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Assunta Krehl

Stem cell research gets a $1M boost - The Star - 0 views

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stem cell Hospital for Sick Children therapeutics

shared by Assunta Krehl on 24 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Ontario is providing
  • $1 million in seed money to back one of last year's most exciting medical breakthroughs, turning simple skin cells into stem cells.
  • A lab run by the Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto in the MaRS (Medical and Related Sciences) complex on College St. has developed the expertise to grow the cells in quantity and is ready to roll.
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  • The goal is to make cells that can replace tissue damaged by disease or accidents, with Sick Kids researchers particularly interested in cystic fibrosis and autism, a government source said.
  • Assunta Krehl on 24 Aug 09
     
    Ontario provides $1M in seed money to back last years medical breakthrough in turning simple skin cells into stem cells.
  • Assunta Krehl on 24 Aug 09
     
    Ontario provides $1M in seed money to back last years medical breakthrough in turning simple skin cells into stem cells. Jun 17, 2008
Cathy Bogaart

Government of Canada Announces $450 Million in New Funding for BDC to Assist Canadian Businesses - 0 views

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Canadian funds finance business entrepreneurship Innovation

shared by Cathy Bogaart on 15 Jun 09 - Cached
  • The funding will include $100 million to establish the Operating Line of Credit Guarantee and $350 million over three years to help drive venture capital investment in promising Canadian technology businesses.
  • Cathy Bogaart on 15 Jun 09
     
    New government funding announced today includes $100 million to establish the Operating Line of Credit Guarantee and $350 million over three years to help drive venture capital investment in promising Canadian technology businesses.
Assunta Krehl

globeadvisor.com: HOW A GOOD PLAN WENT BAD - 0 views

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University of Toronto Asset Management assets

shared by Assunta Krehl on 10 Aug 09 - No Cached
  • University of Toronto Asset Management
  • Canada's sharpest financial minds
  • runs $2.8-billion of staff pensions and $1.5-billion of endowments, which traditionally produces tens of millions of dollars annually for student aid and faculty posts.
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  • But this year the money has stopped flowing after investment losses reached $1.5-billion for 2008 and the university was forced to cancel a planned $62-million endowment payout, representing about 5 per cent of its operating budget.
  • Canada's most innovative investment funds is in question by the university that is bearing the brunt of its losses.
  • Settling into a boardroom chair in the restored heritage building of Toronto's MaRS research centre, Mr. Moriarty remains unshaken by the crisis. He stands committed to UTAM's sophisticated investing approach, reciting phrases like "portable alpha" and "risk budgets" to explain portfolio decisions.
  • Assunta Krehl on 10 Aug 09
     
    University of Toronto remodelled its pension and endowment fund - and then lost $1.5-billion last year. University of Toronto Asset Management runs $2.8-billion of staff pensions and $1.5-billion of endowments, which traditionally produces tens of millions of dollars annually for student aid and faculty posts.runs $2.8-billion of staff pensions and $1.5-billion of endowments, which traditionally produces tens of millions of dollars annually for student aid and faculty posts. Small mention of UTAM at MaRS.
Assunta Krehl

MTS Allstream Announces Winner of BMW Advanced Diesel Two Year Lease - Canada Newswire - 0 views

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cleantech environment transportation MTS Allstream

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  • Assunta Krehl on 05 Jan 10
     
    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
Assunta Krehl

Toronto-based Vive Nano receives prestigious innovation award - TRRA - April 27, 2010 - 0 views

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Clients & Tenants Vive Nano awards Frost & Sullivan 2010 North American Technology of the Year Award

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  • Assunta Krehl on 28 Apr 10
     
    MaRS Client, Vive Nano receives prestigious Frost & Sullivan 2010 North American Technology of the Year Award.
Assunta Krehl

Startups: Investors give education technology firms the nod - Financial Post - September 11, 2012 - 0 views

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JOLT education entrepreneurs clients accelerator funding

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  • Assunta Krehl on 24 Sep 12
     
    Education is one field that is seeing a meteoric growth in the past two years.Trevor Koverko, co-founder of Toronto-based eProf was part of the first co-hort of entrepreneurs in the JOLT program at MaRS Discovery District who are traveling to Silicon Valley in October to meet investors to tell their story.
Karen Schulman Dupuis

Home-grown app makes buying and selling a cinch | Metro - 0 views

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clients app buying selling Toronto

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  • Karen Schulman Dupuis on 11 Apr 12
     
    Are there things in your home that are gathering dust? A food processor you never use? A pair of loafers you bought and wore once? An old desk that's been taking up space in the basement for years? Well now there's an app for that.
Karen Schulman Dupuis

MaRS Pulls the Covers off JOLT - Mark Evans TechMark Evans Tech - 0 views

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MaRS JOLT accelerator entrepreneurship funding workspace mentor

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  • Karen Schulman Dupuis on 26 Apr 12
     
    Housed in the MaRS Commons, JOLT will select up to 15 startups a year, and provide them with office space, seed financing and mentorship, as well as access to partners and angel and venture capital investors
Assunta Krehl

