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Communitech Rev names 10 companies to first cohort
16 March 2015 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Featured, News, Startups
Communitech's new program, Rev, has announced their first cohort. Read more
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Oregon taps Waterloo’s IMS to drive change to road-usage fees
15 March 2015 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured, News, Small to Mid Size
IMS and Sanef ITS of New York have teamed up to equip the northwestern American state with a system that charges and collects a fee based on the distances drivers travel on all of its roads. It is the… 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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Solve a problem, find a business: the Bridgit story so far
06 March 2015 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Featured, Startups
Bridgit is the number one construction workforce intelligence solution. Lauren Hasegawa talks about her path to creating her business and how she has innovated the construction workflow and management… 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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OpenText takes a stand on International Women’s Day
05 March 2015 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Ecosystem, Enterprise, Featured, News
Canada’s largest software company, Waterloo-based OpenText has gone beyond talk to become a tech sector leader in diversity, with women making up 30 percent of its workforce and occupying three of nine… Read more
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Auvik, Dejero, Intellijoint land $1.8M in FedDev investment
05 March 2015 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Featured, News, Startups
Three Waterloo Region tech companies are getting some federal government investment to help them bring new products to market faster. Auvik Networks, Dejero, Intellijoint Surgical all received fund from… Read more
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Want meaningful innovation? Start kids early
05 March 2015 | By Melanie Baker in: Featured, M-Theory, Opinion
It is important for youth to learn, but are they learning as effectively as they should? There is often a driving force behind entrepreneurship and career choice. Events from youths' lives can lead them… Read more