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A District is Born Welcome to Waterloo’s New Idea Quarter
Accelerator Centre’s Reactor Creates New Potent Mix of Startup Chemistry
It’s Easy Being Green David Johnston R+T Park Joins Regional Carbon Initiative
Spectacular Startups Where Are They Now?
Community In The R+T Park
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CONNECTING TO COMMUNITY. There’s a saying that, “every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.” The same can be said for Waterloo Region, where we have been able to build an exceptional, supportive ecosystem consisting of academics, entrepreneurs, established business leaders, builders, and the many companies, services and people who support them.
What’s Happening
Education Credit Union Demonstrates The Power of Co-operative Values
Business Directory Tenant Directory of the David Johnston Research + Technology Park
Sandra Banks, VP University Relations, University of Waterloo
Carol Stewart, David Johnston Research + Technology Park University of Waterloo and Immediate Past President and Founder, Association of University Research Parks Canada, www.aurpcanada.com
In this special, expanded issue of Watch, we are all about the community, exploring the following stories: • In the “Birth of a District” we learn more about a new initiative which the David Johnston Research + Technology Park (R+T Park) participated alongside other critical stakeholders to rebrand and reinvent Phillip Street corridor in Waterloo – an area formerly dominated by BlackBerry as the Idea Quarter Waterloo. • We visit with Accelerator Centre CEO Paul Salvini at the AC’s new 8,000 sq. ft. “Reactor” facility, dedicated to earliest stage tech start-ups. • We take a tour of the community activities that bring R+T Park to life everyday.
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• We sit down with Sandra Banks, University of Waterloo’s new VP of University Relations to talk about the university’s important connection to community; and • In a visual spread, we revisit some of the Accelerator Centre’s graduate start-ups – to learn what’s up with their business since they headed out of the incubator and into the world.
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IDEA QUARTER, WATERLOO Downtown and the Innovation District, and defined neighborhoods found in other cities, such as Liberty Village in Toronto and Hudson Square in New York City. A steering committee was formed to create a new name and district identity for the area. After preliminary research and discussion with influencers and local stakeholders running through the winter of 2015, the Idea Quarter Waterloo was born – chosen for its reflection of the area’s legacy of world-changing innovation and elite business acumen.
A District is Born Welcome to Waterloo’s New Idea Quarter
It was a part of the city formerly dominated by one company – BlackBerry. Now the area of Waterloo known as Phillip Street corridor is on the brink of a renaissance, recently rebranded as the “Idea Quarter Waterloo.” The notion of a vibrant district devoted to the city’s high growth technology community first began a conversation between Carol Stewart of the R+T Park, and Adrian Conrad of the Cora Group, a prominent Waterloo-based property development firm with long term alliances to the park. At the time, BlackBerry was at the apex of its challenges and had announced plans to sell off much of its real estate portfolio, consisting of 20 buildings in the Waterloo area. The University of Waterloo stepped in to purchase five of the BlackBerry properties adjacent to the campus, and the sale also brought in new stakeholders, including Spear Street Capital LLC, a San Francisco-based commercial real estate investment firm and Bay Street financier Michael Wekerle’s Waterloo Innovation Network. “We recognized that the sale of BlackBerry’s real estate portfolio and the entry of new stakeholders into the mix presented an ideal opportunity to fold the R+T Park into a larger transformation of an area previously dedicated to one company, into something dramatically different than what exists today,” explains Carol Stewart, Manager of the R+T Park. “Key park stakeholders and the other development partners saw the chance to brand the area similar to other defined areas found across the region, such as Uptown Waterloo, Kitchener
Re-development efforts within the new Idea Quarter are already underway. Several companies have moved into or expanded their presence in the R+T Park, and the park has plans for construction of two new buildings adjacent to the LRT ION station. Since the spring, a number of technology companies have taken up office space in WIN’s six buildings in the district including high growth startups such as Auvik, and AC grads Axonify, Magnet Forensics and Trustpoint Innovation Technologies. In 2016, Spear Street will unveil a major redevelopment of 451 Phillip Street introducing pedestrian connections to the LRT station in the R+T Park, a new creative working space, retail tenants and a destination-worthy restaurant. “From retail, to restaurants, to direct walkways offering connection to the train, we’re working together to enliven the streetscape and create the ‘there’,,, there.” says Adam Ballew, with Spear Street Capital. “Right now people don’t walk up and down Phillip Street, because frankly, there’s nothing for them to walk up and down for. With the Idea Quarter Waterloo that’s about to change.”
