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Deloitte plants flag in ‘centre of the ecosystem'
05 May 2015 | By Trish Crompton in: Ecosystem, Enterprise, Featured
Communitech News sat down with Deloitte's Terry Stuart to talk about their "dee space" innovation lab. Read more
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Deloitte opens new innovation lab at Communitech
23 April 2015 | By Trish Crompton in: Ecosystem, Enterprise, Featured
Deloitte has launched a new innovation lab, d { } (dee space), at Communitech. Read more
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exactEarth sails blue ocean of big-data opportunity
17 April 2015 | By Trish Crompton in: Ecosystem, Enterprise, Featured, Small to Mid Size
exactEarth is collecting huge amounts of data that informs government agencies of nearly 50 countries. Read more
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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