Students from Waterloo Engineering impressed the audience and judges with their business pitches at this week’s Velocity $5k event for aspiring entrepreneurs held at the Student Life Centre.
Eight teams made three-minute presentations and four were declared the winners, with each winning team taking home $5,000. Three of the four winning teams featured engineering students.
AFAIK uses natural language processing techniques to map academic knowledge and recommend personalized learning paths for self-learners based on the concepts they have mastered.
Its team is made up of Orianna Min (mechanical engineering), Zhiying Jiang (mathematics), and Yiqin Dai.
RelayMD is an online platform that helps family doctors find information on medical specialists and navigate the outbound referral process and wait times more efficiently.
Its team is made up of Dhvani Patel (software engineering) and Dr. Ali Qamar, a family physician.
TrainPro helps people get fit faster by providing them with real-time guidance on technique, exercise routine and optimal muscle loading in the gym through the use of smart wearable clothing.
Its team is made up of Shreshth Mehra and Anna Liebenberg, both mechanical engineering students, and Armaan Malik.
The prize money was presented to each team by Dr. Vivek Goel, the University’s president and vice-chancellor.
“Success is not getting to that billion-dollar company — it’s getting these experiences, taking them out into the world,” Goel said. “We all need that entrepreneurial mindset and commitment to solve these problems (and) it takes courage to take these kinds of risks.”
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