Showing all articles in the Featured category
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Talent, transportation, key takeaways for minister
25 October 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Ontario Finance Mister, Rod Phillips speaks on key issues brought up by local business and academic leaders Read more
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Waterloo-based Oculys sells for more than $4.2 million
23 October 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Oculys Health Informatics Inc, an operational management system producer for hospitals has recently been acquired by Toronto-based VitalHub corp. for over $4.2 million. Read more
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U.S. holding company buys Kik messaging app
18 October 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News, Uncategorized
Kik has recently been acquired by U.S holding company MediaLab and has plans to continue having a foundational relationship with Kin, a cryptocurrency launched by Kik CEO Ted Livingston. Read more
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51 Kik employees join Valley firm Carta
17 October 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
San Francisco based Carta, an equity management company is hiring 51 of Kik's employees and opening a Waterloo Region office as the sale of the Kik app is in it's final stages. Read more
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All-in for agile change at Manulife
11 October 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Enterprise, Featured, News
Manulife has rolled out a new public-facing banking app that was built in-house with foundational contributions from the team at Manulife's corporate innovation lab in the Tannery at Communitech. Read more
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AVIN Waterloo Ventures Fund welcomes first cohort
09 October 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Data driven innovation, Featured, News
The AVIN Waterloo Ventures Fund has chosen 8 companies to receive $50,000 and mentorship as part of a program offered through the Ontario Centres of Excellence, the Waterloo Economic Development Corporation… Read more
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LCBO's innovation lab teams up with local retailers
30 September 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
LCBO's innovation Lab at Communitech are working with local LCBO locations to setup a joint test bed to interact with customers and quickly design solutions to test them and find pain points. Read more
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Outposts: A program to help scale-ups go global
26 September 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Hiring an international sales team can be an arduous process, Dave Caputo learned this the hard way. Outposts is a program being launched by Communitech, the program is designed to create "outposts" in… Read more
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How coffee fuelled Plum's US$4.2-million raise
20 September 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Caitlin Macgregor, CEO of Waterloo-based tech scaleup Plum and Janet Bannister, Partner at Toronto VC firm Real Ventures started with a conversation over coffee from Balzac's Coffee Shop in the Lang Tannery… Read more
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ShipperBee: Changing the world, one package at a time
17 September 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
ShipperBee is entrepreneur Jim Estill's latest startup. It is a gig-economy shipping company that can save up to 73 per cent of the greenhouse gas per parcel. Read more