Working with MaRS Commons and the MaRS Mentor Network, we submitted a list of startups who have been referred through the Cdling platform and other channels and Paul made the final selections below. 

We should point out to the rest of the community that Jolt withdrew the startups in their current crop from this selection process since Paul will be meeting exclusively with these Founding teams on September 11th.  Thank you again to the team at Jolt and MaRS Commons for working with us to make this open time available to any startup! 

There are still some spots available to join us for Paul’s pizza lunch “fire side chat”.  You can get your tickets here.

I also have a couple of spots for the closed investors only event with Paul that will be taking place on Monday afternoon at 3 pm.  If you are interested in one of those, please @cdlingHQ or email me at michael at cdling dot com.

If you are connected to any of the Founders from these startups, please send them a link to this post!  We are trying to contact them now to make sure that they are ready for Monday morning!

Thanks also to all of the startups who expressed interest in the opportunity to meet with Paul.  If you were not selected, don’t take it badly there were many inputs and not making this list is not necessarily a reflection on what you are doing.

Congrats to the companies that were selected!  

Paul will be getting started at 9:30 am Monday, September 10 in the MaRS Commons on the second floor at 101 College Street.

The format is 10 mins. Make a bond. Ask a question. Pitch. But you have 10 mins.

Here is the schedule and names of companies selected:

9:30 am
Penyo Pal
Penyo Pal builds fun, engaging experiences for kids and kids at heart to learn Mandarin. Users adopt and customize their own Penyo Pal and explore Penyo World playing mini-games and interacting with their Penyo Pal. Learning a new language opens doors, your eyes, and your mind… and with Penyo Pal you’ll be saying in no time!

9:40 am
NoteSolution
Notesolution is an educational network that delivers the best course resources to university students worldwide by crowdsourcing content.

9:50 am
Hovr
HOVR makes images on social networks clickable for product search. Through a 1-click update of your browser, the magic of HOVR is unlocked on any website. Easily go from the image of what you want, to window shopping comparables, to the best place to buy all within the HOVR Sidebar.

10:00 am - break

10:10 am
Kickvox
Kickvox is a search engine built uniquely for mobile. We do this by introducing a visual search process and deep integration with popular mobile apps giving users a truly mobile friendly experience.

10:20 am
Bunch
Bunch is a mobile platform to share and discuss your passions with like-minded people. The Bunch iPhone app is live in private beta and has had 1.1 million pre-signups via a Facebook marketing app. Bunch will test launch Sept 2012 in Canada, with a US launch to follow.

Special thanks to the nearly 100 new members who have joined Cdling recently. Our community now has 622 members and if you take a look at the cross section of experience, geography and talent sets, we could not be happier with the diversity of players that are coming together.

You see the Cadee logo right above, in the bottom left corner? That is a Toronto based startup!  High Score House - that’s Canadian. Social Stork is another Toronto startup that is now #500Strong.

We are pleased to announce that Paul Singh, Partner at 500Startups is coming to Toronto on September 10th.  Unlike our lead to Howard Morgan, this time the team at MaRS Common and Jolt were ahead on the path to organizing the visit with Paul and we are grateful that they have worked with us to enable:

1. A “Fire-side chat” pizza lunch with Startup Grind Toronto. Get your tickets here! Paul will be sitting down with us to explain why 500Startups is probably the most active high velocity early stage investor on the planet; and to listen to and advise on your startup’s challenges.

2. OFFICE HOURS: Earlier in the morning on September 10th, Paul has agreed to meet one-on-one with a few selected startups that are ready for an angel investment.  If you know of an Ontario based startup that might be a fit for 500Startups, please introduce them.  We will be presenting a report to Paul on September 7th, hopefully he will make his final selections quickly, we can announce and make sure that the selected Founders are lined up for him at MaRS Commons on Monday morning.  More details on how to get your startup on our report can be found here.  The format will be similar to the speed meetings that we set up for Howard Morgan.  Each Founder will have 10 mins.  They can pitch, pose a problem and get advice or use the time to somehow form a bond with Paul for future consideration, but they only have 10 mins!

Take a few minutes to click through this “MONEYBALL + STARTUPS” presentation about the changing trends in angel and venture investing.  That moneyball label has been applied to Cdling.  These slides are a prerequist to Cdling’s pitch deck!