Our goal is to create more successful global businesses for Ontario and for Canada. Communitech drives the dynamic growth and success of Waterloo Region’s tech sector through a vibrant network of leadership, connections and promotion. We lead on critical issues, connect people, ideas and resources, and promote opportunities to help tech companies start, grow and succeed.

About Communitech

Waterloo Region’s technology organization, Communitech is the regional hub for the commercialization of innovation, creating economic prosperity by removing barriers to the creation and growth of technology companies. Our goal is to create more successful global businesses for Canada.

• 800+ tech firms are part of the Communitech network with 30,000 employees
• 350+ tech startups benefit from 4000+ hours of venture service support and business coaching each year
• More than 4,000 participate in Communitech events and Conferences
• Thousands of connections are made at Communitech’s Entrepreneur Week – North America’s biggest celebration of entrepreneurship
• 20,000 youth, from all area high schools explore science, tech, engineering and math (STEM) careers

Communitech is dedicated to fostering collaboration with and providing impetus to the region’s tech companies at all stages of growth, from startup to global success story. Through its Executives-in-Residence program, Communitech offers expert C-level support for companies as well as venture services, networking and peer development, sourcing talent, providing advocacy and helping to build brands, and reaching out to develop future tech talent through youth programs.

About Waterloo Region

Over the course of the last century, Waterloo Region, Ontario has been the button capital of Canada, the rubber capital of Canada, and the distillery capital of Canada. This community of 520,000 people in Southwestern Ontario has strong entrepreneurial roots and an extraordinary capacity to reinvent itself – today, Waterloo Region is the tech capital of Canada.

Compelling factors attracting industry to the region are the strong network of 800 technology companies, availability of talent and R&D capacity of the community’s leading post-secondary institutions and global think tanks, and the strong entrepreneurial culture of the community that distinguishes the region for its open and collaborative environment.

 

 

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