Waterloo Startups List
Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Waterloo.
Omar Ismail
2-time founder, YC alum, Founder @ @streak.com
http://omarismail.com
Jim Moss
Founder / CEO of Plasticity Labs • Building the Happiest High Performing Workforce, Recently Closed $2.1M investment round
Matthew Niewczas
Hardware Engineer at @facebook • Studied EE @university-of-waterloo
Ben Morris
VP Engineering at ArtBarn Labs
Logan Fuller
Web operations lead at Thalmic Labs. Space technology enthusiast, proud Canadian, tech entrepreneur.
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.
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.
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/
Sam Pasupalak
CEO of @maluuba, UWaterloo Computer Science. Strong leadership, Technology vision and product strategy, Worked at @sybase, PitneyBowes and NexJ
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
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
Saif Altimimi
Founder @notewagon, @coursemodo • Studied at @university-of-guelph. Strong UX/UI background
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
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/
Jeff Fedor
CTO at Demeure. Founder of 3 venture backed startups & helped a few along the way: @postrank (GOOG). Vision, leadership, product design & strategy.
Marcus Daniels
Investor
Founder/CEO @highline ( @extremestartups + @growlab merged Accelerator ). Seed Investor. Digital Product Entrepreneur. Innovation Platform Architect
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
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 .
Milan Vrekic
Zora Cofounder, First Executive Director @volta, Cofounder @titanfile, Maritimer.
http://www.milanvrekic.com
Andrew Cross
Founder of Tripzaar. Brought previous startup @goosechase to 6 figure revenue. [email protected] and @polar-mobile, @university-of-waterloo Alumni.
http://andrewcross.ca
Khanjan Desai
Co-Founder, Neverfrost. UWaterloo Nano Engineering Graduate.
Ali Dinani
Software Engineer at @careguide
Dan Heitbohmer
Founder @BuildCircle Inc.
Anton Polski
Investor
3x Entrepreneur. Obsessed with mobile products. Founded @dateonfire, @pokerspace-com • @semacode-com Studied at @university-of-waterloo
Ivan Lukianchuk
CEO of Will Pwn 4 Food. Hyperdrive Accelerator 1st cohort, BCS @university-of-waterloo. Worked at RIM, D2L, SLF. Past SIFE president.
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
Erik Kalviainen
Serial entrepreneur including a successful acquisition /w @productwiki. Currently working @google as a @product_manager. Focused on @consumer-internet and @mobile-2.
Phil Jacobson
Co-founder of @pumpup; BBA @wilfrid-laurier-university; Former Marketer at @unilever, @pepsico and @ConAgra Foods.
Shyam Sheth
doing stuff. making stuff. helping others make stuff.
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.
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.
Brent Lintner
Pensive, entrepreneurial biped with a strong technical background, and a focus on web based tech.
Matthew Gardner
Founder @videostream, won Global Startup Battle • HYPERDRIVE alum • @research-in-motion Hardware • @McMaster B. Mechatronics Eng, min. Business
http://thatmatt.ca
William Zhou
Co-Founder Chalk.com • Studied at @university-of-waterloo • @lightspeed-venture-partners and @the-kairos-society Fellow
http://williamzhou.com
John Kor
CTO and Co-founder @Edvisor.io • @techstars alumnus • Founder @mysnowbuddy • Consultant @avanade • Junior Lead @airg • Slacker at @simon-fraser-university
Earl Oliver
Gareth MacLeod
http://blog.garethmacleod.com
Matt Rice
Worked at @parkbench
Ronen Benin
Technology entrepreneur
Matthew Miner
CEO of Lumos. I dig game development and filmmaking.
Sean Li
Founded @kitematic
Jayson Rhynas
Founder LeafNotes • BCS @university-of-waterloo
Simon Woodside
Founder/CEO at Monolith Interactive, makers of precision mobile apps.
Jay El-Kaake
@SweetTooth co-founder, eCommerce advocate, #Magento engineer, @CodingForACure, Travel lover, and Entrepreneur
http://blog.jayelkaake.com
Samuel Legge
Program Manager @communitech-hyperdrive @communitech. Founder @shield-diagnostics , @unbound-books. Engineer from @UofWaterloo.
