Kurtis Scissons is a Senior Manager of Innovation & Entrepreneurship and the Founder and Director of the University of Toronto research accelerator UTEST. Over the past 10 years with UofT Kurtis has helped over 60 companies raise over $200M in investment capital with 6 acquisitions including 3 AI acquisitions to Google and Twitter. Prior to UofT Kurtis worked at Nortel Networks and Oracle in various finance and innovation roles.