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Waterloo is home to some of the world’s most recognizable and significant technology companies. From industry giants like Google, OpenText and SAP to locally grown scaling companies like Vidyard and North to our community of 1700 startups, Waterloo has the talent, cost advantage and ecosystem to help your business grow.
Waterloo’s world-renowned strength in engineering and computer science have made it a global leader in hardware, software, and custom technological applications for a wide variety of industries, from embedded security to advanced manufacturing.
Here’s how Waterloo, Canada supports tech companies:
- Home to a strong community of incubators, workspaces and other institutions dedicated to supporting technology breakthroughs
- Communitech’s Data and Innovation Hubs
- Velocity Garage - the world’s largest free startup incubator
- Catalyst137 - the world’s largest IoT Manufacturing Space
- The Accelerator Centre - Canada’s top business incubator
- UWaterloo David Johnston Research + Technology Park
- Home to the University of Waterloo
- The world’s largest co-operative education program with over 20,000 students graduating with two years of relevant industry experience
- The #1 engineering program and #2 computer science program in Canada
- The largest concentration of math and computer science talent in the world
Want to know more about how our unique community can help your business grow?
Contact Sean Smith today or download an in-depth look at Waterloo's ecosystem.
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