Entrepreneurs in Action: March madness

What’s new with some of Ontario's hottest start-ups

At MaRS, we work with hundreds of early-stage companies to help them grow their businesses. Sometimes, 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.

Here’s what some of our clients have been up to:

• Profound Medical’s Paul Chipperton appeared on BNN’s SqueezePlay to discuss Profound’s technology, funding and how it will bring its treatment to market.
• GreenMantra Recycling Technologies, Smart Energy Instruments and Temporal Power secured angel financing deals this month.
• BusinessInsider.com and The Globe and Mail interviewed Grant Ritchie, CEO of Locationary, about how Locationary is building high-quality profiles of businesses around the world.
• Blue W—a national not-for-profit that helps people find places to refill their reusable water bottles for free—made the media rounds this month: read more in the Toronto Star or listen on Metro Morning.
• The Toronto Star also profiled Weblish Pal, an online, on-demand video-based service that connects English learners with native English speakers.
• The Ethical Ocean team made it to the Dragon’s Den.
• ShinyAds secured funding for its award-winning self-serve advertising platform.
• tinyHippos was acquired by Research in Motion. tinyHippos is the maker of a mobile environment emulator called Ripple.

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