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" grew out of research that was done . at the University of Waterloo. while . 1 7 the other two are business to busi- ness platforms that provide custom. ers online engagment tools. Ecopia was started by two Uni» versity of Waterloo grads who were completing their research across , the street from the David Johnston Research and Technology Park. They've created intelligent sys- tems to analyze geospatial imagery . through computer vision techniques to go though the millions of imagA es collected by satellites. airplanes. 9'0"“ an“ “"3” ”Nd.“ 93‘“ d.“ Randy Huitema, of Trendingjnfo, ion Lipinski. of Ecopla, John Huehn. of lnTheChat and Daniela O'Neill, Knowledge in Development and Yuanming Sbu. of They halp,’e‘.”"e that '“fi’m‘auf’n Ecopia, are founders of the four companies that graduated from the Accelerator Centre last Thursday. That brings the total to 55 in the last decade. and organize it as useful data for its poem more customers. This means their clients can finally access that information online tool to work with them. Stratford branch of the program, ofproyamsifpossible.” tion with customers, when they need itthe most. ‘They use the normed results to Trendinanfo. John Huehn, president and CEO Huehn said the main thing that ‘ ’There was obviouslya lot of hard find out if a child is falling signifi~ The company creates a social of lnTheChat. also used much of Canadian startups need is the sup» work and long nights behind that.” candy behind his or her peers so an pulse for business, services and asso- his graduation speech to encourage port of bigger business with the capi- said Ion lipinski, co»founder of Eco- intervention can begin as early as dadons and translates it into a clean. more of that cooperation and cross- tal to help. ”There has to be willing- pia, who said they've been refinA possible.’ said O’Neill. concise online marketing tool cate- pollination between startups and ness for govemment and enterprise ing the process for more than three The fully secure and online Whylocation. sport or interest. other tech companies as they contin» to work with young. innovative com- years portal allows professionals to 'This (program) helped us gain ue to build up Canada’s tech sector. parties." said Huehn. 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