Top 10 biggest tech firms in Waterloo Region: WEDC | 24CA News
The Waterloo Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) has launched a listing of the most important tech companies within the area.
The WEDC, which is an impartial group designed to assist foster corporations arrive and develop within the space, used the variety of workers as a option to create its listing.
It says the ten largest tech corporations within the area are break up equally between Kitchener and Waterloo, with Google headlining the listing.
The world behemoth’s workplace in Waterloo is without doubt one of the firm’s largest engineering hubs, because it has steadily grown its Kitchener workplace since arriving in 2005.
While Google tops the listing, a few homegrown corporations which have grown up within the metropolis of Waterloo examine in subsequent, with OpenText and Blackberry taking the second and the third spots within the rankings.
Opentext has held a spot on the Waterloo scene since being based in 1991 following a partnership with Oxford University, which appeared to get the Oxford Dictionary on-line. The firm now has 14,000 workers worldwide, in keeping with the WEDC.
While at one time Blackberry would have occupied the highest spot on the listing, the corporate has reshaped itself through the years. It nonetheless has a significant presence within the space.
SAP, a German multinational software program company, steps in at No. 4 on the listing, having first arrived within the metropolis of Waterloo in 1991.
Rounding out the highest 5 is EPAM Systems, a Belarussian software program firm that was based in New Jersey and solely arrived in Kitchener in 2021.
Another worldwide juggernaut, Oracle Netsuite, is ranked sixth forward of 4 native startups which were rising rapidly since being based over the previous 25 years.
D2L (Kitchener), ApplyBoard (Kitchener), eSentire (Waterloo) and Arctic Wolf (Waterloo) have all been spreading their wings after having been based within the area.
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