Showing all articles by author: Alex Kinsella
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Making it easier to go green
22 April 2024 | By Alex Kinsella in: Featured, Featured news, News
To celebrate Earth Day 2024, we spoke with two cleantech companies that are helping make it easier to be green—RainStick Shower and Food Cycle Science. Read more
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AI assistants are reintroducing a personal connection in real estate
19 March 2024 | By Alex Kinsella in: Featured, Founder Profiles, News
QuickCasa, a Conversational AI Support Agent, provides automated lead engagement and pre-qualification for real estate and multifamily housing professionals through a human-like conversational virtual… Read more
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Erica Djossa: From a thriving community to a scaling startup
08 March 2024 | By Alex Kinsella in: Featured, Founder Profiles, News
Building and running a successful startup was not part of Momwell founder and CEO Erica Djossa’s life plan. Djossa was working as a trained psychotherapist and said she planned to retire as a practicing… Read more
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Innovation is an act of building trust
01 March 2024 | By Alex Kinsella in: Event recaps, Events, Featured, Featured news, News
Finding innovative ways to reduce burnout for health-care providers was the theme at the Communitech Fast Track Health Showcase on Feb. 27, 2024. Six of Canada’s leading technology companies were selected… Read more
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New microscope hardware is opening the doors for innovation
08 February 2024 | By Alex Kinsella in: Featured, Featured news, News
Kitchener-based ICSPI announced the release of its new Redux AFM, a special kind of microscope called an atomic force microscope (AFM). This is the company's second microscope, following its nGauge AFM… Read more
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Knowing when to raise and when to acquire
29 January 2024 | By Alex Kinsella in: Featured, Featured news, News
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Putting AI to work for women’s health
31 October 2023 | By Alex Kinsella in: Opinion, Tech About Town
Columnist Alex Kinsella attended the launch of AskEllyn, a conversational AI tool designed to help individuals navigate through the difficult and emotionally challenging journey of breast cancer diagnosis… Read more
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Jocelyn Wessels: Making a difference in women’s health
11 August 2023 | By Alex Kinsella in: Founder Profiles, Resource
Launched in 2021 by Wessels and co-founder Dr. Lauren Foster, AIMA Laboratories is developing a first-of-its-kind, non-invasive diagnostic tool to help detect endometriosis earlier so women can be provided… Read more
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From Kitchener to Cannes
24 July 2023 | By Alex Kinsella in: Opinion, Tech About Town
On May 30, 2023, ten student films from the first cohort of the Open Gate Filmmaker Lab were screened for a packed house of students, teachers and local officials at the Apollo Cinema in downtown Kitchener.… Read more
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More than 32,000 tech workers migrated to Canada last year
18 July 2023 | By Alex Kinsella in: News
A new report says more than 32,000 international tech workers moved to Canada between April 2022 and March 2023, thanks to the country’s immigration-friendly national policies and labour-cost advantages. Read more