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Kitchener-Waterloo’s Uvaro continues to spread industry-wide career success by addressing the high demand for CSMs with their new Customer Success Management course. When the Uvaro team noticed a lack of empathetic and well-rounded Customer Success Managers (CSMs) in the tech industry, they decided to build a course specifically made to give anyone the tools they need to […]
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Learn What You Need To Land A Great Sales Job In Tech
When the Uvaro team noticed the lack of upwards mobility in the tech industry, they decided to build a course specifically made to give any sales rep the skills, tools, and knowledge they need to become a comprehensive leader. Intrigued by tech sales? Learn what you need to know to land a great sales job in the […]
Uvaro Launches Sales Leadership Course To Satisfy Growing Need For Tech Execs
When the Uvaro team noticed the lack of upwards mobility in the tech industry, they decided to build a course specifically made to give any sales rep the skills, tools, and knowledge they need to become a comprehensive leader. This new 6-week Sales Leadership Foundations course will help members identify their leadership styles, teach the […]
Well-funded Uvaro to Accelerate the Future of Tech Sales Careers
Waterloo’s online tech sales academy Uvaro has closed a USD $12 million Series A funding round led by White Star Capital with participation by Real Ventures and BDC Capital’s Women in Technology Venture Fund. Launched on the cusp of the global pandemic by siblings Joseph Fung and Donna Litt alongside co-founder Derek Hall (pictured), Uvaro […]
Panel Shines New Light on the Challenges BIPOC Women Face in Building Tech Careers
While companies with racial and gender diversity were associated with higher sales revenue, more customers, market share and profit, our tech industry continues to fall short when it comes to achieving its diversity goals. According to data from the National Center for Women and Information Technology, women make up a mere 25 percent of computing […]
Women from BWOSS, Shopify and Google Explore the Colourful Side of Tech Sales
It’s a common understanding that women are disproportionately represented in tech. The Covid-19 pandemic has only further underscored the barriers and issues of inequality women and women of colour face as they build their careers in the technology industry. Regardless of educational background or training, women accounted for 63% of the 1 million jobs lost […]
Canada’s “Great Reset” Turns Job Loss into Tech Employment Opportunity
David Cowan never imagined himself working the night shift at McDonald’s. Despite a university degree and training in geology, marine geomatics and remote sensing, the Halifax native struggled for years to break out of the contract work cycle. At the age of 53, David found himself working the drive-through alongside teenagers. David’s story is not […]
Uvaro Launches $50,000 Scholarship Fund For Women of Colour
In a recent study published by McKinsey & Company, women represent only 34.4% of employees in the world’s top 5 largest tech companies; women of colour represent just 18% of entry-level positions. Recognizing the importance of diversity in the workplace, Uvaro has partnered with BWOSS, and Garage Capital to bring $50,000 worth of training scholarships […]
Uvaro Sales Training Program Launches with No Upfront Tuition
Waterloo’s Kiite has publicly launched Uvaro, a new sales training curriculum designed to be more accessible and to drive a more diverse applicant pool. With no upfront tuition cost to participants, Uvaro provides an accelerated on-ramp to a sales career with leading companies. Kiite is a software company focused on helping sales teams capture, organize […]