Building resilient communities
From floods and fires to droughts and famine, climate-related catastrophes are becoming more severe and frequent, threatening the well being of communities around the globe. Canada’s infrastructure, economy and safety depends on our ability to predict, prevent, manage and recover from the impacts of a changing climate. We need to invest in adaptation technology to build resilience for tomorrow — today. MaRS’s Adaptech Accelerator aims to support high-potential startups so that they can deploy their adaptation solutions faster.
Building resilient communities
Accelerator objectives
This accelerator aims to help build climate resilience in three key ways.
- Attract and support eight to 10 ventures helping Canadians prepare, prevent, recover or respond to the impacts of climate change.
- Increase capital flows going toward adaptation and resilience solutions.
- Advance the adoption of Adaptech solutions across Canada.
Accelerator objectives
Investing in tomorrow
The Adaptech Accelerator is graciously supported by Definity Financial Corporation. Its generous contribution will enable this two-year program to fill a critical gap in Canada’s climate innovation ecosystem by providing support to ventures so they can advance the development of their solutions. As a leader in the climate space, Definity brings deep expertise in risk and resilience to this initiative. Combined with MaRS’s extensive experience supporting startups, this accelerator will play a key role in helping Canadian communities build climate resilience.
Investing in tomorrow
The Adaptech Accelerator will provide up to 10 Canadian startups with tailored programming, market research, PR, advisory support, network building, as well as connections to capital, world-class labs, and industry partners and governments seeking resilience solutions. Through this program, we aim to bring adaptation technologies to the forefront of Canada’s climate economy, scale up solutions and accelerate the adoption of adaptech across the nation.
Colin Daniel, ApexRMS
President and Founder
ApexRMS is a clean technology company with two complementary commercial products serving the wildfire hazard response, adaptation and resilience market.
Norman Zhou, AquaSensing
CEO and Co-founder
AquaSensing has invented and manufactured battery-free leak detectors, which offer maintenance-free, environmental-friendly and low-cost solutions.
Mike Williams, ClimateFirst
President and Co-founder
ClimateFirst assesses the climate threats a building faces, estimates their potential financial impact and provides plans to help owners adapt.
Hanif Montazeri, Enersion
CEO
Enersion’s core business is the commercialization of advanced thermally driven cooling and heating systems that dramatically reduce building electricity consumption, natural gas consumption and eliminate synthetic refrigerants.
Hachem Agili, Geosapiens
CEO and Co-founder
Geosapiens develops science-driven, locally calibrated models that provide property-level hazard and financial-loss insights.
Steven Vanharen, NOAH Intelligence
President and Co-founder
NOAH Intelligence uses high-precision, physics-based flood simulations to evaluate risks down to the level of individual buildings on a street.
Chris Godsall, NOAH Intelligence
CEO and Co-founder
NOAH Intelligence uses high-precision, physics-based flood simulations to evaluate risks down to the level of individual buildings on a street.
Myrna Bittner, RunWithIt Synthetics
Co-founder
RUNWITHIT Synthetics designs replicas of geographic areas — typically cities and linked regions — to assess emergency preparedness and other issues that can affect the well-being of a population.
Dean Bittner, RunWithIt Synthetics
Co-founder
RUNWITHIT Synthetics designs replicas of geographic areas — typically cities and linked regions — to assess emergency preparedness and other issues that can affect the well-being of a population.
Oliver Zhang, Tinybox Systems
CEO and Co-founder
Tinybox Systems is developing rapid-deploy, climate-resilient modular housing designed for extreme weather, remote regions and disaster response.
Kristin Davis, ZS2 Technologies
COO and Co-founder
ZS2 develops advanced magnesium-cement technologies that utilize carbon dioxide and industrial by-products to create fire-resistant, low-carbon building materials and prefabricated systems.
Scott Jenkins, ZS2 Technologies
CEO and Co-founder
ZS2 develops advanced magnesium-cement technologies that utilize carbon dioxide and industrial by-products to create fire-resistant, low-carbon building materials and prefabricated systems.
