News Analysis: ServiceNow Gets Serious About AI With Element AI Acquisition
Joint post with my colleague Holger Mueller (@holgermu) Element AI Takes Workflow to the Autonomous Level for ServiceNow On November 30th, ServiceNow announced an estimated $510 million acquisition of Montreal, Canada based startup, Element AI. Co-founded by Dr. Yoshua Bengio, a 2018 winner of the Turing Award, Nicolas Chapados. and Jean-François Gagné in 2016, the […]
If you want to change the ecosystem you need to build an amazing startup
At Founders and Funders this week we took some time to interview Dan Debow. It was a bit of a love-in I admit but that is just because I really love how much passion Dan has for helping those around him. He has made a big difference in a lot of people’s lives. I’ve benefitted […]
Coradiant acquired by BMC software
On the heels of yesterday’s acquisition of Tungle, BMC Software has announced today that they have acquired Montreal’s Coradiant, which was co-founded by Year One Labs partner Alistair Croll. We are happy that Montreal has managed to win something in the last few days. The price is currently undisclosed, but the back of the napkin calculation tells […]
Startup Festival coming to Montreal – Why it’s important
I know that David just posted about the upcoming Startup Festival, but I thought I would add my own thoughts: I have definitely been getting the feeling that the whole “startup conference” format is getting a little stale. The same formats in the same cities with most of the same speakers. The real benefit of […]
Year One Labs — The Perfect “Incubator”?
I abhor the term “incubator”. I remember in fifth grade when our teacher brought in a chicken incubator to show us how chickens are born. We waited and waited and waited a while longer still. All the little Chickens were dead, it turned out. We weren’t quite sure why but most of us thought that […]
NextMontreal.com launches – “news and opinion on technology and startups”
NextMontreal.com is going live today. It is the result of a push by Ben Yoskovitz to create a new source of information for the Montreal community after MontrealTechWatch went dormant over a year ago. Why now? When first thinking about this project, Ben wrote: When the site was active it provided a great deal of […]
