Tech news archives

The moments, milestones and stories that helped shape Waterloo Region tech. Explore the archive and revisit the people, companies and ideas that got us here.

Cognitive Systems ships first units of motion-detecting Aura device

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Cognitive Systems has shipped their first batch of Aura devices, which are motion sensors that can be…

SkyWatch to double Waterloo team after raising CDN$4-million

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Waterloo startup Skywatch has recently raised seed funding of Canadian 4 Million dollars and plans to…

TECNA Summer Conference 2017: Q&A with Chairman Skip Newberry

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

An interview with Skip Newberry, Chairman of TECNA, an umbrella organization for more than 50 tech associations…

M-Theory: The company town gets a reprise – ugh

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Facebook is planning to transform 56 acres of land across from their headquarters in Silicon Valley into…

We Built This — Vidyard

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Vidyard, a B2B software company specializing in analytics, was initially set up in Silicon Valley and…

Robotics – for recreation and competition

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

2702 Rebels, a Waterloo region high school robotics team is seeking out victory in the First Robotics…

Trolled: How Sandvine wound up on the 'rocket docket'

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Dave Caputo tells the story of how a "patent troll" tried to take his company to court in east Texas…

Q&A with Chris Willsher: ODX’s Data Growth Coach

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

ODX's Chris Willsher is joining the team as a data growth coach.

Winning pitches from Fierce Founders 2017

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

On August 24th, the 2017 Fierce Founders bootcamp wrapped up with a pitch competition, and two firms…

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