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We help tech companies start, grow and succeed. The transformation >$22B 2013 total revenues $100M in total revenues >1,000 tech firms 641 active startups 50 tech firms new tech jobs 30,000 (since `97) 1,800 employed tech jobs

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We help tech companies start, grow and succeed.

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The transformation

then (1997)

in total revenues tech firms employed in invested venture capital, private equity and angel financing

now!

$100M 50 1,800 $7M

2013 total revenues tech firms active startups new tech jobs (since `97) tech jobs available total investment capital in 2013

>$22B >1,000 641 30,000 >1,000 >$99M

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Proven track record of growing big tech

enterprise wireless software digital display high performance digital imaging satellite communications EdTech & learning logistics technology network policy

$15,384,688,000

8 of Canada’s largest tech companies started, grew and are headquartered in Waterloo Region

175

Disclosed combined revenues 2013 Countries Operating in

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Tech multi-nationals that have set up shop here

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Tech for non-tech

“[Communitech] was instrumental, for example, in helping Sport Chek’s in-house team build a digital community board at its flagship West Edmonton Mall store for $12,000. A previous prototype, built by a third party at one of its Toronto outlets, cost the company $1-million.”

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Recognized and respected

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Helping tech companies at all stages

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Startup balance sheet 2013

Startups per year

500+

$99 MILLION

Venture capital raised by Waterloo Region startups in 2013 Waterloo Region startups led the last 4 cohorts at Y Combinator

RAISED

have a 5-year survival rate

83%

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Investment, exits & acquisitions

Disclosed 2008 - 2013

$414,996,000 $892,210,000

investments exits and acquisitions

Disclosed 2010 - 2012

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Investment: $26,995,000 Last raise date: March 2013

100 million users worldwide

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KickStarter: $10,266,845 Last raise date: May 2012

Most successful Kickstarter ever

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Investment: $14,029,000 Last raise date: May 2013

The hottest startup – biosensor & gesture control

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First mover advantage. It’s real. It’s profitable.

Communitech HYPERDRIVE fund

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Waterloo Region – An ideal entry point to Canada

Canada: A blue ocean opportunity for tech and innovation. Waterloo Region: Home to the world-class Communitech tech hub.

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Home to world-leading research and talent

Research institutes

150

100,000 students

1/5 Waterloo Region’s population

  • f those, 26,000 in co-op programs.

Largest school of computer science and math in the

world; largest engineering school in Canada Home to the Institute for Quantum Computing and the Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics

academics and research Undergrad and Graduate Students

Universities

2

College

1

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Street cred counts here. Home to visionaries

Val O’Donovan COM DEV Satellite Communications Wes Graham Watcom C++ Compilers Fortran Frank Tompa Open Text Search Mike Lazaridis RIM Smartphones Arokia Nathan IGNIS LED Flat Panels Eric Migicovsky Pebble Wearables Stephen Lake Thalmic Biosensor Gesture Control

First mover advantage. It’s real. It’s profitable.

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Tech innovations over the last 5 decades

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Pivotal organizations in Waterloo Region’s ecosystem

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Tech game changers from Waterloo Region to the world

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The ecosystem that could…creating new markets.

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What influencers & investors are saying …

“There’s incredible technical

  • talent. The University of

Waterloo is mind-blowing. Talent appears to want to stay here, and I think they need more support in this community.” — David Cohen, TechStars “Something is going on in Waterloo, because the applications we get from Waterloo students are better than those we get from students

  • f any other university.”

— Paul Graham, Y Combinator “There are a lot of winners in this

  • room. We’ve already invested in

some of the startups we met with this morning.”

  • -Roger Penske, CEO Penske Corporation

with Tom LaSorda, Former CEO Chrysler and Wayne Sales, Former CEO SuperValu and Canadian Tire – IncWell

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Running with the big dogs

The World’s Top 20 Startup Ecosystems

1. Silicon Valley 2. Tel Aviv 3. Los Angeles 4. Seattle 5. New York City 6. Boston 7. London 8. Toronto 9. Vancouver

  • 10. Chicago
  • 11. Paris
  • 12. Sydney
  • 13. Sao Paulo
  • 14. Moscow
  • 15. Berlin
  • 16. Waterloo Region
  • 17. Singapore
  • 18. Melbourne
  • 19. Bangalore
  • 20. Santiago

Startup Ecosystem Report 2012

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Don’t lose sight of this place