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Outposts: A program to help scale-ups go global
26 September 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Hiring an international sales team can be an arduous process, Dave Caputo learned this the hard way. Outposts is a program being launched by Communitech, the program is designed to create "outposts" in… Read more
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How coffee fuelled Plum's US$4.2-million raise
20 September 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Caitlin Macgregor, CEO of Waterloo-based tech scaleup Plum and Janet Bannister, Partner at Toronto VC firm Real Ventures started with a conversation over coffee from Balzac's Coffee Shop in the Lang Tannery… Read more
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ShipperBee: Changing the world, one package at a time
17 September 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
ShipperBee is entrepreneur Jim Estill's latest startup. It is a gig-economy shipping company that can save up to 73 per cent of the greenhouse gas per parcel. Read more
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Software maker Delego acquired by U.S. firm EVO
10 September 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Delego Software, the maker of B2B integrated payment solutions has been acquired this week by Atlanta, Ga.-based EVO Payments, Inc. Delego, based in Kitchener, was founded in London, Ont., in 1997 as a… Read more
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What a Concept: Velocity unveils new on-campus program for budding entrepreneurs
05 September 2019 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Featured, News
Velocity, the wildly successful University of Waterloo startup program launched in 2008, has announced a restructuring, and the launch of a new program called Concept, aimed at serving more on-campus students.… Read more
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BlackBerry Town: Q & A with author Chuck Howitt
03 September 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Chuck Howitt’s new book is called BlackBerry Town – How high tech success has played out for Canada’s Kitchener-Waterloo. Not only does it cover BlackBerry, but also other organizations such as OpenText,… Read more
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Intelligent Mechatronic Systems on the rise
30 August 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Trak Global, who acquired IMS last December, announced a US$50-million investment from London, UK-based Three Hills Capital Partners. They are very clear in accessing the talent pool and tech community… Read more
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Praemo completes CDN$3.5-million Series A
22 August 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Praemo, a Kitchener-based startup that uses artificial intelligence to identify process problems for enterprise companies, announced a CDN$3.5-million Series A raise Thursday. They plans to use the cash… Read more
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We Built This : Avidbots
18 July 2019 | By Sara Jalali in: Featured, Multimedia, News, Videos
We Built This: Learn about Avidbots, a Kitchener-based robotics firm and the maker of Neo, the first fully autonomous floor-scrubbing robot for large commercial environments, such as airports, universities,… Read more
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OpenText CEO issues call for corporate social responsibility
15 July 2019 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Enterprise, Featured, News
OpenText CEO Mark Barrenechea spoke about corporate social responsibility in reference to climate change at company's Enterprise World conference. Read more