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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.

Entrepreneurship at U of T Engineering

From right: George Myhal (IndE 7T8), Dean Cristina Amon and Rayla Myhal. As the finishing touches are made on the eight-storey building ahead of its official opening on April 27, George and Rayla Myhal have bolstered their commitment to engineering innovation and entrepreneurship with a generous gift that will name the new building in their honour.

Myhal family champions next-generation engineering innovation and entrepreneurship

April 5, 2018

George and Rayla Myhal have bolstered their commitment to U of T Engineering with another generous gift that will name the Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship in their honour

From left: Mark Drucker, President of Silanna Semiconductor, with Professor Aleksandar Prodić (ECE), Ahsan Zaman (ElecE 0T9, ECE MASc 1T2, PhD 1T5), Mete Erturk, CEO of Appulse Power, Aleksandar Radić (ECE PhD 1T4) and Behzad Mahdavikhah (ECE PhD 1T4). Silanna Semiconductor announced Wednesday that they have acquired U of T Engineering spin-off Appulse Power Inc. (Photo: Marit Mitchell).

U of T Engineering spin-off Appulse Power acquired by Silanna Semiconductor

March 21, 2018

Company founded by three alumni and Professor Aleksandar Prodić (ECE) snapped up by multinational, becomes its first Canadian location

Professor Parham Aarabi (ECE) is the CEO and founder of ModiFace, a spin-off company that uses augmented reality (AR) and artificial intelligence (AI) to build advanced facial visualization software for the beauty and medical industries. ModiFace has been acquired by L'Oreal. (Credit: Johnny Guatto)

U of T Engineering spin-off ModiFace acquired by French cosmetics giant L’Oreal

March 16, 2018

ModiFace uses augmented reality and artificial intelligence to build advanced facial visualization software

Left to right: U of T Professor Geoff Hinton (Computer Science) and alumnus Matt Zeiler (EngSci 0T9) speak with Kyle Hsu (Year 3 EngSci) at the Engineering Science Education Conference, held January 26, 2018. (Photo: Kevin Zhang)

Get the picture: Q and A with Matt Zeiler, founder and CEO of Clarifai

February 28, 2018

Startup founded by EngSci alumnus uses artificial intelligence to ‘understand’ photos and video

Governor General Julie Payette (ECE MASc 9T0), Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and Dean Cristina Amon with members of the U of T Engineering Blue Sky Solar Racing team. (Photo: Marit Mitchell)

PHOTOS: U of T Engineering students and alumni demonstrate innovations for Governor General

February 28, 2018

Event marked the first official visit to Ontario from Her Excellency the Right Honourable Julie Payette (ECE MASc 9T0)

U of T Engineering alumna and entrepreneur Huda Idrees (IndE 1T2+PEY) is the founder and CEO of digital medical records startup Dot Health. She will appear on a Women-in-Tech panel Tuesday as part of U of T's Entrepreneurship Week.(Credit: Pam Lau)

‘It’s really shocking’: U of T Engineering alumna and entrepreneur on the tech industry’s lack of gender diversity

February 28, 2018

Huda Idrees, founder and CEO of digital medical records company Dot Health, is one of four panellists participating in a Women in Tech event for U of T Entrepreneurship Week

The Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship (CEIE) officially opens April 27th. (Image courtesy Montgomery Sisam Architects & Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios)

Myhal Centre: A floor-by-floor tour — Part II

February 27, 2018

The upper floors of U of T Engineering’s newest building will include a four-storey atrium anchored by an event space, a research lab and a home on campus for alumni and collaborators

How U of T Engineering startup Nymi found an unexpected business niche

February 27, 2018

Founded by U of T Engineering researchers in 2011, Nymi uses people’s heartbeats as biometric identifiers to log them into iPhones, iPads — and now industrial equipment.

Clockwise from left: Mubtaseem Zaman, Tanvir Shahriar, Sadman Hasan and Farhad Siddique are the members of point 37, one of more than 100 teams to apply to The Entrepreneurship Hatchery this year. (Photo: Tyler Irving)

Entrepreneurship Week: The Hatchery launches its 2018 cohort

February 26, 2018

More than 100 teams applied to participate in U of T Engineering startup incubator’s Nest program

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