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SnapEDA chosen for Blackbox Connect female-founder edition
15 April 2015 | By Trish Crompton in: Ecosystem, Featured, Startups
SnapEDA was chosen by Google for Entrepreneurs for their Blackbox Connect. Read more
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Accelerators in global network ‘extremely successful,’ director says
01 April 2015 | By Trish Crompton in: Ecosystem, Featured, Startups
Pat Riley talks about the success of Accelerators in a global network. Pat, Executive Director of the Global Accelerator Network (GAN), discusses how GAN has been a massive help to its members through… Read more
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Canon challenge turns lens on societal problems
31 March 2015 | By Trish Crompton in: Enterprise, Event recaps, Featured
In mid-January, Canon Canada launched the Through Your Lens competition to challenge Ontario post-secondary students to find problems and provide solutions that improve people’s lives, using existing Canon… Read more
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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