News

2020

• Winter

  • Laurier Student-run Venture Wins Back-to-Back Entrepreneurship Competitions
  • Laurier LaunchPad Alumni certified by Health Canada to produce face shields that will protect health care workers
  • Laurier grads re-invent restaurant websites with Sociavore

2019

• Winter

  • Verda Innovations Launches Legal Cannabis E-commerce and Delivery Platform in Canada and USA
  • Laurier alumni uses storytelling to help inspire and empower the KW community
  • Laurier students earn podium finish for environmentally friendly EarthSuds products at Enactus exposition
  • The startup that’s making a big bet – on wagering
  • Indigenous social enterprise wins top prize at AC Youth Innovation Summit
  • Laurier hosts first annual Changemaker Innovation Challenge
  • Through ventures rooted in passion, entrepreneurs at Laurier are real-world ready
  • Prime Minister announces tech funding that will assist Laurier LaunchPad program
  • Launchpad puts on first hackathon event
  • Enactus Laurier takes home first regional title in a decade
  • Police to introduce student-developed cannabis screening device by Guard-Ex
  • Smoke's Poutinerie founder, Ryan Smolkin (BBA '95), says branding key to world domination

• Fall

  • Correly acquired by Ottawa-based GenM