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We Built This – Encircle: Insurance claims, simplified
06 December 2017 | By Phil Froklage in: Featured, Multimedia, News, Videos
Learn about Encircle's journey in this video, Encircle is an app that makes insurance easier by tracking claims in real time. Read more
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Winning pitches from Fierce Founders 2017
29 September 2017 | By Phil Froklage in: Featured, Multimedia, News, Podcast
On August 24th, the 2017 Fierce Founders bootcamp wrapped up with a pitch competition, and two firms split the top prize of $100,000. Read more
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Nimble Hippo Radio: Brian Tossan on the future of transportation
05 September 2017 | By Phil Froklage in: Featured, Multimedia, News, Opinion, Podcast, The Nimble Hippo
Brian Tossan, Director of Engineering for General Motors of Canada is fundamentally reshaping the way GM thinks about the car. Read more
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New federal program will fund jobs for post-secondary tech students
31 August 2017 | By Samantha Clark in: Announcements, Ecosystem, Featured, News
The Career Ready Program aims to create work-related learning opportunities for post-secondary students by providing up to 50 percent of a student’s pay in wage subsidies. Read more
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Ontario unveils $25.8-million fund to help clean-tech companies
29 August 2017 | By Craig Daniels in: Announcements, Ecosystem, Featured, News
The Province of Ontario lanches the "Low Carbon Innovation Fund" to foster research and new technologies to face climate change before it's too late. Read more
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Nimble Hippo Radio: Hillary Hartley on making government smarter
21 August 2017 | By Phil Froklage in: Featured, Multimedia, News, Opinion, Podcast, The Nimble Hippo
Hillary Hartley is Ontario’s new Chief Digital Officer, hired to make Ontario’s online government services streamlined and easy to use. Read more
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Nimble Hippo Radio: Anthony Bartolo on learning from hackers
08 August 2017 | By Phil Froklage in: Featured, Multimedia, News, Opinion, Podcast, The Nimble Hippo
Microsoft's Anthony Bartolo takes an interesting approach by learning from the hackers and developers in the ecosystem. Read more
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InFlight celebrates as King Street reopens
03 August 2017 | By Phil Froklage in: Featured, Multimedia, News, Videos
King Street has reopened in downtown Kitchener, much to the delight of InFlight, a tech company that just opened an office in midtown. Read more
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Nimble Hippo Radio: Sarah Prevette gets back to the blackboard
24 July 2017 | By Phil Froklage in: Featured, Multimedia, Opinion, Podcast, The Nimble Hippo
Communitech's Phil Froklage sits down with Sarah Prevette, CEO of Future Design School. Read more
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IBM Innovation Incubator launches at Communitech Data Hub
19 July 2017 | By Craig Daniels in: Announcements, Ecosystem, Featured, News
Communitech, IBM, and the provincial government come together to unveil the IBM Innovation Incubator. The incubator aims to help small-to-medium startups launch new tech while leveraging big data. Read more