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McGill Dobson Cup 2017 Semi-Finals

Tuesday, February 14, 2017toFriday, February 17, 2017

After reviewing 136 submissions in this year’s McGill Dobson Cup, 121 McGill startups are moving on to the next round of the competition where over $100,000 in seed funding will be awarded to the...

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L’Oréal and the McGill Dobson Cup announce new award

Published: 7 February 2017

For 2017, the McGill Dobson Cup powered by National Bank will feature a new prize! According to the Dobson Chronicle, the $12,000 L’Oréal-Dobson Startup Award will either go to a single team or be...

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McGill startups move to semi-finals at Dobson Cup

Published: 2 February 2017

From 136 initial submissions, 121 startups are moving on to the semi-finals at the 2017 McGill Dobson Cup powered by National Bank. Each team competing for the $100,000 in seed funding fall into...

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Business schools work to bridge the gap between academia and industry

Published: 16 October 2014

There’s a story Julian Barlow likes to tell people when he’s making a presentation....

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Design to benefit the world: This solar-powered backpack improves health and education

Published: 6 January 2017

After moving to Montreal to attend McGill University, Visram designed the Soular Backpack to help tackle one of the "multitude of problems related to education of children in Kenya." Many children...

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Winners of the University Challenge Leverage Your Idea selected during Entrepreneurial Boot Camp

Published: 1 December 2016

Fondation Montréal Inc. (montréalinc.ca) announced last Saturday at the close of an Entrepreneurial Boot Camp the Big Winners of the University Challenge Leverage Your Idea presented by the...

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A Montreal startup provides a smoothie solution

Published: 24 November 2016

It’s still early days for UGo, a fledgling Montreal company that has developed a self-cleaning smoothie machine, but co-founders Morgan Abraham and Mitch Schwartz have big dreams....

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Healthy options are a package deal at Oatbox and Yumibox

Published: 15 November 2016

McGill students Mengyin Hong, 28, and Zoey Li, 22, the duo behind Yumibox, met two years ago, when a professor suggested Li as an assistant for Hong on her master’s project. Hong had moved from...