Entrepreneurship Archives - Waterloo Engineering

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

Entrepreneurship Impact 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

Entrepreneurship Impact 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

Entrepreneurship Unique 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’

Entrepreneurship Our 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

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

Entrepreneurship Our 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

Entrepreneurship Impact 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