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‘Fake news’ meets real adversary as $1M Leaders Prize awarded to Canadian AI solution
KITCHENER, ONT., September 10, 2020 —
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- Communitech and Digital Main Street expand details of Future Proof program - August 20, 2020
- AVIN Waterloo Ventures at Communitech announces next cohort of startups - July 28, 2020
- Communitech confirms lease with Lang Tannery through 2025 - July 08, 2020
- Communitech and partners raise more than $200,000 for communities in need - June 25, 2020
- Communitech and regional innovation partners to help ‘futureproof businesses’ in Southwestern Ontario - June 11, 2020
- Communitech CEO Iain Klugman to delay departure until 2022 - June 07, 2020
- Communitech names new interim chair of board of directors - March 12, 2020
- Communitech announces 2020 cancellation of Waterloo Region’s True North Festival - March 10, 2020
- $100,000 awarded at Communitech’s Fierce Founders Bootcamp Finale - February 27, 2020
- Carole Cadwalladr, who exposed the Cambridge Analytica scandal, to speak at True North Festival - February 19, 2020
Reports
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Other reports
- The post-viral pivot: how Canada’s tech startups can drive the recovery from COVID-19
(Innovation Economy Council, April 2020)
Communitech in the news
- Communitech raising money for organizations in need (May 14, 2020)
- Another virtual job fair coming after successful Communitech Tech Jam (May 8, 2020)
- Communitech taking additional measures to contain spread of COVID-19 (March 12, 2020)
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Tech community headlines
ApplyBoard takes on another CDN$70M in Series C extension
Just four months after reaching unicorn status on a CDN$100-million Series C investment, Waterloo Region’s ApplyBoard has raised another CDN$70 million to fuel the growth of its school-application platform… (click here to read more)
Anthony Reinhart
2020-09-16 7:00 am - Featured
Toronto engineer wins $1M Leaders Prize for fake news solution
Purveyors of fake news had better beware: A machine-learning engineer who took up the challenge of sorting the false from the true has created an artificial intelligence-driven program to defeat you, and… (click here to read more)
Bill Bean
2020-09-11 9:52 am - Featured
Agtech startup BinSentry lands US$7.7M investment
It’s coming into harvest time, and what a harvest Waterloo Region agtech startup BinSentry has achieved: a financing round of US$7.7 million. Lewis & Clark AgriFood, a St. Louis, Mo.-based food and agriculture… (click here to read more)
Bill Bean
2020-09-10 9:07 am - Featured