Canada Versus Silicon-valley For Start-up Mecca

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Some ten years ago, a Toronto entrepreneur Brendan Frey wanted to start his company, he says, “conditions weren’t right”. But in the year 2015, he found the local environment so hospitable that he can start something new there in Toronto. Brendan launched “deep genomics”, a genetic medicine company. The company uses artificial intelligence to discover and advance therapies for those genetic disorders which were rare. 

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Brendan Frey and his hard work

Brendan Frey is a professor of engineering and medicine at the University of Toronto. He developed this technology at the university and launched his startup at MaRS, a hub, which constitutes of more than 200 partners in the corporate sector. They all were from academic and government worlds that help startups with funding and advice. 

Rising scope of the company

According to Frey, there has been an increasing tendency for the university to be open with its intellectual property. They too have convinced some of the associates in Toronto enterprise, waterloo, Montreal Corridor to create new companies in Canada that will bring a lot of wealth in the innovation system.

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Investors

The scale of their funding success is on a broader scale. They were helped by another company named “sonder Canada”, an Airbnb partner which raised the equivalent of 250 million dollars in funding. Big tech companies like Airbnb, Facebook, Google have a presence in cities such as Montreal and Toronto. Everybody in the country is seeing a room for improvement for the sake of the rise in wealth and prosperity in the country. More than 100 CEOs of Canada wrote a letter to the prime minister Justin Trudeau, conservative party leader Andrew Scheer, new democratic party leader Jagmeet Singh, and green party leader Elizabeth May saying these parties need to make it easier for the country’s tech companies to get access to capital, customers and talent.

Investors from outside

If a firm is a prospering day by day with such an amount of wealth making ideas, this is very much obvious that investors would come from a far land and would like to invest in the company. “When it comes to the growth of the country, most of our capitals are coming from U.S.A”, Regan Mcgee, CEO of Nobul, an online marketplace that connects home buyers and sellers, says this.

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Competitors

The fast-growing corporate sector is very much possible for the competitors. Most of the rival companies are coming from New York and silicon-valley. With the good number of engineers and their handsome salary, this war of the corporate sector can be won without any special effort. 

With all these data and present facts, we can assert the fact that Canada is a fast-growing corporate sector in the world in every aspect. Associates like Brendan Frey has put their utmost effort in the betterment of their nation. The entrepreneurial ecosystem is booming in major cities in Canada, thanks to government incentives, a growing tech talent pool and access to venture capital. All thanks go to the business-minded associates of the country.