Solving the region’s most pressing health care challenges will require community collaboration, and that’s exactly what was on display at several events celebrating Grand River Hospital Foundation’s Care Never Stops Week from May 23 to May 28. The programming included a Health Innovation Challenge…
Landscape Direct, a new Velocity company, is on a mission to connect growers directly to gardeners. It’s Canada’s first fully online garden centre and it was founded by brothers Blake and Evan Patterson who grew up working in their family’s garden centre in Barrie, Ontario.
The Mitacs award was presented at its annual awards event at the University of Waterloo Jeremy Wang (PhD ’22) is a change agent entrepreneur. The Mitcas award recognizes his efforts through his company Ribbit, co-founded with fellow aerospace engineer and pilot Carl Pigeon, which…
Velocity companies reflect on starting and scaling their businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic When COVID-19 restrictions started rolling out in March 2020, workplaces were forced to quickly adapt from in-person operations to virtual. This meant big changes for Velocity and the companies operating out…
Close to 200 students from across all University of Waterloo faculties attended Velocity’s Innovation Ecosystem Mixer yesterday, a chance for the entrepreneurial-minded to network and learn about Velocity, and other departments in the University entrepreneurship ecosystem. Velocity and representatives from Grebel Peace Incubator, GreenHouse,…
Velocity leadership and founders took to the stage at the MaRS Impact Health, a two-day conference in Toronto. The event gathered the community of Canadian health innovators, giving a voice to founders who are transforming healthcare technology, solving the most important issues facing the…
Products whose sustainability impact will be felt globally developed in downtown Kitchener and the University of Waterloo campus. Velocity companies are developing products that have the potential to transform food waste into textiles, enable crops to grow in the ocean, nanofilms that curb greenhouse…
Mayors of Mississauga, Burlington, Pickering, Markham and Kitchener, Ontario toured Velocity today and met with founders from Cobionix, Ceragen, ALT TEX and Equator. The Mayors are part of Ontario’s Big City Mayors (OBCM), a non-profit organization comprised of 29 mayors of Ontario cities with…
Velocity moves into the 90,000 square foot Innovation Arena later this April 13, 2023 Premier Doug Ford announced today that the Ontario government is investing $7.5 million in the Innovation Arena — Velocity’s new home on the University of Waterloo’s Health Sciences campus —…
TrainPro nabbed second place and a $5,000 prize in a March Madness-style pitch competition in which 64 student teams from universities across Canada participated. Organized by Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, the competition mimicked the NCAA March Madness basketball competition. But instead of basketball, teams…