Akoha Raises $1.9M

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More encouraging news from the Canadian tech start-up scene with Akoha raising $1.9-million in angel financing. (TechCrunch love can be found here.)

Congrats to Austin Hill, Alex Eberts and the Akoha team. Akoha’s investors include:

Investors include some of Canada’s most prominent business and technology leaders, including:

• David Chamandy, co-founder, Lavalife;
• John Bromley, Benefic Group.;
• Jean-Sebastien Cournoyer, entrepreneur-in-residence, Vantage Point Venture Partners;
• Ron Dembo, founder, Zerofootprint.net and Algorithmics;
• Jake Eberts, film producer;
• Alan Gershenfeld, managing partner, E-Line Ventures, director at Games for Change;
• John Meeks, managing partner, TA Associates Private Equity, London;
• Reg Weiser, founder, Positron;
• Jonathan Wener, Chairman & Founder, Canderel Group;
• Robert Montgomery, founder, Achilles Media;
• Chris Emergui, founder and president, BAM Strategy;
• Montreal Start Up

Akoha’s financing comes on the heels of the launch of Tripharbor.com, an online cruise start-up headed up by my friend, Stuart MacDonald.

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