Waterloo Startups List
Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Waterloo.
Aditya Bali
Investor
Co-founder BufferBox (Acquired by Google 2012, YCombinator S'12), University of Waterloo - Mechatronics Engineer. Start-up adviser, investor.
http://www.ialsolikecake.com/
Logan Fuller
Web operations lead at Thalmic Labs. Space technology enthusiast, proud Canadian, tech entrepreneur.
Jim Moss
Founder / CEO of Plasticity Labs • Building the Happiest High Performing Workforce, Recently Closed $2.1M investment round
Konrad Listwan-Ciesielski
Co-Founder Kira Talent • Worked at @minted, @nuance-communications • Studied at @university-of-waterloo • Next36 Entrepreneur
Jamie Lipson
Co-Founder & CMO of Coachd.
Jeff Fedor
CTO at Demeure. Founder of 3 venture backed startups & helped a few along the way: @postrank (GOOG). Vision, leadership, product design & strategy.
Fraser Harris
CEO of Second Funnel. Self-taught programmer. UWaterloo MBA '09, UBC Engineering Physics '06
http://blog.fraserharris.com
Ali Asaria
CEO of Tulip Retail. Founder of @well-ca. Creator of BrickBreaker. Software Developer. Ecommerce Guy.
Omar Ismail
2-time founder, YC alum, Founder @ @streak.com
http://omarismail.com
Ben Morris
VP Engineering at ArtBarn Labs
Sam Pasupalak
CEO of @maluuba, UWaterloo Computer Science. Strong leadership, Technology vision and product strategy, Worked at @sybase, PitneyBowes and NexJ
Matthew Niewczas
Hardware Engineer at @facebook • Studied EE @university-of-waterloo
Jesse Rodgers
Investor
Director, Creative Destruction Lab @ Rotman; Founded, @tribehr; big fan of the Waterloo/Toronto community; built VeloCity; like early stage startups + Canada.
http://whoyoucallingajesse.com
David Crow
Investor
EiR at @OMERSVentures. Focused on custdev & productdev. Cofounder of @influitive. Worked at @microsoft, @reactivity, @trilogy. @carnegie-mellon-university MS in HCI + UWaterloo BSc.
http://davidcrow.ca/
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
Scott Greenberg
Developer Relations @thalmic. Follow to get the latest details of the @thalmicdev program and how to develop with Myo!
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
Saif Altimimi
Founder @notewagon, @coursemodo • Studied at @university-of-guelph. Strong UX/UI background
Marcus Daniels
Investor
Founder/CEO @highline ( @extremestartups + @growlab merged Accelerator ). Seed Investor. Digital Product Entrepreneur. Innovation Platform Architect
Ivan Lukianchuk
CEO of Will Pwn 4 Food. Hyperdrive Accelerator 1st cohort, BCS @university-of-waterloo. Worked at RIM, D2L, SLF. Past SIFE president.
Anton Polski
Investor
3x Entrepreneur. Obsessed with mobile products. Founded @dateonfire, @pokerspace-com • @semacode-com Studied at @university-of-waterloo
Iyinoluwa Aboyeji
Founder at @fora. Ran Canada's largest college newspaper. Worked at United Nations HQ as NGO Consultant. Top 20 Nigerians under 20. UWaterloo '12
Shyam Sheth
doing stuff. making stuff. helping others make stuff.
Ali Dinani
Software Engineer at @careguide
Milan Vrekic
Zora Cofounder, First Executive Director @volta, Cofounder @titanfile, Maritimer.
http://www.milanvrekic.com
Hossam Bahlool
Director of product management at RIM for BBM, App World, BES, & the app dev platform. Founder of @myracevideo, servicing top marathons. Software dev background.
Phil Jacobson
Co-founder of @pumpup; BBA @wilfrid-laurier-university; Former Marketer at @unilever, @pepsico and @ConAgra Foods.
