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FedDev invests $5.3M in eight area tech firms
27 April 2021 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Startups
Kitchener-Waterloo MP Peter Braid has announced that eight tech companies in the region will receive up to $5.3 million in investment from the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario. Read more
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Finding wellness in the eye of the pandemic
26 March 2021 | By Kevin Crowley in: Featured, News, Startups
The Moss family are feeling a renewed sense of mission amidst the pandemic. Read more
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Accounting startup Beanworks acquired for CDN$104 million
26 March 2021 | By Kevin Crowley in: Featured, News, Startups
Beanworks, a Communitech HYPERDRIVE company long ago, has been acquired for over $100 million. 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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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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Starts April 3 in KW - Speaker Circles - presenting comfortably and clearly
18 March 2020 | By Communitech in: Member news
Speaker Circles is a six-week small-group program that allows participants to practice their public speaking skills in a small, friendly group. The next session begins April 3 and runs Wednesday mornings… Read more
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VeuHub raises $2M seed round
09 July 2019 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Featured, News, Startups
VeuHub, a three-year-old startup whose ad platform connects video publishers, brands and agencies, has raised $2 million in seed investment. The investment will enable VeuHub to scale its development and… Read more
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Driving AI, blockchain and IoT adoption through investments in commercialization projects
25 February 2019 | By Communitech in: Data driven innovation
There are six successful applicants who will participate in Steam 4 of the IBM Innovation Incubator Project delivered by Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) on behalf of the government of Ontario Read more
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Motion detected: Deal propels Cognitive Systems into huge Wi-Fi market
12 December 2018 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Featured, News, Startups, Uncategorized
Waterloo-based Cognitive Systems Corp. has a targeted goal of three billion Wi-Fi chipsets shipped worldwide each year. Read more
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Fierce Founders Accelerator gets $264K boost from FedDev Ontario
26 November 2018 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Featured, News, Startups
Communitech's Fierce Founder's Accelerator program has received a pledge of $264,000 dollars from FedDev Ontario to extend the program for women entrepreneurs in 2019. Read more