Innovative student teams representing University of Waterloo's diverse and varied student body are diligently preparing to showcase their entrepreneurial prowess at the Velocity Pitch Competition semi-finals on March 13 & 14. This event will be a preview of what is to come in the highly anticipated finale on April 4 at Theatre of the Arts. 

Tenomix raises $2 million, all-Canadian, oversubscribed seed round to further develop its robot which uses artificial intelligence and ultrasound to enhance the accuracy of cancer staging.

Evercloak raises $2million seed round to scale its first clean-tech product: membranes to enable energy efficient building cooling.

Float secures $50 million in financing from Silicon Valley Bank to scale its charge card program. Co-founders Ruslan Nikolaev and Griffin Keglevich joined Velocity in 2019, where Float was founded, and recruited Rob Khazzam, the former general manager at Uber Canada, as the third co-founder and CEO.

Meet the ten Up Start recipients commercializing products ranging from advancements in cancer screening and time saving software for emergency room nurses to increased efficiencies in construction and for electric vehicles.

ICSPI's new, automated atomic force microscope is set to accelerate scientific discovery by making the nanoworld visible in minutes.

Using a tiny camera invented by Vena Medical that provides physicians with a real-time, full colour view of inside the brain’s blood vessels, doctors at The Ottawa Hospital were able to diagnose and treat a patient who was suffering from multiple strokes, a world’s first.

1Mentor has been acquired by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), the world’s largest global higher education network.

Reflecting on 2023