Government
FedDev Ontario Funding Support – Portfolio Investments
On October 9, 2020, the Honourable Mélanie Joly, then Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario) announced a FedDev Ontario contribution of $6.5 million to Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners. Read more here: https://bit.ly/3nBEXDR
Under this Agreement, TIAP has to date made the following investments in our portfolio startup companies:
Bitnobi - $15,000, April 1, 2019
Bright Angel Therapeutics - $30,000, August 2, 2019 and $70,000, December 23, 2020
Elarex (McMaster University) - ...
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MI Leads Special Health Innovation & Investment Mission to Seoul
Toronto, April 13, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Dr. Rafi Hofstein, President and CEO of MaRS Innovation (MI) announced today that as part of Toronto Health Innovation Week, MI will lead a special health innovation and investment mission to Seoul, South Korea from May 9 to May 11, 2018. Representatives from 14 Ontario research institutions and innovation companies from life sciences and healthcare sectors will participate in the mission.
Exporting Ontario’s world-class innovations, technologies and expertise to new, fast-growing markets around the world ...
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Ministry of Health and Long Term Care selects BresoTec for Sleep Apnea Test Project
Toronto, Canada, May 16, 2017 – BresoDx®, developed by BresoTec, has been selected by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC) for use in a home-based sleep apnea demonstration project with sleep clinics across Ontario. For the first time in the province,patients and sleep physicians will have the option to diagnose sleep apnea in the home.
Invented at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute by Dr. Hisham Alshaer, BresoDx® is the world’s first cordless, single-user, home sleep test used to diagnose sleep apnea. BresoDx® aims ...
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MaRS Innovation and KHIDI commence joint research initiatives
TORONTO, ON--(Marketwired - April 18, 2017) - MaRS Innovation (MI) and its South Korean partner, Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI), continue to build on the five-year global partnership agreement signed in December 2016 during Premier Wynne's mission to the Republic of Korea.
Together with Minister Moridi, Ontario Minister of Research, Innovation and Science, Rafi Hofstein, CEO of MI, is in Seoul to further the joint research initiatives first envisaged last year. Five outstanding Ontario scientists from some of MI's Member institutions are ...
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QD Solar Secures Over $10M for Development of Solar Energy Technologies
TORONTO (February 13, 2017): QD Solar, a Canadian technology company created by MaRS Innovation and the University of Toronto, announced today the closing of a C$2.5M Series A funding led by DSM Venturing, with matching investment participation from existing investors, MaRS innovation and KAUST Innovation Fund.
The development of this technology is also supported by project funding that was announced in March 2016 from Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) through a C$2.5M grant, and through the generous support of the Ontario Research ...
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