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Giving back and getting involved: How one university student spends her free time
18 March 2015 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Ecosystem, News, Startups, Tech About Town
Communitech News follows busy student, Alexa Roeper, on how she spends her free time getting involved. Read more
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Clearpath raises $14M; expands into industrial robotics
18 March 2015 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Featured, News, Small to Mid Size
Clearpath Robotics, the six-year-old Waterloo Region company whose stand against killer robots attracted global attention last year, has raised C$14 million in venture capital to fuel expansion into the… Read more
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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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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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Perimeter Institute and Chalk.com team up to spread joy of physics
24 February 2015 | By Christian Aagaard in: Ecosystem, Featured, News, Startups
Perimeter and Chalk announced a collaboration: Perimeter’s science lessons will land on Planboard, Chalk’s digital suite of teaching services. It is Chalk’s first offering of fee-based, premium content. Read more
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Sweet victory for Structur3D: Shipping of beta units begins
19 February 2015 | By Samantha Clark in: Ecosystem, Featured, News, Startups
Structur3D launched its crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter in July, surpassing its initial $30,000 goal in just two days. Now, they’re working hard to ship units out to their beta backers within the… Read more
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MappedIn lands $600K in FedDev support
12 February 2015 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Featured, News, Startups
MappedIn will receive up to $600,000 from the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev) to adapt its digital wayfinding and indoor mapping technology. The repayable contribution… Read more
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Miovision raises $30M to expand traffic management platform
10 February 2015 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Featured, News, Small to Mid Size
Miovision, whose technology helps cities reduce traffic congestion, is hitting the gas pedal with C$30 million in new investment. The Series B round, led by Montreal-based merchant bank MacKinnon, Bennett… Read more