MIF Lunch & Learn 17: What Many Founders Forget - The Hidden Risks of Skipping Insurance and HR

Thursday, November 21, 2024 12:00to13:00

Launching a startup requires many elements to come together: a team, a business plan, customers but fail to consider safeguarding their venture with insurance and HR tools./innovationCategory:...

MIF Lunch & Learn 16: Making a killer pitch that sticks

Thursday, June 13, 2024 12:00to13:00

One of the fundamental activities of the entrepreneurial journey is the business pitch. But often academics struggle at condensing years of research into a succinct version that is capable of...

MIF Lunch & Learn 15: Finding dilutive funding

Thursday, April 18, 2024 12:00to13:00

Before finding customers, many startup and spinoff businesses need to find funding./innovationCategory: Entrepreneurship Innovation

MIF Team in search of unicorn battery technology

15 Mar 2024

Professor Philippe Ouzilleau and Yee Wei Foong are creating an alternative to lithium-ion batteries which is less environmentally costly, and simpler to both manufacture and recycle. With the help...

As a Matter of Fact, it is Rocket Science: Iron-Based Fuel Powered by MIF

2 Feb 2024

New technology by McGill entrepreneurs and their spinoff Altiro Energy uses iron as a fuel alternative to greenhouse gas producing fossil fuels. With support from the McGill Iinnovation Fund (MIF),...

Don’t Throw Nutrients Out with the Growing Water: Making Hydroponics More Efficient

19 Dec 2023

If you go to the grocery store in Montreal, you will likely buy fresh produce. Let’s say, you get a pack of Driscoll strawberries. You may not realize it, but those strawberries are grown in...

Sustainability and antimicrobial resistance awards return to MIF

21 Sep 2026

The McGill Innovation Fund (MIF) is back for a 6th year. The largest entrepreneurial funding competition at McGill, the MIF has supported over 30 unique teams and awarded close to $2 million in...

Exsia: Cleaning Water with Nanoscale Sponges

14 Sep 2026

In small communities across North America , clean drinking water is often out of reach not because the technology to purify it doesn’t exist, but because it costs too much. These communities can’t...

MIF stars shine in anniversary pitch competition

6 Nov 2025

It was a night for the ages. To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the founding of the McGill Innovation Fund (MIF), a special one-time pitch competition was held: the MIF Evolution. The event was...

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