Tech in Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario is known for Hardware, quantum, deep engineering talent. Here’s what’s happening in its tech and startup scene this month, and where to plug in.
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- Ontario
- Coordinates
- 43.46°N 80.52°W
Latest Waterloo tech news
- 01SoftwareIQC Colloquium featuring Yidun Wan, Fudan University
- 02SoftwareIQC Math and CS seminar featuring Fangqi Dong
- 03FundingLive event marketing tech startup Hive brings on Frontier Growth with Series BKitchener-Waterloo software firm says majority secondary $27-million USD round “isn’t a venture investment.”
- 04HardwareInside Canada's Quantum Ecosystem: What We Learned from Visiting the University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing
- 05SoftwareIQC Special Seminar featuring David Nadlinger
Did you know?
1984
BlackBerry's founder left university two months before graduating
Mike Lazaridis dropped out of the University of Waterloo in 1984 to start Research In Motion, the company behind the BlackBerry, the smartphone business people relied on for a decade.
Source: CBC News ↗26,000
Waterloo runs one of the world's biggest co-op programs
Over 26,000 University of Waterloo students alternate study terms with paid work terms, across a network of 8,000+ employers in more than 70 countries.
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