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Nastaran Saberi: Mapping the future of digital navigation
05 December 2023 | By Suhani Saigal in: Featured, Founder Profiles, News
Nastaran Saberi, co-founder of startup GeoMate and a Fierce Founders graduate, began her entrepreneurial journey when she recognized inefficiencies in the conventional methods of map making. Read more
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Rocket Doctor soars
07 November 2023 | By Suhani Saigal in: Featured, Founder Profiles, News
Toronto-based Rocket Doctor has landed a place in the UCLA Health TechQuity Accelerator, wrapped up NY Tech Week with a win at the MedStartr VC pitch contest and surpassed 300,000 virtual patient visits. Read more
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Serving the safety needs of lone workers
01 November 2023 | By Suhani Saigal in: Featured, Founder Profiles, News
Fierce Founders grad Seres Selanders is growing her company, SolusGuard, and expanding into the U.S. Read more
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Tech-infused fresh food
04 October 2023 | By Suhani Saigal in: Featured, Founder Profiles, News
With some help from Communitech's Fierce Founders program, startup Daily Blends is finding success selling healthy food options through AI-optimized vending machines. Read more
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Jocelyn Wessels: Making a difference in women’s health
11 August 2023 | By Alex Kinsella in: Founder Profiles, Resource
Launched in 2021 by Wessels and co-founder Dr. Lauren Foster, AIMA Laboratories is developing a first-of-its-kind, non-invasive diagnostic tool to help detect endometriosis earlier so women can be provided… Read more
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A whirlwind of progress for Vambora
01 August 2023 | By Suhani Saigal in: Featured, Founder Profiles, News
Waterloo-based fintech Vambora is innovating traditional credit-check systems to help international students and immigrants secure rental housing and establish credit histories in Canada Read more
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Alisha McFetridge: From Fierce Founder to Greentech Game Changer
12 July 2023 | By Alex Kinsella in: Founder Profiles, Resource
We caught up with Rainstick co-founder and CEO Alisha McFetridge to learn about her journey from the Communitech Fierce Founders pitch competition to winning accolades at CES. Read more
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Chamath Palihapitiya wins crowd at Hack the North
15 September 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Events, Featured, News
Chamath Palihapitiya is one of the University of Waterloo's most successful graduates and this week he sat down to speak at Hack the North, Canada's largest hackathon which is hosted annually at the University… Read more
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The time is now for women, in tech and beyond: panel
09 March 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Events, Featured, News, True North
On International Women's Day, 5 influential panelists came and shared their journey and careers, as well as their thoughts about gender and technology. Tech still has some work to be done, but there have… Read more
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Ratio.City earns $100K at Fierce Founders pitch event
16 February 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Ecosystem, Events, Featured, News, Startups
The Fierce Founders Bootcamp is a six-day, Communitech-run program that helps women tech entrepreneurs improve their companies. This cumulates to a pitch event, and Ratio.City earned the $100,000 grand… Read more