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Using technology to understand ourselves
27 October 2020 | By Kevin Crowley in: Featured, News
Dr. Poppy Crum, Chief Scientist at Dolby Laboratories and Adjunct Professor at Stanford University, shares her insights on the relationship between human evolution and technological innovation. Read more
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Wholesale platform Faire raises another US$170M
27 October 2020 | By Kevin Crowley in: Featured, News
Waterloo Region and San Francisco based Faire, a wholesale platform, has recently completed a US$170 million series E investment round that has doubled its valuation to US$2.5 billion. Read more
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Arctic Wolf Networks hits US$1.3B valuation with new $200M funding
22 October 2020 | By Kevin Crowley in: Featured, News
Cybersecurity company Arctic Wolf Networks announced a US$2-million Series E funding raise and have become the only cloud based managed detection and response vendor to reach "unicorn" status with a valuation… Read more
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AirMatrix off to flying start with drone tests in Waterloo Region
21 October 2020 | By Kevin Crowley in: Featured, News, Startups
Toronto-based startup AirMatrix, which won Communitech's $100,000 Fierce Founders Pitch Competition last year, is a participant in the AVIN Waterloo Ventures at Communitech program, using aerial mapping… Read more
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Knowledgehook raises $20M as pandemic fuels edtech growth
15 October 2020 | By Kevin Crowley in: Featured, News
Knowledgehook, a Waterloo Region-based maker of math software, has raised CDN$20 million in a Series A funding round. Knowledgehook's AI-enabled platform supports district-wide math improvement by using… Read more
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Waterloo Region poised to play major role in medtech, PPE: Fedeli
13 October 2020 | By Kevin Crowley in: Featured, Intellectual Property, News
Vic Fedeli, Ontario's Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, speaks on the importance of Waterloo Region in the effort to help Ontario strengthen its medtech and PPE industries. Read more
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Mental health a challenge for tech workers
08 October 2020 | By Kevin Crowley in: Featured, News
Amandah Wood, founder of the Ways We Work digital publication and a member of the Employee Experience, Diversity and Belonging team at Shopify in Waterloo, is an advocate for mental health awareness and… Read more
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Chamath Palihapitiya wins crowd at Hack the North
15 September 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Events, Featured, News
Chamath Palihapitiya is one of the University of Waterloo's most successful graduates and this week he sat down to speak at Hack the North, Canada's largest hackathon which is hosted annually at the University… Read more
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The time is now for women, in tech and beyond: panel
09 March 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Events, Featured, News, True North
On International Women's Day, 5 influential panelists came and shared their journey and careers, as well as their thoughts about gender and technology. Tech still has some work to be done, but there have… Read more
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Ratio.City earns $100K at Fierce Founders pitch event
16 February 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Ecosystem, Events, Featured, News, Startups
The Fierce Founders Bootcamp is a six-day, Communitech-run program that helps women tech entrepreneurs improve their companies. This cumulates to a pitch event, and Ratio.City earned the $100,000 grand… Read more