Showing all articles in the Ecosystem category
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Sentinel Alert closes seed round
27 January 2016 | By Trish Crompton in: Ecosystem, Featured, Startups
Newfoundland-based startup, Sentinel Alert creates software to keep industrial sites safe for workers. They won Communitech's Women Entrepreneurs Bootcamp pitch competition last October and closed a seed… Read more
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Myo music app wins Waterloo Hacks
24 January 2016 | By Trish Crompton in: Ecosystem, Enterprise, Event recaps, Featured, Startups
165 students from the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier were selected to participate in Communitech's first hackathon, a 48-hour event in downtown Kitchener. Read more
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Living small in a big, messy world
13 January 2016 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Ecosystem, Opinion, Startups, Tech About Town
Alannah Bird, Customer Experience Manager at Bridgit, discusses minimalism, downsizing working with a designer to create her very own tiny house. Read more
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Resolution #1: Be happier in 2016
06 January 2016 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Ecosystem, Opinion, Tech About Town
Communitech's Kayleigh Platz highlights the importance of workplace happiness by exploring Plasticity, the workplace surveying tool. Read more
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Airbus acquires Navtech, expands into flight operations
06 January 2016 | By Phil Froklage in: Ecosystem, Featured, News
Waterloo Region-based technology company Navtech gets aquired by Airbus, showing Airbus' commitment to technological innovation in aviation. Read more
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Canada launches $50-million program to help small businesses boost exports
05 January 2016 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Ecosystem, Featured, News, Small to Mid Size
Canada has launched CanExport which is a program that will provide grants to help small businesses boost their exports. Read more
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CAFKA plans a New Year pARTy in Kitchener
16 December 2015 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Ecosystem, News, Opinion, Tech About Town
The goal of the party is to raise funds and build awareness for the CAFKA initiative, as they try to foster the arts community in Waterloo Region. Read more
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Social Venture Partners blends venture-capital strategy with philanthropy
09 December 2015 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Ecosystem, Opinion, Tech About Town
Jacqui Murphy, Vice President of Marketing at Auvik Networks, and Tim Jackson, Lead Executive at MaRS Centre for Impact Investing, join forces to bring together the Social Venture Partners Waterloo Region.… Read more
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Magnet Forensics strengthens ties with U.S. intelligence community, lands investment
08 December 2015 | By Phil Froklage in: Ecosystem, Featured, Small to Mid Size
Magnetic Forensics joins forces with In-Q-Tel, Inc. (IQT) to help them better understand the nature of crime and the digital evidence associated with it. Read more
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Giving back and building a future with the Mennonite Central Committee
02 December 2015 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Ecosystem, Opinion, Tech About Town
Communitech sits down with Rick Cober Bauman and Kim Lester of the Mennonite Central Committee Ontario (MCC) to learn more about how to support Syrian refugees in the region. Read more