Toronto tech boosters hope Collision will be a showcase for the city and demonstrate to global players that there’s a lot going on in Canada
When Paddy Cosgrave first arrived in Toronto for a scouting trip in 2017, he was somewhat surprised to find a bustling metropolis with a thriving startup scene.
Toronto won Cosgrave over, and next week the city will play host to the conference’s more than 25,000 attendees, an event that is shaping up to be something of a coming-out party for the Canadian tech sector. Celebrities such as Seth Rogen and Joseph Gordon Levitt will be speaking, along with executives from huge companies like Microsoft, Samsung and IBM.
It’s the venture capitalists that got the attention of Jay Giraud, serial entrepreneur and CEO of Vancouver-based automotive startup Damon Motors Inc. “Collision seems to be a bit different, because they have a really high calibre list of VCs that are attending, that are very hard to get in front of,” he told the Financial Post.
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