For a second year, Fondation Montréal Inc. is pleased to award grants to Founder Institute Montreal companies. They were selected among hundreds of companies. These companies are proudly sponsored by the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, which is financing all 2015 grants thanks to its major donation of $500,000 over 5 years.
Since launching in Montreal earlier in 2014 with Sergio Escobar and LP Maurice, the Founder Institute has helped launch over a twenty companies in the region, including some of Canada's fast-rising startups like Heddoko, Logrr, MakerBloks, and more. Our efforts in Montreal have also been profiled by high profile media channels, including Techvibes, Radio Canada Television, Les Affaires,Betakit, TVA Argent: Techno Pour Tous (TVA Argent) and more.
In the Founder Institute's four-month, part-time program, promising startup entrepreneurs "learn by doing" and launch a company through structured training courses and expert feedback from a large network of business mentors. Plus, you are not required to quit you day job to participate, so you can begin building a business around your ideas without putting your livelihood at risk.
Here are the 4 businesses selected this Autumn as Laureates.
Unito
Unito is an Asana-GitHub integrator that synchronizes projects, tasks and conversations between different apps. Unito helps you work seamlessly without switching apps all the time. No one is out of the loop anymore.
Hykso Inc.
Hykso makes wearable sensors for boxers to improve their punches and their performance patterns.
Nukern
Nukern is a billing and automation software in the cloud, specialized for web hosts.
The Food Room inc.
The Food Room is a rental kitchen and culinary coworking center dedicated to helping out food businesses.
In only 17 years of operation, over 9,000 graduate companies across 200 cities have used the Founder Institute to validate their idea, develop their plans, refine their product, build an advisory board, prepare for seed funding, and more. Current alumni includes fast-rising startups across 6 continents like Udemy, Realty Mogul, iCarsClub, Itembase, goplaceit, Appota, and many more
