Montreal, Canada, January 6, 2008 – The first Startup Camp Montreal will take off on January 23rd at 6:00 PM at SAT,
in downtown Montreal. This event is dedicated to everything Startup. It
is a forum where early stage companies, investors and on-lookers alike
can share information and validate pitches live. A “Camp” event is an
ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in
an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions,
presentations, and interaction from participants. The “Camp” event
concept is inspired from Bar camp and Foo camp events originally
started in California, but now held worldwide.

Graham
Hill, Founder of TreeHugger.com (acquired by Discovery Channel) and
Vice President, Interactive Media, Planet Green, will be the keynote
speaker. The initiators of this event are: Vincent Guyaux and Philippe
Telio from Embrase, Jevon Mac Donald and Jonas Brandon from StartupNorth, Sylvain Carle from A Frog in the Valley, and Heri Rakotomalala from Montreal Tech Watch. The sponsors of the event are BCF, BDC Venture Capital, Embrase, Microsoft and SAT.