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Entrepreneurs in Action: Jubilant July!
August 3, 2011
At MaRS, we help hundreds of early-stage companies learn how to compete and succeed. Many do great things on their way to the top: they win awards, secure financing, enter into partnerships and earn media coverage. Entrepreneurs in Action is a monthly round-up these successes.
Here’s what our clients were up to in July:
July’s Entrepreneurs in Action
- The Investment Accelerator Fund announced $6 million in funding, divided among 8 MaRS clients: GridCentric, Karos Health, Locationary, Temporal Power Ltd., Cytochroma Inc., Profound Medical Inc., Trillium Therapeutics, Xagenic Canada Inc.
- Locationary closed $2.5 million in its latest investment round to support the commercial launch of its new local data management system
- Aeryon Labs‘ unmanned aerial vehicle saved the day in an episode of the hit primetime show Flashpoint
- Vive Nano wins “Best in Cleantech” category at 2011 New York Venture Summit
- MaRS life sciences start-up 1Degree Bio received funding from Digital Science
- Toronto’s Ideacious launches
- Kanika Gupta, co-founder of SoJo was listed in The Globe & Mail as one of Toronto’s Hot Young Entrepreneurs
- Synatop ‘s cloud-based operating system profiled in the Financial Post
- Cleantech start-up Hydrostor featured on Techcrunch











