Showing all articles in the Featured category
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Velocity launches new venture fund for early-stage startups
16 January 2019 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Featured, News
The University of Waterloo's start-up entrepreneurship program, Velocity, is launching a new venture fund to back up emerging companies. Read more
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Dejero and the fine art of delivering 'reliable connectivity anywhere'
15 January 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Dejero, a company that delivers reliable connectivity for other organizations had quite the hiccups to get through when they started, Dejero founder Bogdan Frusina talks about his company's journey at… Read more
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U.K. company acquires Intelligent Mechatronic Systems
17 December 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Waterloo's Intelligent Mechatronic Systems (IMS) has been acquired by British telematics company Trak Global Group. Read more
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Faire raises US$100 million as growth surges forward
13 December 2018 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Featured, News
Faire, a company whose AI-powered platform helps local retailers find and buy items has raised another US$100 million. Read more
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Motion detected: Deal propels Cognitive Systems into huge Wi-Fi market
12 December 2018 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Featured, News, Startups, Uncategorized
Waterloo-based Cognitive Systems Corp. has a targeted goal of three billion Wi-Fi chipsets shipped worldwide each year. Read more
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Arctic Wolf acquires local startup RootSecure
12 December 2018 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Featured, News, Small to Mid Size
RootSecure, a Waterloo Region startup that helps companies access cyber risk has been acquired by Arctic Wolf. Read more
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FleetCarma to move into Catalyst137, add 100 employees
12 December 2018 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Featured, News
Waterloo-based FleetCarma, whose technology is helping to drive the transition to electric vehicles (EVs) has announced that it will move to Catalyst137 in early 2019. Read more
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Looking back at BufferBox, and what might have been
12 December 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
BufferBox co-founder and current director at Velocity Jay Shah talks about whether or not Canadian startups sell too early and about his own story of selling his startup to Google. Read more
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Ethical AI: People write algorithms. People can fix them
05 December 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Tessa Sproule, the co-CEO of Vubble, speaks on regulating AI initiatives to generate ethical outcomes and help make society a better place. Read more
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A big bank doubles down on data
04 December 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
VP of CIBC, Santanu Pal, sits down with us to talk about the success of the CIBC lab at the Waterloo Communitech Data Hub back in May of 2017, "It's been an incredible success story" he says. Read more