Familiar names on the Founders & Funders list

I’ve been following the Founders & Funders site of late, just keeping tabs on this very interesting event in Toronto in about a week:

Founders & Funders – Toronto
A evening of socializing and dinner for entrepreneurs, angel investors and venture capitalists
January 21, 2008
$75/person – Limited to 75 attendees
Private 3 course dinner at Monsoon Restaurant

Not that I could attend, since I am neither a founder nor funder, but looking at the site there is a very impressive list of attendees.  As I was looking through the list are some familiar names on the lists of folks:

Founders:

• Scott Brooks & Bernie Aho, ConceptShare
  Growth Phase poised for expansion.
  ConceptShare has developed a web application that allows users to easily share, discuss and mark-up designs for review over the web.
• Kevin Thomason & Ilya Grigorik, AideRSS
  An early stage ready to dominate the RSS filtering market
  AideRSS helps you breakthrough RSS information overload and read what matters.
• Mike McDerment, FreshBooks
  gathering steam
  FreshBooks is online invoicing and time tracking for service-oriented professionals.
• Ian Bell, Something Simpler
  Series A Complete: Building Series B
  Something Simpler builds rich consumer applications leveraging its unique content matching platform.
• Boris Mann, Bootup Labs
  Website is up
  Bootup Labs helps you quit your day job: we help startups get started.
• Stuart MacDonald, TripHarbour
  Will be in to beta in Q1 2008.
  Tripharbour.com connects you to your ideal cruise holiday with the web’s first combined cruise community and cruise planning/booking site.
• Jeremy Wright, b5media
• Mark Ruddock, Viigo

Funders:

• Rick Segal, JLA Ventures
  JLA Ventures invests in Internet, digital media, e-commerce, communications security, mobile computing, and enterprise software companies. Portfolio candidates typically possess superior technology, a sustainable competitive advantage, and exceptional growth prospects.
• Rob Hyndman, Hyndman Law
  From Start to Exit, Business Law for Technology Companies.

Looks to me that there is a good cross-section of people from across Canada and not just Toronto.  To be a fly on the wall at the event … you could probably learn a lot from the attendees.  Probably best and brightest we have right now in Canadian tech startups and those who fund them.  Props to the organizers!

Links from:

Funders attending in Toronto

First round of Founders

Second round of Founders

Third round of founders