Eric Boyd Email & Phone Number

Toronto, ON, CA

Toronto, ON, CA

Established in 2007, Maple Leaf Angels (MLA) is a not-for-profit membership organization. Maple Leaf Angels connects the brightest, most promising entrepreneurs with accredited investors who invest their capital and time supporting Canadian startup companies. I serve on the Investment Review Committee and on the MLA48 Fund Investment Committee.

Toronto, ON, CA

As Interim Managing Director I managed deal flow for members and the MLA48 fund and helped to smooth the transition for the new incoming Managing Director.

Maker Festival brings together Toronto’s most creative people and projects to inspire an openness to possibilities, a sense of active participation in shaping our world, and a yearning for a more wonder-filled tomorrow.

HackLab.TO is a community space with a diverse membership, including artists, computer programmers, web designers, and hardware hackers. It is inspired by the philosophies of the global hackerspaces movement which encourages people to socialize, share knowledge, and work together on their projects. Newcomers are welcome every Tuesday night.

Sensebridge began at Noisebridge’s Sunday Cyborg Mass, a weekly gathering where like-minded folks would hack devices to turn ourselves into cyborgs. Inspired by the FeelSpace magnetic-north-telling belt, our vision was to bridge senses by using devices to add senses we didn’t have to those we did – augmentation and addition if you will. Early.

X Prize Cars was focused on the Automotive X Prize competition: the teams, their cars, and the technical and business challenges of building and racing super-efficient vehicles. XPrizeCars.com was created to make it easy for people to learn about and compare the competitors for the Automotive X Prize.

Acquired by Entegris, INC in 2013. Jetalon Solutions’ metrology and sensor products used refractive index technology to achieve greater precision in real-time chemical blending, which is increasingly critical in applications where minute variations of process fluid concentration levels can adversely impact manufacturing yields. Various titles over the.

StumbleUpon was a discovery and advertisement engine (a form of web search engine) that pushed web content recommendations to its users. Its features allowed users to discover and rate Web pages, photos and videos that are personalized to their tastes and interests using peer-sourcing, social-networking and advertising principles. The company was acquired.

As the web programmer, I wrote mostly frontend generating PHP code for Javien’s online forum software, digital payment software, and merchant page software, contributed to software architecture design, and acted as the main interface between dev teams and QA/testing team.