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The University of Toronto Scarborough's The BRIDGE and Black Founders Network is partnering with Federation of Black Canadians on a new project that will support the next generation of Black entrepreneurs.

The partnership is part of a $1.3-million investment announced by the

University of Toronto has been recognized as a World Top 5 University Business Incubator by UBI Global in its latest world benchmark study, announced live from Ghent, Belgium on January 24. For the sixth edition of the World Benchmark Study (2021-22), 1895 organizations were

Captivate is UTSC's Digital Storytelling Competition and is made possible by the Sandford Borins Award in Digital Communications. It gives UTSC students the opportunity to create a short digital story—a video, podcast, website, or another format—that tells their story, and

Five African start-ups championing innovative healthcare solutions were named winners of the Health Entrepreneurship Challenge 2022 following a rigorous U of T–led incubation program that supports early-stage entrepreneurs at collaborating network institutions across 20 African

The University of Toronto has partnered with Redbird Circle to create a new workshop series that will offer Indigenous students an opportunity to learn about the duality in entrepreneurship and innovation, and invite them to think in new ways about themselves, their community

This summer the University of Toronto hosted over 60 participants in the 100 Strong Academy, a month-long summer program for Black boys between 11 to 14 years old.

“My mom told me about this and said it was for Black boys, so I chose 100 Strong,” says 12-year-old Jeremiah

An early-stage collaboration between The BRIDGE at the University of Toronto Scarborough and a researcher and will work to ensure that Ghanaian cashew farmers receive equitable wages for their valuable export: cashews.

The partnership was initiated by Edwina Apaw, manager in U

The BRIDGE's Entrepreneurship Open Learning Series, is a new, free and publicly accessible course that is designed to help anyone who wants to start a business get their idea off the ground. Offered through U of T Scarborough’s The BRIDGE and U of T’s tri-campus entrepreneurship

University of Toronto Scarborough graduates Melisa Ellis (BA 2015) and Malcolm Wright (BA 2015), founders of the non-profit social and technology enterprise Nobellum, are joining forces with U of T to help launch at least 100 Black-owned startups by 2025.

Over the next five