Wavefront is adding Connected Lab, a Toronto-based digital product development studio, to its national network of innovation partners.<\/p>\n
The Vancouver-headed\u00a0Wavefront works with mobile and IoT companies to digitally transform their business.\u00a0The company announced it\u2019s enlisting Connected Lab to work with these companies to plan, design and build digital products.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe see the significant value they will bring to our corporate clients who are looking to digitally transform but don\u2019t have the resources or capacity to do so on their own,\u201d said Christian Magsisi, Wavefront\u2019s VP of enterprise solutions.<\/p>\n
Wavefront acts as an intermediary between large enterprise companies and innovative Canadian startups and small and medium-sized enterprises, like Connected Lab.<\/p>\n
\u201cWavefront does a tremendous job bringing Canadian companies together in the name of innovation,\u201d said Mike Stern, CEO of Connected Lab. \u201cThey have the ability to connect companies that want to grow their business through software-powered products with firms like ours that can make it happen for them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since its 2014 launch, Connected Lab has grown to a team of more than 100 people. Wavefront is tapping the Toronto firm for its end-to-end services that include technology explorations, user research, product launch and product optimization.<\/p>\n
Over the past five years, Wavefront\u2019s programs for startups and small businesses have created 6,700 jobs and generated $418 billion in GDP, according to a recent Economic Impact Report.<\/p>\n