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ApplyBoard valued at $2B after Series C raise
04 May 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Code Now, COVID19, Featured, News
ApplyBoard announced that it has closed a CDN$100-million Series C, giving it a CDN$2-billion valuation, and achieving Canadian unicorn status (a private company with valuation north of $1 billion). Read more
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Federal government orders 10 million face shields from Waterloo Region firm
24 April 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: COVID19, Featured, News
The Canadian Shield has had lightning-fast growth and success amidst one of the most extraordinary events in modern history, the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more
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Code Now: Meeting of the minds
17 April 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Code Now, COVID19, Featured, News
The last part of the four-part series Code Now. The Waterloo Region tech ecosystem and the post-pandemic future are the main topics of this portion. Read more
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Code Now: Meeting of the Minds
17 April 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Code Now, COVID19, Featured, News
Last in a four-part series called Code Now, a comprehensive look at how the Waterloo Region tech ecosystem can assist the local medical community during COVID-19 – and longer-term. In today’s concluding… Read more
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Code Now: The help doctors need on the front line
16 April 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Code Now, COVID19, Featured, News
In the 3rd part of this four-part series, front-line doctors share their experiences with COVID-19 patients. Read more
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Code Now: The urgent needs behind the scenes
15 April 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Code Now, COVID19, Featured, News
Part 2 of the four-part Code Now series: doctors, administrators, and a nurse share their office struggles to seek solutions that will allow them to allocate their resources more effectively. Read more
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Steve Blank: 'There will be a morning after'
09 April 2020 | By Bill Bean in: COVID19, Featured, News
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the economy greatly, and CEOs that cannot keep up are facing extinction says Steve Blank, Silicon Valley veteran, author, professor at Stanford University. Blank was on… Read more
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How InkSmith retooled for the war against COVID-19
06 April 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: COVID19, Featured, News
Jeremy Hedges, CEO and founder of InkSmith, start with a ed-tech company, but has pivoted to PPE. The company has grown almost 8 fold in 2 weeks, with more coming on the way. Read more
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Waterloo Region delivers for health workers
30 March 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: COVID19, Featured, News
Waterloo Region teams up to have a PPE drive to collect gloves, masks, gowns, and more for health workers. Read more
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More beds on the way for Waterloo Region's hospitals
26 March 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: COVID19, Featured, News
Waterloo Region hospitals prepare for the short and long term effects of changing infection levels to give healthcare workers a fighting chance and to help flatten the curve. Read more