Black-led startups secure record-breaking $400,000 at DMZ’s Black Innovation Summit
OutreachGenius, Happly.AI among winners taking home more money than ever before.
Healthtech
Sparrow BioAcoustics raises $10 million to scale smartphone stethoscopes across North America
Healthtech startup’s app turns smartphones into a Health Canada-approved stethoscope.
Maple Bridge Ventures raises $10 million for fund backing immigrant entrepreneurs
Fund will support immigrants building early-stage AgTech, food tech, and healthtech startups.
Neo Financial completes first-ever hat trick of Deloitte Technology Fast 50 rankings
Together, 2025 winners averaged a three-year revenue growth of 2,623 percent.
Felix Health raises $53 million in growth financing to get more “aggressive” in telehealth
Newly profitable Toronto startup aims to scale operations before generic weight loss drugs arrive in Canada.
Spring Impact Capital closes $14-million fund to grow Canada’s climate and healthtech ecosystem
The Vancouver impact fund has already invested $2 million across eight Canadian startups.
ABK Biomedical raises $35 million USD to bring liver cancer treatment to market
Series D funding will support commercialization of Halifax company’s Eye90 microspheres.
Pawsible Ventures looks to sniff out opportunities in pet health
Vancouver-based studio’s inaugural fund is fetching $10 million to help build pet health startups.
BDC Capital’s Cheri Corbett joins Pender Ventures as partner
Calgary-based Corbett joins a month after Isaac Souweine left the fund.
At Elevate, founders call out barriers holding back Canadian healthtech
Entrepreneurs say slow policy and weak procurement limit Canadians’ access to aging and fertility tech.
PhenoTips raises $2 million to expand “genomic health record” platform’s global reach
Startup will expand in Canada and the UK while laying groundwork in the US, Europe, and Middle East.
Felix eyes preventative health market with new “longevity” testing program
Canadian telehealth company expands beyond on-demand prescriptions for stigmatized conditions.
Avitia partners with Genoscience to expand rapid cancer test access in Québec
Montréal startup aims to bring liquid biopsy tests to Quebec patients outside major centres.
FluidAI lands FDA clearance to sell post-surgery monitor in the US
Kitchener-Waterloo healthtech startup eyes Series B to fuel US commercialization.
Variational AI lands “up to” $349 million USD to discover drugs with Merck
Vancouver firm’s AI platform will generate chemical compounds based on Merck’s therapeutic targets.