CanCon Podcast Ep. 34: The wrong way to run a billion-dollar company
Last year, the TO-KW corridor was home to a frenzy of tech events coinciding with the Toronto International Film Festival.…
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Thalmic Labs raises $158 million CAD Series B
In a Medium post this morning, Thalmic Labs CEO and co-founder Stephen Lake announced that the company raised $120 million…
Announcing the BetaKit Next selectees
BetaKit isn’t particularly fond of awards for entrepreneurship. For example, how can anyone reasonably name an ‘entrepreneur…
Waterloo-based Medella Health wins national James Dyson Award
Waterloo-based Medella Health has been announced as the national winner of the James Dyson Award for developing a contact lens…
Thalmic Labs announces San Francisco expansion, hires former Samsung exec as CMO
Thalmic Labs, the wearable company most well-known for its Myo armband, has announced the opening of its San Francisco office…
Lazaridis Institute appoints former BlackBerry exec Carlo Chiarello as CEO
The Lazaridis Institute for the Management of Technology Enterprises announced yesterday that Carlo Chiarello has been appointment…
University of Waterloo opens research facility to improve electric car research
A new research and testing facility opened today at the University of Waterloo to look into building cleaner, smarter vehicles.…
Canadian government dedicates $900 million to helping universities become world-leading research centres
At the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing yesterday, Minister of Science Kirsty Duncan announced a…
Introducing BetaKit’s guide to Canadian Innovation Week
September is a busy month for Canadian tech. Fuelled by the backdrop of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the…
Accelerator Centre launches Phase One program to help startups with market validation, investment readiness
Waterloo’s Accelerator Centre, which offers a network of facilities dedicated to commercializing technology startups,…
Borealis Wind wins $40,000 top prize from Fierce Founders Bootcamp Pitch competition
Yesterday, Communitech hosted its Fierce Founders Bootcamp Pitch Competition, the culmination of two weeks of a startup bootcamp…
Fluxible returns as week-long festival focusing on user experience
For the fifth year in a row, Fluxible is hosting an event focused completely on user experience. This is the first time the…
U of T, UW, and UBC make World Economic Forum’s list of top 50 tech schools
As reported by itbusiness.ca, the World Economic Forum has placed the University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, and the…
#TechWR returns August 15 to connect #WaterlooRegion’s tech community
#TechWR is back for the second edition of its meetup bringing Waterloo Region’s startup community to Communitech to connect,…
26 Ontario companies named semifinalists in 43North global competition
43North, a global competition awarding a grand prize of $1 million to one startup, has announced 142 semifinalists. Among them…