As we mark Global Entrepreneurship Week at McMaster, we are highlighting the innovative thinkers working to turn ideas into reality. Stay tuned to Daily News all week long as we share stories of McMaster community members whose entrepreneurial skills are making real-world…
Original Article by Karen Fischer, Business Insider, November 29, 2022 In May, southern Ontario was hit by the sixth costliest storm in Canadian history. Nearly a million utility customers lost power, and weeks later, some rural residents in the region…
Nov 22, 2022 Celebrating Smart Mobility Innovation and Collaboration that is Driving the Safe Adoption of Future Transportation Solutions as a Community Tuesday, November 22, 2022: Area X.O, the R&D complex for next-generation smart mobility, autonomy, and connectivity founded and…
Are you a technology company looking to scale internationally? Want to confidently enter new markets, reduce financial risks and grow your business? Click here to register The Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade is hosting a webinar with…
The story of Geenees starts with a baby shower that took place in 2017.“Hosting this event, I ended up getting the same gift four times,” Libi Berenson, the founder and CEO of the company, tells ventureLAB. “It caused a light…
KITCHENER, ONT., Dec. 6, 2022 – PEER Group, the largest supplier of innovative factory automation software products for the semiconductor industry, has announced the appointment of Linda Gregorio as the company’s new Director, People and Culture. With a professional career…
There are few things more panic-inducing than losing track of a beloved pet. It’s something Payal Singh, the co-founder and CEO of MapleWiz, knows all too well. Leo, her family’s pooch (who they rescued from a kill shelter in 2019), bolted…
More than 600 municipalities in Canada have declared a climate emergency. Many are now working to tackle the issue head on — together. The residents of Canmore, Alta., are all too familiar with the impacts of the climate crisis. In…
Bummer Let’s get it out of the way: November was a rough month for tech workers globally, and the Canadian and Waterloo Region communities felt the pain, too. While international behemoths like Twitter, Meta and Amazon were each laying off…
On Thursday, December 1st, five scaling companies across a diverse cross-section of regional sectors had the opportunity to make their pitch in front of a group of seasoned investors, industry experts, and celebrity judge, Vivian Kaye. The scaleups are part…
Benchmarking environmental impact with a long-term goal of helping companies with their waste reduction, Waste Solutions Canada has spent it’s 15 years in business innovating for impact on business and the environment. As a leading outsourced partner for waste and…
Paystone, a leading financial technology (FinTech) company, today announced that it was ranked on the Enterprise Fast 15 list, an award category in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50™ program, Canada’s preeminent technology awards program. In addition, Paystone ranked on the…
There’s no such thing as “overnight success” in business. It may seem that way when a relatively unknown company suddenly receives widespread recognition for a successful endeavour, but you don’t see the bumps and scrapes the company endured along the…
A new initiative from the Canadian Cancer Society and MaRS aims to make screening more readily available to underserved communities. Sonie Flores, a nurse in Winnipeg, is intimately familiar with the toll cancer exacts. She moved from Toronto 10 years…
Marking the third edition this year, TechAlliance of Southwestern Ontario has selected 12 finalists for Limitless 2023 awards through a panel of esteemed adjudicators. This comes after an open public call for nominations across four different award categories from the…
Mental health affects us all, but as Eve Staszczyszyn, a co-founder of Compass tells ventureLAB, young people aged 15 to 24 are more likely to experience mental illness and substance use disorders than any other age group. Having seen first-hand…
If you’re looking for a new role this month, look no further. Plenty of homegrown tech startups are seeking talent this December. Pure Facts What it does: Pure Facts is a financial services data company that helps clients grow…
Setting standards to govern the sharing and use of data is a crucial step in protecting privacy, building trust and using artificial intelligence for good, says Anil Arora, Canada’s Chief Statistician and head of Statistics Canada. “We are in a…
From new ideas to address climate change to the ethics of using AI to help humans make decisions, the December calendar has great events for everyone in Canadian tech. Discover solutions to our climate problems MaRS Climate Impact is…
Healthcare is important and we all depend on it. Governments want an efficient system that operates at a low cost. Healthcare practitioners want to provide the best level of service possible while minimizing clinician burnout. Patients want access to quality…
