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/ ↩︎
