Keep pace with the world

In an era of massive transformation, we’ve got your back. Our partners — corporations, non-profits, governments, researchers, service providers, investors and the philanthropic community — turn to us to bring startup innovation into their communities and build relationships that achieve both return on investment as well as positive social, economic and environmental impact at scale.

Drive innovation in your organization

We keep you informed on the latest tech trends, connect you with peers and introduce you to Canada’s most promising startups to help identify and adopt game-changing innovation that will boost revenue, improve efficiency and build brand recognition.

Build Canada’s innovation infrastructure

We work with accelerators, regional innovation hubs, government agencies and VCs to provide the data, marketing support and programming that supports startups wherever they are.

Support initiatives that are driving positive change

We work with foundations, philanthropists and other change-makers to ensure that innovation changes our world for the better.

CORPORATIONS

Solve your business problems with our startup expertise

Are you looking to understand the technologies and business models that are disrupting your line of work and sector? Looking for faster time-to-market? Need to spur innovation in an area that is traditionally underserved?

We help accelerate market leaders’ understanding and adoption of impactful technologies and business models to boost revenue, improve efficiency, build brand recognition and grow the economy.

200+
corporate-venture introductions each year
CORPORATIONS

Solve your business problems with our startup expertise

Are you looking to understand the technologies and business models that are disrupting your line of work and sector? Looking for faster time-to-market? Need to spur innovation in an area that is traditionally underserved?

We help accelerate market leaders’ understanding and adoption of impactful technologies and business models to boost revenue, improve efficiency, build brand recognition and grow the economy.

INNOVATION COMMUNITY

Use our commercialization capabilities to fuel growth for your network of startups

To help drive commercialization for your startups, we offer hands-on advice, mentorship, market insights and subject matter expertise, as well as marketing programs and critical connections to capital, talent and customers.

INNOVATION COMMUNITY

Use our commercialization capabilities to fuel growth for your network of startups

INVESTORS

Investing in Canadian innovation for global impact

We connect the world’s top investors — angels, VCs, impact investors, corporate VCs, family offices and later-stage providers of growth equity and project financing — with other investors and with entrepreneurs who are solving global challenges with technology and science innovation. Through roundtable discussions and curated introductions, you’ll meet companies operating at the nexus of impact and profit.

$2.3B
capital raised by MaRS-backed ventures in 2022
INVESTORS

Investing in Canadian innovation for global impact

DONOR COMMUNITY

Make MaRS your home for impact

We are the Canadian tech ecosystem’s strongest advocate. 

Founded more than 20 years ago by a group of philanthropic visionaries, MaRS works with our community of donors — foundations, philanthropists and individuals — and our ventures to create societal impact in the areas of climate, health and building a better economy for all.

DONOR COMMUNITY

Make MaRS your home for impact

SERVICE PROVIDERS

Collaborating to make an impact 

MaRS has long worked with companies who provide services to our startups. Services like cloud, legal, banking, accounting, tax, CRM and many others are critical to startups’ success.

Join our community with a special offer for startups, sponsor an event or build a special program.

SERVICE PROVIDERS

Collaborating to make an impact 

By combining MaRS’ commercialization capabilities with Export Development Canada’s (EDC) export expertise, more Canadian small and medium-sized companies can increase their success in growing internationally. We’ve partnered to support Canadian founders with tactful content, events and direct one on one support to increase the country’s export by 60% by 2030.

Robert Fosco, Vice-President, Partnerships & Knowledge Business, EDC

North Forge is an incubator, accelerator and a powerhouse entrepreneur community fuelling Manitoba’s innovative science-based, technology-enabled, and advanced manufacturing startups. MaRS partnered with North Forge through our expert-led digital and live programming to help their founders de-risk and build innovations faster, better and with higher success.

Whitney Moir, Director Programming and Partnerships, North Forge

Work with us

Diverse perspectives and experiences are an essential ingredient to scaling innovation — and we can’t do it alone. Got a problem to solve? An idea that has the potential to create a big impact?