# Susanne Staer

> Susanne Staer is a startup investor at Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners (Toronto). See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mars-innovation-mi)
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanne-staer-8926822

Susanne Staer is a startup investor at Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners in Toronto. Susanne administers office functions and is secretary to the Board of Directors and to the Board’s various governing and advisory committees.Prior to joining MaRS Innovation, she was administrative assistant to two senior partners in a nation-wide law firm, in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and securities, and generalcorporate matters.Susanne has an international administrative background through her work with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, whereby she was posted to the Royal Danish Embassies in Moscow and Accra, Ghana.

## About Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners

VC Fund · Toronto, Canada

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.

5 contacts available at Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners.

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

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