On February 10, 2021, MaRS will launch “Mission from MaRS” a pan-Canadian climate-impact challenge meant to accelerate the adoption of homegrown climate tech and create thousands of jobs. Find out more about the challenge here and register for the launch event here.
In advance of the launch of Mission from MaRS, Yung Wu, CEO of MaRS Discovery District and Ray Newal, managing director, Ecosystems, for MaRS, wrote an op-ed in Fortune Magazine: “Clean-energy startups are key to ‘building back better’ after COVID” (read it here).
MaRS, founded in 2000, is an innovation hub in Toronto with a focus on cleantech, health, fintech and enterprise software, occupying 1.5 million square feet with more than 120 tenants, including research labs and global tech companies.