Waterloo EDC Blog

Waterloo kicked off 2022 with a bang. This month, our business ecosystem saw major funding announcements, earned research accolades and achieved international recognition for our cleantech and sustainability efforts.

Here are the top stories from January 2022:

A new report from Startup Genome has named the Toronto-Waterloo Corridor as one of the world’s top cleantech startup ecosystems, ranking 12^th overall. This area was the top-ranking cleantech ecosystem in Canada and 6^th in North America.

The report ranks 35 of the world’s top innovation ecosystems on six metrics: performance, funding, startup experience, knowledge, talent and focus.

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Waterloo is at the epicentre of the quantum revolution – and has been for more than twenty years.

Nicknamed “Quantum Valley,” our complete theory-to-commercialization quantum ecosystem is high-density, collaborative and world-class. In our community, there are more than 250 researchers working in quantum theory at our top research institutions, which includes two of the world’s largest...

Thanks to the many rankings, records and research-related rewards in November, Waterloo’s business ecosystem is looking merry and bright as we head into the holiday season.

This month, it was institutions like the University of Waterloo, Conestoga College and Perimeter Institute, alongside tech companies like Faire and Uvaro, driving the news cycle – locally, nationally and internationally.

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