Aeryon Labs Inc’s flagship product, the Scout, has been turning appreciative heads since the Waterloo company was incorporated in 2007.
On a co-op placement in California, Mike McCauley came home one day to find that he had missed a parcel because he couldn’t be around when it was delivered.
“The more we heard about this problem, the more we saw an opportunity to solve it,’' says Aditya Bali, who with University of Waterloo classmates McCauley and Jay Shah founded BufferBox, a more consumer-friendly delivery system.
“The businesses we accept into the Accelerator Program are already off the ground. What we do here is get them up to full throttle so they can soar into the clouds,” says Tim Ellis, the Accelerator Centre’s CEO.
Mohammed Khanani, a first-year Global Business and Digital Arts (GBDA) student, comes from a family of entrepreneurs in Pakistan. When searching for a program, he wanted a broad range of theoretical learning along with practical experience to prepare him for the demands of business.
As health and wellness becomes a greater concern for society, it's important that our younger generation takes note and changes their lifestyle. Lack of exercise and an unhealthy lifestyle are leading causes of disease and mortality in North America and initiatives to change these statistics are extremely necessary. Lack of motivation, boring routines and costs of a personal trainer can be obstacles to a healthy lifestyle.
The University of Waterloo has focused on entrepreneurship for many years. In conjunction with our co-op program, our students receive a rare experiential learning component. The university’s Enterprise Co-op program encourages students to take their learning even further. E Co-op gives Waterloo students the unique opportunity to navigate their way through starting a business while simultaneously earning a co-op credit.