MaRS Monthly roundup | May 2026

by MaRS Discovery District
April 30, 2026

New month, new roundup! Take a look back at the innovation headlines from April, including:
– What went down at MaRS Impact Health.
– Why Growcer got kudos from the Governor General.
– What an SBQuantum magnetometer is (and what it’s doing in space).
– What Kepler Communications is doing with the European Space Agency.
– Why Relocalize is building a factory without light bulbs.
– How cannabis tech firm GrowerIQ spent 4/20.
– And an exciting update from Appetronix about the future of pizza-making robots!

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MaRS Discovery District
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MaRS is the world's largest urban innovation hub in Toronto that supports startups in the health, cleantech, fintech, and enterprise sectors. When MaRS opened in 2005 this concept of urban innovation was an untested theory. Today, it’s reshaping cities around the world. MaRS has been at the forefront of a wave of change that extends from Melbourne to Amsterdam and runs through San Francisco, London, Medellín, Los Angeles, Paris and New York. These global cities are now striving to create what we have in Toronto: a dense innovation district that co-locates universities, startups, corporates and investors. In this increasingly competitive landscape, scale matters more than ever – the best talent is attracted to the brightest innovation hotspots.