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It takes just one person to have an idea, but the ideas come faster and more frequently when talented people come together to sharpen each other’s insights and pool their expertise. A community of innovation.
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David Johnston (former president of the University of Waterloo and current Governor General of Canada)
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JUSTIN MCFADDEN, CITY OF WATERLOO
BRENDA HALLORAN, WATERLOO INNOVATION NETWORK
ADAM BALLEW, SPEAR STREET CAPITAL
ADRIAN CONRAD, THE CORA GROUP
SHELDON PEREIRA, CITY OF WATERLOO
BRAD MARSLAND, THE MARSLAND CENTRE
MICHAEL WEKERLE (WEK), WATERLOO INNOVATION NETWORK
CAROL STEWART, R+T PARK
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ACCELERATOR CENTRE, PAUL SALVINI
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PAUL SALVINI CEO ACCELERATOR CENTRE
ACCELERATOR CENTRE’S REACTOR CREATES NEW POTENT MIX OF STARTUP CHEMISTRY The Accelerator Centre (AC) has played an instrumental role in helping entrepreneurs build strong viable businesses since 2006, producing such success stories as Axonify, Clearpath Robotics, Magnet Forensics, Miovision, Kik and Top Hat Monocle – just to name a few. ®
Now, the AC is expanding its program offerings and its capacity to take even more young companies under its wing. In June 2015, the AC opened a second facility in the David Johnston Research + Technology Park called Reactor, the new home for the AC Momentum program which serves founders and startups at the earliest stage of their startup journey. “The AC Momentum program opened its doors in the fall of 2014, as we recognized that not every company is ready to enter our Accelerator Program directly,” explains AC CEO Paul Salvini. “We were seeing a lot of individuals coming to us, inspired by the work we are doing with other startups, but their idea still needed some shaping and market research. Rather than turn them away, we created AC Momentum, which is designed to serve businesses in the earliest phase where an idea is validated.” Companies in the AC Momentum program typically spend 9 to 12 months going through a market validation process called AC PathfinderTM – backed by a curriculum and programming grounded in incubation best practices which is licensed and recognized
around the world. Every AC Momentum client is assigned a lead mentor from the AC’s team of in-house mentors, and put on a custom plan that moves the business up to the point where it is ready for the full Accelerator Program and for growth. “By the time a company is ready for the Accelerator Program they are tuned into the right station and ready to turn up the volume for the next level of growth,” says Salvini. He notes that companies who successfully complete the AC Momentum program are also fast tracked to the front of the line of the Accelerator Program intake process. “We are familiar with the company and know they’ve done the necessary legwork to prove out and mature their business idea.” Now, AC Momentum’s capacity is growing with the creation of AC Reactor, an expansion to a new 8,000 sq. ft. location in the innoTECH building across Hagey Drive in the R+T Park, ready to house 50 individuals, or approximately 30 companies per year. The open and collaborative workspace includes a client networking lounge for startups to connect as well as six breakout rooms for those intensive brainstorming meetings. “Every company admitted to AC Momentum becomes an integral part of the AC family and culture – a really magical combination of networking, events, collaboration and collegial knowledge sharing. So much of the richness of what happens in the incubation ecosystem is about the community created here. That spirit pervades our facilities,” says Salvini.
VIST: http://www.rtparkwatch.com/September2015 for an extended version of this article.
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GREEN TEAM, DAVID JOHNSTON R+T PARK
David Johnston R+T Park Joins Regional Carbon Initiative
It’s Easy Being Green Contrary to the sentiments expressed by a certain frog, it can be easy being green. Or so it would appear, given the enthusiasm emanating from the David Johnston R+T Park’s newly established Green Team. The team, made up of park developers, building owners, University of Waterloo, Sustainable Waterloo Region (SWR) project managers, and volunteers representing all of the Park’s corporate employers, will spearhead the Park’s fledgling green house gas (GHG) reduction program, formed under the umbrella of Sustainable Waterloo Region’s (SWR) Regional Carbon Initiative (RCI). “Over the last 10 years, the R+T Park has become an internationally recognized success and a source of competitive advantage. Now, it is our opportunity to transform into a green destination – a huge attraction for technology companies and their employees. Participation in the RCI will provide us with the opportunity to become a true leading example of sustainability in the university research park and technology communities,” says Carol Stewart.
