Entrepreneurship

As people physically distance and work from home, cyber criminals have taken advantage of this uncertain time to gain access to corporate and personal systems.

In a recent Twitter takeover, Cat Coode (BASc ’01), founder of Binary Tattoo, a full- service data privacy agency, answered some of your online privacy and security questions and offered some tips on how you can stay safe online.

In our recent webinar series, Waterloo alumni share their passions and expertise to support others during this strange time.

In our recent webinar series, Waterloo alumni share their passions and expertise to support others during this strange time.

The Accelerator Centre (AC) recently announced their new COVID-19 Support and Recovery Cohort of its AC JumpStart program, and two Waterloo students, Jaden Pereira and Aaron Paul, were selected to receive $30,000 in seed funding and $10,000 in-kind business supports to accelerate the launch of their startup TyltGo.

The devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic has been felt around the world, claiming lives and putting societies on lockdown. This health crisis quickly turned into an economic crisis as businesses closed and markets tanked, leading many to declare that Canada is officially in a recession.

I graduated from the University of Waterloo in 2008. I was leaving school and entering one of the worst job markets in history.

In our recent webinar series, Waterloo alumni share their passions and expertise to support others during this strange time.

In a world where just about everyone has a smartphone it also means that almost everyone has become an amateur photographer. In 2019, more than 657 billion smartphone photographs were taken – and many of them blurry. But help is on the way. A promising new student venture, Scope, is hoping their invention of a new type of optical zoom lens system with electronically tunable optical power will help people take better photos while reducing the battery use, costs, and processing power of smartphones.

Sometimes, the most difficult times create the best opportunities for impact. In the midst of a global crisis, we’ve heard from dozens of alumni who shared their efforts to support essential workers.

While it can be difficult to capture all of the amazing work Waterloo’s alumni is doing in the face of COVID-19, here are a few of their stories.