Taiga solidifies head start in race to produce off-road electric vehicles

Published: 3 June 2021

Taiga Motors Corporation, formerly Canaccord Genuity Growth II Corp., recently announced completion of the Qualifying Transaction, solidifying its status as a leading publicly-traded manufacturer...

Transforming air travel for people with disabilities

Published: 22 April 2021

An idea that arose from a nightmarish flight experience for Sandra Gualtieri, founder of Gualtieri Inventions, has blossomed into an innovative new product for people living with disabilities....

McGill students partner with disability rights activist to design comfortable airplane seat

Published: 8 April 2021

Sandra Gualtieri, an entrepreneur and disability rights activist with cerebral palsy, enlisted the help of four McGill students to design a custom airplane seat that alleviates discomfort for...

Dobson Cup winner uses AI to help railroads cut costs, reduce environmental footprint

Published: 19 November 2020

As a student at McGill, Dev Jain (BEng’19) launched a company aimed at introducing North America’s 650 railways to industry-disrupting innovation. This year, RailVision Analytics won first place in...

Meet the Tesla of snowmobiles

Published: 4 April 2019

McGill Dobson Cup winners Taiga Motors discuss the path to commercialization of the world’s first electric snowmobile, which boasts 0-60 mph in just three seconds and zero emissions to boot....

Dobson Cup prize winners prepare to pilot colour-changing artificial nails

Published: 16 June 2022

Alejandra Huerta and Isabela Dominguez envision a future where the shade of your nails can change with a tap of your phone. During Huerta’s PhD in chemistry, she considered how organic materials...

Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship announces 2022 Dobson Bootcamp and Cup Winners

Published: 22 April 2022

On March 28th and 29th, 24 startups competed in the final round of the Dobson Bootcamp and Cup Program for over $200,000 in funding across 18 prizes. The winners were announced at the Dobson Cup...

Dobson Centre surpasses $1-billion milestone in startup seed funding

Published: 8 April 2021

Over the past three decades, the McGill Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship has catalyzed the creation of 450 active startups that have generated more than 6,000 new jobs. Now, the McGill Dobson...

Reimagining tutoring models in public schools

Published: 22 September 2021

McGill alumni Philip Cutler (BEd’13) and Roberto Cipriani (BSc’08) are combatting academic inequity in over 110 United States public schools and counting. In 2014, their tutoring company, Paper,...

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