Waterloo Startups List

Map of the local innovation industry.
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Kevin Lu

Software Engineer at ExcitEm; Worked at @amazon, @if-we-1; UWaterloo Software Engineer Grad (Dean's Honours List)

ID 125106

Omar Ismail

2-time founder, YC alum, Founder @ @streak.com
http://omarismail.com

ID 410157

William Zhou

Co-Founder Chalk.com • Studied at @university-of-waterloo • @lightspeed-venture-partners and @the-kairos-society Fellow
http://williamzhou.com

ID 650156

Chad Chabot

Full-stack web dev with a talent for usability.

ID 510496

Elijah Andrews

Currently studying Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Previous internships focused on web application development in Ruby and Python

ID 90116

Konrad Listwan-Ciesielski

Co-Founder Kira Talent • Worked at @minted, @nuance-communications • Studied at @university-of-waterloo • Next36 Entrepreneur

ID 333246

Eric Evenchick

Waterloo EE Student and Hackaday writer. Worked at Tesla Motors and CrossChasm Technologies. I build hardware, software, and the stuff in between.

ID 72078

Jamie Murai

Previously co-founder at @couple (YC W12). Y Combinator alum. Studied Economics and Psychology at the University of Waterloo.
http://blog.jamiemurai.com

ID 308701

Matthew Charters

Worked at @well-ca, @research-in-motion

ID 68008

Jack Read

Web developer and product guy. Created Recipeasly. Formerly of @kik-interactive and @unata .

ID 88932

Joe Rideout

Co-Founder of @relay. Former Product Manager on Google+ Mobile and Software Engineer on Mobile Search/Gmail. Waterloo CS grad.

ID 120532

Marcelo Cortes

Worked on Mobile Google+ and hangouts. Founded Freepoint Inc and launched www.pictoreo.com Working at Square

ID 169605

Patrick Hannigan

Founder @ticketlabs (YCS14) • Studied at @university-of-waterloo

ID 353646

Adam Saunders

Co-Founder of @piinpoint. University of Waterloo Geomatics and Computer Science. Developer of data visualization and location analytics tools.

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Milan Vrekic

Zora Cofounder, First Executive Director @volta, Cofounder @titanfile, Maritimer.
http://www.milanvrekic.com

ID 849

Ali Asaria

CEO of Tulip Retail. Founder of @well-ca. Creator of BrickBreaker. Software Developer. Ecommerce Guy.

ID 101718

Daniel Craig Stuart

Investor

Founder @gonabit, @bidvine • Worked at @livingsocial, @adgear • Investor @dash, @flashprops • Studied at @university-of-toronto, @wilfrid-laurier-university
http://www.danstuart.me

ID 11456

Joseph Fung

Investor

CEO of @tribehr (Sold to NetSuite 2013), CEO of @lewis-media (Sold 2009), CEO @onmyblock-ca, and Co-Founder @simple-machines-forum. UWaterloo Computer Engineer.
http://www.josephfung.ca

ID 108987

Eric Gerlach

Software Developer. @tribehr Engineering Manager. Maker. Hacker. Self-diagnosed wantreprenuer. Community enthusiast. Political wonk. Geek of all trades.

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Scott Greenberg

Developer Relations @thalmic. Follow to get the latest details of the @thalmicdev program and how to develop with Myo!

ID 66661

Ben Morris

VP Engineering at ArtBarn Labs

ID 176122

Naman Kumar

Entrepreneur. Designer + Engineer, University of Waterloo
http://www.namank.com/resume

ID 71590

Matthew Miner

CEO of Lumos. I dig game development and filmmaking.

ID 319652

Jeffrey Tong

Founder HearthStats • Worked at @procter-gamble-2, @gopexo • Studied at @university-of-waterloo
http://extra.io

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Brent Lintner

Pensive, entrepreneurial biped with a strong technical background, and a focus on web based tech.