Matthew Gardner
Founder @videostream, won Global Startup Battle • HYPERDRIVE alum • @research-in-motion Hardware • @McMaster B. Mechatronics Eng, min. Business
http://thatmatt.ca
Dan Heitbohmer
Founder @BuildCircle Inc.
Khanjan Desai
Co-Founder, Neverfrost. UWaterloo Nano Engineering Graduate.
Madusha Cooray
Startup Services Manager @communitech • Worked at @research-in-motion @infinidy-corp • Engineer • Designer • Developer • Hacker • Studied in Switzerland, Canada
http://www.madusha.com/blog/
Jack Read
Web developer and product guy. Created Recipeasly. Formerly of @kik-interactive and @unata .
Terry Goertz
Co-founder of @monstro. 1st company at 11. Previously at @sandvine(TSX:SVC) and @postrank(@google). Strong product and ops. CTIA Top 5 innovative company.
Matt Rae
Founder Tripzaar • Studied at @university-of-waterloo (VeloCity resident) - Founder MattRae Photo - Employee with Toyota, Ontario Power Generation, Cargill
http://www.matthewrae.com
Brent Lintner
Pensive, entrepreneurial biped with a strong technical background, and a focus on web based tech.
Andrew Cross
Founder of Tripzaar. Brought previous startup @goosechase to 6 figure revenue. ex-@Apple and @polar-mobile, @university-of-waterloo Alumni.
http://andrewcross.ca
William Zhou
Co-Founder Chalk.com • Studied at @university-of-waterloo • @lightspeed-venture-partners and @the-kairos-society Fellow
http://williamzhou.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.
Jay El-Kaake
@SweetTooth co-founder, eCommerce advocate, #Magento engineer, @CodingForACure, Travel lover, and Entrepreneur
http://blog.jayelkaake.com
Jon Lipinski
Founder @ecopia, formerly at @fleetbit, Ivey HBA
Simon Woodside
Founder/CEO at Monolith Interactive, makers of precision mobile apps.
John Kor
CTO and Co-founder @Edvisor.io • @techstars alumnus • Founder @mysnowbuddy • Consultant @avanade • Junior Lead @airg • Slacker at @simon-fraser-university
Lahiru Lakmal Priyadarshana
Co Founder, CEO @steamblocks • Studied at @university-of-westminster-uk
http://blog.soundofcode.com
Samuel Legge
Program Manager @communitech-hyperdrive @communitech. Founder @shield-diagnostics , @unbound-books. Engineer from @UofWaterloo.
Earl Oliver
Matt Rice
Worked at @parkbench
Sean Li
Founded @kitematic
Bryan Hurren
Product Management leader at @research-in-motion; redefined mobile email, brought @livemocha to 10M users • MASc in Systems Design at @university-of-waterloo
http://socialgraphpaper.blogspot.com
Ronen Benin
Technology entrepreneur
Matthew Miner
CEO of Lumos. I dig game development and filmmaking.
Hongwei Liu
Co-founder and CEO of MappedIn; worked in RF at RIM. Electrical Eng (Honours) student at uWaterloo.
http://hongwei.ca
Gareth MacLeod
http://blog.garethmacleod.com
Jayson Rhynas
Founder LeafNotes • BCS @university-of-waterloo
Neil Movold
Executive MBA and an international business career spanning 25 years, 20+ years at the CxO level across start-up and growth companies in several industries.
Phil Noelting
Founder, Qwalify.com
Latif Nanji
Co-founder @ Roadmunk. Co-founder @ Pokerspace and Product Manager @ Miovision. All things startup and product.
http://www.jellymind.com
Naman Kumar
Entrepreneur. Designer + Engineer, University of Waterloo
http://www.namank.com/resume
John Zupancic
Studied at @university-of-waterloo, @wilfrid-laurier-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/
Sarah Juma
Founder and CEO @styleid - Always optimistic and up for a challenge.
http://jumanagement.com/blogs/
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
Mitchell Hammerstedt
Co-Founder of @cryptiv @market-clouds-1. Financial market junkie. Biz dev. Stock and options broker. Trader.
