Alum calls for a renewed culture of Canadian entrepreneurship
Waterloo Engineering alum and local entrepreneur Kurtis McBride (BASc ’04, MASc ’07) launched his first company, Miovision, in 2005.
The Kitchener-based company uses data-driven insights to help municipalities understand their traffic systems in real-time. It now employs 400 people, including Waterloo co-op students, and its technology is used in 63 countries. McBride, who has founded other businesses and community-focused initiatives, credits much of his success to Canada's golden age of entrepreneurship and stresses the need for Canada to once again celebrate risk-taking and job creation — or fall behind.