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…
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…
What’s the Problem? An entrepreneur is a person who takes a problem that is not being addressed at all (or well enough) and runs with it. To many, entrepreneurship represents the freedom to create new value in the world. While most of the public…
Waterloo’s globally recognized startup program Velocity launched an initiative that aims to help new companies in the health-tech sector access funding and get products and services in the hands of those who need them.
Over the course of the past year, Pronti AI has celebrated many milestones and continues to go from strength to strength.
Velocity alumni MappedIn raises $8.6 million Series A round. The company’s inception dates back more than a decade when CEO and founder Hongwei Liu was an engineering student at the University of Waterloo. Its beginnings were bolstered through $25,000 Velocity funding in 2011.
Leveraging a wealth of pre-existing data, Coastal Carbon is using artificial intelligence and machine learning to measure blue carbon credits for kelp farmers.