Supporting founders during the COVID-19 pandemic
Velocity hasn’t stopped helping founders. But we have modified how we are helping. (This is a special COVID-19 pandemic update blog.)
Velocity hasn’t stopped helping founders. But we have modified how we are helping. (This is a special COVID-19 pandemic update blog.)
Sunday March 8th marked International Women’s Day. A day for people around the world to come together to show their support for women and the commitment to reaching gender equality. This is a topic very near to the heart of Concept as tech and…
Last week, students from the University of Waterloo pitched their early-stage startup ideas at the Concept $5K Semi-Finals hoping to be one of the 10 teams selected to move on to the Concept $5K Finals on . This competition is the successor to the Velocity Fund Finals…
The brand new Velocity Health Tech Fund will make investments of $50,000 to support very early-stage founders working in areas such as medical devices, therapeutics, diagnostics, digital health, or emerging health sector spaces.
Top 10 finalists competed for investments from two Velocity pre-seed investment funds at Velocity Fund Pitch Competition Winter 2020. Winners include a health tech solution that can rapidly diagnose illnesses such as novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
Adrien Côté steps into a new role, championing the vision for Canada’s most productive startup incubator In the world of startups, the University of Waterloo’s incubator Velocity is a giant. Velocity has helped launch over 300 companies with a remarkably vast array of business…
Adrien Côté steps into a new role, championing the vision for Canada’s most productive startup incubator. In the world of startups, the University of Waterloo’s incubator Velocity is a giant. Velocity has helped launch over 300 companies with a remarkably vast array of business…
In Fall 2019, Ribbit was crowned one of the winning teams of the Concept $5K Grant. We caught up with Jeremy Chan-Hao Wang, a co-founder also completing his Ph.D. in Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering. We talked to him about his experience with the competition…
From ideation to product development, Concept is where University of Waterloo students and faculty can find the support they need to bring a concept to reality. With that, we are so excited to share our first cohort of Concept Science teams whose projects show…
You might have caught a glimpse of the colourful signs around SCH or heard talk of last term’s Concept $5K Finals, but what exactly is Concept by Velocity and what have we been up to on campus? In September, we burst onto the scene…