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University of Waterloo’s Velocity launches investment fund to support tech startups

Since it was founded in 2011, Velocity has held three pitch competitions annually, awarding prizes of $25,000 each to the top four startups in the competition.

Primal secures $2.3 million to develop its semantic AI

“AI is not about replacing humans, but about making humans smarter, better, faster,” said Yvan Couture, president and CEO of Primal.

UW looks to the future of engineering

The University of Waterloo is hoping to become a pioneer of the next industrial revolution.

Waterloo startup DarwinAI aims to make AI smarter

DairwinAI’s platform helps users know how artificial intelligence makes decisions

Waterloo’s Shopify to handle online sale of legal weed

The Ontario Cannabis Retail Corporation (OCRC) has announced that the Canadian e-commerce company Shopify will manage the online sale of legal recreational cannabis in Ontario.

The Co-Inventor of BlackBerry Is Building Canada’s Quantum Brain Trust

“You have to build an industry,” Lazaridis says. “You have to be very nimble, and you have to be connected to your customers, and that can’t be done with just one company.”

Google helps Waterloo’s Velocity incubator to expand

The University of Waterloo’s startup incubator Velocity, which has produced companies including Kik and Thalmic Labs, is getting even bigger, with the help of Google.

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Serial entrepreneur’s new startup is flying high

After just 10 months Kiite employs 15 people, raised $3 million and is earning revenue from more than six businesses that use the startup's artificial intelligence platform