Gaurav Mali
Founder Gratious • Worked at @amazon, @artbarn • Studied at @university-of-waterloo
http://www.gauravmali.com/thoughts/
Willie Cheong
Founder at @cubic-work;
Studied at @university-of-waterloo-2 .
Michael Stark
Studied at @wilfrid-laurier-university, built amazing Tire Pressure Monitoring System, Consulted, Founded @dateonfire
James McLean
Co-founder / CPO @homefed. Strong design and tech background, studied Industrial Design at OCADU
http://www.blog.eathomefed.com
Steven Wang
Co-Founder and CEO at Homefed • Studied at @university-of-waterloo, @simon-fraser-university
http://www.stevenwang.me
Miah Lightbody
Founder of @jetpronto; Partner, Chat for LinkedIn; Created @wurdzee; Graphic Design; Software Development; Marketing; Fortune 500 experienced; PhD in Awesome
https://miahlightbody.com/blog
Michael Shi
Founder Gratious • Worked at @zynga, @amazon • Studied at Software Engineering @university-of-waterloo
Marylin Ma
Worked at @communitech-waterloo • Studied at @university-of-waterloo, @wilfrid-laurier-university
Neil LaChapelle
@sceneverse Co-founder & Director. Studied philosophy & design. Strategic product management since '98. Author. Adizes approach to leadership and org design.
Dasun Priyankara Kulathunga
Co Founder @steamblocks. Computer Science graduate interested in Design and Operations.
Ryan Denomme
Founder and CEO @nicoya-lifesciences. Studied Nanotechnology and Mechanical Engineering @university-of-waterloo.
Kurt DaCosta
Founder @woof • Worked at @niteroll • Studied at @mcmaster-university
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
Jeffrey Tong
Founder HearthStats • Worked at @procter-gamble-2, @gopexo • Studied at @university-of-waterloo
http://extra.io
Thusenth Dhavaloganathan
Founder @mylocal • Worked Product at @blackberry-2 • Studied at @wilfrid-laurier-university
Yousef Khraibut
Greg Johnston
Canadian. CEO/Founder The Mentor+Project and http://mentorplus.me/ • Products, Marketing + Social Media Guy
http://thementorplusproject.blogspot.ca/
Austin Bianchini
3D Designer, FIRST Robotics world champion, Electronics Enthusiast, Nanotechnology Engineering Student
Michael Stark
Worked at @webotics • Studied at @wilfrid-laurier-university
Cameron Winterink
CycleKey Founder. Studied at @university-of-waterloo where I was also the "hard TA". Former engineering consultant and electronics designer.
Andrew Kinzie
Founder @funraisers-ca • Studied at @university-of-waterloo
Quinn Battersby
Marketing Master. Design Freak. Webmaster Extraordinaire.
Kartik Talwar
Pilwon Huh
Investor
Founder @stockpad • Full-stack Software Engineer, Skydiver from Canada • Worked at @scotia-capital, @td-securities • Studied at @university-of-waterloo
Val Neekman
Serial entrepreneur and co-founder at @outsourcefactor. Also a developer with Python / Django / Linux.
http://blog.outsourcefactor.com
Adrien Niblock
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer @nowinstore
Todd Zeligman
Founder, Better Capital • 8+ years of Corporate Finance and Investment Banking experience • Worked at TD Securities, Scotia Capital • Ivey Business School MBA.
Fernando Valdes
Founder @musicology-ca • Worked at @apple, @hewlett-packard • Studied at @university-of-waterloo
http://fernandovaldes.ca/blog/
Titus Soporan
Software Developer at @tawlk LLC. Real-time social search and analysis. Focus on machine learning, NLTK, data mining and sentiment analysis.
Juil Yoon
Jack of all trades, Master of none
John Akinyemi
Co-Founder and President of GoalRecorder
http://goalrecorder.com/blog
Thomas Price
Shankar Gurunathan
Worked at @infosys-technologies • Studied at @university-of-waterloo