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Mathematics and Computer Building, room 2057
University of Waterloo
519-888-4567, Ext. 36421
This semester we saw a group of 12 amazing finalists deliver their deep understanding of important commercial problems affecting a variety of industries.
The teams had 5-minutes to distill and record their pitch detailing the problem they identified. Judges selected winners that were best able to demonstrate they had the most thorough analysis of the problem. With multiple teams emerging as the top picks from the judges, we are excited to annouce three winning teams that each left with $7,500 in R&D funding to finance the development of a solution to the problems they presented!
Congratulations to the winners and all the finalists in this semester’s Quantum Valley Investments® Problem Pitch competition.
Quantum Valley Investments® Problem Pitch winners
The problem:
Team:
Monica Tsang - Arts, Psychology
The problem:
Team:
Hanna Kyowski - MBET, Engineering
The problem:
Team:
Tanisha Ghorpade - Environment & Business, Environment
Aarti Jain - Design, Srishti School of Design
Srishti Malaviya - Design, India Institute of Technology
All finalists presented important and well-researched problems. The Problem Lab commends each of the teams for the time and hard work they put in during the competition process. Please see the news post for the full list of Winter 2021 Quantum Valley Investments® Problem Pitch finalists.
Judges at this semester’s event included UWaterloo's own Dr. Vanessa Schweizer, Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies, and Director, Waterloo Institute for Complexity & Innovation, Vlado Jokic, Co-founder of Footloose Games, InsightNG, and Snowbird.aero, Brian O'Grady, Founder and Principal Consultant at Search Warrant, Tricia Mumby, Co-founder of Mabel's Labels, Gavriel State, Senior Director for Simulation and AI at NVIDIA, and Fred Hosking, Analyst at the Government of Canada.
The Quantum Valley Investments® Problem Pitch Competition is made possible by $300,000 in funding from Mike Lazaridis and Doug Fregin, principals of Quantum Valley Investments® and founders of Blackberry.
Mathematics and Computer Building, room 2057
University of Waterloo
519-888-4567, Ext. 36421
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