May 25, 2010, - 5:00-7:00 pm

LaBarge Weinstein’s Kanata offices
515 Legget Drive, Suite 800

Come hear about emerging trends in seed and early stage institutional financing, from Mark MacLeod and Raymond Luk of two new Montreal seed funding sources. The event will be moderated by James Smith and hosted at LaBarge Weinstein. Drinks refreshments provided.

Raymond Luk

Raymond is an entrepreneur and Angel investor based in Montreal. He runs Flow Ventures, a startup accelerator, and recently founded ArtAnywhere, an innovative art startup. He has built and managed a number of successful startups over the last decade and has been an executive of both private and public companies. Raymond is a well-known instigator of tech events including founding StartupDrinks Canada, the largest monthly networking event for startups in Canada. He is a Director of Symtext Corp., is the co-chair of the National Angel Capital Organization Summit for 2010, and a member of the Advisory Cabinet at Project Olympus, at Carnegie Mellon University.

Mark MacLeod

Mark MacLeod has been a CFO for numerous start-ups in the Montreal over the last 10 years, including most recently for Terapath, Tungle, Akoha and Status.net. He currently runs StartupCFO Enterprises - providing financial & strategic guidance and back office admin services for, you guessed it, start-ups, and he is one of the co-founders of Founder Fuel, a Montreal-based QC-government backed early stage opportunities fund.

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