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Rapid Novor completes US$5-million Series A raise
28 July 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: COVID19, Featured, News
Rapid Novor, a Waterloo based company helps drug makers and pharmaceutical companies make vaccines. The company has recently announced a US $5 Million series A raise led by Co-Win Ventures which will help… Read more
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Hillary Hartley: 'We have shifted the pace inside government'
21 July 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Hillary Hartley, Chief Digital Officer for the province of Ontario joins True North TV to discuss how government in Canada have responded with unprecedented speed to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 in… Read more
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Premier, two ministers visit Waterloo Region for multiple tech announcements
17 July 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: COVID19, Featured, News, Uncategorized
Significant announcements were made in Waterloo Region surrounding the regions tech sector with new funding for research and development, an Intellectual Property Plan and the creation of a spinoff company… Read more
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Bridgit reaps big gains amid COVID-19 crisis
15 July 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Bridgit, a Waterloo Region maker of project management software have been gaining more traction towards their product during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more
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Politics key to taming big tech: Tim Bray
07 July 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Tim Bray, co-founder of Waterloo Region based OpenText joins True North TV to discuss the questionable behaviors of big tech companies and what they say about a far greater problem, "the degree of inequality… Read more
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$1-million Leaders Prize winner to be named Sept. 10
06 July 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
The $1-million Leaders prize , a Canadian competition designed to encourage teams with expertise in artificial intelligence to solve a problem of global significance is entering it's second round with… Read more
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'We're ready to listen, we're ready to make a change'
30 June 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Communitech CEO Iain Klugman sits down with Bryan Larkin, Chief of the Waterloo Regional Police Service in the wake of the protests that stemmed from the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020. Read more
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Bringing more opportunity to women founders in Canada
25 June 2020 | By Communitech in: Featured, Opinion
Women entrepreneurs are severely under-represented in tech. They also struggle to raise as much capital as their male counterparts. Organizations such as Google and Communitech seek to support women entrepreneurs. Read more
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How Vidyard kept growing in the face of the pandemic
25 June 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Vidyard CEO Michael Litt and the company's board of directors had an emergency meeting early in the pandemic to prepare for the worst. Three months later, they have almost 3 million more new users. Read more
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Laura Mae Lindo on Waterloo Region's response to Black Lives Matter
23 June 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
What might a Black woman – who is also the Member of Provincial Parliament for Kitchener Centre – have to say to the chief of the Waterloo Region Police Service at a time of unprecedented world-wide outcry… Read more