Jonathon Shore is a principal at Mrcpartners, a Toronto based communications agency that counsels I.R., tech, social cause and political clients. He manages the blogging and news content posting and social media outreach as part of the communications team at http://venturelab.ca/.
For the second time in our country, The Canadian Global Impact Competition will take place next month. This is a global competition designed to find innovative methods of improving peoples' lives through the use
Published on: March 11th, 2015 Jonathon Shore @ventureLAB_
Last month Toronto-based HandyMetrics Corp. won York Region’s Techconnex 2014 award for "Most Promising Start-up." In so doing Michael Tsang gained local recognition as heading one of the most enterprising technology companies in the
Published on: August 6th, 2014 Jonathon Shore @ventureLAB_
Growing up, Nunzio Presta was always interested in being an entrepreneur and aspired to create a business that would truly help people. While still younger than 30, the recent Ryerson University B.Com grad was a sales
Published on: May 20th, 2014 Jonathon Shore @ventureLAB_
Ottawa-based PatientWay was founded in March 2010. Early on it became a client of York Region’s ventureLAB to access healthcare mentoring and funding expertise and proximity to large GTA medtech markets. Supplying healthcare
York Region’s WebsiteBox celebrated its one year birthday last month with an announcement that it has signed up more than 5,000 new customers during its first year in business. Launched in January 2013
Published on: April 17th, 2014 Jonathon Shore @ventureLAB_
Recently, hundreds of biomedical and rehabilitation leaders got to see and hear about a new Web and tablet-based clinical assessment tool for measuring the functional effects of brain injury. At the June 20
Published on: July 3rd, 2013 Jonathon Shore @ventureLAB_
At its Web 3.0 conference this week, the Canadian Digital Media Network announced that York Region's ventureLAB has become part of its national network. CDMN now has more than 20 member hubs like
Published on: May 15th, 2013 Jonathon Shore @ventureLAB_
Last May York Region’s ventureLAB hosted a Startup Canada Town Hall. At the time, the Startup Canada, team set out to “brainstorm community-driven ideas for supporting local entrepreneurship” with the the 80 entrepreneurs
Published on: May 13th, 2013 Jonathon Shore @ventureLAB_
What makes a business worth investing in? It turns out that business founders and prospective investors might have very different ideas of that entirely. On March 13, ventureLAB, York Regions Innovation Centre hosted
Published on: March 18th, 2013 Jonathon Shore @ventureLAB_
A very different kind of four hour kickoff event took place on January 15th in Newmarket, Ontario, hosted by the Southlake Regional Health Centre community hospital. The “Healthcare Ecosphere” event could be a
Published on: February 13th, 2013 Jonathon Shore @ventureLAB_
Five teams of MBA Students and healthcare and biotechnology innovators will pitch their business commercialization plans live on stage to a panel of experts for a chance to win over $10,000 in prizes
Published on: December 3rd, 2012 Jonathon Shore @ventureLAB_
The Regional Municipality of York got to experience its own eagerly anticipated Startup Canada town hall event today in Markham, at the Markham Convergence Centre (MCC). “We are very pleased to be hosting
Published on: May 28th, 2012 Jonathon Shore @ventureLAB_
