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Apr152014

Microsoft Ventures launches Innovation Circle to drive Canadian productivity and innovation

Microsoft Ventures and their partners at MaRS Discovery District hosted the Microsoft Ventures Innovator’s Circle. The Innovator’s Circle is a collaborative peer advisory session where Microsoft will pair industry experts with some of Canada’s most promising medical and healthcare startups to discuss their business plans, barriers to success and solutions to overcome those barriers and how the startups can get their apps to market at home and abroad.

Innovator Circle advisors include:

·         Dr. Harry Greenspun, M.D., Senior Advisor at the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions (DCHS)

·         John Weigelt, National Technology Officer, Microsoft Canada

·         Prateek Dwivedi, lead of the Digital Health ICE Cluster at MaRS Discovery District

The startups involved included Seamless Mobile Health, GestSure and Envirolytic.

 

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