# Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners

> Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners is a VC fund backing Health Care. See 71 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 71
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 7%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mars-innovation
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/TIAPToronto/
- Website: https://tiap.ca/

Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners is a VC fund in Toronto focused on Health Care and Biotechnology. 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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $73k–$8M |
| Grant | $13k–$100k |
| Pre-Seed | $22k–$525k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 23 | 32% |
| Biotechnology | 17 | 24% |
| Software | 12 | 17% |
| Machine Learning | 8 | 11% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 8 | 11% |

94 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 24 | 34% |
| Seed | 21 | 30% |
| Grant | 10 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 8 | 11% |
| Series A | 5 | 7% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 58 | 82% |
| United States | 2 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ben Rogers | Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-rogers-4 |
| Dominic Jaikaran | Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dominic-jaikaran |
| Mark Zdziebko | Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-zdziebko |
| Prakash Gowd | Vice President | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prakash-gowd-841b |
| Susanne Staer | Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/susanne-staer |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Grey Matter Neurosciences | Grey Matter Neurosciences is a neurotechnology firm developing new medical devices and drug-device combinations to treat age-related brain illnesses like dementia. | $14M | Seed | Jan 23, 2025 |  |
| Radiant Biotherapeutics | Radiant Biotherapeutics is a revolutionary antibody platform company leading the new frontier of multi-valent, multi-specific therapeutics to deliver transformative therapies for patients. | $35M | Series A | Sep 11, 2024 |  |
| HDAX Therapeutics | HDAX Therapeutics is pioneering next-gen precision therapeutics for cardiovascular and neurological diseases by targeting their root causes to enhance patient outcomes. | $3.2M | Seed | Sep 05, 2024 |  |
| AmacaThera | AmacaThera is a clinical-stage company based in Toronto. AmacaThera is redefining how therapeutics are delivered. AmacaThera has developed a platform hydrogel technology that addresses the critical problem of sustaining therapeutic delivery of pharmacological agents for multiple disease areas. AmacaThera’s lead product addresses post-operative painand consequently may have an impact on the opioid crisis. | $50K | Grant | Dec 01, 2023 |  |
| Spero Analytics | Spero Analytics is an environmental technology startup which designs and deploys environmental monitoring IoT networks for methane surveillance in landfills. | $165.6K | Pre-Seed | Sep 01, 2023 |  |
| Radiant Biotherapeutics | Radiant Biotherapeutics is a revolutionary antibody platform company leading the new frontier of multi-valent, multi-specific therapeutics to deliver transformative therapies for patients. | $8M | Seed | Apr 25, 2023 |  |
| NerveX Neurotechnologies | NerveX has developed ANIMO, the adaptive neural implant for modulation and observation. ANIMO is a vessel to implant our proprietary machine learning and responsive electrical neuromodulation technology to repair and augment the nervous system. | $75K | Grant | Mar 01, 2023 |  |
| Medly Therapeutics | Medly offers an AI-powered platform for managing multiple chronic conditions. Medly's vision is to become the leading platform for managing multiple chronic conditions (MCCs), with identified target conditions including Heart Failure, Depression (Mental Health), Diabetes, and Hypertension. | $12.5K | Grant | Mar 01, 2023 |  |
| Genetics Adviser | Genetics Adviser is a web application that helps the patients to access counseling content and provides genetics health services. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| Damona Pharmaceuticals | Damona Pharmaceuticals is a pre-clinical pharmaceutical company treats and prevents cognitive deficits in a variety of brain disorders and during aging. | $5.5M | Seed | Sep 26, 2022 |  |

10 of 71 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [UTEST](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/university-of-toronto-early-stage-technology) — VC Fund, 21 deals together
- [University of Toronto](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/university-of-toronto) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Maple Leaf Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maple-leaf-angels) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
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- [BDC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bdc-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [MaRS Discovery District](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mars-discovery-district) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners invest in?

Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners invests primarily in Health Care, Biotechnology and Software startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 71 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners's check size?

Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners typically joins rounds of $73k–$8M at Seed, $13k–$100k at Grant and $22k–$525k at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners?

Public channels for Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners?

The team at Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners includes Ben Rogers (Director), Dominic Jaikaran (Director) and Mark Zdziebko (Manager), among 13 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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