Showing all articles by author: Craig Daniels
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P&P Optica closes $3.1 million fundraising round
12 June 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
P&P Optica specializes in scanning equipment capable of analyzing food as it’s moving down the production line. They received a CDN$3.1 million boost after of a successful fundraising round from Fulcrum… Read more
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Curtain set to rise on True North, the 'tech for good' conference
29 May 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: News, True North
The long-anticipated three-day conference, True North, hosted by Communitech, soft-launched Tuesday with the rollout of several events. The official True North launch is set for Wednesday morning at the… Read more
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True North, it's time to get your festival on
28 May 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: News, True North
The three-day True North “tech for good” conference is a deep dive into technology and its prevailing culture, but it’s also a festival, an opportunity for the wider local community to engage with the… Read more
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How one CEO hardwired his company for good
24 May 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, Opinion, True North, View from the 'Loo
Fiix, a small, cloud-based, software-as-a-service outfit from Toronto, has three stated goals: to make money, to make the environment better, and to make lives better. The company has found that 11 per… Read more
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The app that helped social agency Stonehenge
17 May 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Stonehenge Therapeutic Community, which helps people suffering from drug addiction manage withdrawal and reboot their lives, has adopted an app designed by Waterloo Region startup Preemptive that has fundamentally… Read more
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AI firm Primal lands $2.3 million loan from BDC
16 May 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Primal, Kitchener-based AI company focused on language, announced it received $2.3 million in loan-based financing from BDC, the Business Development Bank of Canada. Primal is a cloud-based system that… Read more
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Fast-growing Auvik nets $20 million in Series C
15 May 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Auvik Networks announced a successful Series C raise of CDN$20 million to support “a massive growth phase” that has seen it double in size in less than a year. OpenView Venture Partners, based out of Boston,… Read more
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Building emotional machines: A Q & A with Rana el Kaliouby
09 May 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News, True North
Communitech News spoke with Rana el Kaliouby about her company’s mission, and about her plans for True North. Rana el Kaliouby is CEO and co-founder of Affectiva, an AI-based company that aims to bring… Read more
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On the Ground: an app in the war against 'fake news'
08 May 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News, True North
Ground has decided to tackle one of the more vexing problems of tech: the demise of journalism and the rise of made-up stories. Ground is a news app capable of verifying stories that show up on its feed.… Read more
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P&P Optica: On guard for consumers' food safety
08 May 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
P&P Optica is a Waterloo-based company that makes scanning technology capable of chemically analyzing food as it’s rolling down the production line. P&P Optica's Olga Pawluczyk spoke at "Pizza with the… Read more