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PumpUp raises $2.4M seed round to scale social fitness app
24 July 2014 | By Trish Crompton in: Featured, Startups
PumpUp has landed $2.4 million in seed financing to help the app scale to meet demand from its ever-growing online community. Its social app combines photo sharing and fitness tracking, allowing users… Read more
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Milestone by milestone, Wagepoint takes on North American payroll software market
24 July 2014 | By Samantha Clark in: Featured, Startups
Wagepoint, Canada’s only online payroll startup, recently surpassing 500 customers and launching in the U.S. this week. Wagepoint is an alternative to the old, frustrating payroll process, and developed… Read more
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Connection by design: Toronto, Waterloo Region creative teams join forces
23 July 2014 | By Trish Crompton in: Ecosystem, Featured
Method Jam, a gathering that started out of a collaboration between Toronto-based creative firms Heist and GRAND, and Waterloo-based Boltmade, is exploring the process for designers, developers and project… Read more
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Structur3D prints its way to Kickstarter success
22 July 2014 | By Trish Crompton in: Featured, Startups
Communitech HYPERDRIVE company Structur3D Printing celebrates funding the mass production of the Discov3ry paste extruder, which is an add-on for 3D printers, an inexpensive option to use household materials… Read more
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Collaborative video app turns moments into memorable events
17 July 2014 | By Trish Crompton in: Featured, Startups
To solve the problem that people experiencing an event together have trouble reliving it later, because each person’s photos and videos wind up scattered across their individual social feeds. Clipter is… Read more
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This Is Your Out, an 'eject button for bad situations,' launches on Indiegogo
15 July 2014 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Featured, Startups
Billed as “an eject button for bad situations,” Lukianchuk has developed This Is Your Out – TIYO, for short – a Bluetooth-enabled key fob that you can press to make a call to your mobile phone. On Tuesday,… Read more
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New library blows away dusty stereotypes
14 July 2014 | By Melanie Baker in: Ecosystem, Featured, M-Theory, Opinion
Library stereotypes have gone the way of the dinosaur. Our library and many others are now big, bright spaces that invite interaction. They showcase art, encourage makers and offer resources as likely… Read more
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Kinect for Windows Hackathon coming to Kitchener Aug. 8-10
11 July 2014 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Featured, Startups
Microsoft’s Kinect for Windows team will be hosting a hackathon in downtown Kitchener Aug 8-10. It’s the only Canadian stop on its world tour in search of exciting new applications for its motion-sensing… Read more
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Love affair renewed: Paul Salvini on Waterloo Region’s bright tech future
07 July 2014 | By Trish Crompton in: Ecosystem, Featured
Salvini was named CEO of the Accelerator Centre in Waterloo. He will also serve as the new Associate Vice-President, Research Commercialization at the University of Waterloo. Sharing his experience, his… Read more
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Paul Salvini joins Accelerator Centre as CEO; takes up new uWaterloo post
03 July 2014 | By Communitech in: Ecosystem, Featured
Waterloo’s Accelerator Centre has Dr. Paul Salvini, as its new CEO. In addition to overseeing the growth of early-stage technology companies at the AC, Salvini will serve as Associate Vice-President, Research… Read more