Showing all articles by author: Trish Crompton
-
Aterica tackles severe allergies with EpiPen ‘smart case’
27 March 2015 | By Trish Crompton in: Ecosystem, Featured, Startups
Veta is a smart case that houses the EpiPen, an epinephrine injection device severe allergy sufferers carry in the event of a severe reaction, known as anaphylaxis. Aterica seeks to flip Western Medicine… Read more
-
Kitematic joins Docker and heads to Silicon Valley
12 March 2015 | By Trish Crompton in: Ecosystem, Featured, Startups
Kitematic (formerly local startup Kite) announced Thursday that it has been acquired by Docker. Kitematic automates the typically manual effort of deploying and managing Docker environments, an open platform… Read more
-
DraftingSPACE hones vision at Blackbox
11 March 2015 | By Trish Crompton in: Ecosystem, Featured, Startups
The two-woman team at DraftingSPACE, a company specializing in renovation design software out of the University of Waterloo Velocity Garage, has taken part in the Blackbox Connect program. They spent two… Read more
-
Google ignites fresh batch of startups
06 March 2015 | By Trish Crompton in: Ecosystem, Featured, Startups
On Friday, Google’s Waterloo Region office, above the Communitech Hub, hosted the incoming and outgoing cohorts of the Google for Entrepreneurs program. The four new companies, Coqui, FunnelCake, PickUpHub.net… Read more
-
Canadian Tire leader takes inventory on the progress of women
05 March 2015 | By Trish Crompton in: Ecosystem, Enterprise, Event recaps, Featured
The chair of Canadian Tire came to Kitchener on Wednesday and left an audience of more than 100 with something to ponder as International Women’s Day approaches. She also toured the Communitech Hub, where… Read more
-
Voltera surfs hardware wave to China and back
26 February 2015 | By Trish Crompton in: Ecosystem, Featured, Startups
The Voltera team closed up shop at the University of Waterloo Velocity Foundry, got visas, vaccinations, and flights, and moved to China within two weeks of their acceptance to HAXLR8R. The startup solves… Read more
-
Realtors look to startups as industry evolves
25 February 2015 | By Trish Crompton in: Ecosystem, Event recaps, Featured, Startups
On Tuesday, more than 160 realtors and property developers came to hear from 13 startups at the Real Estate Showcase at the Waterloo Inn. The showcase, in partnership with Kitchener-Waterloo Association… Read more
-
Changing lives, quietly: The ON Semiconductor story
17 February 2015 | By Trish Crompton in:
Semiconductor’s technology is changing lives. With the increase in startup activity, competition for talent has increased, but ON Semiconductor’s life-changing technology – unseen as it might be – sets… Read more
-
Founders share thoughts on life after acquisition
04 February 2015 | By Trish Crompton in: Ecosystem, Featured, Small to Mid Size, Startups
What happens after the ink dries on the agreement to sell your company? Steve Woods, Engineering Director at Google Canada, moderated a panel of three Waterloo Region tech founders: Joseph Fung, Kerry… Read more
-
I Think Security finds success in Hong Kong
02 February 2015 | By Trish Crompton in: Featured, Startups
Cybersecurity startup, I Think Security, was previously accepted into Hong Kong's FinTech Innovation Lab and has been finding success overseas. Read more