Alumni company honoured as ‘best tech startup’

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

A company with strong ties to Waterloo Engineering was recently recognized by an organization dedicated to bringing technology communities together.

DarwinAI, which has developed technology to explain how and why artificial intelligence makes decisions, was named Best Tech Startup at the virtual North American Timmy Awards.

It was one of six awards handed out by Tech in Motion, which was created by IT staffing firm Motion Recruitment, to honour top technology employers.

Based in Waterloo, DarwinAI was founded by Waterloo Engineering professors and alumni Alexander Wong and Javad Shafiee, and alumni Sheldon Fernandez, Arif Virani, Brendan Chwyl and Francis Li.