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From wearable technology products to reimagining advertising flyers, tech-driven entrepreneurs gave their best pitch last night  at the Jolt Demo Fest in Toronto as the accelerator showcased its most recent cohort of early stage startups.

Intertainment Media Inc. announced 20% ownership investment in Tunezy, Inc.Tunezy, Inc is a MaRS client who has received over $30,000 worth of advisory services from MaRS.

MaRS Discovery District announced the creation of JOLT, a new Toronto-based tech accelerator aimed at helping high-growth Web and mobile companies.

Ben Casnocha will be speaking at the MaRS Centre on May 16th. Casnocha wrote a NY Times best selling book The Start-Up of You written with LinkedIn co-founder.

The Business of Aging Summit was held at the MaRS Centre on April 30th. Innovations were displayed that were designed to help employers better engage mature workers such as Workplace Institute, Cogniciti, The Exercise Doctor, etc. Joseph F. Coughlin, PhD, the Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology AgeLab and Geoff Mulgan, CEO from NESTA spoke.

The AT&T Hackathon will take place on June 15th and 16th at the MaRS Discovery District. The event is designed for technical and non-technical attendees to build apps and compete for prizes.

MaRS is having a Market Insights event on social commerce opportunities on April 17.

Wavefront, a National Centre of Excellence supporting the growth and commercialization of wireless companies in Canada, is providing MaRS Commons with a mobile handset library consisting of the most popular handsets available. This means that wireless application developers no longer need to buy the multitude of handsets required to test their applications, saving time and money - a fact known to wireless innovators who have already taken advantage of Wavefront's handset library in Vancouver. 

CHALLENGE: It's got potential and is ready to be built, but is the science sound? And can a fringe medical treatment have mass appeal?

Lew Lim founder of Mediclights is a MaRS client and is bringing intranasal light therapy to Canada. Peter Adams, a MaRS Life Science and Healthcare IT advisor is working with Lim to commercializing this innovation. They would like to see Toronto as the new hub for interanasal laser research.

The following six start-ups will comprise JOLT's first summer cohort: Prof (interactive social education platform), Vennpage (infographics), ShelfLife (social commerce for fans of collectibles), SlingRide (social network for booking rideshare trips), Greengage Mobile (social platform encouraging eco-sustainable practices in the workplace) and tout.it  (social media platform for sports fans).

Nic Sulsky is the co-founder of InGamer, the 3-screen social gaming platform turns a passive sports-watching audience into an active one. InGamer provides sports, live event broadcasters, and brands a platform that greatly diminishes audience fragmentation, eyeballs being distracted and early disengagement. It stimulates a stickiness that will allow partners to more effectively monetize that audience wherever & however they are engaged. It's the logical next step in live sport and live event production licensing, broadcasting, and marketing.

Veegage is one of the startups based with MaRS's new Jolt accelerator is creating a tool for infographic creation. JOLT has also posted the first segment of its Jolt TV series on the Financial Post.