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The three founders of startup tech company Nevex Virtual Technologies Inc. who have been working together for about 20 years and have successfully developed, grown and sold several businesses between them, netting stakeholders more than $300-million in value.

 Phybridge Inc. today announced that it has been issued US Patent No: 8,059,631 for Location System and Method for Assisting Emergency Services in Identifying the Physical Location of an IP Telephony User.  This innovation will be the most robust, easiest to install and manage location identification solution in the market and will most effectively address the challenges associated with VoIP E911 location identification and asset tracking.

Dr. Geordie Rose, Founder and CTO, D-Wave Systems Inc.  been awarded the inaugural CIX (Canadian Innovation Exchange) innovator of the year award. Dr. Rose will receive the award at the CIX event that will be held at the MaRS Discovery District.

RIC Centre, Peel Region hosted it's fourth annual Innovator Idol competition for a $50,000 prize. The four finalists were: Emcara Gas Development, PACTS Cultural Transformations, CHAR Technologies and SMARTeacher. The event was held June 13th, 2012. The panel included William White a Director at MaRS Discovery District. 

Newcomer Magazine writes about MaRS as a business incubator -- a place for newcomers to make connections, find a job, or start a business. They highlight tenants Kanata Chemical Technologies, AXS Biomedical Animations Studio and Clera Inc.

Canada's Technology Triangle Inc (CTT) is a not-for-profit, public-private regional economic development partnership that markets the competitive advantages of the Waterloo Region to the world, and works to attract new businesses, investment and talent to the Region. As an information provider and business network facilitator, CTT is typically the first point of contact for enterprises outside the Waterloo Region interested in start-up, expansion, or relocation to the Waterloo Region. CTT's activity complements its partner municipalities, who focus on local business retention and expansion, and investment-related site location, business cost, servicing, and development approval considerations. CTT's municipal partners are the cities of Cambridge, Kitchener and Waterloo, and the townships of North Dumfries, Wellesley, Wilmot and Woolwich.

Ron Freeman, CEO of Research at InfoSource Inc, says that our current funding model isn't working to commercialize our science. That new policy measures are needed to improve Canada's long-term competitive position.

MaRS Innovation announced its permanent Board of Directors. MaRS Innovation is focused on converting important discoveries into a new generation of products, services and high value jobs.

MaRS Innovation announced its permanent Board of Directors. MaRS Innovation is focused on converting important discoveries into a new generation of products, services and high value jobs. Feb 6, 2009

BNN talks to Niall Wallace, CEO, Infonaut Inc. about their invention of mapping out infectious diseases. Brief mention about MaRS.

Express Scripts Inc., the big St. Louis pharmacy-benefit manager, is about to test an electronic pill container that issues a series of increasingly insistent reminders, in a national study among patient members. The GlowCap gives electronic reminders and collects data on habits. The container-actually a high-tech top for a standard pill bottle called a "GlowCap"-is equipped with a wireless transmitter that plugs into the wall. When it is time for a dose of medicine, the GlowCap emits a pulsing orange light

MTS Allstream Inc. announced on Dec 30 that the winner of a new BMW 335d Advanced Diesel vehicle two year lease from the Greater Toronto Area BMW Retailers.MaRS Discovery District is a partner of the 2009 Allstream Global Forum. Dec 30, 2009

Morgan Solar Inc., a Toronto based solar energy start-up and MaRS client, have increased their first-round investment to USD $8.2 million from the USD $4.7 million announced in October 2009.

Dr. Tom Hudson, President and Scientific Director of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) announced an investment of $1 million towards the development of two new promising cancer therapies. OncoTek Drug Delivery Inc (a subsidiary of Receptor Therapeutics) is one of the recipients.

Vincent Cheung, owner of Shape Collage Inc. and full time PhD student at the University of Toronto, has been named the 2010 Student Entrepreneur Regional Champion by national charitable organization, Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship (ACE) and proud program supporter, CIBC.

Mike McDerment, CEO of Freshbooks.com and Reuven Cohen, founder and chief technologist for Enomaly Inc. provide some tips on how start-ups can use today's technology to tell their tale and sell their products. To learn more about how technology and cloud computing can help companies and individuals improve business advantage and processes the MeshU event will be taking place on May 22 at the MaRS Centre.

"The United States spends more on health care-related research and development than any other country. In 2003, it was estimated that the Federal government alone spent over $26 billion. Pharmaceutical companies, device manufacturers and other private companies invested over $10 billion more. At its best, the American health care system is capable of delivering care unsurpassed anywhere else in the world. Yet, a 1999 Institute of Medicine study estimated that as many as 98,000 Americans die each year from hospital related medical errors. A recent study by the Rand Corporation (a non-profit think tank) concluded that less than 50 percent of encounters with doctors and hospitals resulted in optimal, evidence-based treatment. Studies show that as many as 42 million Americans - almost 15 percent of the population - lack health care insurance. Surveys reveal that patients do not feel they have adequate information about their conditions, and that their experience with health care ranks below that of most other sectors, in fact below that of the post office. In the aggregate, the country is spending nearly $2 trillion on health care, and yet the nation's health care system does not meet acceptable thresholds for safety, quality, access or cost. In 2005, VHA Health Foundation's board of directors sought to better understand the reasons behind this paradox. The foundation commissioned Larry Keeley and his associates at Doblin Inc. to apply the rigorous analytical methods that are used in their evaluation of other American industries and companies. The project set out to discover when, where and how innovation was taking place in health care. It also sought to identify organizations that were developing model innovation processes, and to explore where opportunities for successful innovation might lay."

On Nov 4, there was a presentation that took place at the MaRS Centre on Energy Storage Market. The session was moderated by Deloitte's director of research, Duncan Stewart. Other speakers were: Sankar Das Gupta, CEO of Toronto-based Electrovaya, Mark Tinkler, principal consultant of Emerging Energy Options, Kirk Washington, general partner at Yaletown Venture Partners, and Ken Rudisuela, president of Mobilogy Inc. The seminar focused on the importance of energy storage, not just to make renewable energy more practical, but also to reduce our dependency on carbon-based fuel, especially gasoline. Nov 5, 2009

Better the World Inc., a novel for-profit online fundraising platform, has been named Canada's first certified "B Corporation". Mention of MaRS working with Better The World to chart their progress and ensure other companies could benefit from their experience in gaining this designation through the support of a pro bono legal team from Carters Professional Corporation, Ogilvy Renault and Blake, Cassels & Graydon. March 11, 2009

RIM has bought Ontario-based startup tinyHippos Inc., creator of Ripple, a cross-platform mobile application development and testing tool. tinyHippos is a MaRS client.

CML HealthCare Inc is planning to automate it's current infrastructure to deliver greater volume and medical laboratory tests. CML is also working to commercialize early-stage technologies in medical diagnostics in partnership with an Ontario government agency known as MaRS Innovation.