After a lot of intense deliberation, we have chosen our finalists for the third VeloCity Venture Fund competition. This term our Waterloo students raised the bar, making it impossible for us to only choose 8 teams to compete. So we changed the game, choosing 10 impressive…
Yesterday afternoon, we proudly awarded $100,000 to the best student-founded startups at the University of Waterloo. It was certainly a difficult decision for our team of judges, comprised of Ali Asaria, CEO and founder of Well.Ca, Ted Livingston, CEO and founder of Kik Interactive…
Josh Bloom, Director of Sales at Facebook Canada, visited VeloCity to educate our students on the This Wednesday, 8 of the University of Waterloo’s best student entrepreneurs will go head-to-head in the second termly VeloCity Venture Fund Competition. The top 4 teams will win…
The press release is now finally out there (see below), former VeloCity resident from the Winter of 2009 term has donated $1 million (yes million) to the University of Waterloo that will be used to expand support for student entrepreneurs at the University of…
Cody Fraser the CTO of Shopify recently flew in from Vancouver to stop by VeloCity, along with his fellow co-workers Julie and Jesse, to speak with our students and give them valuable advice. Cody began his talk with a question; why the students in VeloCity wanted…