Klipfolio captures another $6.2M
Ottawa cloud software company Klipfolio announced Feb. 25 that it’s raised $6.2 million from a series-A round led by OMERS Ventures. The round featured all existing investors from the firm’s $1.7-million seed round a year ago.
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Photographer Sarah Bradley of Ottawa’s iShootEvents captures the moments that matter
Hiring a photographer to capture your event’s most notable moments shouldn’t be an afterthought. You need an expert like Sarah Bradley of iShootEvents.
Photographer Sarah Bradley of Ottawa’s iShootEvents captures the moments that matter
Hiring a photographer to capture your event’s most notable moments shouldn’t be an afterthought. You need an expert like Sarah Bradley of iShootEvents.
Props social hub gets wide release at SXSW
A four-man team from Carleton University has launched an app called Props to act as a central hub for social media, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. The company comes from the Lead to Win program with the expectation that it will generate $1 million in revenues within three years. Props held its North American launch at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, where Twitter blew up in 2007.
Bumpn follows the party
A new mobile app startup hopes to be the life of the party. Bumpn is a social networking app that lets users automatically share photos they take at an event to a single feed dedicated to the occasion. The bootstrapped company launched its beta version in January and has since been using customer feedback to develop a 2.0 version for a planned April release.
Three uOttawa teams share $10K in prizes
Three teams of young entrepreneurs took home helpful prize money from the University of Ottawa’s Entrepreneurship Concepts PEI student competition on Feb. 6. Enplex earned the $5,000 first prize for its “effortless networking” system that uses bracelet technology to automatically exchange contact information when two people shake hands. Second-place winner eCelery received $3,000 for its food and nutrition social platform. In third place was Insomnia Skis, which won $2,000 for the team’s plan to bring its garage-based custom ski collection to the web.
