Thalmic’s Stephen Lake and Lightspeed’s Dax Dasilva among C100’s Ambassador Program
Working in the heart of Silicon Valley, C100 regularly makes moves to connect strong Canadian entrepreneurs with the Valley’s…
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Pebble lays off 25 percent of its staff after raising $26 million over last eight months
Pebble is laying off 25 percent of its total staff this week (about 40 employees). CEO Eric Migicovsky confirmed the…
#AfterSchoolWR connects students to tech ecosystem in #WaterlooRegion
The departure of Canada’s student talent to places like Silicon Valley has been a hot-button topic for ages. Why are they…
Waterloo-based Aterlo Networks raises $1 million
Aterlo Networks, a company dedicated to building technology for bandwidth or broadband usage-limited homes to enjoy high-quality…
Plasticity Labs can tell if your employees hate you
Neuroplasticity might sound like a concept for the future, but for Plasticity Labs, it’s a tool that companies can use…
University of Waterloo president says talent is key to innovation ecosystem
With the second largest startup density in the world, The Waterloo Region has been steadily climbing the ranks as an innovation…
Voltera pitches its printed circuit boards on #TheDisruptors
Voltera has made headlines in the past for being the first Canadian team to win the international James Dyson Award, and for…
Waterloo-based Sandvine receives $15 million from provincial government
Sandvine, a company that creates intelligent broadband networks for communication service providers (CSPs) to gain business…
Intellijoint Surgical enters strategic partnership with UK-based Corin Group
Waterloo-based Intellijoint Surgical has just announced that it’s signed a distribution agreement with UK-based Corin…
MasterCard Start Path Global accepting applications for next class
MasterCard Start Path Global, MasterCard’s worldwide program for early stage startups, is accepting applications for…
IDEO’s Barry Katz hosting design thinking bootcamp at Communitech
Barry Katz, a Fellow at IDEO, professor at Stanford University, and author of six books, is coming to Communitech in Waterloo…
University of Waterloo leads change with women in tech and HeForShe at #WIMIn2016
This weekend, Waterloo Women: Ideas, Makers, Innovators (WIMIn) brought over 100 women together at the University of Waterloo…
FAIRVentures director explains why Fairfax chose Communitech on #TheDisruptors
It seems like every other week another traditional institution is trying to cash in on the innovative nature of startups; from…
#Dx32016: How Kik will use chat bots to sell products to teens (and everyone else)
First it was desktop, then mobile, and now, according to Paul Gray, Waterloo-based Kik’s director of platform services,…
Today in funding: Buddybuild, RentMoola, BioEnterprise Corporation, Changeit, SourceKnowledge
Early-stage companies raised impressive rounds in this week’s roundup of funding. Here’s the latest on who raised how much,…