Top Canadian investors Extreme Venture Partners, OMERS Ventures, Rho Canada Ventures, BlackBerry Partners Fund and BDC, have come together in Extreme Startups to commit $7 million to grow the program allowing participating companies to receive up to $200,000 of investment: an initial investment of $50,000, with up to $150,000 in a convertible note provided by BDC. Extreme Startups is a rebranded and expanded version of the Extreme University accelerator program founded by early-stage venture capital investor Extreme Venture Partners. The program’s structure was carefully crafted to foster technology companies with the best chance of surviving and thriving in both current and future markets. Leading-edge resources will help cohort companies capitalize on strong market conditions and opportunities.
www.extremestartups.com
HootSuite is a social media management system for businesses and organizations to collaboratively execute campaigns across multiple social networks from one secure, web-based dashboard. Launch marketing campaigns, identify and grow audience, and distribute targeted messages using HootSuite’s unique social media dashboard. Streamline team workflow with scheduling and assignment tools and reach audiences with geo-targeting functionality. Invite multiple collaborators to manage social profiles securely, plus provide custom reports using the comprehensive social analytics tools for measurement.
Key social network integrations include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and new Google+ Pages, plus a suite of social content apps for YouTube, Flickr, Tumblr and more.
Sweet Tooth gives eCommerce merchants and developers the tools to create unique, fun, and engaging points & rewards programs. Using a rule-based setup, merchants can define the conditions and actions that customers must perform, or the events that must occur, which allow customers to earn and spend points. At Sweet Tooth, our goal is always to simply help merchants and developers succeed by increasing store sales, boosting customer retention and nurturing loyalty through a customized eCommerce points and rewards experience.
WaveAccounting.com is a free, online accounting application designed for small businesses with 9 employees or less. Wave frees small business owners from their shoebox approach to accounting, automating and simplifying everyday accounting tasks while providing real insight into the state of their business. Wave is the fastest-growing application for small business finances and has customers in over 180 countries. Wave is privately held, and based in Toronto, Canada.
www.waveaccounting.com