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"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.

A 27-year-old University of Waterloo graduate is going toe-to-toe against Google and Apple this year over the best platform for wearable technology.

Eric Migicovsky was warmly received at his alma mater on Tuesday, where the smartwatch pioneer and founder of Pebble was a keynote speaker at the university's Innovation Summit. Read more.

The University of Waterloo Stratford Campus is excited to be an official hub for The Canadian Open Data Experience (CODE) Hackathon.  CODE is the first national Open Data hackathon in Canada – a 48 hour competition where participants compete to build the best app utilizing federal government data from the Canadian Open Data Portal (http://www.data.gc.ca).

When: Friday, February 28, 2014 to Sunday March 2, 2014

Where: University of Waterloo Stratford Campus

Ontario Centres of Excellence’s annual Discovery conference
will again feature the popular Student Video Competition

Join us May 27 & 28

Picture yourself a winner!

Attention young innovators: It's your chance to broadcast your new technology, innovation or start-up idea to the movers and shakers of the science and technology industry, attracting invaluable advice on how to turn your concept into a reality.

Professor Yeow’s main research interests is inventing and developing tools for locating, examining and targeting micro-organisms lurking inside the human body and for providing unprecedented access into its cavities. He does this, he says, by designing devices that are “smaller, more portable, more power-efficient, more sensitive, and potentially longer lasting.” [Full story]