Showing all articles by author: Craig Daniels
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Helping Main Street go digital in the age of pandemic
11 June 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: COVID19, Featured, News
Communitech will work with 5,200 businesses across Southwestern Ontario to help them transition digitally through the use of e-commerce as part of the Digital Main Street program. Read more
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Clearpath's OTTO Motors lands US $29-million Series C
01 June 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: COVID19, Featured, News
OTTO Motors, an industrial robots producer has recently announced US $29 Million in funding during the COVID pandemic - all of it from Canadian investors. Read more
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Trusscore raises $5.33 million in seed funding
29 May 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: COVID19, Featured, News
Dape Caputo and the Trusscore team set out to help flatten the COVID-19 curve in March by producing temporary walls out to help with repurposing spaces, now their efforts are being rewarded having raised… Read more
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Thinking big in the quest for PPE
27 May 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: COVID19, Featured, News
Amber French is the new president of the Community PPE Co-operative (CPPEC), a collective of Doctors offices, hospices, group homes, homeless shelters and the likes that need PPE gowns and equipment. The… Read more
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How PicThrive's co-founders lost everything except a determination to make a difference
15 May 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: COVID19, Featured, News
Despite losing their company Picthrive's customer base due to COVID-19 restrictions, brothers Keith and Neil Belovay didn't lose their problem solving spirit. Thanks Collective was created in Picthrive's… Read more
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Tech vital to Ontario's manufacturing future: Fedeli
07 May 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: COVID19, Featured, News
Communitech News interviewed Vic Fedeli, Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade. There were a range of topics such as contributions of tech companies, and COVID-19 response. Read more
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How a pandemic transformed House of Friendship
06 May 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: COVID19, Featured, News
The pandemic has caused an urgent need for food, shelter, and mental health resources for shelters, charities, and not-for-profits to keep up with. House of Friendship shares their journey thus far. Read more
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ApplyBoard valued at $2B after Series C raise
04 May 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Code Now, COVID19, Featured, News
ApplyBoard announced that it has closed a CDN$100-million Series C, giving it a CDN$2-billion valuation, and achieving Canadian unicorn status (a private company with valuation north of $1 billion). Read more
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Federal government orders 10 million face shields from Waterloo Region firm
24 April 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: COVID19, Featured, News
The Canadian Shield has had lightning-fast growth and success amidst one of the most extraordinary events in modern history, the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more
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Code Now: Meeting of the minds
17 April 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Code Now, COVID19, Featured, News
The last part of the four-part series Code Now. The Waterloo Region tech ecosystem and the post-pandemic future are the main topics of this portion. Read more