October 5, 2026

51 new jobs this week and a Linux group turns 25

The Weekly for Sep 28 to Oct 4

Morning!

Hiring jumped this week. Companies on Builderloo posted 51 new jobs, a normal week is about 29.

Before you get excited, 55 jobs came down in the same week. Maybe they're getting filled. Maybe not. I'll keep an eye on it.

If you're looking, 110 of the 327 open roles are here in the region or remote in Canada.

Who's hiring

Magnet Forensics is still on top, with BinSentry close behind.

Magnet Forensics
25
BinSentry
24
Float
20
Miovision
19
Tempo.io
18

ADDING ROLES
▲Deep Trekker3→5▲Nicoya Lifesciences Inc.3→4▲Presto9→10
TRIMMING
▼Nulogy7→5▼Proto5→3▼Ground News2→1▼MyHR2→1▼Voltera Inc.2→1

All open roles

Hiring for the first time

ETAS posted its first jobs since we started checking its careers page. Tulip and Sera4 got going too.

ETAS
etas.com
7 roles posted
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Tulip
tulip.io
3 roles posted
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Sera4
sera4.com
2 roles posted
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New on the list

Builders Club is on the list now, and it shows up again in the calendar below with a pancake social.

Builders Club
buildersclub.ca
Builders Club is a selected membership and clubhouse in Waterloo where ambitious people develop the judgment, relationships, and momentum to become better builders.
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Liminal HQ
liminalhq.ca
Digital tools for the spaces in between.
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Verda
verda.com
Cloud infrastructure shaped by AI workloads.
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WayFur
wayfur.app
Check whether your dog or cat can make a specific trip: airline breed policy, entry requirements, vaccination timing, breed law and pet-friendly stays.
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Plot
useplot.com
Plot builds tools for movers and makers: Plot Dispatch to move every important conversation forward, Plot Pulse to find out what people actually think, and soon Plot Traction to run your day from your priorities and Plot Curiosity to turn what you save into what you know.
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Cycling Guide Foundation
cyclingguide.org
Cycling reduces the number of cars on the road and delivers amazing personal health benefits
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Transformer Lab
lab.cloud
Primus is the world's first fully autonomous AI researcher available to everyone.
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Things to do this week

KWLUG turns 25 with an anniversary panel. Ellipsis Labs is also running a poker night with a talk before the tournament, and CivicTechWR has its hacknight.

Mon, Oct 5
2:00 PMUW CrySP: Mind the Gap: Policy vs Reality in Post-Quantum TLS DeploymentDC 1304, Davis Centre, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave W, Waterloo, ON
7:00 PMKWLUG: 25th Anniversary PanelDC 1568, Davis Centre, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave W, Waterloo, ON
Tue, Oct 6
12:00 PMFounder Institute: FI Alumni Panel: Meet Founders of High-Growth Startups (Q&A + Networking)Online: Register for meeting link
Wed, Oct 7
12:00 PMNon-Techincal WednesdayKitchener, Ontario
5:45 PMEllipsis Labs Poker Night: Talk + TournamentWaterloo, ON
6:00 PMCivicTechWR HacknightKitchener, ON
6:00 PMBoba & BedazzlingWaterloo, ON
Fri, Oct 9
9:00 AMPancake Social at Builders ClubKitchener, Ontario
6:00 PMKW GameDevKitchener, ON

Full calendar

Heard from the companies

Euna Solutions got named an AWS Champion again, two years running now. Evercloak picked up support for its cooling tech.

ACTO
acto.com
Everest Group Innovation Watch 2026
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Evercloak
evercloak.com
Evercloak Secures Support To Advance Game-Changing Cooling Technology
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CHAR Technologies
chartechnologies.com
Shareholder Letter from CEO
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Bartesian
bartesian.com
Cheers, UK! Bartesian Introduces the Exclusive Gin Basil Smash
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Euna Solutions
eunasolutions.com
Euna Solutions Named 2026 AWS Champion for Second Consecutive Year
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Money

Qidni Labs, a Velocity company, is building a portable dialysis machine that uses almost no water. The federal government is putting in up to $12.5 million, half of a $25 million push to finish the design, start making it in Ontario and run clinical studies.

• Government of Canada backs Qidni Labs' $25 million push to scale portable dialysis, Velocity (UW Incubator)

Worth a read

The Startup Barn update is the one I'd read first. Jesse Rodgers counted more than 100 tech events in the region in September, and nobody was running the whole thing.

• Q3 2026 Portfolio in Review, Version One Ventures

• September Update: A Hundred Events and Nobody in Charge, Startup Barn

• The Era of Superhuman Forecasting, Radical Ventures

• Sep 27, Oct 4: DevHouse kicks it off, Startup Barn

Over on the forum

rayyan says Builderloo is super cool. I didn't pay them, I promise.

builderloo is super cool@rayyan · 2 points · 1 comment

Building something? Post it with a title that starts with Show: and it goes on the Show list.

What changed on the site

A lot shipped this week. The big one: press Follow on any startup's page and you get an email the day it posts a role, makes the news or lists an event. Every job and event has its own page now, and there are RSS feeds for all of it. This email got a rewrite too.

Everything that changed is on the forum. Found a bug or want something added? Comment there.

That's the week. Catch you next Monday.

Torrin

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