Twenty-four teams advance to Velocity Pitch Competition Semi-Finals

University of Waterloo students attend Fireside Chat with entrepreneurs, investors and community leaders Neil Murdoch and Mike Stork. Read key takeaways.

Ground News is breaking through online noise and helping news readers source unbiased news.

Ceragen’s project group just received $1 million through the Weston Family Foundation's Homegrown Innovation Challenge to optimize several aspects of domestic indoor strawberry production - including preserving the summer-quality strawberry taste.

Velocity company FluidAI raises $15 million advancing its mission to prevent postoperative complications.

In Velocity’s Innovation Challenge: Imagining the Future of Finance, in partnership with Bank of Montreal (BMO), Unity and Rogers Communication, 54 students from a cross-section of Waterloo faculties spanned across 12 teams to create dynamic VR solutions to promote healthy financial habits like budgeting, saving and investing.

At the stroke of a keyboard, internet searches can generate a myriad of inspirations. Lookr, a new company at Velocity, University of Waterloo’s startup incubator, takes inspiration beyond the search engine and uses on-location spatial information and artificial intelligence to inspire creators to capture the perfect shot.

Coastal Carbon secures $1.6 million to develop AI-driven sensors for monitoring seaweed biomass, aiding regenerative farming, ocean restoration, and blue carbon initiatives.