Dominic Jaikaran
Director @ Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners
Dominic Jaikaran is a startup investor at Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners. Dominic holds a Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry and a B.Sc. in Chemistry and Biochemistry, both from the University of Toronto. He also holds an M.B.A. from the Rotman School of Management, also located at the University of Toronto.Dominic has a decade of varied experience in biotechnology and finance, including venture capital, impactinvestment, business development and research and development; he has been involved in sourcing new deals, performing due diligence for new and follow-investments and monitoring portfolio companies on the investment side and project management, research and development and business development on the company side.Prior to MaRS Innovation, Dominic was a director at BDC Venture Capital, focusing on early-stage life science investments. He was also a staff scientist at Diversa Corporation (now Verenium Corporation), a NASDAQ-listed company in San Diego, where he focused on the discovery and evolution of enzymes for various industrial purposes.
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About Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners
MaRS Innovation (MI) is a commercialization engine that integrates, centralizes and accelerates time to market of the discovery and intellectual property assets from its 15 world-class research institutions. MI’s discovery and innovation pipeline is derived from $1 billion in annual R&D funding. Created as a not-for-profit organizationthrough the Government of Canada’s Center of Excellence for Commercialization and Research program (CECR), MI has raised $50 million from federal and provincial governments, member institutions and industry partners. MI’s vision is to transform the Toronto-based research enterprise into one of world’s most successful commercialization clusters.Through detailed, market facing due diligence, MI identifies opportunities from Canada’s largest academic cluster for further development and commercialization through project management, intellectual property management, investment and technology development. By crossing the innovation gap, MI transforms these opportunities into successful high-value licensing transactions and financeable start-up companies.
Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners Contacts
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Ben Rogers
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Dominic Jaikaran
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Mark Zdziebko
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Prakash Gowd
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Susanne Staer
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