Posted: Feb 11, 2021 6:32 AM ET | Last Updated: February 11
Entrepreneurs who started WETech Alliance pose for a picture with MPP Sandra Pupatello in 2011 at the inaugural news conference of the agency.(WETech Alliance)
Ten years ago, Jakub Koter and his partners Ali Al-Aasm and Andy Kale had just been laid off from a marketing firm for Chrysler when they started the tech company Red Piston. They now employ 10 people and have expanded past producing apps and branched out into social media marketing and software.
Red Piston was one of the first clients of another new venture called WETech Alliance. WETech was formed by a group of entrepreneurs who wanted to see Windsor-Essex have an agency they could turn to help them access the supports they need to get their businesses off the ground.