Posted in Blog, Thrive in Ottawa Nov 25, 2022 Even as the calendar year slows to a halt, December can still be a time of great activity. Whether you’re reminiscing about wins you’ve had in a productive year gone by,…
Original Article by Anthony Urciuoli, insauga.com, November 22, 2022 A master’s grad from Hamilton’s McMaster University is working to solve the problem of delays in emergency room triage across Ontario. Ron Galaev founded EmergConnect — a centralized digital platform that allows patients…
2022 Hi5 Contestants left to right, Gihan Foneska, Braden Dennis, Tina Safaei, Chris James, and Barca Fattal BURLINGTON, ON., November 24th, 2022 – On Thursday, Haltech Regional Innovation Centre hosted its 6th annual Hi5 Pitching Competition. Returning in-person for the first time in two…
The seeds for Colorful Zone were planted in 2011, when Negar Yaghoobi founded her first startup, RangiRangi, in Iran. “My goal was to improve the mental well-being of women, and the results showed me that I could take my vision further,”…
Original Article by Stefan Palios, betakit.com, November 22, 2022 For generations, Ontario has been a key player in North American automaking. It now has the opportunity to lead as the industry moves toward electrification—but only if innovators have the right…
Nov 23, 2022 In our monthly Trending in Tech blog series, we offer up an inside look at tech companies in Ottawa that are growing and creating new opportunities for tech talent. Recently, locally-based cybersecurity software and services provider Field…
It takes more than garbage-collecting robots to build a great place to live. There’s nothing like that new city smell. The idea of wiping the slate clean and building a community from scratch is so appealing that around 150 of…
As of this writing, Twitter is still working, even with the World Cup having kicked off. Apparently that’s a challenging event for the platform, from a load perspective, at the best of times. And, uhh, it’s not the best of…
When you think of growth within a business, what do you think of? Often, we find ourselves reaching for accolades and successes as a measure of growth, but growth can be found in smaller but equally impactful steps. Education, connections,…
MARKHAM, Ontario-ventureLAB is excited to announce the appointment of James Meddings to its Board of Directors. James joins a dynamic group of founders, industry leaders and experts with decades of experience, to elevate ventureLAB’s growth and strengthen its position as…
Eldon Sprickerhoff is in a reflective mood. After running hard for more than two decades, he’s taking a step back from the day-to-day operations of eSentire, the internationally successful cybersecurity company he founded 21 years ago this month. “It’s a…
From pollution-hunting satellites to textiles made from fungi, clean technologies are moving far beyond wind farms and solar panels. The scenes coming out of the recent COP27 climate summit in Egypt were all-too familiar. There were dire climate predictions and…
Commuting to and from work can be challenging for many various reasons especially for those living in regions with limited public transportation options. Thankfully there are startups like Hop In Technologies that recognize the correlation between transportation and employment. With…
We are excited to announce that Wavy has raised a CAD $2.5 million seed round to establish our platform as the place where culture happens. This round was led by Laconia Capital, with participation from Garage Capital, Two Small Fish Ventures, Archangel, Equation Angels, Backbone Angels, and…
Learn how to grow crops without soil By Lori McDonald • 09 Nov, 2022 Hydroponics is a method of growing plants without soil, and an upcoming workshop will teach you everything you need to know about how to get started.…
They sound like founders in any promising tech community – articulate, passionate and optimistic. And then the wail of an air-raid siren interrupts the interview and sends everyone scrambling down the stairs to the bomb shelter. Dan Herman’s latest video…
MEDIA RELEASE via Natural Resources Canada WINDSOR, ON, Nov. 10, 2022 – Harnessing Canada’s immense clean energy potential requires transformational investments to modernize our electricity grid. At the same time, climate change is having impacts on the reliability of grids that…
WINDSOR, ON – Given that Hybrid Work Mode is going to be a trend, GaiaDigits continues to innovate with the launch of Gaia Workspace Calendar View, a new feature that enables admins and users complete room & desk booking with…
WATERLOO, ONT. (November 17, 2022) – iGUIDE, an industry leader in 3D tours and floor plans for residential real estate, has announced today a partnership with HouseLens, an on-demand real estate data capture and visual marketing company. “We’ve been excited…
Original Article by Rick Young, ScoreGolf, November 17, 2022 Maybe it’s premature for me to dust off music journalist Jon Landau’s famous, “I saw rock and roll’s future and its name is Bruce Springsteen” quote from 1974, but I’m not…
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