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Alum Albert Tai’s entrepreneurial journey

The co-founders of Hypercare: Umar Azhar, Faculty of Information grad Albert Tai and Dr. Joseph Choi.
The co-founders of Hypercare: Umar Azhar, Faculty of Information grad Albert Tai and Dr. Joseph Choi.

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  • 26 November 2024
  • Alumni, Community

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Alumnus Albert Tai’s Hypercare startup was featured in the Globe and Mail this week as one of four U of T startups that are solving global challenges with innovative solutions.

Tai, who graduated from the Faculty of Information in 2017, launched Hypercare that same year, together with Dr. Joseph Choi, an emergency physician and assistant professor in U of T’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine, and Umar Azhar, a software engineer who left Yahoo Inc. in Silicon Valley to join the startup.

Read more about Tai’s journey.

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