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Alert Labs makes sense of utility bills while watching for leaks

Entrepreneurship By Megan Vander Woude|January 18, 2019
Founded by three University of Waterloo alumni, Alert Labs ensures its IoT devices are foolproof, making it easy to monitor utilities in homes and businesses  
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Scooping up sweet success

Entrepreneurship By Carol Truemner|December 28, 2018
How a Waterloo chemical engineering alumnus, who took food process engineering courses at University of Leeds, is now scooping up sweet success  
Co-op housing startup PadPiper founder Jack Forbes

Startup provides a pipeline to co-op rental housing

Entrepreneurship By Carol Truemner|November 30, 2018
With roots as a Capstone Design project, co-op housing startup PadPiper offers a better rental process for both students and landlords  

X-ray innovation now in pilot study with cancer patients

EntrepreneurshipImpact Research By Brian Caldwell|November 23, 2018
New technology developed by Waterloo Engineering startup could help save lives by enabling widespread screening for early detection of lung cancer  

Elucid Labs uses AI in imaging device to detect skin cancer

EntrepreneurshipImpact Research By Carol Truemner|August 10, 2018
Medical startup Elucid Labs has developed cutting-edge imaging technology that has the potential to detect skin cancer without leaving a mark  

Bargain hunting app downloaded 40 million times – and counting

Entrepreneurship By Brian Caldwell|August 6, 2018
Flipp app has been downloaded 40 million times since 2014 launch, now displays flyers from largest retailers, such as Walmart, Target, Kroger, Macys  
Capstone Design award winners Sanhar Balachandran, Sadruddin Hashmani, Bainian Liu and Nabeel Shahid

Capstone Design awards help turn projects into businesses

EntrepreneurshipUnique Education By Beth Cotter|April 18, 2018
Winning teams for this year are hoping to continue in the tradition of successful Waterloo startups including Thalmic Labs, Athos and Voltera  

Calling all alumni to come home and ‘change the world’

EntrepreneurshipOur Icons By Brian Caldwell|March 28, 2018
Kik founder and former Waterloo Engineering student Ted Livingston is looking for help to turn Waterloo Region into a technology powerhouse  
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From electric cars to Morning Recovery hangover prevention

Entrepreneurship By Brian Caldwell|March 14, 2018
Sisun Lee quit his job at Tesla to launch a startup company with a drink that promises to ease the day-after misery of too much booze  
Avidbot founders Faizan Sheikh and Pablo Molina

Avidbots Neo – the industrial cleaning robot

Entrepreneurship By Carol Truemner|February 28, 2018
Neo is the creation of Avidbots co-founders Pablo Molina and Faizan Sheikh, both alumni of Waterloo’s mechatronics engineering program.  

Researchers bring expertise to supply chains powered by AI

EntrepreneurshipOur Icons By Brian Caldwell|February 21, 2018
The digitization of supply chains will require integration of AI, robotics, autonomous systems, data analytics, mobile connectivity and the IoT  

Paper strips make water testing fast, cheap and easy

EntrepreneurshipImpact Research By Brian Caldwell|February 7, 2018
Simple system could save lives, prevent illness in the developing world by enabling routine checks for E. coli contamination of drinking water sources  
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