Entrepreneurship news

Over the past two decades, U of T Engineering has spun out more than 100 new companies. Programs such as our Entrepreneurship Hatchery, our Engineering Business minor and our Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering (Troost ILEAD) provide rich opportunities to commercialize research and grow startups into thriving businesses.

Ashis Ghosh (MechE 1T5 + PEY) and Karim Koreitem (ECE 1T5 + PEY) are two of the four U of T Engineering students striving to bring their business ideas to fruition in this year’s cohort of The Next 36. (Photo: Stephanie Lake/The Next 36)

Four recent U of T Engineering graduates go through business bootcamp at The Next 36

Through mentorship from some of Canada’s top business leaders, these students are turning bright ideas into successful startups

teaBOT creates customized, robot-blended cups of loose-leaf tea, brewed in under 30 seconds. Its machines are deployed in Toronto and various cities in California. (Photo courtesy of teaBOT)

U of T Engineering startup teaBOT expands across North America

A U of T Engineering startup which sells robot-blended, customized cups of loose-leaf tea just opened its sixth North American location in Los Angeles

U of T Engineering alumnus Professor Raffaello D'Andrea delivered the 2016 I.I. Glass Lecture and discussed his work with flying machines at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

Alumnus Raffaello D’Andrea reveals the magic in his machinery at the 2016 I.I. Glass Lecture

On April 25, 2016, a near capacity crowd gathered at UTIAS as Prof. Raffaello D’Andrea delivered the I.I. Glass Lecture and discucussed flying machines

The PowerWring, invented by Shuyi Wu, Noah Yang, Ryan Williams and Jeremy Wang (all EngSci 1T7 + PEY), won second place in the 2016 Minerva Canada James Ham Safe Design Awards. The team also won the Orozco prize at Hatchery Demo Day 2014 (pictured).

Better mop design wins safety award for U of T Engineering students

Minerva Canada James Ham Safe Design competition challenges engineering undergraduate students from across Canada to integrate safety into engineering design

Yonatan Lipsitz (BioMedE PhD candidate) is the lead author of a new paper that outlines a framework for manufacturing stem cell therapeutics, which he hopes will serve as a road map for the emerging industry. (Photo: Neil Ta)

An engineering road map for scaling up production of stem cell-derived treatments

Yonatan Lipsitz and his co-authors have created a road map for the emerging industry of manufacturing stem cell therapeutics

Peter Wen is the co-founder of TeleHex. His self-adjusting bike maintenance tool is smaller and lighter than other commercial hex keys. (Photo: Brian Tran)

One U of T Engineering student’s passion for cycling becomes startup dream

Peter Wen is the CEO of TeleHex, a company that produces a small yet powerful self-adjusting bike maintenance tool

At TEDxUofT, Professor Angela Shoellig (UTIAS) gave a talk about artificial intelligence and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and the Hatchery Hub helped people with bright ideas find each other. (Photo: The Entrepreneurship Hatchery)

Ideas Worth Building: U of T Engineering at TEDxUofT

At TEDxUofT, Professor Angela Shoellig (UTIAS) gave a talk about artificial intelligence and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and the Hatchery Hub helped people with bright ideas find each other

View of the Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship, looking south-west across Front Campus. The building houses many multidisciplinary research centres and institutes in areas such as water, sustainable energy, robotics and mechatronics, engineering leadership, multidisciplinary design and global engineering. (image courtesy Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios)

Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship garners $15M investment from province

CEIE will bring together smart building design and state-of-the-art learning technologies, enabling students, faculty, alumni and industry partners to work together in addressing some of Canada’s most pressing economic challenges

Three innovative startups from U of T Engineering students are leveraging modern technology to address important challenges in the healthcare industry.

Three health-focused student startups

Three U of T Engineering startups — MedTek Devices, Pillsy and MedChart — are addressing important challenges, from managing medical information to detecting falls among the elderly.