Stephen Lake of Thalmic Labs will kick-off the ZOOM Career day in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on Feb 26. Hosted by the Business and Education Partnership of Waterloo Region (BEP), grade 11 & 12 students will spend the day at Perimeter Institute.
Lake was named one of Canada’s Top 20 under 20 in 2007 and one of the Next 36 entrepreneurial leaders of Canada in 2011. He has a degree in Mechatronics Engineering from the University of Waterloo, a certificate in Entrepreneurship from the University of Toronto, and has studied as a visiting scholar at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich). He was an entrepreneur from a young age, and considers MYO the latest addition to years and years of building things.
Thalmic Labs was founded in 2012 by three University of Waterloo Mechatronics Engineering graduates (Aaron Grant, Matthew Bailey, and Stephen Lake) and has since grown to over 50 employees. Thalmic was part of Y Combinator’s winter 2013 cohort and raised funding totaling more than $14 million.
Thalmic's first product, the MYO, is an armband worn on the forearm that senses electrical activity in the muscles, allowing users to interact with digital technologies using just their fingers and hands. Thalmic received over 25,000 pre-orders totaling $3.7M of sales for the MYO in its first three weeks online. The MYO has been featured in nearly every major tech publication worldwide including Wired, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, New Scientist.
The BEP is very excited to have Lake share the Thalmic story to students in the ICT specialist high skills major.
