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Startup Grind Kitchener-Waterloo connects founders across KW and Southwestern Ontario to a global network of 300+ chapters in over 100 countries. We're here to help you solve the hardest part of building a company: finding your first real customers.
We're built for hard tech. If you're working in robotics, AI, cybersecurity, quantum, blockchain, or advanced networks like 5G, you already know the sales cycles are long and every relationship counts. We connect you with the people who will validate your product and give you real, hard feedback. And we connect you with mature operators who want to back the next thing before everyone else sees it.
This region has been building serious infrastructure and hard tech for decades. The work now is to wire it into the rest of the world, because there's no reason KW and Southwestern Ontario shouldn't be one of the most connected and respected places to build.
We value deep friendships over contacts, giving first and freely over taking, and helping others well before helping ourselves. If that's how you want to build, come join us.
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2026年6月18日
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Kitchener-Waterloo Official StartupGrind Kick-Off
Hi, this is Andrew. We are officially launching the Startup Grind KW chapter, in order to connect local KW and Southwest...
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