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Four Waterloo-founded bets

A Y Combinator cohort shows one route from campus to San Francisco. Published in Alumni Digest as verified reporting from the University of Waterloo.

A Y Combinator cohort shows one route from campus to San Francisco.

In the September issue
Four Waterloo-founded bets
Four Waterloo-founded startups earn $2 million seed funding Photo: University of Waterloo / original source page. Source image retained for editorial review; rights clearance is still required before any broader reuse.

The context

Where the work begins

The University of Waterloo is well represented in the most recent cohort of companies accepted into the Y Combinator (YC), one of the biggest and most presti

The takeaway

What follows

The official Waterloo report places this work in builders / yc. It is a source-linked brief for alumni readers; the source page remains the authority for names, dates and outcomes.

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