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Toronto engineer wins $1M Leaders Prize for fake news solution
11 September 2020 | By Bill Bean in: Featured, News
Machine-learning engineer Bill Yu Wu has bested a field of 150 programmers and won $1 million in the challenge to create an artificial intelligence-driven program to sort fake news from real news. Read more
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Agtech startup BinSentry lands US$7.7M investment
10 September 2020 | By Bill Bean in: Featured, News
Randall Schwartzentruber, CEO and co-founder of BinSentry, speaks on how he came up with the idea for his company as they complete a financing round of US$7.7 million. Read more
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ProNavigator raises CAD$5.6 million to drive expansion
02 September 2020 | By Bill Bean in: Featured, News
ProNavigator, an insurance tech company has raised CAD$5.6 million in a financing round, its second multimillion-dollar round in slightly over a year. Read more
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How Vidyard proved the doubters wrong
01 September 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
When Michael Litt and business partner Devon Galloway decided to forgo the siren song of Silicon Valley and return to Waterloo Region to build their fledgling company, Litt was filled with pangs of doubt… Read more
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Ash Maurya leans in on the Lean Canvas
21 August 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Ash Maurya, CEO of LEANSTACK and the creator of "Lean Canvas" joins True North TV and talks about how the COVID-19 has created opportunities for entrepreneurs but also cautions them on how long it will… Read more
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How COVID-19 has accelerated on-line education
18 August 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
D2L President and CEO John Baker joins the latest episode of True North TV and shares that the COVID-19 pandemic has served as a wake up call for many, accelerating timelines across the educational technology… Read more
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The perfect place for creating a tech company'
07 August 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Waterloo Region has emerged at the top of CBRE's list of The Next 25 Markets, Martin Basiri, CEO of ApplyBoard has knowsn this for a while stating "Waterloo Region is a perfect place for creating a tech… Read more
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How a big-box retailer has helped Axonify grow and prosper
06 August 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Axonify CEO Carol Leaman discusses how their relationship with their customer and big-box retailer Walmart has worked both ways, helping Walmart train their 100,000 employees in the US while also gaining… Read more
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Patty McCord, on life during, and after, COVID-19
04 August 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Patty McCord, former Chief Talent Officer at Netflix joins True North TV to talk about how the COVID-19 pandemic will affect how companies find talent and how company culture will be nurtured and created… Read more
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AVIN's second cohort prepares to hit the gas
28 July 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
9 companies from the Toronto-Waterloo corridor have been named to the Autonomous Vehicle Integration Network (AVIN) Ventures at Communitech program which aims to foster development of products, technology… Read more