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Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners

Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners (TIAP) is a Canadian not-for-profit organization based in Toronto, Ontario. It was previously known as MaRS Innovation.

History

TIAP was founded in 2008 under the named MaRS Innovation as a partnership between MaRS Discovery District and a number of universities and research institutes in Toronto.[1] Early funding came from the Government of Canada through the Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and Research (CECR) program.[2]

Organization

Member organizations of TIAP include:[3][4]

  • Baycrest Health Sciences
  • Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
  • Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital
  • MaRS Discovery District
  • Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR)
  • SickKids
  • Sinai Health System
  • St. Michael's Hospital
  • Sunnybrook Research Institute
  • Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU)
  • Unity Health Toronto
  • University Health Network (UHN)
  • University of Toronto
  • Women's College Hospital
  • York University

Portfolio

Companies in TIAP's portfolio include:[5]

  • AmacaThera
  • Appulse Power
  • Ardra
  • Bitnobi
  • Blue J Legal
  • BlueDot
  • Bright Angel Therapeutics
  • Crowdmark
  • Encycle Therapeutics
  • Fibrocor Therapeutics
  • Flybits
  • Forbius
  • Hypercare
  • LegWorks
  • Medly Therapeutics
  • Notch Therapeutics
  • PhenoTips
  • QD Solar
  • Radialis Medical
  • Tigecycline
  • TrendMD
  • Triphase Accelerator
  • Vasomune Therapeutics
  • VitalHub
  • WaveCheck
  • Zucara Therapeutics

  1. About TIAP. TIAP. Retrieved July 18, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230718045452/https://tiap.ca/about/ ↩︎

  2. MaRS Innovation. (2018, August 13). Networks of Centres of Excellence of Canada. http://archive.today/2023.07.18-045748/https://www.nce-rce.gc.ca/NetworksCentres-CentresReseaux/CECR-CECR/MI_eng.asp ↩︎

  3. Member Institutions. TIAP. Retrieved July 18, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230718045520/https://tiap.ca/members/ ↩︎

  4. Member Institutions. TIAP. Retrieved August 10, 2020, from https://web.archive.org/web/20200810022940/https://tiap.ca/members/ ↩︎

  5. Portfolio. TIAP. Retrieved July 18, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230718045505/https://tiap.ca/portfolio/ ↩︎