Originally featured on Techvibes. The Canadian Cloud Council and Boast Capital have just announced a 3-day mega conference titled The Cloud Factory to be held from April 7-9, 2014 in the beautiful resort town of Banff.
When: Wednesday, June 5th, 11:30am-1:00pm MDT
Where: TEC Edmonton, Cantec Hub, 4th floor , Suite 4000-10230 Jasper Ave NW, Edmonton, Alberta T5J 4P6
Join us at this exclusive seminar where you will learn about the different funding programs such as Miatcs, IRAP, AITF, TECTERRA and SR&ED and how you can prepare a successful application. The agenda for the event includes presentations, Q&A, lunch and networking. Speakers include:
Read moreWhen: Wednesday, May 22nd, 12:00-1:00pm MDT
Where: Your Computer
Canada is one of the most generous countries in funding research, innovation, and experimentation, providing approximately $7 billion annually to over 30,000 companies. Over $4.5 billion of this funding pool is provided under the Scientific Research & Experimental Development (SR&ED) program.
If your fiscal year end is December, June 2013 is the deadline to claim for expenditures incurred in 2011. This webinar will give you a comprehensive view of the SR&ED program and other Innovation funding opportunities. The following topics will be covered:
Last year Boast Capital partnered with Plug and Play Tech Center to launch Plug and Play Canada. We would like to invite you to apply to the 2013 summer cohort of Plug and Play Accelerator in Silicon Valley. Selected startups will get the following upon acceptance into program:
Boast Capital is honored to be featured in Calgary Herald’s list of resources to support tech companies published on April 15, 2013.
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“This next edition of Startup Weekend Calgary will have a bigger focus on enterprise and B2B applications,” explains Lloyed Lobo, Partner at Boast Capital and one of the organizers of the event. “I think Calgarian startups are loosing sight of the opportunities that lay in our backyard. There are many business problems to solve here for companies who have the potential to write big checks.”
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“To augment their enterprise efforts, the startup has just finalized an advisory board comprised of industry experts including Todd Simpson, Chief of Innovation at Mozilla and C100 Charter Member; David McIninch, Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at ADP Canada; Tom Short, CEO of Kudos; Scott Valentine, VP of Marketing and Communications at Solium Capital; and Lloyed Lobo, Partner at Boast Capital and Plug and Play Canada.”
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Our friends in Silicon Valley are extending two great programs to Canadian technology entrepreneurs:
Originally posted on the Calgary Herald
Last year the Federal government announced their first budget, as a majority government, keeping innovation at the forefront.
Specifically several changes were announced to the Scientific Research & Experimental Development (SR&ED) program per recommendations of the Jenkins Panel to support a more direct funding model from the savings created. While the changes to the SR&ED program in the 2013 budget weren’t as significant as the 2012 budget, the focus still remained increasing direct funding opportunities to support innovation.
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Over 350 people, including Senior VP and C-level executives from Salesforce, Dell, HP, Amazon, IBM and Intel, gathered to watch eight startups battle in The Canadian Cloud Showdown co-hosted by the Canadian Cloud Council and Boast Capital in Banff last week.