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Angel War Stories & Early Exits – at NAO 2010 National Summit Panel

Check out the new NAO Summit web site: http://www.angelsummit.ca

Good news for the tech and investment community in Canada!

The National Angel Organization is hard at work planning for their 2010 National Summit that will be held in Montreal this year from October 6th to 8th.

This year’s event includes some of Canada’s best angel investors sharing their experiences and insights. Such as:

Keynote by Charles Sirois, an entrepreneur, angel, venture capitalist and chair of CIBC, is the luncheon keynote speaker on October 8th, and he is just the start of a great procession of distinguished keynote speakers and panellists coming this year.

Other speakers and panellists typically embody decades of hard-won expertise in the global early-stage space, of inestimable value to any individual or group providing seed, early-stage, and expansion capital to early-stage enterprises.

The series of panel on Angel War Stories & Early Exits which review some of the best and worst of the year in Canadian Angel Investing, will this year welcome Andy Nulman and Chris Arsenault:

Andy Nulman is the newly appointed President, Festivals and Television, of Montreal’s renowned Just For Laughs International Comedy Festival, the world’s first and largest comedy event.  This is not Andy’s first go around at JFL. From 1985 until 1999, he literally transformed the event from a two-day show to a month-long cultural happening, attracting over 2 million visitors per year. He is also former President & co-founder of Airborne Technology Ventures, a company celebrated as a pioneer in the industry of mobile media and marketing.  Check him out at www.andynulman.com.

Chris Arsenault is President & CEO of iNovia Capital, one of Canada’s premier managers of seed and early-stage venture capital funds.  Chris is an entrepreneur turned venture capitalist! Having founded, co-founded or launched almost a half a dozen tech companies over the last 17 years all within the software, Internet and Communications space. Chris now has the pleasure of working with an amazing team of investor entrepreneurs in Montreal, Calgary and New York. Chris was an early investor in Airborne Entertainment (which was subsequently sold to Japanese based Cybird for $100M) and thereafter participated in the birth of Airborne Technology Ventures alongside the founding partners. And continues to be on the lookout for the next entrepreneur to back!

Register here

October 6th – 8th, 2010

Montreal, Quebec

The premier event for Angel

networking and education in Canada!

Contact NAO at pconnor@angelinvestor.ca

or 1600-401 Bay Street

Toronto, Ontario M5H 2Y4

Did you hear about the GROW 2010 conference? The C100 did!

These days, it feels like there isn’t one major event happening in the Startup Tech Community or in the Venture Capital/ Angel Community, without hearing about the C100. The C100 is everywhere!

The latest and most promising tech event in Canada is already tattooed with C100 efforts. Starting with the amazing Debbie Landa, a passionate and devoted C100er who’s taken charge and is making the GROW 2010 the MUST attend event of the year in Canada.

Just check out the sampling list of some registered attendees and speakers and you will be flabbergasted:

  • Andrew Mason, Founder and CEO - Groupon
  • Dave McClure - 500 Hats LLC
  • Marc Gingras – Tungle
  • Wesley Chan, Investment Partner – Google Ventures
  • Rob Chaplinsky, Managing Director - Bridgescale Partners
  • Chris Arsenault - iNovia Capital
  • Jeff Clavier, Managing Director – SoftTech VC
  • Tom Conrad, CTO – Pandora
  • Robert Goldberg, SVP Corporate Development – Zynga
  • Michael Buhr, CEO of Travelport and former CEO of Stumbleupon
  • Don Harrison, Deputy General Counsel – Google
  • Rob Hayes, Managing Partner – First Round Capital
  • Mark Macleod –  RealVentures
  • David Crow – StartupNorth
  • Tony Hsieh, Author of Delivering Happiness and CEO – Zappos
  • Debbie Landa, CEO and Founder – Dealmaker Media
  • Stew Langille, VP, Marketing – Mint
  • Ellen Levy, Vice President Strategic Alliances – Linkedin
  • Dan Martell, Co-Founder – Flowtown
  • Mike Parker, President – Tribal DDB US
  • Ariel Poler, CEO of TextMarks Inc. and Angel Investor – TextMarks
  • Danny Robinson, Managing Director – Bootup Labs
  • Rick Segal, Co-founder – Fixmo
  • Aydin Senkut, Founder and President – Felicis Ventures
  • Dana Settle, Partner – Greycroft Partners
  • Bill Tai, General Partner – Charles River Ventures
  • Jeremy Toeman, Founder – Stage Two
  • Steven Woods, Vice President North Americas Operatiosn, Waterloo – Google
  • Chris Albinson, Managing Director – Panorama Capital
  • Jason Bailey, GM of Virtual Currencies – Adknowledge
  • Lane Becker, Co-Founder & VP, Strategy – Get Satisfaction
  • Paul Bernard, Head of Business Development, Business Services – Nokia
  • Leonard Brody, President – Clarity Digital
  • Danny Robinson – bootup labs
  • and so many more…

Now for your GROW2010 To-do List:

Are you ready? We are two weeks away from the inaugural GROW2010 conference, please make sure you’ve checked everything off your to-do list.

___ 1. Register to Attend and Follow us on Twitter: @growconf

___ 2. Conference Agenda: Check out the final agenda and speaker line-up for the conference

___ 3. Meet the speakers during “Office Hours”: Attendees can sit down with the speakers and investors during

“office hours” in the main lobby of the conference. (Schedule will be given out at the conference.

___ 4. Sign Up for Day 3: Join us for a day of outdoor adventure with local insiders. They’ll take you kite-boarding,

hiking, cycling, mountain biking and kayaking.

___ 5. Go to After party: After the conference on Friday night, Media Temple is hosting the after-party. It’s at an

undisclosed location, and we’ll let you know the details at the conference.

___ 6. ***Give a big thank you to our generous sponsors (below) and partners – we couldn’t do this without them! (See below)

Register here

See you here