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As a first step in establishing its GHG reduction target, Green Team representatives must gather energy-related data and other major sources of emissions from each of the Park’s corporate residents. Information from the audit will be compiled by SWR’s team to form a baseline of energy consumption and emissions park-wide. It will also be used by the Green Team to determine R+T Park’s GHG reduction target. The whole process is moving along very swiftly – in fact much faster than typical, says Sustainable Waterloo program manager Matthew Day. “It can often take a single company 2-3 years to gather data and establish a GHG reduction target. We are on track at this point with the R+T Park to have our target set by end of summer 2015. That’s incredibly fast.” Participation in the RCI means companies within the R+T Park win on multiple fronts, says Matthew. “It’s definitely an environmental win, but it will also be an economic boon. I suspect when corporate management has a look at the cost savings our carbon reduction target when achieved will yield, they’ll see participation in the RCI as a complete no-brainer.”
CAROL STEWART R+T PARK
MATTHEW DAY SUSTAINABLE WATERLOO REGION
Photo Location: Green Roof on the Accelerator Building owned and operated by Dream Office REIT. VIST: http://www.rtparkwatch.com/September2015 for an extended version of this article.
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SPECTACULAR STARTUPS The Accelerator Centre, located within the R+T Park has a stellar track record for helping entrepreneurs transform their startups into thriving, high-growth businesses. Many notable companies forming the next generation of the Waterloo tech economy started right here. We thought we’d pay a few of them a visit to see what’s up of late.
AXONIFY Big Business Idea Reinventing the corporate learning game with training that’s bite-sized, gamified and personalized to each individual
Axonify is a revolutionary eLearning platform. Focussed on meeting the needs of the modern learner, the company is working with bigname clients like Walmart, Bloomingdale’s and Johnson & Johnson to grow employee knowledge, and change their behaviour to drive revenue and reduce costs.
Big Business Idea Protecting confidential information anywhere, any time, and on any device.
APrivacy (formerly I Think Security) has become a leading FinTech start-up in the banking world. Known for its ability to remotely remove access to sensitive information, even after a recipient has downloaded them, APrivacy’s platform has successfully accommodated the needs of private banks, family offices and High Net Worth Individuals while meeting compliance requirements.
Doubled in size in the past 2 months, and is now in 9 countries
BIGROAD Big Business Idea Apps for Truckers
More than 1600 fleets are using BigRoad right now to improve compliance and driver safety
ROBOTICS
Clearpath Robotics is dedicated to automating the world’s dullest, dirtiest, and deadliest jobs with intelligent service robots. The company works with over 500 of the world’s most innovative brands in over 40 countries, serving markets that span industrial materials handling, mining, military, agriculture, aerospace and academia. It has also racked up the awards of late, named a Robotics Business Review Top 50 Company, a Business Insider Top 40 under 40, one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers and earning the Edison Award for Innovation. Since graduating from the AC, Clearpath has grown to 85 employees.
Big Business Idea Better the world with mobile robotics and solutions
With the help of Axonify, Bloomingdale’s saves $2.2 million a year as their sales associates learn what they need to know by playing games, and getting bite-sized on-the-job learning
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BigRoad’s grown from its humble beginnings with 4 employees at the Accelerator Centre to 25 full-time employees. The company’s BigRoad app has been installed by more than 270,000 drivers, and has helped the industry electronically generate more than 6 million driver logs.
DEEP TREKKER Deep Trekker Inc. was founded in 2010 with a mission to bring a fully capable yet portable and accessible remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to market. The company’s beginnings include a 10-year-old college project, a flashlight lost in Lake Huron, and three friends passionate about engineering and making a difference.
