Waterloo Region tech community

A community of tech supporters across the Kitchener-Waterloo region.

An aggregated calendar of tech and startup events around Waterloo Region.

The Kitchener-Waterloo Linux Users Group: monthly talks for the open source community.

Volunteers building technology for the public good in Waterloo Region.

Kitchener's member-run makerspace for hardware, electronics, and building things.

An open data view of the Waterloo Region tech and economic landscape.

A Waterloo accelerator with programs for early-stage tech founders, no equity taken, and coworking open to anyone.

A membership organization in downtown Kitchener with programs, workspace and events for Waterloo Region tech companies.

The University of Waterloo's startup incubator in Kitchener, with free desks, labs and coaching for full-time founders, and no equity taken.

A selected membership and clubhouse in downtown Kitchener for founders, operators and students making something real, with Wednesday sessions open to anyone.

A frontier-tech venture studio and AI data-centre operator on the former BlackBerry campus in Waterloo, with office hours and events for founders.

A coworking space in the Catalyst137 building in Kitchener, with day passes, hot desks, dedicated desks, private offices and meeting rooms.

A coworking space in a heritage building in Uptown Waterloo, for founders, creatives and teams, with a gym and event rooms in the same building.

Wilfrid Laurier University's incubator in Lazaridis Hall, Waterloo, for Laurier students, alumni and community members turning an idea into a business.

A coworking space in its own building at 290 King Street East in Kitchener's Innovation District, beside the Kitchener Market, with hot desks, dedicated desks and private offices.

An industry-led hub in Kitchener for Canadian medtech companies that are scaling, with offices, lab space and mentoring from other medtech founders.

Waterloo's first founder residency, a house near Uptown Waterloo where builders live and work on their companies, with showcases and talks open to the region.

An open collective of makers, engineers, designers, artists and writers that holds a coworking session in Waterloo every Sunday, started at the University of Waterloo in 2022.

Conestoga College's startup programs, run from a coworking space on University Avenue in Waterloo, for Conestoga students and alumni starting a company or a freelance business.

The developer and landlord of office buildings in the UW R&T Park in Waterloo, with Cora GRID, private coworking suites for startups and small teams in its evolv1 building.

The City of Kitchener's program for creative and entrepreneurial spaces.

Canadian startup news, filtered to Kitchener-Waterloo.

Local daily news covering Waterloo Region.

CBC's regional newsroom for Kitchener-Waterloo.

Regional broadcast news for Waterloo Region.

Research and innovation news from the University of Waterloo.

Jesse Rodgers' newsletter on what Waterloo Region builders are making and where to find them.