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By Vanessa Caldwell @ MaRS

June 25, 2010

Meet our clients, the superstar start-ups

At MaRS, we work with hundreds of early-stage companies to help them grow their businesses. Sometimes, some of those companies do great things: they win awards, secure financing, enter into partnerships or get great media coverage. Entrepreneurs in Action is a regular round-up of our clients’ successes. If you’re a MaRS clients with news to share, email it to us!

Here’s what our clients have been up to:

The Toronto Star profiled AXS Biomedical Animation Studio–creators of 3D animations for the horror film Splice. Read more.
The City of Toronto honoured 21 affordable housing champions, including social innovation client Home Ownership Alternatives. Read more.
Three MaRS clients–Jigsee, MMB Research and Polar Mobile–were among IDC’s annual “Ten Canadian Mobile and Wireless Companies to Watch.” Read more.
Sempa Power partnered with the Ontario Clean Water Agency to connect Canadian smart grid technology to water and wastewater systems. Read more.
Skymeter Corp. was mentioned in Wired magazine, featured in local weekly mag Yonge Street and participated a televised debate on congestion charging hosted by Reuters blogger Felix Salmon.
TurnAround Couriers was profiled on Torontoist.com–complete with great photos of its bike couriers. Read more.

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