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Mappedin raises $8.6M in Series A round
22 February 2023 | By Kevin Crowley in: Featured, News
Mappedin has raised CDN$8.6 million through a Series A round that will help the Waterloo-based company accelerate its ability to pursue the growing demand for digital maps of buildings and indoor spaces. Read more
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Talent platform Plum raises US$6 million
21 February 2023 | By Kevin Crowley in: Featured, News
Waterloo-based talent platform Plum has raised US$6 million to help accelerate sales, marketing and product development. Read more
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Commercializing health tech
10 February 2023 | By Kevin Crowley in: Featured, News
Waterloo-based KA Imaging is working with Grand River Hospital and CAN Health to improve patient outcomes with a portable X-ray device that provides health-care workers with high-quality images right at… Read more
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M-Theory: What's love got to do with work?
09 February 2023 | By Melanie Baker in: M-Theory, Opinion
Mounting tech layoffs are damaging trust in the workplace, especially at companies that sold a narrative of "family" to attract talent. Columnist Melanie Baker looks at how trust will become the new currency… Read more
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There’s more in you to give
09 February 2023 | By Alex Kinsella in: Opinion, Tech About Town
Columnist Alex Kinsella spoke with the family and friends of a local founder in need of a stem cell transplant. Becoming a registered stem cell donor is a simple process, but many people don't understand… Read more
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Roundup for January 2023
05 February 2023 | By Kevin Crowley in: Featured, Monthly tech roundup, News
A digest of tech news from the Waterloo Region ecosystem for January 2023. Read more
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Probably worth sharing
01 February 2023 | By Alex Kinsella in: Opinion, Resource, Tech About Town
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OpenText finalizes Micro Focus acquisition
01 February 2023 | By Kevin Crowley in: Featured, News
The biggest deal in Waterloo Region tech history closed this week as OpenText finalized the US$5.8-billion acquisition of British SaaS company Micro Focus International. Read more
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Easy rider
30 January 2023 | By Kevin Crowley in: Featured, News
Vic Fedeli, Ontario Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, paid a visit to Communitech to announce the renewal of a program that helps founders accelerate development and commercialization… Read more
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M-Theory: What are you running toward?
26 January 2023 | By Melanie Baker in: M-Theory, Opinion
With layoffs mounting in the tech sector, columnist Melanie Baker takes a look at how upheaval in the labour market is prompting people to take stock of their working lives and, in some cases, quit their… Read more