The Next Billion Dollar Company is coming out of the Waterloo Region: “Presenting the 55 Rock Stars of Waterloo”
WATERLOO, ON / ACCESSWIRE / March 12, 2015 / CyberNorth Ventures is pleased to present “The 55 Rock Stars of Waterloo”, a list of innovators in idea creation and community support. “After months of interviewing hundreds of start-up companies in the Waterloo Region, we are pleased to highlight 55 influential business leaders who are on the cutting edge of technology development,” states Gary Bartholomew, Managing Partner of CyberNorth Ventures Inc. “These start-up companies are led by young, inspiring entrepreneurs who could be the founders of the next billion dollar, Canadian technology company. We were inspired by Marc Andreesson’s list of ’55 Unknown Rock Stars of Technology’ to profile successful leaders in the Waterloo Region.”
Over the past 5 years, manufacturing has been replaced by technology as the dominant industry in Waterloo Region, driven in part by the University of Waterloo’s Intellectual Property (IP) Policy, which grants IP rights to the creators. Government, university and local incubator support of capital and resources to the entrepreneurial eco-system has fostered a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship. However, the individuals driving the development are largely unknown outside the Waterloo technology community.
Mike Lazaridis, co-founder of BlackBerry (formerly Research in Motion) put Waterloo on the map globally with the BlackBerry smartphone. A graduate and supporter of the University of Waterloo, he has inspired the next generation of innovators to become entrepreneurs and turn their ideas into products. Start-up companies, such as Thalmic Labs, Clearpath Robotics, Kik, MioVision and BufferBox, have grown through the local ecosystem and their success has stimulated a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship for others to follow.
The 55 Rock Stars can be reviewed at the following link: www.cybernorthventures.com/the-55-rockstars-of-waterloo/.
About CyberNorth Ventures Inc.
CyberNorth Ventures Inc., is a private venture capital firm founded 19 years ago in the Waterloo Region and has been funding start-up companies, providing business advisory services to the start up community in Waterloo. Since its inception, it has funded and managed over 12 technology companies, created over $1B in market capitalization, raised over $150 million in equity capital for its start ups, and employed close to 1,000 people in the start up companies created. CyberNorth Ventures continues to expand in the Waterloo Region with its recently launched Fund focussed at funding technology companies from the seed stage all the way into the public markets through multiple rounds of capital. CyberNorth Ventures and its team believe the next billion companies are going to develop out of the Waterloo Region.
Managing Partner
Tel: (877) 305-6930
Email: info@cybernorthventures.com
Kitchener, Ontario
N2H 5C2
SOURCE: CyberNorth Ventures
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