Waterloo Startups List
Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Waterloo.
William Zhou
Co-Founder Chalk.com • Studied at @university-of-waterloo • @lightspeed-venture-partners and @the-kairos-society Fellow
http://williamzhou.com
Milan Vrekic
Zora Cofounder, First Executive Director @volta, Cofounder @titanfile, Maritimer.
http://www.milanvrekic.com
Chad Chabot
Full-stack web dev with a talent for usability.
Patrick Hannigan
Founder @ticketlabs (YCS14) • Studied at @university-of-waterloo
Eric Gerlach
Software Developer. @tribehr Engineering Manager. Maker. Hacker. Self-diagnosed wantreprenuer. Community enthusiast. Political wonk.
Geek of all trades.
Omar Ismail
2-time founder, YC alum, Founder @ @streak.com
http://omarismail.com
Eric Evenchick
Waterloo EE Student and Hackaday writer. Worked at Tesla Motors and CrossChasm Technologies. I build hardware, software, and the stuff in between.
Jack Read
Web developer and product guy. Created Recipeasly. Formerly of @kik-interactive and @unata .
Joe Rideout
Co-Founder of @relay. Former Product Manager on Google+ Mobile and Software Engineer on Mobile Search/Gmail. Waterloo CS grad.
Adam Saunders
Co-Founder of @piinpoint. University of Waterloo Geomatics and Computer Science. Developer of data visualization and location analytics tools.
Matthew Charters
Worked at @well-ca, @research-in-motion
Kevin Lu
Software Engineer at ExcitEm; Worked at @amazon, @if-we-1; UWaterloo Software Engineer Grad (Dean's Honours List)
Ali Asaria
CEO of Tulip Retail. Founder of @well-ca. Creator of BrickBreaker. Software Developer. Ecommerce Guy.
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
Konrad Listwan-Ciesielski
Co-Founder Kira Talent • Worked at @minted, @nuance-communications • Studied at @university-of-waterloo • Next36 Entrepreneur
Scott Greenberg
Developer Relations @thalmic. Follow to get the latest details of the @thalmicdev program and how to develop with Myo!
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
Marcelo Cortes
Worked on Mobile Google+ and hangouts.
Founded Freepoint Inc and launched www.pictoreo.com
Working at Square
Ben Morris
VP Engineering at ArtBarn Labs
Elijah Andrews
Currently studying Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Previous internships focused on web application development in Ruby and Python
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
Jay El-Kaake
@SweetTooth co-founder, eCommerce advocate, #Magento engineer, @CodingForACure, Travel lover, and Entrepreneur
http://blog.jayelkaake.com
Erik Kalviainen
Serial entrepreneur including a successful acquisition /w @productwiki. Currently working @google as a @product_manager. Focused on @consumer-internet and @mobile-2.
Matthew Miner
CEO of Lumos. I dig game development and filmmaking.
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
Ali Dinani
Software Engineer at @careguide
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.
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
Jeffrey Tong
Founder HearthStats • Worked at @procter-gamble-2, @gopexo • Studied at @university-of-waterloo
http://extra.io
Gareth MacLeod
http://blog.garethmacleod.com
John Kor
CTO and Co-founder @Edvisor.io • @techstars alumnus • Founder @mysnowbuddy • Consultant @avanade • Junior Lead @airg • Slacker at @simon-fraser-university
Kurt DaCosta
Founder @woof • Worked at @niteroll • Studied at @mcmaster-university
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/
Jayson Rhynas
Founder LeafNotes • BCS @university-of-waterloo
Michael Stark
Studied at @wilfrid-laurier-university, built amazing Tire Pressure Monitoring System, Consulted, Founded @dateonfire
Barbara Macdonald
Self-unemployed developer looking for adventure in a creative workplace!
http://barbaramacdonald.ca
Gaurav Mali
Founder Gratious • Worked at @amazon, @artbarn • Studied at @university-of-waterloo
http://www.gauravmali.com/thoughts/
Brent Lintner
Pensive, entrepreneurial biped with a strong technical background, and a focus on web based tech.
Sergei Bezborodko
Software Engineer @rollbar. Cofounder @goosechase. Bachelor of Computer Science at the @university-of-waterloo
Naman Kumar
Entrepreneur. Designer + Engineer, University of Waterloo
http://www.namank.com/resume
Earl Oliver
Lahiru Lakmal Priyadarshana
Co Founder, CEO @steamblocks • Studied at @university-of-westminster-uk
http://blog.soundofcode.com
Azad Salahli
Active contributor to ReviewBoard. Worked at @fora, @bookneto. Studying CS at University of Waterloo. IOI 2011 bronze medalist.
