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A codebreaker's legacy: Waterloo's world-class cybersecurity cluster
29 October 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News, Pin-Top-Main-Page
The story of William Tutte, a crucial codebreaker that helped save the world from Nazi tyranny in the second world war and the founding father of the cyber security industry in Waterloo region. Read more
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Using technology to understand ourselves
27 October 2020 | By Kevin Crowley in: Featured, News
Dr. Poppy Crum, Chief Scientist at Dolby Laboratories and Adjunct Professor at Stanford University, shares her insights on the relationship between human evolution and technological innovation. Read more
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Wholesale platform Faire raises another US$170M
27 October 2020 | By Kevin Crowley in: Featured, News
Waterloo Region and San Francisco based Faire, a wholesale platform, has recently completed a US$170 million series E investment round that has doubled its valuation to US$2.5 billion. Read more
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Arctic Wolf Networks hits US$1.3B valuation with new $200M funding
22 October 2020 | By Kevin Crowley in: Featured, News
Cybersecurity company Arctic Wolf Networks announced a US$2-million Series E funding raise and have become the only cloud based managed detection and response vendor to reach "unicorn" status with a valuation… Read more
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AirMatrix off to flying start with drone tests in Waterloo Region
21 October 2020 | By Kevin Crowley in: Featured, News, Startups
Toronto-based startup AirMatrix, which won Communitech's $100,000 Fierce Founders Pitch Competition last year, is a participant in the AVIN Waterloo Ventures at Communitech program, using aerial mapping… Read more
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Knowledgehook raises $20M as pandemic fuels edtech growth
15 October 2020 | By Kevin Crowley in: Featured, News
Knowledgehook, a Waterloo Region-based maker of math software, has raised CDN$20 million in a Series A funding round. Knowledgehook's AI-enabled platform supports district-wide math improvement by using… Read more
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Global giant Cargill to distribute BinSentry feed-bin sensors
13 October 2020 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Featured, News
Waterloo Region agriculture tech startup BinSentry has partnered with global agriculture giant Cargill to distribute BinSentry's sensors, which accurately track levels in livestock feed bins. Read more
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Waterloo Region poised to play major role in medtech, PPE: Fedeli
13 October 2020 | By Kevin Crowley in: Featured, Intellectual Property, News
Vic Fedeli, Ontario's Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, speaks on the importance of Waterloo Region in the effort to help Ontario strengthen its medtech and PPE industries. Read more
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Mental health a challenge for tech workers
08 October 2020 | By Kevin Crowley in: Featured, News
Amandah Wood, founder of the Ways We Work digital publication and a member of the Employee Experience, Diversity and Belonging team at Shopify in Waterloo, is an advocate for mental health awareness and… Read more
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ApplyBoard takes on another CDN$70M in Series C extension
16 September 2020 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Featured, News
Apply Board has partnered with U.S.-based ETS in a Series C investment round extension, raising another CDN$70 million to grow its school-application platform for international students. Read more