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Amplify Capital’s Kathryn Wortsman wants every dollar to make a difference. The firm invests in promising startups working in education,…
Making it work: How Axonify is optimizing employee satisfaction
Where and how we do our jobs is still in flux. But as CEO Carol Leaman argues, the need to…
The next pandemic — it’s a question of when not if. Climate change is altering how and where diseases spread,…
How Kids Help Phone is using AI to help youth in need
The mental health charity is tapping into startup tech expertise with a new $2-million innovation challenge in partnership with MaRS…
Why it pays to ask customers what they really want
By listening to their clients, these Canadian entrepreneurs were able to build better products — and speed up their company’s…
Developers of unmanned aerial vehicles are putting their latest inventions to the test at a new R&D centre near Ottawa….
How two former university football teammates aim to level the playing field for underserved communities
Social enterprise Placemaking 4G is working to transform office culture — and give back to communities in the process. Bradley…
Mercator AI’s platform is “digitizing word of mouth,” giving contractors and real estate brokers a heads up on new projects….
If you worry about the health risks associated with aging, this may alarm you: Every eight years, the average human’s…
Our oceans are under threat. Year after year, our oceans are becoming more acidic and ecosystems that were once abundant…
What started as a school research project to create a sustainable alternative to plastic has grown into a burgeoning business….
Our eating habits need an overhaul. Growing and processing food is a massive source of greenhouse gases: Agriculture alone accounts…
‘It’s soothing to focus on solutions’: Podcast host Manjula Selvarajah on season two of Solve for X
Between pandemics and outbreaks, wildfires and floods, and food and water insecurity, it can feel like the world is in…
These two Ontario Tech engineering students helped build Canada’s first electric vehicle
The students worked on nearly every component of Project Arrow, which features 25 made-in-Canada technologies When it comes to the…
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A question of trust: How shared values are helping to build Canada’s largest energy-storage project
Cleantech venture NRStor and the Six Nations of the Grand River Development Corporation built a partnership based on deep respect…
7 productivity-boosting technologies from the U.K. that you need to know
A collaboration between Innovate UK and MaRS is bringing a host of new ways to improve manufacturing efficiency to Canada…
‘It’s soothing to focus on solutions’: Podcast host Manjula Selvarajah on season two of Solve for X
From new ways to feed the planet to technologies that could predict the next pandemic, the show shines a light…
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