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Startup directory

Companies we met in person

Every company in this directory came to an evening, showed what it was building and answered questions in the room. Search it, filter it, read it — it is open.

158 companies · 24 cities · Pitch your startup →

How a company gets here

A directory is only worth the door it was let in through

  1. 01

    An evening

    A room in your city: founders, investors and operators, five running formats.

  2. 02

    Checked in at the door

    Every guest is checked against a real profile on the way in.

  3. 03

    An application

    One form, read by a person. Not a scoring script.

  4. 04

    A profile here

    Published with the evening it was met at, the date and the city.

  5. 05

    The weekly digest

    Investors approved on application read it, matched to their thesis.

  6. 06

    An introduction

    Made by us when both sides want it. Never a list handed over, never cold.

Checked at the door, met in person and approved on application are records of what happened. None of them is a rating.

Showing 5 of 5 · 158 in the directory

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DueSimple

Pre-seed

Know what every paycheque needs to do before you spend it.

DueSimple is a paycheque-first financial planning platform that organizes bills, spending, debt, savings and goals across upcoming paycheques so people know what is truly safe to spend.

FinTechMontreal
0

Artivex

Pre-seed

AI-native regulatory operations platform for pharmaceutical companies.

Artivex prepares CTDs and submissions, tracks regulatory state, and executes the work required to bring and maintain pharma products across markets.

AIMontreal
$8k

Orchestration layer that plans a feature and runs multiple AI coding agents on it in parallel.

Chuchube turns a feature description into a dependency graph and runs Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI in parallel across isolated git worktrees.

AIMontreal
none yet

Permita

Pre-seed

AI-powered regulatory compliance engine that accelerates pre-construction permit approvals for real estate developers.

Permita automates pre-construction regulatory compliance for real estate developers and builders — faster approvals, less manual work.

PropTech / AIMontreal

Spring

Idea

Ai platform ecological generative technology

Bringing renewed energy to ai industry through restorative collaborative outreach and environmental sustainability

Met in person at AI & Tech Networking Event · Montreal · Jul 15, 2026

ClimateMontreal

That is the whole directory.

Reading it is open to everyone. What an investor application adds is the part a list cannot do: a weekly digest matched to your thesis, and an introduction made by us when both sides want one.

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Each region page collects the cities in it, the evenings we run there and the companies we met.