Entrepreneurship

It’s a typical day. You pay for your morning coffee with a tap of your debit card, e-transfer money to your son at university, settle all your household bills and even negotiate a new mortgage online. Sure, you’ve been known to gripe about banking service fees, but who hasn’t? And so it goes for much of the developed world - daily life involves interactions with some global financial system - and it’s something we take for granted.

Future plans and past achievements were highlighted when hundreds of students, staff, faculty members, alumni and donors gathered for the 2016 Waterloo Engineering Awards Dinner.

The event that recognized top students also celebrated distinguished graduates in four categories and a Waterloo Region family with a record of generous support for the Faculty and the University.

Waterloo’s Hyperloop team and their pod, nicknamed Goose 1, will make their way home from a California competition this week bolstered by feedback from SpaceX judges and competitors — and looking to the future.

The spirit of risk-taking at the University of Waterloo paid dividends today when federal cabinet minister Bardish Chagger announced $32.6 million in funding for the new Engineering 7 building now under construction on the east campus.

“I’m confident that this new facility will lead to discoveries that will bring significant benefits to our country,” said Chagger, the Waterloo MP who serves as both Government House Leader and the Minister of Small Business and Tourism.

University of Waterloo engineering alumni who founded startups in their graduating year have been named to this year's Forbes 30 Under 30 list for innovations in the fields of Consumer Technology as well as Marketing and Advertising.

Celebrate with us. Whether you're a current student, an alumnus, faculty member or staff, donor, supporter or community member, you are an important part of the University of Waterloo story.

In 2017, the University of Waterloo celebrates 60 years of innovation. When it was founded July 1, 1957, no one knew that a campus made up of two temporary buildings would have such a lasting impact on the world.

 Velocity is an entrepreneurship program at Waterloo that provides the knowledge, workspace, community and funding that startups need to succeed.

December 6 is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women in Canada. Established in 1991 by the Canadian government, the day marks the anniversary of the murders in 1989 of 14 young women at l'École Polytechnique de Montréal. They died because they were women.

A company recently named one of the top female-founded tech startups is among the big winners at the Velocity Fund Finals held today at the University of Waterloo. Velocity is a comprehensive entrepreneurship program at Waterloo.