News

The maker movement — a global do-it-yourself culture of people who make things — has inspired a group of Waterloo Engineering students to create a soldering iron that’s safe and easy to use.

“We specifically designed the Solder Otter for the Maker Market,” said Vanessa Guido, a systems design engineering student and chief executive officer of Solder Otter. “We’ve had a lot of great feedback on our product.” [Read more]

Pebble is at it again.

The smartwatch company founded by Waterloo engineering grad Eric Migicovksy has set a new record for a Kickstarter campaign with the launch of its latest smartwatch, the Pebble Time.

Waterloo’s award winners are:

Chris Eliasmith, Professor in the Departments of Philosophy, Systems Design Engineering and Computer Science and Canada Research Chair in Theoretical Neuroscience wins the NSERC John C. Polanyi Award that honours an individual or team whose Canadian-based research has led to a recent outstanding advance in the natural sciences or engineering. [Read more]

SYDE professor Hamid Tizhoosh's talk on " BIG Data, Medical Imaging and Machine Intelligence". [More]

Singspiel, a music learning mobile app, today announced the completion of a $350,000 seed round led by the MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund.[Read more]

One of our current 4B students, Amin Ghafelehbashi was selected into the 2015 Class of Young Entrepreneurs by The Next 36. 

"Hard problems need a team of great people to solve them. This is one of the main reasons I love being in a technical field. I get to work with exceedingly interesting and smart people every day, both here at Waterloo and around the world." - Stacey Scott

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Vidyard took another giant leap forward today with news it has raised an $18-million funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, the venerable Silicon Valley firm that has backed LinkedIn, Pinterest, Shopify and other major successes.

The Series B round, joined by existing investors iNovia Capital, OMERS Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and SoftTech VC, will enable Vidyard to keep building on its lead in the fast-growing video marketing software space [Read  more].

Meet Singspiel, a fourth-year design project turned music education startup.

Having just earned their degree in Systems Design from the University of Waterloo, the duo behind Singspiel has already covered ample ground in the startup world. Along with winning an award for best entrepreneurship at the Engineering Symposium at the University of Waterloo, Singspiel has also incubated with Communitech Hub’s VeloCity Garage before joining the accelerator track with JOLT at MaRS.