To many people, virtual reality (VR) seems as elusive as flying cars or 3D-printed food; but one startup has made VR more fun, realistic, and accessible than ever before, opening a new VR centre in Kitchener. Mirage VR has created the first full body, free roam multiplayer…
Velocity alum Maluuba revealed today they are being acquired by Microsoft. The company’s vision to create literate machines that can think, reason and communicate like humans will be now help Microsoft advance their strategy to democratize AI, and make it valuable and accessible to everyone. With offices in…
Velocity Garage alumni Vidyard, a video marketing platform which enables customers to derive insights into viewer-behavior for marketing automation systems and CRM tools, raised $35M in Series C funding. Founders Michael Litt and Devon Galloway started their journey at the University of Waterloo in 2005 and founded Vidyard in 2010. After working…
Where did the idea for Thalmic Labs come from in the first place? It came from myself and the two other co-founders, we spent some time working on wearable computing during our undergrad at the University of Waterloo and realized this was a super-exciting…
Google and BufferBox announced this morning that effective Friday, November 30, BufferBox will be acquired by Google as part of a stock/cash deal. The acquisition by Google is yet another successful step for the BufferBox team in their amazing startup story. BufferBox was founded in 2011…