DemoCamp

It was a packed room inside Gastown’s Landing Building last Friday night, as BootUp Entrepreneurial Society held its 9th Demo Camp event. Entrepreneurs, tech wizards, media masters, and early staged investors squished together to listen to Mike Lee with Rogers Ventures and others talk about technology and emerging companies out of Vancouver. It was an insightful and satisfying night that still has the GastownBlog team excited about Vancouver’s vibrant tech community.

Over 150 people attended the event. Mike Lee with Rogers Ventures spoke about how his organization is supporting high tech ecosystems across Canada, and what their investment plans are. While Tim Bray, Director of Web Technology for Sun Microsystems spoke about a host of issues relating to technology.

Further into the night, five emerging companies based from Vancouver gave 10 minute pitches about their companies to the crowd. Featured in the pitch line up was:

* Recotype – Recotype is an open framework for requesting and receiving recommendations on Twitter
* Yummy Republic – a wireless platform to link take-out restaurants with internet to enable them receive online orders and send back confirmation to customer instantly.
* Troovy – a web and mobile-based local discovery platform. Users find recommended places and people based on their own travel and feedback patterns.
* Deets.me – cloudy contacts
* Layerboom – Layerboom provides hosting companies with a comprehensive software
platform which gives them the ability to turn their dedicated servers into virtual private server clouds.

BootUp Entrepreneurial Society is the host and organizer of the DemoCamp event. They are a non-profit society dedicated to expanding the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Vancouver, and across Canada.

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