Showing all articles by author: Craig Daniels
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RainStick lands lion's share of Fierce Founders prize
26 February 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
RainStick won the 2020 Fierce Founders Bootcamp Pitch Competition, with their innovative shower that saves water and energy. HyIvy Health also walked away from the competition richer with the 2nd place… Read more
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Bringing the cost of satellite imagery down to earth
12 February 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
SkyWatch, a Waterloo-based startup, announced a US$7.5-million Series A raise. They seek change the status quo by making satellite imaging more accessible and widespread. They plan on doubling in size… Read more
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Betting big on Faire: Q&A with Kirsten Green
07 February 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Kirsten Green, founder and Managing Partner of Forerunner Ventures in San Francisco, sat down with Communitech News to talk about Faire, about diversity, and her first impression on the Waterloo Region… Read more
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Google's growth: Q+A with Steve Woods
06 February 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Communitech News sat down with Steve Woods, Google’s Senior Engineering Director, and discussed their journey from 2008 to now. At the time, they were at 20 employees in the region, and now are at 1,000. Read more
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5G: 'It will completely reshape the world'
05 February 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Rogers Communications have lit up Canada's first 5G network in select Canadian cities – Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver and Montreal. Not only is 5G 100x faster than 4G, but it also has the bandwidth to power… Read more
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How Waterloo Region welcomed, and then launched, a pair of San Francisco co-founders
29 January 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Waterloo Region is more than just a technology cluster. It is a place where people all around the world can meet and share ideas, solutions, and skills. OpenPhone is an example of this, where these two… Read more
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Miovision lands CDN$120 million in new investment
28 January 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Miovision, who specialize in IoT-based traffic technologies, announced it has successfully raised CDN$120 million, a substantial investment that will help international growth, accelerate growth of its… Read more
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Nicoya lands CDN$10-million in Series A funding
14 January 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Nicoya, which employs nanotechnology and AI to make analytical instruments that help scientists and medical personnel produce treatments for disease, is ready to expand quickly after a CDN$10-million Series… Read more
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How the Flight Deck found a fix for the RCAF's 'football'
13 January 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Previously, the Royal Canadian Air Force used "footballs" which were 50-150 page packages of information. This was very inefficient as information would quickly become useless as the situations evolved.… Read more
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On to the next adventure: Q&A with Velocity's Jay Shah
09 January 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Jay Shah, Velocity’s Director since September, 2016, stopped the presses earlier this week with a blog post announcing that he was leaving and moving on to a new, as-yet-undetermined, opportunity. Read more