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MaRS Discovery District

MaRS Discovery District is a Canadian not-for-profit corporation based in Toronto, Ontario.

History

MaRS hosted MaRS HealthKick 2014 on May 15, 2014.^[1]

Organization

MaRS Discovery District is a member of the Ontario Network of Entrepreneurs.^[2]

MaRS administers the MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund using funding from the Government of Ontario.^[3]

Portfolio

Companies in MaRS' venture portfolio include:^[4]^[5]^[6]

Antibe Therapeutics
Biotagenics
BlueDot
BresoTec
Canopy Health Innovations
Cloud DX
Conavi Medical
CoreFour
Cyclica
Damiva
Deep Genomics
Dialogue
DNAstack
Dose Biosystems
Dot Health
eSight
Eve Medical
Figure 1
Geneseeq
GeneYouIn
Health Espresso
Highland Therapeutics
Input Health
Intellijoint Surgical
InteraXon
Interface Biologics
Lucky Iron Fish
ManagingLife
Maple
Mavencare
MedChart
MEMOTEXT
MetricAid
MolecuLight
Mozzaz
Newtopia
Pattern Pharma
Perimeter Medical Imaging
Phoenix Digital Health
PlantForm
PocketHealth
Precision Biomonitoring
Precision Nutrition
Profound Medical
Pulse Infoframe
Real Tech
Reformulary Group
Reveal Surgical
Self Care Catalysts
Sensory Technologies
Smart Nora
Spiderwort
Synaptive Medical
Tecla
Tevosol
Think Research
Thornhill Medical
uFluidix
Vielight
Wealthsimple

Tenants

Companies that have operated out of MaRS Discovery District include:^[3:1]

ArcticDx
AvidBiologics
Blueline Bioscience
Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (CVCA)
Celtic House Venture Partners
Cytochroma
Etsy
GE HealthCare
GlaxoSmithKline
Grand Challenges Canada
Inmotive
Interface Biologics
Merck
National Angel Capital Organization (NACO)
Norton Rose Fulbright
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR)
Public Health Ontario (PHO)
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)
Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence

Funding

Funding for MaRS Discovery District has come from:^[7]^[8]^[2:1]^[3:2]^[4:1]

AIC
Allan Slaight
Allscripts
Allstream
Amgen
Arthur Labatt
Ashoka Canada
AstraZeneca
Avie Bennett
Baxter International
Baycrest Health Sciences
BDC Venture Capital
Brock University Faculty of Education
Bullfrog Power
Business + Higher Education Roundtable
Canada Health Infoway
Canadian Electricity Association
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC)
Cancer Care Ontario
Capgemini
CFC Media Lab
Chisholm Thomson Family Foundation
Cisco
City of Toronto
Compass Group Canada
Co-operators Community Funds
Consulate General of the Netherlands in Toronto
Deloitte
Demac Media
Edelman
Eli Lilly
Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM)
Fight Against Cancer Innovation Trust (FACIT)
FleishmanHillard
Friends of the Greebelt Foundation
Gerald Heffernan
Gilbert's LLP
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)
Government of Canada
Government of Ontario
Gowling WLG
GuruLink
Hamilton Community Foundation
Henry White Kinnear Foundation
Hill+Knowlton Strategies
HSBC
Ilse Treurnicht
Ivey Foundation
Janssen
John Evans
Johnson & Johnson
Joseph Rotman
J.W. McConnell Family Foundation
KPMG
Lawrence Bloomberg
MaRS Innovation
Mastercard
McConnell Foundation
McKesson
Meridian Credit Union
Metcalf Foundation
Microsoft
Miller Thomson
MindShare Learning
MNP
Mobilicity
Morrissette Institute for Entrepreneurship
Nordion
Norton Rose Fulbright
Novartis
NPS Pharmaceuticals
OneConnect
Ontario Brain Institute (OBI)
Ontario Genomics Institute
Ontario Trillium Foundation
Pearson
Peter Gilgan Foundation
Peter Monk
Pharmexx
Postmedia Network
Procura
Quanta Research Institute
RBC Foundation
RBC Tech for Nature
Richard Ivey
Roche
Rockefeller Foundation
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)
Saint Elizabeth Health Care
Saint Joseph's University (SJU)
Samsung Electronics
SAP
Scottish Development International (SDI)
Siemens
St. Michael's Hospital
Suncor Energy
Suncor Energy Foundation
The Working Group (TWG)
Thistledown Foundation
TMX Group
Toronto Foundation
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX)
Torys
Trottier Family Foundation
TSX Venture Exchange
University of Toronto
Vancity
Versant Ventures
Welch
William and Nona Heaslip Foundation
William Wilder
Wind Mobile

External links

Canada’s largest healthcare venture showcase. MaRS Healthkick. Retrieved March 5, 2014, from https://web.archive.org/web/20140305063704/http://healthkick.marsdd.com/ ↩︎
Meet Our Supporters. MaRS Discovery District. Retrieved April 6, 2019, from https://web.archive.org/web/20190406033517/https://www.marsdd.com/supporters/ ↩︎ ↩︎
Treurnicht, I., & Nixon, G. (2014, December 9). 2012 MaRS Annual Report. Issuu; MaRS. https://issuu.com/derekaubichon/docs/mar-anr6786_2012_annual_report_elec/1 ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
Treurnicht, I., & Nixon, G. (2014, December 9). 2013 MaRS Annual Report. Issuu; MaRS Discovery District. https://issuu.com/derekaubichon/docs/2013_mars_annual_report/1 ↩︎ ↩︎
MaRS Health. MaRS Discovery District. Retrieved July 12, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230712202536/https://www.marsdd.com/our-sectors/health/ ↩︎
Who We Work With. MaRS Discovery District. Retrieved May 3, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230503090643/https://www.marsdd.com/who-we-work-with/ ↩︎
Wu, Y. MaRS Donor Report April 1, 2021 - March 31, 2022. MaRS Discovery District. Retrieved January 22, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230122160648/https://marsdd-public-files.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/16044948/MaRS-Donor-Report-FY2022.pdf ↩︎
Meet Our Supporters. MaRS Discovery District. Retrieved January 12, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.01.12-082755/https://www.marsdd.com/supporters/ ↩︎

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