Toronto firm awarded world's first RaaS patent - IT Business - March 21, 2012 - 0 views

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Advisors Geist Geminare Patent cloud technology

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  • Assunta Krehl on 21 Mar 12
     
    Christine Wong, IT Business reported states "Geminare was granted the first ever patent for recovery-as-a-service cloud technology five long years after first developing it." Geist, President & CEO of Geminare has been involved in mentoring start-ups at MaRS. 
Assunta Krehl

Transforming Cost into Healthcare - PR Web - March 26, 2012 - 0 views

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Getinge operations healthcare innovation

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  • Assunta Krehl on 26 Mar 12
     
    According to PR Newswire "Getinge Canada Limited launched a new audit process for hospitals in Canada to make them aware of the potential to save operational costs when transforming from old to innovative technology used in the Medical Device Reprocessing Department." Gentinge had an exhibit at the MaRS Centre earlier this year.
Assunta Krehl

Breast cancer evolves years before detected, two scientific studies find - The Star - May 17, 2012 - 0 views

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MaRS Centre Tenants International Cancer Genome Consortium healthcare & life sciences

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  • Assunta Krehl on 22 May 12
     
    According to Theresa Boyle, Health Report of The Star, states that scientists have discovered the process that underlies in the development of cancer cell mutations in breast cancer. Mike Stratton who is part of the International Cancer Genome Consortium at the MaRS Centre states these "findings will go a long way in helping the consortium achieve its goal of mapping the genetic mutations in 50 different types of cancer by 2018."
Karen Schulman Dupuis

Women 2.0 » B-Corp Squag Helps Autistics Kids Communicate - With A Revenue Model! - 0 views

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clients Squag socialentrepreneurship social

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  • Karen Schulman Dupuis on 28 May 12
     
    Winter launched Squag, a social space for children with autism or those who communicate differently. For the past 11 years, she has worked as an aide to her austistic nephew, who she calls spectacular and the strongest person she knows. Kids like him are totally underestimated, she says, which compelled her to build Squag to help them express themselves and communicate - in an almost artist-like way - as well as develop friendship and connection.
Assunta Krehl

Bright ideas could generate 200 local jobs - Soo Today - August 14, 2012 - 0 views

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Clean Energy Institute cleantech energy MaRS Centre employment

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  • Assunta Krehl on 17 Aug 12
     
    The Sault Ste Marie's city council approved "$95,000 in funding the Innovation Cente for a two-year, $794,000 initiative for the implementation of their Smart Energy Strategy." Vair is in talks with the MaRS Discovery District about the Sault's role in the new clean energy institute.
Assunta Krehl

New York launches privately funded program to rehabilitate young offenders - The Star - August 7, 2012 - 0 views

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Social Enterprise performance bonds social responsibility

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  • Assunta Krehl on 17 Aug 12
     
    Carol Goar from The Star states "Financial giant Goldman Sachs will invest $9.6 million in a four-year behavioural learning program designed to reduce the proportion of young inmates who reoffend. Organizations like MaRS, are examining the concept of pay-for-performance bonds.
Karen Schulman Dupuis

Video: Wilf Dinnick talks J-Source Award win | J-source.ca - 0 views

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client open file marscommons ice award

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  • Karen Schulman Dupuis on 01 Feb 12
     
    #MaRSDD congratulates @WilfDinnick on his Newsperson of the Year Award
Karen Schulman Dupuis

Is three the magic number? | Entrepreneur | Financial Post - 0 views

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clients Nevex Virtual Technologies CacheWorks entrepreneurship

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  • Karen Schulman Dupuis on 05 Mar 12
     
    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.
Assunta Krehl

Readying to gobble up business on Small Business Saturday - The Globe and Mail - November 21, 2011 - 0 views

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ICE Innovation D-Wave Systems events CIX Canadian Innovation Exchange

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  • Assunta Krehl on 22 Nov 11
     
    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.
Assunta Krehl

'Techno' program gives birth to startups - The Globe and Mail - June 20, 2012 - 0 views

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Entrepreneurship 101 entrepreneurship innovation Cynthia Goh

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  • Assunta Krehl on 21 Jun 12
     
    Cynthia Goh, guest columnist, Globe and Mail states that the path of commercializing research is a "painfully gradual and meandering." Cynthia Goh, created "a lecture series to train scientist-entrepreneurs that later evolved into Entrepreneurship101 at Toronto's MaRS Discovery District - possibly the largest training program in Canada with about 1,500 registered participants each year. "
Assunta Krehl

Energy minister hedges on new nuclear plant - The Star - June 8, 2012 - 0 views

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energy cleantech Clean Energy Institute grid

shared by Assunta Krehl on 18 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Assunta Krehl on 18 Jun 12
     
    Honorable Chris Bentley, Ontario Minister of Energy, spoke at the Future of Energy event at the MaRS Centre and announced that the province will provide "$500,000 over two years in seed funding for a new Clean Energy Institute at MaRS."
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