Salman Tariq Mirza
Diagnosed with OCD (Obsessive Coding Disorder), student at University of Waterloo.
Lesia Nalepa
Front end developer and designer. Engineering student at @university-of-waterloo
https://medium.com/@lesianalepa
Kartik Talwar
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
Daniel Que
Computer Science student at the University of Waterloo
Anton Shevchenko
University of Waterloo Honors Computer Science Co-op student. Graduating in 2019. Fast learner, competent and team worker.
Pilwon Huh
Investor
Founder @stockpad • Full-stack Software Engineer, Skydiver from Canada • Worked at @scotia-capital, @td-securities • Studied at @university-of-waterloo
Irvanjit Singh Gill
CompEng @university-of-waterloo • Interned @vectorface @vitalhub @bnotions @ibm • Tech, books, music
http://irvanjit.wordpress.com
Siwei Yang
Student at @university-of-waterloo
Alison Lee
Studies Nanotechnology Engineering and Knowledge Integration @university-of-waterloo . Works at @Nicoya Lifsciences. Athlete, traveller, problem-solver.
David Dufour
Waterloo Master's Student working in Machine Learning
Chinmay Amin
Computer Engineering student at University Of Waterloo. Mobile Engineering and Embedded systems enthusiast. Love hack-a-thons and open source projects.
Michael Shi
Founder Gratious • Worked at @zynga, @amazon • Studied at Software Engineering @university-of-waterloo
Ryan Denomme
Founder and CEO @nicoya-lifesciences. Studied Nanotechnology and Mechanical Engineering @university-of-waterloo.
Juil Yoon
Jack of all trades, Master of none
Zhengkun Shang
University of Waterloo CS, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, attention to details, and passion on learning
Colin Armstrong
Waterloo Computer Engineering, Entrepreneur & Full-Stack Software Developer
Mike Kovacevic
Waterloo New Grad in 2014; Web developer since freshman year highschool; Worked at SAP
Andrew Kinzie
Founder @funraisers-ca • Studied at @university-of-waterloo
John Zupancic
Studied at @university-of-waterloo, @wilfrid-laurier-university
Roman Sanine
Computing & BBA Double Degree | Developed numerous WebApps | UI&Graphic Design | Full-Stack
http://www.romansanine.com/blog
Yicun Wu
Waterloo CS new grad; Worked at Facebook, Oracle
Alessandro Segala
8 years of involvement in IT. Co-founded 3 startups. Business & coding. UWaterloo MBET, Bocconi BBA.
Ryan Erb
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
Jonathan Estrella
Waterloo Geomatics, experience with Java, Python, MySQL, and ArcGIS
Rohan Ramakrishna
Worked at @facebook, @lookout, @qualcomm, @pivotal-labs • Honours Computer Science @university-of-waterloo
Titus Soporan
Software Developer at @tawlk LLC. Real-time social search and analysis. Focus on machine learning, NLTK, data mining and sentiment analysis.
Maxwell Brodie
Co-founder @121writing on a mission to demystify writing. Incubated by @imaginek12. Prev Kira Talent @ Next36, uWaterloo for CS and Knowledge Integration.
Tom Robinson
Passionate about greate code, which leads to great software.
David Lee
MEng CE graduate from UBC; Worked at BlackBerry, Motorola and Canadian tech startups.
Sefunmi Osinaike
Worked at @fora
Sid Bhambhani
Integrity Tactical Services Manager at PTC
Val Neekman
Serial entrepreneur and co-founder at @outsourcefactor. Also a developer with Python / Django / Linux.
http://blog.outsourcefactor.com
Zack Mullaly
Software engineer. CTO of Artdst.
Michael Stark
Worked at @webotics • Studied at @wilfrid-laurier-university
Ryan Zheng
Founder TeamAtLast, jimport
Adib Roumani
University of Toronto Grad, Proven Team Leader, accomplished / drivien developer
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
Brian Jou
Worked at @experiment • Studied at @university-of-waterloo
Daniel Hadi
Embedded software developer • Worked at @blackberry-2 • Studied at @university-of-waterloo