Entrepreneurs in Action: Much to celebrate in May

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 or get great media coverage.

Entrepreneurs in Action is a monthly round-up of our clients’ successes.

Here’s what some of our clients were up to in May:

May’s Entrepreneurs in Action

• Vive Nano, a nanomaterials company that researches and commercializes nanotechnology-based products and materials for crop protection, catalysts and select other applications, was awarded the American Chemistry Council’s Responsible Care Performance Award.
• Syngrafii launched iDoLVine, the world’s only online authentic, verifiable, personalized autograph and live face-to-face author/reader experience, at Book Expo America.
• We announced the winners of the sixth annual Up-Start! Competition! Congratulations to the two winners: The Hot Plate, a multimedia platform that delivers quick, simple, gourmet and affordable how-to cooking guides, and Eve Medical, a medical device company focused on the specific health-care needs of women.
• Dealuxe.ca, a Canadian shopping destination for high-end brands and unique editorial content, launched on May 2.
• Impakt Protective was featured on Daily Planet’s Concussion Special on May 26. Impackt develops sensors that are placed inside helmets and indicate the risk of concussion after a hit to the head.
• Viafoura, an online video commenting system, won the Road to Banff pitch contest at Canada 3.0 and was featured in Yonge Street.
• The Toronto Star interviewed sisters Mary Jane and Carol McPhee, founders of LifeTimes: The Game of Reminiscence.
• Morgan Solar closed USD $16.5 million in the first tranche of its Series B funding round to ramp up manufacturing and deployment of its Sun Simba concentrated photovoltaic module.

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