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ClevrU partners with Schulich School of Business professors to target online education market

MaRS Innovation and York University’s commercialization office support new partnership

Students in China interact with the ClevrU platform. Photo courtesy of ClevrU Inc.

In the age of ITunes, videotaping lectures or converting existing textbooks into e-books won’t make you the market leader in online education.

Thanks to a new partnership between ClevrU, and NewMindsets Inc., facilitated by MaRS Innovation and York University’s commercialization office, Canadian technology and content promises to establish the second-generation online learning standard for millions of students worldwide.

Hossein Rahnama, CEO of Flybits, on CBC’s Lang & O’Leary Exchange

August 29, 2012
Susanne Staer
Flybits

Hossein Rahnama on Lang & O'Leary — **Hossein Rahnama**, CEO of Flybits Inc., on CBC’s *Lang & O’Leary Exchange*. Rahnama is also a professor at Ryerson University.

Hossein Rahnama, CEO of Flybits, a MaRS Innovation spin-off company, appeared on CBC’s Lang and O’Leary Exchange on August 24, 2012.

Watch Rahnama’s interview on CBC’s Media Player. The interview begins at the 13:40 mark and runs to 19:30.

Rahnama, who is also a professor at Ryerson University and and research director at Ryerson’s Digital Media Zone, was recently named to the MIT Technology Review’s prestigious 35 Inventors Under 35 list for 2012 along with fellow MaRS Innovation inventor Joyce Poon.

He describes his context-aware mobile technology, the importance of adapting research to solve real-world problems, the advantages to running a start-up in Toronto, and growing Flybits while keeping the business in Canada.

Two MI inventors named to MIT’s 35 inventors under 35 list

August 24, 2012
Susanne Staer
Awards

Professors Joyce Poon and Hossein Rahnama, who each have inventions within MaRS Innovation’s portfolio of spin-off companies and licenseable technologies, have been named to the MIT Technology Review‘s prestigious 35 Inventors Under 35 list for 2012.

Poon, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Toronto, was recognized for, according to MIT’s Technology Review, “creating new optical modulators with microscopic loop-the-loops through which light can shuttle data between servers and even from chip to chip within a single server.” She is working with MaRS Innovation to license her technology.

Flybits featured as Canadian tech export in UKTI Youtube video

June 26, 2012
Susanne Staer
Flybits

U.K. Trade and Investment (UKTI) has posted a Youtube video featuring Canadian companies looking to expand their operations to Britain.

Flybits, a Mars Innovation spin-off company, was among three companies to be profiled:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VrtJuSkYqY

Flybits is launching a corporate presence in East London’s Tech City, which is also known as the Silicon Roundabout.

National Post, Financial Post spotlight Flybits’ expansion to Tech City, London (U. K.)

June 18, 2012
Susanne Staer
Flybits

The Financial Post and the National Post each ran a feature article June 18, 2012 concerning the United Kingdom’s efforts to attract Canadian-based technology start-ups seeking entrance into European markets.

Flybits, a Mars Innovation spin-off company based on the research of Ryerson University professor Hossein Rahnama, was among those profiled.

Flybits CEO Presents Mobile Technology Platform to the Prince of Wales

May 23, 2012
Susanne Staer
Flybits

TORONTO (May 22, 2012) — Flybits CEO and Founder Hossein Rahnama was among the entrepreneurs of Ryerson University’s Digital Media Zone (DMZ) to meet the Prince of Wales and demonstrate his cloud-based and context-aware software solution.

Prince Charles, Hossein Rahnama and Dalton McGuinty — Flybits CEO Hossein Rahnama (left) demonstrates his mobile technology for His Royal Highness Prince Charles and Premier Dalton McGuinty (right)

Flybits Inc., a Mars Innovation spin-off company from Ryerson University where Rahanama is a professor and research director of the DMZ, has developed an innovative, context-aware software as a service framework called FARE (Flybits Activity Recognition Engine).

It allows mobile application developers to rapidly build intelligent mobile applications that address the needs of multiple vertical markets without excessive infrastructure requirements.

How VitalHub Corp. Uses iPhones® To Help Health Care

TORONTO, ON (Jan. 25, 2011) —Doctors, nurses and administrators can now access electronic health applications on mobile, hand-held technology through VitalHub Corp..

The unique start-up company was spun-off from mobile health technologies developed Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital, thanks in part to $300,000 in seed financing from MaRS Innovation that will give it a crucial head start in the fiercely competitive mobile IT health sector.

MaRS Innovation invests in the most commercially promising discoveries emerging from its member institutions, which include 16 of Toronto’s leading universities, hospitals (such as Mount Sinai) and research institutions. This funding commitment rounds out a sizeable seed round of financing for VitalHub.

ClevrU partners with Schulich School of Business professors to target online education market

MaRS Innovation and York University’s commercialization office support new partnership

Hossein Rahnama, CEO of Flybits, on CBC’s Lang & O’Leary Exchange

Two MI inventors named to MIT’s 35 inventors under 35 list

Flybits featured as Canadian tech export in UKTI Youtube video

National Post, Financial Post spotlight Flybits’ expansion to Tech City, London (U. K.)

How VitalHub Corp. Uses iPhones® To Help Health Care

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