Holovast in Toronto: First Global Incubator Program Market Visit, Canada
Highlights from the Global Incubator Program's first market visit in Toronto, from MaRS and the Downsview aerospace campus to Manufacturing in the Age of Tariffs and VC Night.
Toronto, Canada - November 2025: HOLOVAST Ltd joined the first market visit of the Global Incubator Program, delivered by MaRS Discovery District with Innovate UK's Made Smarter Innovation challenge, from 3 to 7 November 2025.
The week was anchored at MaRS, with working sessions on value proposition, public relations, and how government supports scaling into Canada, alongside briefings from Dentons, the UK's Department for Business and Trade, NGen, and Toronto Global.
The cohort then went out into the ecosystem, starting at the Downsview aerospace campus: the DAIR hub, Centennial College's Bombardier Centre for Aerospace and Aviation, and its Landing Gear Innovation Lab.
Campus visits continued across the Greater Toronto Area, including the Centre for Intelligent Manufacturing at the Generator at Sheridan.
At the Toronto Region Board of Trade, Survive and Thrive: Manufacturing in the Age of Tariffs put the cohort in the room with Canadian manufacturing leadership, including a panel with Goldy Hyder of the Business Council of Canada, Linda Hasenfratz, Executive Chair of Linamar, and Wendy Andrushko of Qnity. The week closed with Invest Ontario, a tour of Autodesk, and VC Night hosted by Drive Capital and Koru.
Johnson Oluwadele, Founder and CTO of HOLOVAST, said:
"The first visit did its job. We arrived with a story and left with a map: who runs Canadian manufacturing, who invests in it, and where governed execution fits."
About the Global Incubator Program
The Global Incubator Program supports UK companies with advanced manufacturing solutions to enter and scale in strategic international markets through partner access and ecosystem support, delivered in Canada by MaRS Discovery District with Innovate UK.
About HOLOVAST Ltd
Holovast develops a governed operational knowledge and execution platform for physical work. It turns approved source material into reviewed workflows, delivers them through browser, tablet, or AR, and uses configured step evidence to control progression and correction. Holovast governs what AI may instruct, what a person or agent may act on, what evidence is required, and whether physical work may proceed.
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