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Fable Tech Labs earns first place and $75K at Fierce Founders Pitch Competition
06 September 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Fable Tech Labs, a Toronto based software as a service company that helps businesses test how accessible their online products are for people with disabilities have won $75,000 in prize money at the seventh… Read more
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A tour de force for Dejero at the Tour de France
10 August 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
In late July, Britain’s Geraint Thomas toasted his well-earned victory in the Tour de France. Dejero, its equipment and expertise had played no small role in the win, providing Team Sky with upgraded internet… Read more
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Medical image search engine aims to speed diagnosis
08 August 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Huron Digital Pathology has partnered with the University of Waterloo and the Grand River Hospital to create a medical image search engine where every tissue sample that every pathologist in the world… Read more
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The Velocity startup making a cannabis breathalyzer
31 July 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
As the country marches ever closer to Oct. 17, 2018, the date that recreational marijuana use will become legal for Canadians, SannTek, a Velocity company, specializing in the field of nanotechnology is… Read more
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The startup that makes globetrotting more affordable
27 July 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Backpacker College, a startup launched in Waterloo’s Accelerator Centre that connects those with a lust for travel with quality, inexpensive accommodation – mostly in university residences. Travellers… Read more
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$2-million asset sale leads to launch of new startup RootSecure
24 July 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
A new Waterloo Region tech company called RootSecure has emerged from the $2-million sale last week of the assets of RootCellar Technologies to Vancouver-based Uniserve. RootCellar was a managed service… Read more
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Sam Pasupalak and the next big mountain
23 July 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Communitech News sat down and chatted with Sam Pasupalak, former Maluuba CEO. Maluuba, a natural language and AI startup, was bought by Microsoft for what is believed to be about CDN$200 million and Pasupalak… Read more
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OpenText: Made in Canada, proud of it
10 July 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Enterprise, Featured, News
With 2017 revenues of US$2.3 billion and 10,000 employees in 40 countries, OpenText is now one of the most important, influential and global software companies in the world. But OpenText will remain a… Read more
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No notes required: Carol Leaman's experience speaks for itself
10 July 2018 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Featured, News
Carol Leaman, Axonify CEO and serial entrepreneur, came to Communitech for Pizza with the Prez. Expecting a small group, they brought no notes, yet Leaman had no trouble sharing stories. Leaman started… Read more
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Thinking big at Catalyst137
06 July 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Catalyst137 has been transformed from a former tire and footwear warehouse into the largest space for hardware manufacturing and development in the world. The brand concept is a facility where the makers… Read more