BlackBerry To Reward Student App Developers with New Award at Canada-Wide Science Fair
BlackBerry is about to help out a handful of student app developers in a big way. Today the embattled Canadian smartphone maker…
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Dragons’ Den Star to Launch $200M Fund in Waterloo
New Dragons’ Den star Michael Wekerle is launching a $200 million investment fund in Waterloo, to be aimed at startups…
Waterloo Man Creates Fake PR Agency In Ploy to Get Hired
Uniqueness seems to sell. We like what we aren’t and we want to surround ourselves with people who go against the status…
U of Waterloo Student Startup Wearability Takes $13K At Norman Esch Awards
A University of Waterloo student startup has received $13,000 for its victorious “Wearability” product design at…
NASA and Communitech to Throw International Space Apps Challenge 2014
NASA and Waterloo’s Communitech hub is preparing to throw Canada’s version of the NASA International Space Apps…
Finalists Named for University of Waterloo’s $60K Design Awards
The first annual Norman Esch Entrepreneurship Awards for Capstone Design is set to give out $60,000 in prizes on Friday.…
Angel Investor Mike Stork Gives $1 Million to VeloCity
An entrepreneur and angel investor named Mike Stork has poured a bit more fuel on the Waterloo Region startup community with…
VeloCity Graduate PiinPoint Is Latest Y Combinator Startup
PiinPoint, a location analytics startup that previously won $25,000 at the VeloCity Fund Finals, has become the latest company to…
One Entrepreneur’s Reflection on the Kitchener-Waterloo Startup Community
Over the past couple of months I’ve been talking to startups in the Kitchener/Waterloo ecosystem. These conversations…
Startup Community — A Film about startups in the Kitchener/Waterloo area — premiering on April 14th
Startup Community, the film by Taylor Jackson about the startups in the Kitchener-Waterloo area, found immediate success when…
Toronto-Waterloo Corridor to Get More GO Trains By 2016
Everyday there’s a bus bringing Google employees from Toronto, where they live, to work in Waterloo. And you can bet…
Waterloo’s Apartmint Is an All-In-One Solution for Landlords and Renters
“I think there’s a lot of problems in this industry in general and I haven’t seen something come forward and try…
120 Left Jobless as BlackBerry Continues Its Descent
Embattled Waterloo-based smartphone maker BlackBerry has laid off 120 employees this morning. The Waterloo Record reported…
UWaterloo’s VeloCity Fund Finals Set to Hand Out $100,000
The University of Waterloo startup’s incubator Velocity unveiled today the ten finalists that will compete for their…
Get Ready for a Chompdown! Waterloo’s Printchomp is Growing.
Have you ever ordered swag? What about signs for your business or tradeshow displays? Printchomp, a startup from Kitchener-Waterloo…