The Founder Institute, the World's Largest Entrepreneur Training and Startup Launch Program, is proud to announce the graduation of the Montreal Spring 2015 Cohort.
Earlier this year, close to one thousand people attended the recruitment events for Founder Institute in Montreal, a record among +100 chapters worldwide! Just 51 founders were chosen to iniate their entrepreneurship journey with Founder Institute. After an intensive, four-month program of expert training sessions, challenging company building assignments, and constant evaluation and feedback from experienced entrepreneur mentors, 12 meaningful and enduring companies were able to make it through the program to Graduation in Montreal.
The Montreal Spring 2015 Graduates now have a company, business idea, prototype, product road-map, initial funding, and path to growth fully validated by experienced startup founders. In addition, the Graduates are part of the prestigious Shared Liquidity Pool, and gain access to the Founder Institute's Global Network of over 1,563 companies and 4,112 mentors spanning over 92 countries and six continents. To hear more about the experience, check out this blog review from Graduate Phil Rivard, and this review from Graduate Amélie Morency.
Each of these Founders has learned much during their time with the Founder Institute and demonstrated the high level of passion, perseverance, and creativity it takes to build a meaningful and enduring company.
And now, without further ado, we would like to wish the best of luck to:
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The Food Room, Founder Amélie Morency The food room, will help small food business to grow their business by providing them culinary coworking facilities available via an online booking platform. |
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Flystro, Founders Bassam Rhou & Graham Mann Flystro is developing an internet platform that connects drone operators with their clients. |
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Onzabox, Founder Carlos J. Pinto Optimizing human's health through the distribution of curated dietary supplements and fitness tips. OnzaBox recommends supplements to such consumers based on their lifestyle. |
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Hykso, Founder Khalil Zahar Hykso helps combat sport coaches and athletes remove subjectivity from their assessments by using wearable sensors and custom algorithms. |
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Unito, Founder Marc Boscher Unito builds specialized connectors for business apps that synchronize the projects, tasks and discussions locked in within those apps. We effectively let professionals collaborate directly from the app of their choice, such as Asana, GitHub, Trello and more. |
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WealthTab, Founders Mike Blicker & Martin Dicaire WealthTab connects new and active Investors to a curated list of Investment Professionals for Investment Advice. |
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Ask Pam, Founder Pamela Alfred Ask-PAM is a high-tech company that connects Frequent Business Travellers to Local Hotel Concierges Worldwide. |
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Nukern, Founder Philippe Rivard Nukern is the solution to your web hosting woes. Whether you’re a designer, developer, or a full time host, Nukern will rid you of the tedious tasks of being a web host, and get you back to growing your business and doing what you love. |
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RentHunt, Founder Pierre Sabbagh RentHunt is matchmaking platform that connects landlords and renters. |
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LeanFrame, Founder Sébastien Roy LeanFrame makes a schedule optimizer to help filmmakers reduce their shooting production costs. |
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FiboBand, Founder Yanick Lavoie A tracking bracelet for kids and a mobile app for the parents. Fiboband, lets you know where you kids are. |
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Dot, Founder Yishel Khan Using cutting edge technology, DOT aims to provide a solution for families struggling with ADHD. It is a collaborative platform where voices are heard. |
This semester would not have been possible without help, because it truly takes a city to raise a startup. We would first like to thank the Local Directors of the Montreal Founder Institute: LP MAURICE and SERGIO ESCOBAR. Our Local Directors play an incredibly important role in building the local Founder Institute program, and creating an environment in Montreal that is conducive to building to great companies.
This semester would not have been possible without help, because it truly takes a city to raise a startup. We would like to thank the Mentors of the Montreal Spring 2015 semester for providing expert training and feedback throughout the program.
The following partners of the Spring 2015 Semester also deserve recognition for their generous support: Spiegel Sohmer, National Bank of Canada, Richter, Futurpreneur Canada, and Kruger.
