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Sun is proud to be associated with a broad community of organizations supporting startups in Canada.

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tweetmeme

Sun Startup Essentials now has a channel on Tweetmeme,  if you are interested in startup’s and VC’s then this is going to be the channel for you. Please bear in mind these are any type of startups from technology through to a New Roller Derby team being formed.

 

Community

Voices.com

Voices.com is the technology and industry leading website that connects businesses with professional voice talents. Radio and television stations, advertising agencies and Fortune 500 companies rely upon the Voices.com marketplace to search for, audition and hire voice talents with the assistance of our innovative SurePay™ escrow service and our award-winning Web application.

ChickAdvisor

ChickAdvisor provides a platform for women to get valuable advice and recommendations from other women on everything from hair salons and products, to health clubs, to latest fashion finds, trends and sample sales. Their mantra: Love it. Share it. Rate it. ChickAdvisor’s goal is to help women make better purchasing decisions by getting advice first.

PagerDuty

PagerDuty prevents a sysadmin’s worst nightmare: coming in to work on a Monday morning and finding out the website has been down for the entire weekend. We do this by helping businesses set up an alert management strategy. When something goes wrong, PagerDuty springs into action by calling, SMSing, or emailing the engineer on duty. If for some reason, PagerDuty can’t get ahold of the person on-call, it automatically escalates the alert to someone else. PagerDuty’s phone-based alerting and automatic escalation of unanswered alarms allow businesses to quickly resolve operational issues.

 
Intruders.tv

Intruders.tv is a global network of video blogs covering the web 2.0 and technology ecosystem. Our main objective is to take you to the major conferences and events around the world, interview entrepreneurs and investors, visit exciting startups and give you a first look at the hottest technology.

Launch Party

Connecting Canada’s growing community of Internet and new media leaders with investors and other trailblazers across Canada and abroad.

 
Techvibes

Providing an easy-to-use platform for technology professionals to share ideas, recruit key employees, and build stronger industry alliances.

 
GrowthWorks

GrowthWorks is a recognized leader in the Canadian venture capital industry, specializing in the management and growth of regionally based venture capital funds. GrowthWorks has combined assets under management of more than $800 million.