Founders from various stages recently united for an overdue evening of celebration and networking. It marked a long-awaited reunion for some, their first return to Velocity since 2021, and an opportunity to connect with new members.

Grand River Hospital Foundation's Care Never Stops Week (May 23-28) included the programming event Health Innovation Challenge in partnership with Velocity and the University of Waterloo with prizes of $6,000.

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.

Mitcas recognizes the efforts of Jeremy Wang through his company Ribbit, co-founded with fellow aerospace engineer and pilot Carl Pigeon, which is developing self-flying planes to transport food and other necessities to communities and regions with limited or no road access.

Ribbit and 1Mentor are among 88 companies that have joined velocity since the start of the pandemic.

A record number of attendees attended Velocity's kick off mixer.

Velocity leadership and founders took to the stage at the MaRS Impact Health, a two-day conference in Toronto.

Ontario mayors toured Velocity and met with founders from Cobionix, Ceragen, ALT TEX, and Equator.

University of Waterloo students proposed sustainability solutions at last month's Velocity 5K pitch competition. Three out of four finalists created startups that will help the environment by defying the current trends of climate change, excessive waste, and other global sustainability issues.