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By Caitlin Hotchkiss March 23, 2019

Startup jobs of the week: Canvass Analytics, Skritswap, Real Estate Webmasters

Every day, Canada’s tech startups post their latest and greatest job opportunities on Jobs.BetaKit, powered by Jobbio. From…

By Meagan Simpson March 21, 2019

Avidbots, a Kitchener-based robotics company, today announced the close of a $31.5 million CAD Series B funding round, to help…

By Sera Wong March 20, 2019

Aexos (Advanced Exoskeletal Systems), a Kickstarter-funded wearables company based in Waterloo, has announced the first shipment…

By Caitlin Hotchkiss March 18, 2019

A collective of startups in Waterloo has announced Start-Ups for School, a volunteer outreach initiative for small local startups…

By Isabelle Kirkwood March 18, 2019

Kitchener-based Bridgit, which offers a project management platform for construction businesses, has raised $6.2 million CAD…

By Isabelle Kirkwood February 22, 2019

This year’s DRIVE 2019 conference, held in Waterloo for its inaugural year, set out to answer how Canada can create domestic…

By Meagan Simpson February 22, 2019

North, the creator of Focals smart glasses, reportedly laid off 150 of its employees on Thursday. The layoff represents a substantial…

By Igor Bonifacic February 15, 2019

Less than a month after shipping its first pair of Focals smartglasses, Waterloo-based North is adjusting the price of the…

By Meagan Simpson February 8, 2019

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Waterloo-based free text and phone service startup TextNow is still going strong, with its…

By Meagan Simpson February 6, 2019

Waterloo-based creator of virtual assistants for insurance, ProNavigator, recently closed its latest seed round of equity financing,…

By Meagan Simpson February 1, 2019

OpenText has announced its acquisition of cloud-based software company Catalyst Repository Systems Inc. for more than $98 million…

By Sera Wong January 28, 2019

Aeryon Labs Inc., a developer of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) has been bought by FLIR Systems Inc. for $265 million CAD. FLIR…

By Isabelle Kirkwood January 25, 2019

Kitchener-based North has officially started shipping its augmented reality Focals glasses. North currently has stores in Toronto…

By Caitlin Hotchkiss January 22, 2019

Public low-power IoT network operator eleven-x Inc. has announced that the Region of Waterloo will be deploying eleven-x’s…

By Douglas Soltys January 16, 2019

University of Waterloo startup incubator Velocity has announced a bold plan to provide funding support to its startups. Velocity…