollars he had just won playing professional poker in Europe, ideas began to unravel on ways he can earn extr...

In part 2 of this 2 part mini-series, Montreal tech legend Hamnett Hill recounts how his business, as well as the city itself, emerged out of the dotcom crash in the early 2000s. Hamnett also discusse...

It’s fair to say Chris Defour isn’t afraid to juggle multiple projects at once. At one point, he was operating 4 different companies at once all while winding down a competitive squash career. Fast fo...

In 2014, Phil Cutler set out on a mission to democratize education. He was tired of seeing less fortunate students fall behind because of a lack of access to resources. Less than five years later, Phi...