Showing all articles in the Featured category
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A game within a game: Axonify seeks to reward the best brain-teasers with new contest
27 June 2013 | By Trish Crompton in: Featured, Startups
Waterloo-based Axonify is looking to not only raise awareness about the solution it provides to corporate learning but to support grassroots game developers. What better way than a contest with incentives.… Read more
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Intel wants to meet innovators -- and share -- at Communitech office
25 June 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured
Intel Software and Services Group is rolling out a wide welcome mat to new ideas pouring out of Waterloo Region’s technology community. Intel announced Tuesday it plans to keep weekly office hours at the… Read more
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Out with the old, in with the new. communitech.ca gets a makeover!
23 June 2013 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Featured, Small to Mid Size, Startups
Communitech.ca has a new look! We’ve had a makeover, a nip and tuck, and merged style with function. We’ve designed a website that focuses on Communitech’s reason for being: helping tech companies start,… Read more
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Sunglasses and crazy socks: The Communitech golf tournament
17 June 2013 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Featured
On June 13 we hosted our annual Communitech Golf Tournament at the Dundee Country Club. Although the day started off rainy and cool, we ended up with beautiful weather and a great day on the links. Thanks… Read more
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Vidyard invites people to come to camp (no tent required)
12 June 2013 | By Communitech in: Featured, Small to Mid Size, Startups
Vidyard, a company that formed two years ago and grew in the VeloCity space of the Communitech Hub, plans to push that point June 26 when it holds a day-long workshop on the power of video. The Space Camp… Read more
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Thalmic Labs, after Series A news: Work now, celebrate later
07 June 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured, Small to Mid Size, Startups
Startups dream of the kind of spring enjoyed this year by Thalmic Labs, maker of the buzz-worthy MYO arm band. The company announced June 5 that it had closed a venture-capital deal worth $14.5 million,… Read more
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Uptown finds its way and gets MappedIn
06 June 2013 | By Trish Crompton in: Featured, Small to Mid Size, Startups
Uptown Waterloo has done a lot in the past few years to revitalize itself and make it one of the top retailing spaces in the region. This morning MappedIn officially launched their free mobile wayfinding… Read more
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Thalmic Labs lands $14.5 million Series A funding round
05 June 2013 | By Communitech in: Featured, Small to Mid Size, Startups
A startup raised in the VeloCity Garage at the Communitech Hub has earned a $14.5-million vote of confidence from investors. Thalmic Labs, which makes the MYO armband that turns gestures into computer… Read more
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Eyedro and Waterloo North Hydro – a match made in hydro conservation
05 June 2013 | By Trish Crompton in: Featured, Small to Mid Size, Startups
Hydro companies are educating consumers in energy conservation by investing in technology. Last week Waterloo North Hydro announced a strategic equity investment in Eyedro Green Solutions Inc., a startup… Read more
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Rebellion Media adds Crucial Interactive to their power-packed roster
05 June 2013 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Featured, Small to Mid Size, Startups
Waterloo Region-based Rebellion Media has bought another company. Crucial Interactive, a digital media company that works with brands to engage with online consumers, is the 12th company to be acquired… Read more