Clearpath’s robots are operating in over 40 countries worldwide
DYVERGA Dyverga Energy is commercializing its CarbonZero™ renewable energy solution that converts low temperature heat into electricity. The globally abundant heat resource is available from renewables such as solar thermal with a further boost from reclaimed heat energy from air-conditioners, refrigeration and commercial/industrial processes. With all-season and 24/7 availability, affordable renewable electricity will now be available to homes and businesses suffering from high electricity rates.
Big Business Idea Convert low temperature heat into electricity
Dyverga Carbon-Zero™ 60 system delivers 24/7 electricity equivalent to that from a 10 kW Solar PV system in California
Big Business Idea Give anyone on the earth an opportunity to explore the depths of our vast oceans, seas, lakes, or rivers.
Deep Trekker ROVs are used in 59 countries. Industries include: aquaculture, commercial diving, search & rescue, research, and defense.
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MAGNET FORENSICS Magnet Forensic’s flagship product, Magnet IEF, was created by a former police officer and forensic examiner. He recognized the need for a tool to help digital forensics professionals find, analyze and report digital evidence. Since its creation, IEF has quickly become a trusted solution for thousands of customers working in the world’s top law enforcement, government, military and corporate organizations.
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Mike Darlington (CEO) and Ari Paunonen (COO) founded the Monstercat label in 2011, and since moving the company to Vancouver, British Columbia, they and the Monstercat team have built a roster of world-renowned artists. The company’s mission is to connect artists with fans in a way that nurtures the spirit of sharing and family. Monstercat now has more than 3 million YouTube subscribers, 11 number one chart-toppers on iTunes, and racked up 1.3 million in record sales in 2014.
Big Business Idea Use modern technologies to build an independent electronic music record label
Big Business Idea Build software to recover evidence from computers, smartphones and tablets.
The international forensic community recently named Magnet IEF Computer Forensic Software of the Year and Phone Forensic Software of the Year at the 2015 Forensic 4cast Awards
TRUSTPOINT
INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY TrustPoint develops innovative products and services to address the security needs for the internet of things (IoT) and machine to machine (M2M) communications markets, including connected car, near field communication (NFC) devices, and critical infrastructure applications. Trustpoint’s team of cryptography experts has pioneered the development of efficient security technology used in millions of smart phones, smart grid devices, and other embedded systems around the world today.
Big Business Idea Secure Machine 2 Machine Communications
TrustPoint is the Security Technical Expert for the United States Department of Transportation (US DoT) and the Crash Avoidance Metrics Partnership (CAMP) connected car, vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) crash avoidance system
MOZZAZ Mozzaz provides a solution for individuals with complex healthcare needs promoting care collaboration, accountable outcomes and improvements in the individual’s quality of life. The company’s software connects individuals to their care providers allowing an integrated and coordinated level of service, that integrates patient information to the care provider’s case management system to deliver an effective treatment program that is timely, accessible and improves quality of care.
PLASTICITY Using neurosciences and positive psychology, Plasticity builds the happiest, highest performing workforce to boost mood and employee morale. The company’s mobile and web platform teaches employees the psychological traits of flourishing to create highly engaged corporate cultures. A fun, social collaboration environment with a singular focus on company culture also measures social/emotional-intelligence to guide predictive psychological fitness.
Big Business Idea Improve the experience of life and work for millions of individuals and the organizations where they work.
Plasticity has grown to 24 customers with 3,300 users on the platform. More than 100,000 survey questions have been answered in the past 12 months and that number is expected to reach 500,000 in the next 12 months
Big Business Idea Empower individuals to be active participants in their own long-term care by allowing them to access care from anywhere and at anytime.
