I want to send out a congratulations to the team at Praized Media from their recent announcement of venture capital funding of $1M - see article from Cyberpresse.

Praized Media is a startup company working on a web-based application that will enable you to find and discover local places and merchants with help from people you can trust. It’s also a tool that will structure local conversations within blogs and a new platform for local search providers to generate leads from the untapped social media market.

The company was founded by Sebastien, Sylvain and Harry and is funded by Garage Technology Ventures.

From the group on Facebook - Fans of Praized Media - “We’re hiring! We’re looking for a Ruby on Rail lead developer and a Web integrator.”

I don’t know Sylvain or Harry personally - but did have the pleasure of working with Sebastien Provencher at Yellow Pages Group for the past number of years and based on what I know they will be very successful with this venture.

Congrats guys - look forward to seeing the next Canadian Internet success story.

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