University of Calgary becomes XPrize Foundation’s first international hub
Alberta and Calgary governments each gave $1.5 million to the initiative.
Healthtech
Québec grants Centech $4.5 million to boost deep tech, medtech commercialization
Puzzle Medical, Eli Health graduated incubator-accelerator program run out of École technologique supérieure.
Healwell shakes up C-suite following Well Health takeover, shifts CEO Alexander Dobranowski to president
Healwell’s new CEO and chief commercial officer both come from its latest acquisition, Orion Health.
Canadian-founded Fluent Ventures bets on global startups with $40-million USD early-stage VC program
Fluent sees Canada as “a core geography” as firm eyes innovation beyond Silicon Valley.
France’s Alan comes to Canada with digital group health insurance for tech startups
Teachers-backed unicorn aims to help disrupt Canada’s health insurance market.
Long-life startup NiaHealth exits stealth with $2.5 million in pre-seed funding
Edmonton-based healthtech startup aims to reduce disease through preventative health testing.
Missed it by that much: Well Health falls just short of $1-billion revenue mark in 2024 earnings
Revenue deferral and a cyberattack kept the Canadian healthtech firm from reaching milestone.
Puzzle Medical raises $43 million to pursue clinical trial of less-invasive device for patients with heart failure
Second Series A round co-led by family office of former Liberal leadership candidate Frank Baylis.
Healthtech startup Vopemed lands $2.29-million pre-seed funding for AI-powered surgery visuals
A mini Montréal healthtech boom may be on the horizon as several early-stage companies attract investment.
The first medical X-ray to go to space will use Canadian imaging tech
Waterloo startup KA Imaging will help understand the effects of microgravity on astronauts.
Atomic discovery made at University of Ottawa could one day advance quantum computing, medical imaging
Physics team devised a new method for controlling ionization.
Paging Dr. Cube: UniDoc to buy software from AMD Telemedicine to improve remote healthcare offering
Vancouver company recently shipped its first cube-shaped kiosks to help in conflict zones like Ukraine.
Sprout Family raises $1.7 million pre-seed round to make fertility benefits more accessible in Canada
Platform helps employers include fertility, surrogacy, and adoption coverage in their health plans.
Phoenix secures equity funding from Valspring, venture debt from CIBC for prescription drug service geared to men
Toronto healthtech startup plans to at least double its team with $50 million in equity and debt.
Xatoms and Knead take home top prizes amid strong Canadian showing at SXSW pitch competition
Canada was represented in five of the more than 70 companies pitching.