Entrepreneurial spirit is in the DNA of our students, faculty, staff and alumni. For hundreds of companies with roots at Waterloo, the talent and energy that thrives here is key to their success.
Operating your computer with a keyboard and mouse is yesterday’s news. Velocity Garage-based startup company Palette, founded by Waterloo Engineering student Calvin Chu (L) and Ashish Bidadi (BASc ’12), is creating customizable tools, including dials, sliders and buttons that click together like Lego to improve user experience, productivity and comfort. Palette is now part of the new Velocity Foundry program.
Waterloo is a magnet for entrepreneurially minded faculty and students. Hundreds of companies, employing thousands, trace their origins to this institution, where their founders were inspired to identify a need, envision a solution and make it a reality. Among them:
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Communication is a critical skill developed in early childhood. When language skills fall behind, there can be lifelong implications. Daniela O’Neill, shown above, imagined a better way to test spoken language development in two- and three-year-old children. A professor of psychology in the Faculty of Arts, she found the support she needed to build and launch the Language Use Inventory at the University of Waterloo. Her assessment tool is now used by speech-language professionals around the world to identify young children in need of help.