50+ ORGANIZATIONS USE MOZZAZ SOFTWARE IN US, THE MIDDLE EAST AND CHINA
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Credit unions are unique, conducting banking related business and serving their members, not customers. They open accounts, complete everyday transactions, protect your money, and so much more. Credit unions offer virtually anything a national bank offers but, what is celebrated as the credit union difference extends beyond financial services. “Our members know that we’re here when they need us,” says Sharon Feldmann, Office Supervisor of the Education Credit Union Techtown Branch. “They know that they can call or email with any question and have confidence that we’ll be able to answer them”. ECU’s owners are the members and their staff seeks to fulfil the banking needs of members with care, expertise and sincere personal service. “The greatest reward is seeing the satisfaction on my members’ faces when I’ve been able to make something that was overwhelming, to them, relatively simple,” says Feldmann. Locally, this small credit union is making an impact on the community. With a history in the education sector, their focus for ‘giving back’ is on education and youth. Over the past 5 years, more than $50,000.00 has been contributed by ECU and its members to projects such as Nutrition for Learning, UofW Team Up Community Outreach and local charity golf tournaments, supporting education and the KW Community Foundation. Scholarships through university staff associations and directly from ECU are helping youth with their post secondary education expenses. In addition to all of this, ECU staff volunteer on their personal time to community services and charitable organizations dear to their hearts. All of this is adding strength to the community of today and tomorrow. Historically, credit unions were established by community minded individuals who wanted to use their resources to help others in their own community and Canadians have been credit union members for over 100 years. The experience that has been gained by Canadian credit unions and by credit unions all over the world is now being used to provide support to others - in developing nations - who want to make that same impact and help to provide financial resources to their own neighbours. Feldmann finished by saying “Working for an organization with core values of education, co-operation and concern for community compliments my staff and me.”
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SANDRA BANKS, UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
Sandra Banks, VP University Relations, University of Waterloo Watch Magazine sat down for this issue to talk with Sandra Banks, the University of Waterloo’s new VP of University Relations, to talk about the university’s stellar reputation at home and abroad and the importance of building bridges to the community. Watch - Tell me about your mandate as VP of University Relations? What excites you about this role and its potential? Sandra - Well, I’m 100 days in. I joined the University of Waterloo in April. So far it has been a fantastic experience. It truly is a privilege to be in a position to serve at this exceptional academic institution. This leads me directly to my mandate: to work hard to elevate and amplify the profile of the university and to build on the exceptional reputation it has cultivated over the last 60 years. Today we are recognized as the most innovative university in Canada. For us to meet the ambition to be one of the top innovation universities in the world, we are going to need to think about what we do differently in terms of communication and how we tell the Waterloo story going forward. We’re probably going to have to do some things differently than we did in the past. For instance, part of my mandate is to build an integrated communications and government relations plan, starting in University Relations of course, but in time, broadening our reach by establishing critical partnerships across the university. I think there is a tremendous opportunity to coordinate our actions for greater impact, and to use our communications strategy to arm everyone with a coherent story that ignites the pride that exists within our students, staff and faculty.
Watch - Why is community engagement such a strategic priority for the University? How does benefit flow back to the University through this kind of active community involvement? Sandra - Community engagement yields mutual and ongoing benefits. In September, we are launching the results of an extensive outreach to many community partners and leaders that happened over the last 12-18 months by way of a Community Impact report. The report will look at both sides; how we interact with the community and how we each benefit from those interactions. It will cover a wide variety of actions and outcomes, and early indications of interest lead us to believe it will be very well received. That’s a signal that there are mutual and ongoing benefits on both sides. The other benefit that is clear to me is the way we, as a community, have been able to create an innovation ecosystem here in Waterloo region. We believe that innovation wave began within the epicenter and brain trust of the University of Waterloo, but extends out to the business community, to governments, as well as partners like the Accelerator Centre and Perimeter Institute In September, the University of Waterloo and Communitech will celebrate this spirit of innovation at the Waterloo Innovation Summit.
The event will showcase how a community builds a successful innovation ecosystem and will feature a powerhouse roster of speakers from Silicon Valley’s Steven Blank, to author and economist Mariana Mazzucato, to Salim Ismail of Singularity University. More than 200 delegates are expected to attend including prominent business leaders, government officials, senior policy makers, entrepreneurs, and founders from Waterloo region, Canada and the world. Watch - How does the external relations effort scale at a national, international level? Sandra - Clearly we wish to advance reputation on an international scale. And it is happening now. We touch different parts of the globe every day, through our faculty, our students, our alumni and our research partnerships. In the last three months alone we have signed partnerships in Israel and the Netherlands and expect to sign yet another East Asian partnership in the fall. But I think we also have the opportunity to expand our profile closer to home – in Toronto, in Montreal, in Ottawa and Western Canada. Despite our very strong alumni network, our research pedigree, and our grad students, we still have unfinished business in telling the Waterloo story here in Canada. So that remains an important priority for us.
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