Area served North America Website merchlar.com Founded 2010 Type Partnership | Divisions Agency, R&D Headquarters Montreal Number of employees 15 (2012) | |
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Industry Augmented Reality, Marketing and Advertising, R&D, IT consulting, Software, Mobile Key people Awane Jones, CEO, Merchlar
Eric St-Pierre, CFO, Merchlar
Bassil Silim Jones, Creative Director, Merchlar
Adekambi Laleye, Vice President, Merchlar
Hazem Rushdi Mohamed, CTO, Merchlar
Pétula Bouchard, COO, Merchlar | ||
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Merchlar is an augmented reality (AR) company based in Montreal and Paris. It develops mobile applications using AR technology for clients, including: Desjardins Group, Ubisoft, and Mohegan Sun. In addition to its agency, Merchlar has an R&D department which creates patented AR technology.
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History
Monumental Technologies was founded in December 2010 by Awane Jones and Eric St-Pierre. They decided to create a mobile music community – the world's first Augmented Reality mobile platform for artists to create their own application at zero cost.
In 2011, the company evolved into Merchlar (Merchandizing loves Augmented Reality), a digital agency that powers augmented reality and offers interactive marketing solutions to North American companies such as Alliance Films, Bell, Desjardins Group, Montreal International Jazz Festival, University of Maryland, and World Conference on Information Technology (WCIT).
One year after the agency was formed, Contest of Quebec Entrepreneurs named Merchlar Best New Technology Company in April and granted the company Award/Coup de Coeur Contest in the following May. In June, Awane Jones and Bassil Silim Jones were selected by the Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF) to represent the official Canadian delegation at the G20 Young Entrepreneur Summit (G20 YES) in Mexico City.
Today, Merchlar delivers AR solutions and invite mobile users to go from seeing a business to experiencing it. Through the front camera lens of a smart device, users are able to use their cellphones or digital device to scan their surroundings and find out live information on the spot.