Fostering of Start-up Companies
Since 1999, Fields has fostered start-up companies that commercialize mathematical ideas and that can benefit from co-location at the Fields Institute. Companies are approved by the Fields Board on recommendation by the Industrial Advisory Board (IAB). The goal of the program is to enable young entrepreneurs to start business ventures by giving them access to the physical, intellectual, and logistical resources of the Institute. In 2008, one of the first start-up companies in this program, Sigma Analysis and Management, graduated from the program and moved off-campus, attaining the designation of a "senior" firm. Followed by R2 Financial Technologies, Synchrony Consulting Services, and QWeMA Group -- Quantitative Wealth Management Analytics Group.
Start-up Firms Fostered by the Fields Institute
MESH Consultants
MESH is a Toronto based consulting firm that specializes in implementing new research and technology in the digital design industry. Our four core services groups are:
- Geometry Consulting
- Simulation
- Proxemics
- Apps and Algorithms
Within these groups, MESH offers a spectrum of services that stimulate conceptual development, rationalize complex design, and effectively supplement industry projects with high level research and digital technology. These services have been specifically geared to architects, engineers, manufacturers, artists, and game developers looking to develop new or existing technologies that will add value to their services and products.
Daniel Hambleton | Managing Director
Daniel Hambleton is a mathematician working in the AEC industry: a role he hopes will continue to push the boundaries of current design practice. In 2009 he helped start the Studio for Progressive Modelling (SPM), a service provided by Yolles, a CH2M HILL company, that combines expertise in structural engineering, mathematics, and computation, to solve complex problems in architecture. In 2012, he founded MESH, a Toronto based consulting firm that specializes in implementing new research and technology in the digital design industry.
Daniel has worked on projects both locally and abroad, collaborated with established and emerging architects, organized Architecture In Combination, an interdisciplinary discussion series, lectured at the University of Toronto, presented at international conferences, written technical papers, and is fascinated by the interaction between mathematics, engineering, and architecture.
His current work includes smoothed particle hydrodynamics, affordance based space syntax, AI in pathfinding algorithms, computer vision, discrete differential geometry, freeform surfaces, structural optimization, tilings and patterns, kinematics, construction aware design, physics simulations, Riemannian manifolds, higher dimensional lattices, and how all this lowers fabrication, assembly, and material costs in real project settings.
d1g1t Inc.
d1g1t Inc. is a new digital wealth management platform powered by advanced analytics, which provides transparent portfolio management services and risk reporting to advisors and their investors.
d1g1t is the second Fintech company incubated at the Fields Institute by the founder team. Their previous company, R2 Financial Technologies was a successful startup, incubated at Fields from 2006-08, and later acquired by S&P capital IQ in 2012.
Dr. Dan Rosen | Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Dan Rosen is the Chief Executive Officer of d1g1t Inc. He is also the Director of the Center for Financial Institutions at the Fields Institute and an Adjunct Professor of Mathematical Finance at the University of Toronto. A FinTech Entrepreneur and Quant, he works with numerous financial institutions around the world, and lectures extensively on financial engineering, portfolio management, enterprise risk and capital management. He has authored numerous publications, including two books, and several patents, and serves in the editorial board of several industrial and academic journals. Dr. Rosen was inducted in 2010 a fellow of the Fields Institute, and currently serves in the Board of Directors of the Institute, as well as in the Advisory Boards of the OSC Fintech Launchpad, Global Risk Institute (GRI), International Association of Quantitative Finance (IAQF), Instute for Leadership Eduction in Engineering (iLead), and the Center for Advanced Financial Studies at the University of Waterloo. Prior to starting d1g1t, Dr. Rosen was the co-founder and CEO of R2 Financial Technologies and had a successful ten-year career at Algorithmics Inc. where he led the company¹s strategy, products, financial engineering, and research.
