Showing all articles by author: Craig Daniels
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Tech Roundup for September 2019
07 October 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Monthly tech roundup, News
In this month of Tech Roundup Communitech announces that CEO Iain Klugman will be stepping down at the end of January 2021. Other features this month include new products and platforms from KW startups… Read more
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LCBO's innovation lab teams up with local retailers
30 September 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
LCBO's innovation Lab at Communitech are working with local LCBO locations to setup a joint test bed to interact with customers and quickly design solutions to test them and find pain points. Read more
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Outposts: A program to help scale-ups go global
26 September 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Hiring an international sales team can be an arduous process, Dave Caputo learned this the hard way. Outposts is a program being launched by Communitech, the program is designed to create "outposts" in… Read more
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How coffee fuelled Plum's US$4.2-million raise
20 September 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Caitlin Macgregor, CEO of Waterloo-based tech scaleup Plum and Janet Bannister, Partner at Toronto VC firm Real Ventures started with a conversation over coffee from Balzac's Coffee Shop in the Lang Tannery… Read more
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ShipperBee: Changing the world, one package at a time
17 September 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
ShipperBee is entrepreneur Jim Estill's latest startup. It is a gig-economy shipping company that can save up to 73 per cent of the greenhouse gas per parcel. Read more
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ApplyBoard named to CIX top-10 growth list
10 September 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Member news, News
The CIX Canadian Innovation Exchange has announced the CIX Top 10 Growth innovative Canadian technology startups that have been inducted into the annual program. ApplyBoard is excited to announce that… Read more
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Software maker Delego acquired by U.S. firm EVO
10 September 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Delego Software, the maker of B2B integrated payment solutions has been acquired this week by Atlanta, Ga.-based EVO Payments, Inc. Delego, based in Kitchener, was founded in London, Ont., in 1997 as a… Read more
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BlackBerry Town: Q & A with author Chuck Howitt
03 September 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Chuck Howitt’s new book is called BlackBerry Town – How high tech success has played out for Canada’s Kitchener-Waterloo. Not only does it cover BlackBerry, but also other organizations such as OpenText,… Read more
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Tech roundup for August 2019
03 September 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Monthly tech roundup, News
The tech community is plenty busy, even in the summer. With news from VueReal, SannTek Labs, Velocity, and many other organizations from the last month. Read more
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Intelligent Mechatronic Systems on the rise
30 August 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Trak Global, who acquired IMS last December, announced a US$50-million investment from London, UK-based Three Hills Capital Partners. They are very clear in accessing the talent pool and tech community… Read more