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StartupNorth: April Fools: We are funded! StartupNorth takes a $3.2 million series A financing

  • Roger Chabra · 1 year ago
    Congratulations guys, this is fantastic news. I look forward to the expansion of your business! All the best.
    R.
  • Jacqui Murphy · 1 year ago
    Ditto -- congrats! Great news.
  • Matt · 1 year ago
    Happy 1st day of the fourth month to you! :P
  • heri · 1 year ago
    right. you guys also follow the australian time zone?
  • Paula Thornton · 1 year ago
    This is great news. So here's what I'm seeing. A LOT of activity in the small companies and major cutbacks in the majors. Isn't life grand? Best of luck to you all.
  • Rami · 1 year ago
    looool, very nice. You almost got me :)
  • Will Spaetzel · 1 year ago
    I was excited for you but then i realized what day it is tommorow. What time zone is Ottawa in?
  • Libin Pan · 1 year ago
    Congratulations to you all!
  • Mark Roseman · 1 year ago
    Heh... I bet you got whoever had this time in the "how long until David gets fed up and leaves Microsoft?" pool pretty excited for a minute there.
  • sunny · 1 year ago
    Nice one boys. Almost had me :)
  • Saeed El-Darahali · 1 year ago
    Congrats. Well deserved financing for a great Atlantic Canadian startup. Can you share terms of the financing with us. I am interested in doing a follow-on on April 1, 2009... since all startup companies will require a 2nd round of financing. ;)

    Keep up the good work.

    Saeed
    www.linkedin.com/in/eldarahali
  • Martin Cleaver · 1 year ago
    Almost almost. Just a matter of time before someone bites ;)
  • Mike McDerment · 1 year ago
    Guys that's fucking great - congrats.
  • Mike McDerment · 1 year ago
    wait a second...@#$#@#@$@#
  • Scott · 1 year ago
    Wow, congrats! Glad that David no longer has to play the role of hollow corporate shill ;-)
  • Colin Smillie · 1 year ago
    The title was too aggressive, $3.2M for Series A... I like the eating your own Dogfood part ;)
  • Alex de bold · 1 year ago
    Great work guys!
    Way to prove this is a great place to launch & grow a company :)
  • John Philip Green · 1 year ago
    Ahahahahhahahaha
  • Will Pate · 1 year ago
    As the writer of SUN's most read/commented blog post who was left in the dark about this deal, I will leverage your new fame to step on your heads as I pass you on the ladder of fame. That Oprah couch looks comfy!

    Publishers wishing to buy the rights to my upcoming behind-the-scenes-no-pulled-punches book about the real SUN please contact me at april1@willpate.org. It's time the world knows the real story about the Jevon that stalks the night writing the wrong addresses on people's garbage cans, and the Jonas that feeds on other, smaller robots. I've said too much!
  • Mike McDerment · 1 year ago
    note the post date Will - they cheated, you had it right.

    shame on SUN.
  • Austin Hill · 1 year ago
    Well I'm glad for you guys, but have to say I'm pissed I got outbid on the valuation for the deal. I thought my term sheet was extremely fair, but I guess you just had to go for the big bucks.

    Win some, loose some I guess. Next time come to me before your valuation reaches high $30 million pre-money and we can talk :)
  • Michael Garrity · 1 year ago
    Jevon, Jonas and David - HUGE congrats, guys. You've each done a lot to bring energy and attention to the tech community in Canada already and I'm sure it's just the tip of the iceberg for you. Keep the fire blazing, amigos.

    - M
  • Michael Cayley · 1 year ago
    This is a great deal for three guys that deserve it and, more importantly, this is a great deal for the Canadian start up community.

    May your independant voice and focus on the good, the bad and the ugly grow with this.
  • Chris Sukornyk · 1 year ago
    Ha, nice on....you had me going!
  • Michael Cayley · 1 year ago
    oh crap - you got me!
  • Michael Cayley · 1 year ago
    no fair! the posting is dated mar. 31
  • Michael Garrity · 1 year ago
    Also, I guess with all that cash in the bank now, it means that you will all be picking up your own bar tabs from now on.

    - M
  • AhmedF · 1 year ago
    Almost had me you fiends :)
  • Margaret Howe · 1 year ago
    Ding!
    'gratz!
    please tell us about your "startup focused projects"

    :)
  • Farhan Thawar · 1 year ago
    nice one...haha..... the post date almost got me
  • Aydin Mirzaee · 1 year ago
    lol... VentureBeat raised 1/2 a million ;)

    Aydin.
  • Aydin Mirzaee · 1 year ago
    actually... less than 1/2 a million...
  • Roger Chabra · 1 year ago
    Ha, nice, you got me. And I'm not even mad that you guys broke the rules by posting before April 1. After all, that's what smart start-ups do, they break the rules.
  • Scott · 1 year ago
    Well I'm glad someone got me today. Thankfully no Rick Rolls... Should have known is was too good to be true... David, when's my next lunch on Micro$oft :P
  • Bryan Watson · 1 year ago
    Congrats guys!! I look forward to hearing more about what you have planned.
  • Varun Mathur · 1 year ago
    O wow...great prank..certainly the best one I've come across this April Fool's!
  • Mic · 1 year ago
    he he
    my favourite is the part about the emergent biz plan
  • Jacqui Murphy · 1 year ago
    Ah! Got me too... although the fact you didn't list your funders was a bit of a tip off... What really threw me was that David Crow/Microsoft was willing to put his name on it... :) Oh -- and the fact that it wasn't yet April Fools day!!!