Showing all articles in the category
Showing all articles by author:
-
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
-
AI on the menu at Communitech CEO Dinner
07 March 2024 | By Suhani Saigal in: Events, Featured, Featured news
The historic walls of The Walper Hotel pulsated with the spirit of collaboration and innovation as the tech community gathered for an AI Workshop, followed by the annual Communitech CEO Dinner on Tuesday. Read more
-
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
-
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
-
Knowing when to raise and when to acquire
29 January 2024 | By Alex Kinsella in: Featured, Featured news, News
-
Rebecca Swabey: Environmental engineer turned entrepreneur
25 January 2024 | By Suhani Saigal in: Featured, Founder Profiles, News
Environmental engineer Rebecca Swabey turned her effort to tackle engineering data challenges into Equator, a venture focused on speeding up the design phase of housing and infrastructure development. Read more
-
Testing for safe water
04 January 2024 | By Suhani Saigal in: Featured, Founder Profiles, News
ExactBlue Technologies CEO Ela Botos credits the Communitech Fierce Founders program with providing "crucial support and strategic insights" that are contributing to the water-testing startup's growth. Read more
-
Prescription to ease physician paperwork
06 December 2023 | By Suhani Saigal in: Featured, Founder Profiles, News
Toronto-based startup Tali AI is easing the paperwork burden for doctors with a virtual scribe assistant that transcribes and synthesizes physician-patient conversations. Read more
-
Nastaran Saberi: Mapping the future of digital navigation
05 December 2023 | By Suhani Saigal in: Featured, Founder Profiles, News
Nastaran Saberi, co-founder of startup GeoMate and a Fierce Founders graduate, began her entrepreneurial journey when she recognized inefficiencies in the conventional methods of map making. Read more
-
Rocket Doctor soars
07 November 2023 | By Suhani Saigal in: Featured, Founder Profiles, News
Toronto-based Rocket Doctor has landed a place in the UCLA Health TechQuity Accelerator, wrapped up NY Tech Week with a win at the MedStartr VC pitch contest and surpassed 300,000 virtual patient visits. Read more