#ICYMI: MaRS venture news: October 2014
What a crazy month for ventures! From big funding news and awards to tons of media coverage, October was an extremely busy month. Here’s just some of what you may have missed on our Twitter feed.
Capital news
- Highland Therapeutics raised $25 million. Read our MaRS blog on the raise.
- Bitstrips raised an $8 million Series B round with Horizons Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers ahead of its new emoji app launch.
- SPARQ Systems secured $11 million to launch its next-generation microinverter.
Notable news
- InteraXon and Bionym won prestigious Ontario Centres of Excellence awards.
- Toronto-based thermostat company ecobee had a face off with Google.
Media coverage
- InteraXon was featured in a Globe and Mail article titled “Mind-controlled computing: Look, Ma, no hands.” It also got some attention from the NY Daily News.
- JOLT and Peekapak were featured on Yahoo! Finance in the article “Are startup incubators and accelerators still worth it?”
- eSight appeared on American talk show “The Doctors” and gave a young boy the gift of sight.
- Digital health startups Figure 1 and SeamlessMD were featured in the Financial Post.
- Giveffect appeared on “Global News.”
- Cleantech venture PlantForm appeared on “CTV News” and BNN.
- OTI Lumionics appeared on on CBC Radio’s “The Current.”
- Knixwear did an amazing job on CBC TV’s “Dragons’ Den.”