Meet the Canadian startups participating in Y Combinator’s Winter 2023 Demo Day
A total of 282 companies participated globally.
Healthtech
Felix expands into more complex categories of care following $18 million Series B
Healthtech startup targets moves into Québec, weight loss, therapy.
Eli raises $5 million to make at-home hormone testing for women more accessible
“It will allow us to build a large-scale dataset of daily hormone levels for the first time in history.”
Nimble Science raises $2.7 million to collect data from previously inaccessible regions of small intestine
Nimble’s ingestible device brings new insights into stomach health.
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Plus: Noze gets $1M grant for malaria breathalyzer from Gates Foundation
Toronto’s Hypercare sole Canadian startup selected for AWS healthcare accelerator
The healthcare coordination platform among the cohort of 23 companies chosen to participate.
UBC, BC Cancer researchers develop AI model to predict cancer survival rates
The AI model can predict survival outcomes within six months, 36 months, 60 months.
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Plus: PointClickCare acquires Patient Pattern.
Noze receives $1 million grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to build TB- and malaria-detecting breathalyzer
The startup’s digital odour perception platform was used during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Haply Robotics secures $4.8 million CAD seed round to develop tactile tech used for surgical training, gaming
Funds will go towards fine-tuning Haply’s Inverse3 device.
BBTV among 10 BC orgs receiving total $25.7 million from PacifiCan to help job retention amid tech layoffs
Over 500 jobs are expected to be created from the investment.
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PointClickCare acquires Patient Pattern to support healthcare providers’ transition to value-based care
Patient Pattern allows management for both fee-for-service and value-based care models in one platform.
CAN Health Network to serve all of Canada with Québec, northern territories expansion
The initiative secured $30 million in federal funding for the expansion.
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Plus: BetterHelp barred by FTC from sharing data with Facebook.