This year’s revamped edition of the Montréal Startup Community Awards highlighted founders, mentors, and people working behind the scenes in a brand-new innovation hub built to reconnect the city’s dispersed startup scene.

The awards ceremony, organized by non-profit ElanTech with corporate and government sponsors, ran Thursday night at Ax.c, now the de facto home of Montréal tech following the closure of Notman House . The 10 nomination categories highlighted remarkable founders, mentors, and behind-the-scenes operators, in what organizers said was a deliberate attempt to listen to community feedback and make the event more founder-centric.

“As a community, we’re ambitious by nature, so we tend to always be looking ahead toward our next goal; 2025 really feels like a turnaround year for

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