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January 21, 2014
Accelerate Okanagan Success Story: Mathtoons Media Receives Mitacs Funding for App Authoring Software
Educational Technology company Mathtoons Media has received funding to develop web-accessed software which allows teachers to create their own mobile practice apps for upper level math and science subjects.
January 14, 2014
MaRS Discovery District Entrepreneur Spotlight: Build with purpose: A snippet of the Wattpad story
This past Wednesday, Allen Lau, co-founder and CEO of Wattpad, both challenged and inspired the Entrepreneurship 101 audience with his story and admonition to build with purpose. In his lecture, Allen placed particular emphasis on the following three ideas.
January 14, 2014
Accelerator Centre Success Story: Accelerator Program Client Avenir Medical’s device in action at Mount Sinai
Donning surgical scrubs on Monday, Dec. 16, Armen Bakirtzian stood in an operating room at Mount Sinai Hospital and held his breath. Orthopedic surgeon Allan Gross was handling a device, which Bakirtzian initially designed as his final-year university design project.