Google purchases Waterloo Engineering start-up
Waterloo Engineering success story BufferBox Inc. has been acquired by Google. Company founders and mechatronics engineering alumni Mike McCauley, Aditya Bali and Jay Shah sold their company for an undisclosed amount. BufferBox was created by the trio as their fourth-year design project to provide a reliable and secure parcel delivery alternative. In January 2012 they launched what is believed to be the first parcel delivery kiosk service in Canada in the Student Life Centre at the University of Waterloo.