In September 2011, Centre4Growth client and Vancouver-born start-up, OpenCal, was acquired by daily deal giant, Groupon. (NASDAQ: GRPN)
Last week, we held the first of what I expect will be a regular get-together of tech associations across the country – to survey the landscape, compare notes and determine if there were common policy items that spanned our respective areas. It was an extremely well-informed group which consisted of representatives from Toronto (MaRs), Waterloo (Communitech), Ottawa (OCRI), Montreal (AQT), Nova Scotia (Tech South-east) and nationally (ITAC).