Martin J. Yuill

Spark Centre was proudly represented today at #CIXSummit in Toronto, along with several of our fabulous clients. #CIXSummit is Canada’s largest #startup awards program and investment summit that showcases promising companies and powers new investment deals.

Gharsa is an inspiration to every founder grinding right now. Her courage is contagious, her work ethic is legendary, and the total commitment she brings to being part of @spark_centre’s value-added programming is unmatched. Congratulations!

Thank you to our friends at @NeuronicWorks for hosting the @spark_centre team for a tour of your facilities. We greatly value our partnership - that helps startups with innovative engineering design & custom product development services. Learn more at: ow.ly/kYTQ30njrfM

Shoutout to client Farshad Khadempour from Riskmetis, who recently dropped in to @spark_centre HQ. It’s always fun meeting passionate founders and learning about the innovative projects they’re working on. Looking forward to what’s next for riskmetis.com

Moon Trades shares how Spark Centre’s Landing-Pad Accelerator Program (LPAP) helped them grow their business, strengthen key industry connections, and prepare to scale their AI-powered mineral exploration platform.

Enjoying great company & making new connections - our executive director, @MartinJYuill joined the @OshawaChamber directors tonight at a downtown mixer designed to connect leaders shaping our local business community. Here: with Isabelle Foley and Kevin Maina from @TrentUDurham.

Powering the next wave of women-led innovation… @spark_centre proudly hosted the graduation of the Landing Pad Accelerator Program, marking the successful completion of the program by an all-female cohort of founders 👏👏👏 Thank you to @FedDevOntario. sparkcentre.org/lpap-graduatio…

Celebrating her successful completion of @spark_centre’s LPAP program: @winta_gheb from Moon Trades Technologies (moontrades.space) celebrates in style… To learn more about the LPAP program for female founders & newcomer entrepreneurs, see ow.ly/33qM50XKigL

Talking innovation, collaboration, and community with Assistant Deputy Minister Rachel Simeon in Toronto. At @spark_centre we are building a community of innovation by bringing together visionaries committed to transforming their bold ideas into resilient, market-ready startups.

Thank you to the big-thinking innovators, risk-taking entrepreneurs, and our forward-looking community partners who joined us at @spark_centre for our 2025 Annual General Meeting - where we celebrated another year of value-added programming and inspiring collaboration.

Representing @spark_centre at the @OCInnovation AGM, where it was a pleasure to chat w/ my good friend Balinder Rai, OCI BD Lead. At Spark Centre we deliver “research to commercialization” programs for @RegionofDurham innovators & entrepreneurs to drive local economic impact.

I was delighted to meet with these outstanding new colleagues from across Ontario. Thank you for the warm welcome to the Regional Innovation Centre network - which powers tech innovation across our province by helping founders and start-ups commercialize their innovations.

A pleasure to meet with our friends from @rbcx to explore ways to support @spark_centre clients - bold #innovators and ambitious #entrepreneurs. RBCx helps companies scale and make an impact on the world by connecting them to “the right people, ideas, and financial solutions.”

Thanks to all who joined us at the @spark_centre Summer Social. Spark provides a platform that brings together vision and execution - where founders, funders and experts come together to transform the future. I’m looking forward to collaborating to build the future…

At my first @spark_centre event as Executive Director: here, discussing how to shape the future through bold #innovation and ambitious #entrepreneurship. At Spark we provide a platform that brings together ideas, talent, expertise & capital to drive social & economic impact.

Thank you to my @spark_centre colleagues for giving me the “squirrel hat” at the Spark Centre “Summer Social”. Hopefully, that did not detract from my main message - that entrepreneurship is one of the most powerful tools we have to shape a better future.

It was a great pleasure to introduce Betterfrost Technologies at the Angel Investors Durham pitch event. Betterfrost exemplifies how innovation-led entrepreneurship is creating new companies and jobs of the future. Thx to #angelinvestorsdurham.

Such a pleasure to join my good friends at Angel Investors Durham (AID) for this month’s investor meeting in #Whitby. It was a great opportunity to champion ambitious founders AND unlock investment… #angelinvestorsdurham

It is such a pleasure to be invited to serve on the international Steering Committee for the @IASPnetwork World Conference in Nairobi. This year’s theme is “Demographics, Entrepreneurship, and Technology: Defining the Frontiers of Future Economies.” iaspworldconference.com/yuill-martin/

What a gorgeous morning it was to sweat in support of cancer research in Canada. #terryfoxrun2024.