#ICYMI: MaRS venture news for April and May 2015

#ICYMI: MaRS venture news for April and May 2015

Spring has arrived and with the warmer weather comes a lot of action within Ontario’s thriving startup community!

Here is just some of the news and media coverage about startups in the cleantech, information and communications technology (ICT) and health spaces from the months of April and May.

Capital news

box verold acquisition
Toronto startup Verold was acquired by Box in April.

Notable news

Media coverage

Cleantech

PlantForm
PlantForm uses genetically modified tobacco plants to ‘grow’ biopharmaceuticals in greenhouse environments. The company was recently profiled in Motherboard.

ICT

Cumulonimbus
Cumulonimbus and its crowdsourced weather data platform were recently featured on “CTV News.”

Health