What: Innovation hub OneEleven’s new home base
Where: The fourth floor of a concrete complex at Front and Blue Jays Way
How big: 250,000 square feet for 400-odd employees (and 30 companies)
Bilal Khan dreamed up OneEleven four years ago, when he scrawled the idea on a paper napkin. As the policy director for three consecutive Ontario ministers of economic development, trade and innovation, he realized that there were only a few companies creating tech jobs and barely any resources to help start-ups grow. “Toronto’s innovation ecosystem was bursting at the seams,” he says. “But the city was doing nothing to develop the community.” As a result, some of Toronto’s brightest tech minds were abandoning the Big Smoke in favour of Silicon Valley.
Image: Photograph by Brian de Rivera Simon