Naman Kumar
Entrepreneur. Designer + Engineer, University of Waterloo
http://www.namank.com/resume
Jon Lipinski
Founder @ecopia, formerly at @fleetbit, Ivey HBA
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
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.
Lahiru Lakmal Priyadarshana
Co Founder, CEO @steamblocks • Studied at @university-of-westminster-uk
http://blog.soundofcode.com
Latif Nanji
Co-founder @ Roadmunk. Co-founder @ Pokerspace and Product Manager @ Miovision. All things startup and product.
http://www.jellymind.com
Phil Noelting
Founder, Qwalify.com
Hongwei Liu
Co-founder and CEO of MappedIn; worked in RF at RIM. Electrical Eng (Honours) student at uWaterloo.
http://hongwei.ca
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.
Gaurav Mali
Founder Gratious • Worked at @amazon, @artbarn • Studied at @university-of-waterloo
http://www.gauravmali.com/thoughts/
Sarah Juma
Founder and CEO @styleid - Always optimistic and up for a challenge.
http://jumanagement.com/blogs/
Kurt DaCosta
Founder @woof • Worked at @niteroll • Studied at @mcmaster-university
Mitchell Hammerstedt
Co-Founder of @cryptiv @market-clouds-1. Financial market junkie. Biz dev. Stock and options broker. Trader.
Willie Cheong
Founder at @cubic-work;
Studied at @university-of-waterloo-2 .
James McLean
Co-founder / CPO @homefed. Strong design and tech background, studied Industrial Design at OCADU
http://www.blog.eathomefed.com
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
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
Steven Wang
Co-Founder and CEO at Homefed • Studied at @university-of-waterloo, @simon-fraser-university
http://www.stevenwang.me
Michael Stark
Studied at @wilfrid-laurier-university, built amazing Tire Pressure Monitoring System, Consulted, Founded @dateonfire
Marylin Ma
Worked at @communitech-waterloo • Studied at @university-of-waterloo, @wilfrid-laurier-university
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/
Jeffrey Tong
Founder HearthStats • Worked at @procter-gamble-2, @gopexo • Studied at @university-of-waterloo
http://extra.io
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.
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
Todd Zeligman
Founder, Better Capital • 8+ years of Corporate Finance and Investment Banking experience • Worked at TD Securities, Scotia Capital • Ivey Business School MBA.
Thusenth Dhavaloganathan
Founder @mylocal • Worked Product at @blackberry-2 • Studied at @wilfrid-laurier-university
Fernando Valdes
Founder @musicology-ca • Worked at @apple, @hewlett-packard • Studied at @university-of-waterloo
http://fernandovaldes.ca/blog/
Austin Bianchini
3D Designer, FIRST Robotics world champion, Electronics Enthusiast, Nanotechnology Engineering Student
Juil Yoon
Jack of all trades, Master of none
Val Neekman
Serial entrepreneur and co-founder at @outsourcefactor. Also a developer with Python / Django / Linux.
http://blog.outsourcefactor.com
Titus Soporan
Software Developer at @tawlk LLC. Real-time social search and analysis. Focus on machine learning, NLTK, data mining and sentiment analysis.
Greg Johnston
Canadian. CEO/Founder The Mentor+Project and http://mentorplus.me/ • Products, Marketing + Social Media Guy
http://thementorplusproject.blogspot.ca/
Michael Stark
Worked at @webotics • Studied at @wilfrid-laurier-university
Andrew Kinzie
Founder @funraisers-ca • Studied at @university-of-waterloo
Thomas Price
Yousef Khraibut
Shankar Gurunathan
Worked at @infosys-technologies • Studied at @university-of-waterloo
Kartik Talwar
John Akinyemi
Co-Founder and President of GoalRecorder
http://goalrecorder.com/blog
Pilwon Huh
Investor
Founder @stockpad • Full-stack Software Engineer, Skydiver from Canada • Worked at @scotia-capital, @td-securities • Studied at @university-of-waterloo
Adrien Niblock
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer @nowinstore
Cameron Winterink
CycleKey Founder. Studied at @university-of-waterloo where I was also the "hard TA". Former engineering consultant and electronics designer.
Quinn Battersby
Marketing Master. Design Freak. Webmaster Extraordinaire.
