SOCIAL BUSINESSES

How NERv won a life-changing prize for a life-saving technology (and made mom proud)

Jackie Gill - Dec 3, 2019

Meet the Waterloo startup that won $500,000 in the Entrepreneurship World Cup to fuel their mission of making sure no one dies from a preventable post-surgical complication.

Karen Lau and Mike Van, co-founders of Furnishr, make decorating a home easy with a platform that helps customers plan, purchase and place their furniture

CREATIVE ECONOMY

Furnishr’s Mike Van didn’t follow his passion; he found his passion

Jackie Gill - Nov 26, 2019

Interior decor was never Mike Van's passion. So why did he build a business off of it? The co-founder of Furnishr found joy in being an outsider and learning from the ground up.

Unbounce conquered their first problem: giving SMB marketers a way to create and customize landing pages. Their next challenge? AI.

CREATIVE ECONOMY

Problem solved… now what? Unbounce shows us what’s next in marketing AI

Jackie Gill - Nov 22, 2019

First, they helped small and medium-sized businesses create landing page marketing campaigns. Now they're pulling AI into the equation to make marketing more powerful than ever.

DRAFT VIDEOS

Game changers in action

Jon Worren, who leads MaRS' venture and corporate programs, says the innovation hub's main mission is to help innovators change the world

CORPORATE INNOVATION

How MaRS helps innovators change the world

Jackie Gill - Nov 18, 2019

With 1.5 million sq. ft. of space in downtown Toronto, MaRS is North America's largest innovation hub where ideas from health, cleantech, fintech and enterprise collide.[...]

Carol Leaman, CEO of Axonify, wants to take learning out of the classroom and make it fun - and quick

SCALE-UPS

Axonify’s mission to make learning stick

Jackie Gill - Nov 11, 2019

Narbé Alexandrian, CEO of Canopy Rivers, has invested in both technology and cannabis startups

SCALE-UPS

Why cannabis is like tech: Canopy Rivers

Jackie Gill - Nov 4, 2019

Kurtis McBride, founder and CEO of Miovision, serves both private-sector and public-sector clients, including governments around the world

SCALE-UPS

Miovision explains: working with government

Jackie Gill - Oct 23, 2019

Kurtis McBride, founder and CEO of Miovision, says tech companies know data better than the public sector - and it's on them to help bring everyone up to speed

SCALE-UPS

Miovision explains: our role in data privacy

Jackie Gill - Oct 23, 2019

SCALE-UPS

How can we train our employees better? Axonify says micro-learning is the key

Steady drip or firehose? The way we train matters, says...

Jackie Gill - Nov 15, 2019

Good training matters - it raises knowledge levels, improves engagement and boosts performance. Still, we could be doing a better job by embracing micro-learning, says Axonify.

Miovision helps traffic problems at home and around the globe

United by traffic: How Miovision helps the world drive ...

Jackie Gill - Nov 6, 2019

How can we make our commutes healthier, shorter and cheaper? Miovision's coming up with answers to make cities smarter around the world.

The numbers say local retail isn't dead, and independent makers are on the rise. Faire joins those two worlds to create a new marketplace where both sides thrive.

Viva la vida local: How Faire is changing the way local...

Jackie Gill - Oct 30, 2019

"The future is local," says Faire. Here are the stats behind local stores, the retail market, handmade goods and how Faire joins those worlds together.

Jon Worren, senior director of venture and corporate programs at MaRS Discovery District, makes worlds collide between corporations and startups

Making worlds collide at MaRS Discovery District

Jackie Gill - Oct 25, 2019

Jon Worren and his team mix startups, researchers, investors and big corporations across health, fintech, cleantech and enterprise businesses to get ideas flowing and make sparks fly.

Jon Worren, who runs venture and corporate programming at MaRS Discovery District, solves the problem of delivering high-value programming to startups across industry and size

How MaRS makes a little go a long way

Jackie Gill - Oct 11, 2019

When you support 17 regional innovation centres and with 6,000 startups registered in Ontario, designing programs everyone can use is an everyday challenge, says MaRS’s Jon Worren.

Terry Stuart, Chief Innovation Officer with Deloitte Canada, brings innovation and technology to life through his Greenhouse space.

Deloitte masters the “art of the possible”

Jackie Gill - Oct 2, 2019

There’s something about being able to see, touch and feel technology, says Terry Stuart, Deloitte Canada’s Chief Innovation Officer. That’s what brings it to life at their Toronto Greenhouse.

Yvonne Lau, founder of Retainify, built the business to help employees and employers be more honest with each other

PORTRAITS

Yvonne Lau kept the truth to herself

Jackie Gill - Dec 5, 2019

During 15 years in HR, Retainify founder Yvonne Lau expected people to be honest about why they left. When her own time came, she felt fear and anxiety over telling the truth.[...]