Velocity announces $25,000 and $5,000 Fund finalists
Waterloo is a hotbed of startups, and many of them have come out of the University of Waterloo Veolocity program, such PiinPoint…
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Mozzaz and Plum graduate from the Accelerator Centre
Another couple startups have graduated from the Waterloo-based Accelerator Centre. Mozzaz and Plum have become the 44th and…
Docker acquires Velocity startup Kitematic
Docker announced this morning the acquisition of Kitchener-Waterloo based and Velocity Garage startup Kitematic for an undisclosed…
Myo now available on Amazon as Thalmic ships 100% of pre-orders
When last we checked in with Kitchener-Waterloo based Thalmic Labs, co-founder Stephen Lake said the company had shipped 24%…
Square now integrated with Bigcommerce and Weebly
Square is commonly known for its dongle that attaches to your smartphone or tablet, or possibly its point of sale terminal.…
Perceptiv Labs is on a mission to make drones smarter
If drones are going to take to the skies in the not so distant future, we all need to become amateur pilots or they need to…
EyeCheck accepts the challenge of hardware to close the global vision deficit
In addition to the $25,000 EyeCheck took home last November at the University of Waterloo’s Velocity Fall Fund Finals…
Rod Regier explains how Kitchener emerged on the tech map
How does a city recover from its largest tenant hitting bad times? In the case of Kitchener-Waterloo it started long before…
MappedIn secures up to $600,000 from FedDev to offer its indoor map technology in multiple languages
Waterloo-based MappedIn, the makers of an interactive indoor navigation system that offers mobile app or touchscreen kiosk…
JUICE Mobile opens Waterloo office
Toronto-based JUICE Mobile is continuing to expand its operations and announced the opening of a Waterloo office at 51 Breithaupt…
Miovision raises $30 million Series B to save you from traffic congestion
Kitchener-based Miovision Technologies announced today that it has completed a $30 million Series B round, led by MacKinnon,…
Ansik knows that sales are sexier than sector
Ansik is fighting the perception that they have a perception problem. The Velocity Foundry company, which produces ShockLock,…
Suncayr’s Rachel Pautler on the importance of a killer pitch
Attendees at the Velocity Fall Fund Finals last November were shocked, shocked, when Suncayr didn’t walk home with one of…
Medella Health is in the right place at the right time
It’s not easy being a wearable hardware startup. It’s also hard being an impact health tech startup. Now, a wearable health…
Velocity’s Wes Worsfold understands your startup pain
While Director Mike Kirkup talks a big game about Velocity’s capacity to scale startup community, being in the community…