Philanthropists Gerald Schwartz and Heather Reisman have made a $100 million donation to the University of Toronto to build a new Schwartz Reisman Innovation Centre to advance disruptive technologies, the university says. The $100-million investment is the...
It’s been a rough few years for the political class in Latin America. To be sure, politicians are mistrusted all over the world, according to a GfK poll, but no region is more skeptical than Latin America when it comes to trusting their political leaders. This is...
Latin America today is a fertile ground for startups and tech companies disrupting important sectors like fintech, agriculture, insurance, and e-commerce, proposing solutions to local and global problems. Although the region has been known as complicated and...
MaRS Discovery District announced that Roy Kao has been appointed permanent Managing Director of MaRS Fintech. Roy has been interim leader for the group since November of 2018, and was previously a Senior Advisor on the team. “Roy has shown exceptional leadership...
An unprecedented influx of top-tier international talent and capital—drawn by a critical mass of home-grown expertise—has vaulted the city and its surroundings into the upper echelon of global tech capitals. Roy Pereira, a serial entrepreneur building a new AI...