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Palitronica Closes Series A Funding Led by BDC, with Three Kings Capital, Frostbite, and Unpopular Funds
Waterloo-based cybersecurity company Palitronica has closed a Series A funding round led by BDC’s Industrial Innovation Venture Fund, with participation from Three Kings Capital, Frostbite, and Unpopular Ventures.
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Steadiwear is Bringing Earthquake Science to Tremor Care
When Emile Maamary and his co-founder Mark Elias met at university in 2014, they discovered they shared something unusual: both of their grandmothers had essential tremor. That personal connection became…
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LoopX Raises $4.05M Seed Round Led by BDC Seed Venture Fund and Orion Industrial Ventures with Participation from Hatch
LoopX is a Physical AI company building all-condition intelligence for mining. Combining thermal vision AI, edge computing, and proprietary models trained on real-world mining data, LoopX helps equipment perceive and…
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How Christy Lee Is Building PatientCompanion One Hospital Unit at a Time
Christy Lee has learned more than she ever expected as a founder. In 2023, Lee and her co-founder launched PatientCompanion, a bedside communication tool designed to make sure nurses have…
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Juggernaut Labs is changing how teams build using AI
AI adoption is driving critical business decisions, but the people doing the work often get little say in how it’s done. Juggernaut Labs co-founders Ken Naku and JB are changing…
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Deaf AI Is Closing the Information Gap for Deaf Travellers
For deaf travelers, a missed airport announcement can mean a missed flight. Deaf AI is changing that. Since joining the Aerospace Accelerator Program, founder Mehdi Masoumi has turned a deeply…
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Protecting People from Exploitation and Harm Using Capacity Clinic’s Evidence-Based Model
When someone can no longer make decisions for themselves, who steps in and how do they know when the time is right? For too long, the answer has depended on…
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AC:Studio Spotlight: Vivek Burhanpurkar, CEO of Cyberworks Robotics
The robots of science fiction novels, television, and movies have inspired our imaginations for decades. From the Maschinenmensch in Metropolis to Lost in Space’s Robby the Robot in the 1960s…
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Groupthink Labs Is Rewiring How Organizations Make Decisions
When organizations make decisions about limited resources, human nature has a habit of getting in the way. Budgets get inflated, information gets hoarded, and the best ideas don't always win.…
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How NetZenAI is Solving the IT Service Desk’s Biggest Bottleneck
Can AI end the frustration of the IT support ticket? NetZenAI founder Shweta Mishra thinks so. Learn how this Waterloo-based startup is giving technicians the context they need to solve…
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Global Impact Creator Spotlight: Lucas Wen Tang and Felix Xu of Lumos
If you’re not a morning person, then there’s probably a morning person in your life who you’d wish was a little less chipper. But what if we told you that…
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Aerospace Accelerator Spotlight: Ali Taleb, CEO of Vigelon
From a childhood surrounded by airplane models to pioneering electric aviation in California, Ali Taleb’s journey has been defined by a singular focus on flight. Now, as the founder of…
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