The Region of Waterloo has been a hub for startup activity ever since the delivery of the first computer to campus in 1960.
Wes Graham, who was instrumental in the creation of a strong computer science tradition at the University of Waterloo, is also its first entrepreneur leading to the creation of Watcom, the first of many successful startups derived from the University of Waterloo.
There are too many to list them all, but some of the most notable are the aforementioned Watcom, Maple, OpenText, Certicom, BlackBerry, Sandvine, Slipstream, Kik, ThalmicLabs, Clearpath Robotics and Aeron.
