Diagram closes $25 million fund from Portag3 and 50-plus angels to build Canadian FinTech from the ground up
After a year operating in stealth, a new VC firm is ready to show its face to the Canadian tech community. Diagram today announced…
Healthtech
Ask The Doctor wants its tech to empower patients communicating with doctors
When we visit our family physicians, the appointments go by so quickly that we don’t always get the answers to our medical…
With $6 million Series A, Clearwater Clinical wants to scale its mobile hearing test solution
Ottawa-based Clearwater Clinical, which is developing mobile and cloud-based data management solutions for the hearing health…
Highline BETA partners with Cossette Health to co-create healthtech startups
Startup co-creation company Highline BETA is partnering with Cossette Health, an incubator dedicated to supporting healthtech…
Appili Therapeutics raises $2.2 million to develop superbug-fighting antibiotics
Halifax-based Appili Therapeutics has raised $2.2 million in equity financing. According to a report from Entrevestor, Appili…
Versant Ventures and Bayer AG dedicate $295 million to stem cell therapy company with operations in Toronto
Bayer AG and Versant Ventures are dedicating $295 million ($225 million USD) to launching BlueRock Therapeutics, a stem cell…
LEAGUE founder Mike Serbinis says he wants to build a billion-dollar company by 2018
Last week on The Disruptors, co-host Bruce Croxon sat down with Michael Serbinis, CEO of the digital health and wellness platform…
Penta Medical takes home $35,000 from Velocity Fund Finals
Today, the University of Waterloo hosted its 17th Velocity Fund Finals, with 20 companies vying for their share of $125,000.…
Sequence Bio CEO steps down from role as co-founder takes over
St. John’s-based Sequence Bio co-founder Chris Gardner has taken over as acting CEO from the company’s former CEO,…
Medella Health named international runner-up for the James Dyson Award
Waterloo-based Medella Health has been named an international runner-up for the James Dyson Award, an international competition…
Coopérathon challenges Montreal startup community to make the world a better place through innovation
This past Friday night, the Montreal startup community, along with many of the city’s leaders in the fields of Health, FinTech,…
Ranomics says its genetic analysis platform can help doctors make better diagnoses on #TheDisruptors
According to The Disruptors co-host Amber Kanwar, one of its latest startups pitching on the show is “a quintessential…
Intellijoint Surgical announces $11 million Series A to continue US expansion
Waterloo-based Intellijoint Surgical, which develops 3D surgical navigation solutions for surgery, announced the close of an…
CanCon Podcast Ep. 39: Are Canadian healthtech startups doomed to fail?
Healthcare in Canada is often discussed as a point of pride – universal healthcare for everybody. For a country that…
#smallrooms Podcast: Balaji Gopalan of MedStack on enabling healthcare apps
Rob Kenedi sits down with Balaji Gopalan, founder of MedStack, a cloud-based platform that allows developers to easily create…