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At the semi-finals, this March, 22 student venture teams pitched their early start-up ideas to a panel of judges. Eight of these teams have been selected as semi-finalists and will have the opportunity to pitch at the Concept $5K finals, for a chance to win one of four $5,000 grants. Four of these ventures are comprised of current and former undergraduate and graduate Conrad School students. Incredible! 

The Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business enthusiastically welcomes a new faculty member: Victor Cui.

Despite the challenges faced in 2021, students, staff and alumni at the Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business continued to demonstrate resilience and accomplished many achievements. Here are a few highlights from the past year.

A startup founded by second-year Waterloo Engineering students just five years ago would have a market capitalization of US $5.16 billion under a proposed merger to make it a publicly traded company.

Embark Trucks, which is based in San Francisco, was launched by former mechatronics engineering students Alex Rodrigues and Brandon Moak to bring autonomous technology to the trucking industry.

Conrad School students continue to be a force to reckoned with on the student pitch competition circuit — both on and off-campus. We are thrilled to share some of the highlights from this fall 2021 term.

Out of all the teams who applied to the fall 2021 Concept $5K, 20 teams were selected to pitch. Of these 20, eight teams emerged as semifinalists. All eight of these teams are comprised of current and former undergraduate and graduate Conrad School students. Our students typically find themselves among these ranks but this term is truly phenomenal!

A financial technology company that was co-founded by a Waterloo Engineering alumnus completed an initial public offering (IPO) this week that valued it at $326 million.

The value of the global media market is expected to reach $2670.66 billion by 2025¹. Increasing her company’s share of this dynamic economy is Master of Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology (MBET) class of 2014 alumna Zoë Share. 

This fall term, Enterprise Co-op students submitted five-minute video pitches for prizes of $5,000 at the Ignition Week pitch competition. Each student video pitch was evaluated by a panel of judges. Meet the fall 2021 pitch winners!

A student project to reduce plastic waste was recently chosen as the Canadian winner of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s (CEC) Youth Innovation Challenge.