ID 142272

John Kor

CTO and Co-founder @Edvisor.io • @techstars alumnus • Founder @mysnowbuddy • Consultant @avanade • Junior Lead @airg • Slacker at @simon-fraser-university

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Kurt DaCosta

Founder @woof • Worked at @niteroll • Studied at @mcmaster-university

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Michael Stark

Studied at @wilfrid-laurier-university, built amazing Tire Pressure Monitoring System, Consulted, Founded @dateonfire

ID 33526

Sergei Bezborodko

Software Engineer @rollbar. Cofounder @goosechase. Bachelor of Computer Science at the @university-of-waterloo

ID 267298

John A. G. Dick

Senior Scientist @nicoya-lifesciences starting in October. PhD in Nanotech @imperialcollege in London. M.Eng and B.Eng in Chem Eng @McGillU

ID 78036

Gareth MacLeod


http://blog.garethmacleod.com

ID 68272

Gaurav Mali

Founder Gratious • Worked at @amazon, @artbarn • Studied at @university-of-waterloo
http://www.gauravmali.com/thoughts/

ID 76114

Dan Lussier

PhD candidate at University of @oxford-university in Mechanical Engineering as Rhodes Scholar. Teacher and strong generalist engineer who can code.
http://www.kezboard.ca/blog

ID 497910

Ali Dinani

Software Engineer at @careguide

ID 29406

Lahiru Lakmal Priyadarshana

Co Founder, CEO @steamblocks • Studied at @university-of-westminster-uk
http://blog.soundofcode.com

ID 204680

Jayson Rhynas

Founder LeafNotes • BCS @university-of-waterloo

ID 110565

Xitij Ritesh Patel

Founder of @taab, simplifying mobile payments. Waterloo ElecEng & CompEng graduate. Master's student at Toronto. Second software startup after UW.
http://www.xitjipatel.com/

ID 62446

Barbara Macdonald

Self-unemployed developer looking for adventure in a creative workplace!
http://barbaramacdonald.ca

ID 638615

Joey Pereira

Waterloo CS, lover of networks and security, self-acclaimed linux guru. Determined to develop a functional OS kernel and reverse engineer everything I touch.

ID 59878

Erik Kalviainen

Serial entrepreneur including a successful acquisition /w @productwiki. Currently working @google as a @product_manager. Focused on @consumer-internet and @mobile-2.

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Earl Oliver


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Jay El-Kaake

@SweetTooth co-founder, eCommerce advocate, #Magento engineer, @CodingForACure, Travel lover, and Entrepreneur
http://blog.jayelkaake.com

ID 624116

Chinmay Amin

Computer Engineering student at University Of Waterloo. Mobile Engineering and Embedded systems enthusiast. Love hack-a-thons and open source projects.

ID 161904

Philip Kirkbride

Multimedia graduate, managed the website and built a cross-platform mobile app at Ontario Sheep. Now doing contract website design and building apps.
https://PhilipK.ca

ID 51757

Juil Yoon

Jack of all trades, Master of none

ID 493942

John Zupancic

Studied at @university-of-waterloo, @wilfrid-laurier-university

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Kartik Talwar


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Pilwon Huh

Investor

Founder @stockpad • Full-stack Software Engineer, Skydiver from Canada • Worked at @scotia-capital, @td-securities • Studied at @university-of-waterloo

ID 606541

Colin Armstrong

Waterloo Computer Engineering, Entrepreneur & Full-Stack Software Developer

ID 267695

Alison Lee

Studies Nanotechnology Engineering and Knowledge Integration @university-of-waterloo . Works at @Nicoya Lifsciences. Athlete, traveller, problem-solver.

ID 110801

Irvanjit Singh Gill

CompEng @university-of-waterloo • Interned @vectorface @vitalhub @bnotions @ibm • Tech, books, music
http://irvanjit.wordpress.com

ID 266723

Ryan Denomme

Founder and CEO @nicoya-lifesciences. Studied Nanotechnology and Mechanical Engineering @university-of-waterloo.

