AGORACOM Sponsors TechCrunch40

AGORACOM is one of those Canadian online companies that probably doesn’t get as much attention as it deserves. Perhaps it has to do with the fact it provides communication services to small-cap companies and investors interested them – as opposed to large companies that dominate the headlines and trading volumes.

Nevertheless, AGORACOM appears to have tapped into a fertile market and, along the way, has struck partnerships with RIM, Yahoo Finance and AOL Finance.

Another sign things must be going well is AGORACOM’s decision to become an official sponsor for the much-hyped TechCrunch40 conference later this month in San Francisco. Some of the other sponsors include Sequoia Capital and the Mayfield Fund – two of Silicon Valley’s biggest VCs.

George Tsiolis, the Toronto-based company’s president, said high-profile sponsorships have helped AGORACOM’s business take off over the past year “so we’re now applying it to the branding and awareness side of things. This is especially true in the Web 2.0 world where it is very difficult to get the attention of Silicon Valley from Toronto. Doubly so when you factor in the fact we are in the finance community business.”

The TechCrunch40 conference, the love child of Michael Arrington and Jason Calacanis, has become one of the hottest tickets around. It will feature 40 companies who will present their businesses to a panel of experts. The exciting part is all these companies have unveil a new site or application, which makes it sound a lot like Demo. Google, by the way, is reportedly going to announce its new PowerPoint-like service, Presently.

Among the experts at the conference are the following:

Marc Andreessen (Co-founder, Ning), Chris Anderson (Editor-In-Chief, Wired Magazine), Ryan Block (Editor-In-Chief, Engadget), Roelof Botha (Partner, Sequoia Capital), Ron Conway (angel investor and advisor), Mark Cuban (Founder, HDNet), Esther Dyson (Founder, EDventure),Caterina Fake (Co-founder, Flickr), Brad Garlinghouse (SVP,Communications & Communities, Yahoo!), MC Hammer (Musical Artist and Advisor, DanceJam), Guy Kawasaki (Founder Garage Technology Ventures), Sarah Lacy (reporter and author), Loïc Le Meur (entrepreneur, LeWeb organizer and blogger), Om Malik (Founder, GigaOm), Marissa Mayer (VP, Search Products & User Experience, Google), Rajeev Motwani (Professor, Stanford University) and Yossi Vardi (early stage investor and advisor.)

For more on AGORACOM’s participation at the conference, check out the company’s blog.