When you are a part of an Entrepreneurship Society in a city as innovative as Waterloo it sometimes feels like the society just runs itself. The Accelerator Centre is located minutes from campus and a great resource for the entrepreneurial minded.
Success Starts Here
The Waterloo Accelerator Centre (AC), located within the David Johnston Research + Technology Park, is an award-winning facility dedicated to developing and commercializing technology startups. The Waterloo AC provides its startup clients with an essential combination of executive mentorship, educational programming, facilities, networking, and access to funding and facility services. The goal of the AC is to build successful companies within Waterloo Region’s ecosystem.
What makes the Waterloo AC unique?
Our in-depth programming, unique accountability model, and long-term view distinguish the Waterloo AC from other accelerators and incubators within the Canadian commercialization landscape. While other incubators tend to work in sprints – putting a startup through an intensive program of several weeks or months, the AC’s approach to its clients is very different. Our focus is on building long-term relationships with businesses – helping entrepreneurs move from startup to scale-up, accelerate their time to market, attract customers, and drive revenue as well as investment.
The average client entering the Accelerator Centre’s program will spend as much as three years with us, working their way through various milestones of achievement set out within our structured programming and guided by intensive, ongoing coaching. A newly established Momentum program also serves as a starting point for companies who do not yet meet the AC’s criteria for acceptance, and offers its own structured programming around market validation and initial business plan creation.
Securing funding for a startup is always a top of mind priority for the CEO of any fledgling company.
Clients who successfully graduate the Accelerator Centre’s program are fully formed, sustainable businesses. Indeed, a number of graduates from the AC, including Axonify, Clearpath Robotics, CrossChasm, Intellijoint, Kik, Miovision, Magnet Forensics are highly respected, multi-million dollar businesses and are becoming significant employers within the Waterloo Region.
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To learn more about the Entrepreneurship Society at UWaterloo you can visit their main website at www.uwesociety.com