ID 482184

Anton Shevchenko

University of Waterloo Honors Computer Science Co-op student. Graduating in 2019. Fast learner, competent and team worker.

ID 379101

David Dufour

Waterloo Master's Student working in Machine Learning

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Michael Shi

Founder Gratious • Worked at @zynga, @amazon • Studied at Software Engineering @university-of-waterloo

ID 74836

Siwei Yang

Student at @university-of-waterloo

ID 406658

Lesia Nalepa

Front end developer and designer. Engineering student at @university-of-waterloo
https://medium.com/@lesianalepa

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Salman Tariq Mirza

Diagnosed with OCD (Obsessive Coding Disorder), student at University of Waterloo.

ID 446991

Zhengkun Shang

University of Waterloo CS, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, attention to details, and passion on learning

ID 404489

Daniel Que

Computer Science student at the University of Waterloo

ID 442881

Andrew Kinzie

Founder @funraisers-ca • Studied at @university-of-waterloo

ID 519196

Mike Kovacevic

Waterloo New Grad in 2014; Web developer since freshman year highschool; Worked at SAP

ID 236187

Azad Salahli

Active contributor to ReviewBoard. Worked at @fora, @bookneto. Studying CS at University of Waterloo. IOI 2011 bronze medalist.

ID 699592

Tom Robinson

Passionate about greate code, which leads to great software.

ID 485042

Jonathan Estrella

Waterloo Geomatics, experience with Java, Python, MySQL, and ArcGIS

ID 688271

Yicun Wu

Waterloo CS new grad; Worked at Facebook, Oracle

ID 139214

Maxwell Brodie

Co-founder @121writing on a mission to demystify writing. Incubated by @imaginek12. Prev Kira Talent @ Next36, uWaterloo for CS and Knowledge Integration.

ID 328386

Sefunmi Osinaike

Worked at @fora

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Ryan Erb


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Avie Seegobin

Worked on both software engineering and QA teams. Passion for development; currently developing Android app as self-study and working as Ruby on Rails Developer

ID 503876

Roman Sanine

Computing & BBA Double Degree | Developed numerous WebApps | UI&Graphic Design | Full-Stack
http://www.romansanine.com/blog

ID 394434

Daniel Hadi

Embedded software developer • Worked at @blackberry-2 • Studied at @university-of-waterloo

ID 78405

Sid Bhambhani

Integrity Tactical Services Manager at PTC

ID 172236

Michael Stark

Worked at @webotics • Studied at @wilfrid-laurier-university

ID 531774

Brett Willemsen

Project Lead at Pravala Networks. Started a startup in University focused on mobile and web technology. Full stack JavaScript developer.
http://twitter.com/bzmwillemsen

ID 777408

Alessandro Segala

8 years of involvement in IT. Co-founded 3 startups. Business & coding. UWaterloo MBET, Bocconi BBA.

ID 444456

Zack Mullaly

Software engineer. CTO of Artdst.

ID 80669

Titus Soporan

Software Developer at @tawlk LLC. Real-time social search and analysis. Focus on machine learning, NLTK, data mining and sentiment analysis.

ID 80113

Val Neekman

Serial entrepreneur and co-founder at @outsourcefactor. Also a developer with Python / Django / Linux.
http://blog.outsourcefactor.com

ID 472193

David Lee

MEng CE graduate from UBC; Worked at BlackBerry, Motorola and Canadian tech startups.

ID 547418

Rohan Ramakrishna

Worked at @facebook, @lookout, @qualcomm, @pivotal-labs • Honours Computer Science @university-of-waterloo

ID 177803

Brian Jou

Worked at @experiment • Studied at @university-of-waterloo

ID 196253

Ryan Zheng

Founder TeamAtLast, jimport

ID 437985

Adib Roumani

University of Toronto Grad, Proven Team Leader, accomplished / drivien developer

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