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Morgan Solar a MaRS Client announced that it has secured a USD $9.8 million (CAD $10 million) investment from Enbridge Inc.

MaRS life sciences and health care practice client, Dr. Hamid Tizhoosh, founder of Segasist, is interviewed for CityNews. He talks about how he became and entrepreneur and how this shapes his life.

Xogen Technologies Inc., an innovator in the wastewater treatment industry and a MaRS Client, has been selected for the Corporate Knights Next 10, a list representing Canada's best privately-held companies in the cleantech space.Tom Rand, Senior Cleantech Advisor at the MaRS Discovery District is on the Corporate Knights Next 10 advisory panel.

Nevex is led by a group of serial entrepreneurs now on their fourth start-up, having focused on areas such as network attached translation and technology and usability in the past. The past start-ups have all been 100 per cent channel-focused, said Nevex product manager Andrew Flint. With Nevex, Flint said they've set out to tackle application performance and I/O caching.

Henry Chong, LIFEbike completed MaRS Entrepreneurship 101 course and entered in MaRS 2012 Up-Start Competition. Keri Damen, Director of Entrepreneurship Education states "the Upstart competition serves as the capstone to the program." Chong won the competition for $10K.

InGamer Sports, a MaRS Client, has developed an innovative technology that takes fantasy-league sports players from "being general managers to being head coaches." According to Nic Sulsky, CEO of InGamer, the company launched "in partnership with The Hockey News and the NHLPA May 27 in time for game one of the Stanley Cup Finals -- does so by allowing gamers to interact with the games in real-time, while they are being played, using their computer or mobile device, and to interact with other gamers at the same time through social media apps."

Polar Mobile, Jigsee, MMB Research and Seragon are four MaRS Clients that were listed as part of the top 10 Canadian mobile and wireless companies to watch for.

Bern Grush of Skymeter, a MaRS tenant and client, talks about metering car-use. Why is it the way of the future? Pay for your use of the roads, pay for your use of fossil fuels, pay for your contribution to city-road congestion. It's about making better cities and a cleaner environment. All it takes is the Skymeter satellite technology!

Bern Grush's company, Skymeter, makes a GPS-based system capable of tracking every inch a vehicle travels, how long the trip takes and where it is on the road.

Toronto and Canadian success story: MaRS plays an important role as Intel buys Canadian start-up CognoVision. CognoVision helps advertisers measure the effectiveness of in-store marketing.

Communitech, the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation, and the MaRS Discovery District have ageed to work together to help the province compete more effectively against countries like India and China. These three companies partnership will function under the name MaRS Network. May 29, 2005

Communitech, the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation, and the MaRS Discovery District have ageed to work together to help the province compete more effectively against countries like India and China. These three companies partnership will function under the name MaRS Network.

The Institute without Boundaries at George Brown College is a centre of research and learning focused on design innovation and inter-professional collaboration. The Institute comprises of a post-graduate program that teaches design collaboration to professionals from diverse backgrounds; a research division, which conducts applied research on global issues; and a think tank, which offers design consultation to clients.

Vive Nano receives accolades for its clean tech approach. Its appeal is in its business model: to develop new processes and company-specific nanoparticles, then lease out their know-how to established companies who have both their own distribution networks and capability to deal with the various national regulatory hurdles that a small firm could never hope to manage.

MaRS client and Toronto nanotechnology upstart Vive Nano is featured in Yonge Street magazine as a good news story for innovative business in TO.

Echologics, a MaRS client in the Water IT space is included in the Lux Innovation Grid

Vincent Cheung of Shape Collage, a MaRS client, has been named the 2010 student entrepreneur Ontario champion and regional champion for Ontario and Quebec by the national charitable organization Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship (ACE). Read this online discussion with him on the Globe and Mail about being a student entrepreneur.

Vincent Cheung and Wenfei Yu, MaRS clients and University of Toronto students, took home $25,000 for their business Shape Collage, which placed first in the 12th annual IBK Capital-Ivey Business Plan Competition on March 26 & 27 at Ivey Business School.

Vincent Cheung of Shape Collage, recent winner of the MaRS Up-Start Competition, was also named national champion for an award by the Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship (ACE) organization. Congrats to Shape Collage, a MaRS client.

David Kideckel talks about how MaRS' Entrepreneurship 101 lecture for up-start entrepreneurs helped him in his career. See pages 30-31 for the story.

The Village Gamer reports on the Ontario digital media delegation of companies and venture capital investors heading to New York City next week, organized by MaRS. Delegate companies will present at the prestigious OnMedia NYC 2011 conference, a two-and-a-half day executive gathering on Jan. 31 - Feb. 2, 2011.

Toronto start-up and MaRS client, WeblishPal interview on BNN's The Pitch. WeblishPal is an online platform that connects English teachers and students across the world.

Haroon Mirza talks about the beginning of Cognovision: How they identified & pursued their business idea. Cognivision was a MaRS client before they were purchased by Intel last year.