Impressing a venture capitalist with their business pitches earned two senior-year engineering teams $50,000 each in financial backing.
The evolution of Waterloo’s entrepreneurial ecosystem over the last decade is one of the University’s most celebrated achievements.
C100’s Fellowship program highlights Canada’s most promising early-stage entrepreneurs. The 2021 cohort features four University of Waterloo connections. From Velocity alumni to chief technology officers, many of these individuals are the face of Canada's future entrepreneurial sector. The University of Waterloo fosters an entrepreneurial atmosphere, providing many incubation and acceleration programs, connection, support systems and much more.
To Dr. Louise Schaper, Amazon’s plan to start selling health-care services is a gamechanger.
“If you can afford to pay for it great, but what happens to people who can’t pay for private health care?” she asked.
Nick Anapolsky knows something about motivation.
The Recreation and Leisure Studies grad had a storied career in Warriors football, breaking both the provincial and national records for single-season receptions in his final year. Since then, he’s built a successful business and nurtured it through the pandemic. And in an effort to help his clients stay connected and inspired during the lockdown, he attempted — and broke — a Guinness world record.
All six teams that earned $10,000 each at engineering's pitch contest developed creative solutions to challenges ranging from making rock climbing safer to providing spinal cord injury patients with increased mobility.
The winning teams of senior-year engineering students were narrowed down from 10 who took three minutes each to explain their projects to a panel of judges in the Norman Esch Entrepreneurship Awards for Capstone Design contest held remotely on April 8.
Chris Goddard (BA ’01) is the co-founder of Craft Brand Co., a Toronto agency that partners with local brewers to offer globally renowned brews to Ontario beer lovers. In 2019, Craft Brand Co. launched their online store, Bodega, where you can order limited release brews, exclusive offerings and all the classics – and have them delivered anywhere in Ontario.
Every year, more than 4.5 million people need blood transfusions in Canada and the United States. That amounts to about 36,000 RBC units per day for the US alone. Transfusions are needed for trauma response, surgery and cancer care. The medical system relies on a complex system of blood donations to meet that need. Without a sufficient, reliable supply of safe blood, the health-care system comes into jeopardy.
As we celebrate International Women’s Day, join us to honour seven alumni who have inspired, empowered and changed lives. Read on to meet women from Waterloo who are making headlines and inspiring the next generation of female leaders.
Two ambitious School of Accounting and Finance (SAF) alumni were bold enough to start a venture amid a tumultuous global economic environment.
> Adnan Khan (MAcc ’17)
> Fineas Tatar (BAFM ’20)