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`IBM launches Toronto startup hub, enrolls first participant – Analytics 4 Life
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`SEPTEMBER 23, 2016
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`IBM LAUNCHES TORONTO STARTUP HUB, ENROLLS FIRST PARTICIPANT
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`IBM and the Ontario Centres of Excellence launched a startup hub in Toronto this week, enrolling e-health player Analytics 4
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`Life (A4L) as its first participant.
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`The IBM Innovation Space is the first program to launch under IBM’s $54 million Innovation Incubator Project, according to
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`a statement (https://www.ibm.com/news/ca/en/2016/09/21/b408173w47376h64.html). The company put up $24.75
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`million for the initiative, while the Government of Ontario’s Jobs and Prosperity Fund contributed $22.75 million and other
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`partners made up the rest.
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`The startup hub will offer capacity, networking, infrastructure and IBM’s cloud and cognitive business tech to help startups
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`propel their ideas from research to commercialization, according to the statement. Experts from IBM will provide mentoring,
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`support services, education and legal counsel to support startups aiming to attack some of Canada’s biggest challenges in
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`sectors including healthcare and natural resources.
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`Toronto-based A4L, the flagship company in the program, started with the notion that machine learning could be harnessed
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`to identify disease states by applying it to physiological “signals” emitted by the body.
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`In May, A4L unveiled its Coronary Artery Disease Learning and Algorithm Development clinical study, which aims to enroll
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`up to 2,500 participants in the U.S. “A4L is currently testing a system that safely records patient signals and wirelessly
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`transmits these files to secure cloud storage that allows powerful computer analytics to access and analyze billions of data
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`points in real time,” said Chief Medical Officer Dr. William Sanders in a statement (http://www.newswire.ca/news-
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`releases/a4l-announces-ibm-innovation-space-participation-594460931.html).
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`Source: FierceBiotech (http://www.fiercebiotech.com/medical-devices/ibm-launches-toronto-startup-hub-enrolls-first-
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