MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund

MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund (IAF) is an early stage venture capital firm based in Toronto. Since 2008, we have partnered with over 150 companies built by extraordinary founders. For more information, please visit www.marsiaf.com

Connor Edwards

Senior Investment Manager

Michael Ho

Entrepreneur In Residence

Kevin Madill

Investment Director

Past deals in Ontario

Temporal Power

Seed Round in 2011
Temporal Power is an Ontario-based developer and manufacturer of electrical energy storage systems. The company’s breakthrough technology enables utilities, generators and industrial customers to realize the benefits of large-scale energy storage with a low cost, high performance solution. In 2013, Temporal Power will commission 7 MW of its power storage solution in Ontario, with the province’s two largest utility companies, the Independent Electricity System Operator and NRstor Inc. (www.nrstor.com), a developer of energy storage projects.

DossierView

Venture Round in 2009
DossierView, which is based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada at the Accelerator Centre in the University of Waterloo's Research & Technology Park, is leveraging a technology developed by Dr. Andrew Wong, a founder of the PAMI (Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence) Lab at the University of Waterloo in order to develop an intelligent search technology that promises to offer corporate and consumer users faster access to the most relevant information located on a desktop or on the Web.