Showing all articles by author: Kevin Crowley
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Waterloo Region home to Canada's fastest-growing tech job market
18 November 2020 | By Kevin Crowley in: Featured, News
CBRE ranks Waterloo Region among the top tech talent markets in Canada. Read more
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Ontario 'seizing the moment’ to digitize government services
12 November 2020 | By Kevin Crowley in: Featured, News
Motivated by the urgent need to fight the spread of COVID-19, the government of Ontario is ramping up efforts to digitize and modernize provincial services and programs. Read more
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Waterloo Region could lead the world in 'peacetech'
10 November 2020 | By Kevin Crowley in: Featured, News
Paul Heidebrecht, a University of Waterloo engineering alumni is an expert in "peacetech" which stands at the nexus of technology, peacebuilding, entrepreneurship and social innovation. He believes the… Read more
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Veterans have right stuff to fill tech talent shortage
04 November 2020 | By Kevin Crowley in: Featured, News
A new non-profit is trying to create a pipeline of tech talent by providing former Canadian military people with basic and advanced training in software programming. The goal of the program is to fill… Read more
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Using technology to understand ourselves
27 October 2020 | By Kevin Crowley in: Featured, News
Dr. Poppy Crum, Chief Scientist at Dolby Laboratories and Adjunct Professor at Stanford University, shares her insights on the relationship between human evolution and technological innovation. Read more
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Wholesale platform Faire raises another US$170M
27 October 2020 | By Kevin Crowley in: Featured, News
Waterloo Region and San Francisco based Faire, a wholesale platform, has recently completed a US$170 million series E investment round that has doubled its valuation to US$2.5 billion. Read more
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Arctic Wolf Networks hits US$1.3B valuation with new $200M funding
22 October 2020 | By Kevin Crowley in: Featured, News
Cybersecurity company Arctic Wolf Networks announced a US$2-million Series E funding raise and have become the only cloud based managed detection and response vendor to reach "unicorn" status with a valuation… Read more
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AirMatrix off to flying start with drone tests in Waterloo Region
21 October 2020 | By Kevin Crowley in: Featured, News, Startups
Toronto-based startup AirMatrix, which won Communitech's $100,000 Fierce Founders Pitch Competition last year, is a participant in the AVIN Waterloo Ventures at Communitech program, using aerial mapping… Read more
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Knowledgehook raises $20M as pandemic fuels edtech growth
15 October 2020 | By Kevin Crowley in: Featured, News
Knowledgehook, a Waterloo Region-based maker of math software, has raised CDN$20 million in a Series A funding round. Knowledgehook's AI-enabled platform supports district-wide math improvement by using… Read more
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Waterloo Region poised to play major role in medtech, PPE: Fedeli
13 October 2020 | By Kevin Crowley in: Featured, Intellectual Property, News
Vic Fedeli, Ontario's Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, speaks on the importance of Waterloo Region in the effort to help Ontario strengthen its medtech and PPE industries. Read more