MaRS Discovery District is a large scale, mission driven innovation centre located in Toronto and networked across Ontario, focused on building Canada’s next generation of technology companies.

MaRS provides business advice and mentorship, market intelligence, entrepreneurship education, seed capital and access to critical talent, customer and partner networks—for start-ups in life sciences and health care; information technology, communications and entertainment (ICE); cleantech; advanced materials and engineering; as well as innovative social purpose businesses.

MaRS connects and enables active collaboration between the communities of science, business and capital to accelerate the innovation and commercialization process and amplify the economic and social impact of important new ideas. MaRS is a not-for-profit registered charity.

MaRS has been a proud sponsor of ECC since 2011.