Ask The Doctor brings house calls to the 21st century with new platform
Toronto-based Ask The Doctor has been working quickly to bring its tech-based health solution, which allows users to ask personalized…
Healthtech
PopRX promises free same-day prescription delivery on #TheDisruptors
With smartphones, almost anything — lunch, taxis, or groceries — can be ordered through an app. One company is adding prescription…
PopRX partnering with Ask The Doctor on its ATD Works platform
After Ask The Doctor announced that it was releasing a virtual healthcare platform for employers in Ontario, it’s clear…
Ask The Doctor launches virtual healthcare platform for employers in Ontario
Ask The Doctor, which provides a platform for users to send personalized questions to registered doctors, has launched a virtual…
iCONECT’s partnership with Lockheed Martin is an overnight success 20 years in the making
London’s iCONECT provides a secure mini-Google for teams of lawyers to collaborate. As the founder of iCONECT, Ian Campbell,…
This Vancouver native and Thiel Fellow is building a new communication platform at Harvard
While studying neurobiology and economics at Harvard University, Vancouver native Grace Xiao and her friend Raul Jordan were…
Hamilton-based CareKit Health acquired by Moseda Technologies for $2 million
CareKit Health, a healthtech startup based in Hamilton, has been acquired by Vancouver-based Moseda Technologies for $2 million.…
Today in funding: Mobify, ScarX Therapeutics, Chronogolf
Whether they’re changing the world of medicine or mobile, Canadian startups raised impressive rounds in this week’s…
OBI offering $50,000 for startups working on brain health
The Ontario Brain Institute, a provincially-funded, nonprofit research centre dedicated to fostering neuroscience innovation,…
Denmark’s oldest healthcare company opens innovation lab in Markham, its first outside Europe
LEO Pharma, Denmark’s oldest healthcare company, announced that it is opening its first innovation lab in North America…
PetalMD acquires Montreal-based startup Medago
PetalMD, a 26,000-strong network for Canadian physicians, announced that it has acquired Montreal-based startup Medago. Medago…
Ontario Centres of Excellence grants $180,000 to four Entrepreneurship Hatchery startups
Four startups from The Entrepreneurship Hatchery, U of T engineering’s accelerator for student business ventures, have…
Johns Hopkins researchers use Myo to develop first gesture-controlled prosthetic attached to a skeleton
When the Myo market came out of beta a few months ago, it had just surpassed 100 apps, spanning verticals like productivity,…
Canadian Forbes Top 30 Under 30 winners share their plans for 2016
A few weeks ago, Forbes released its comprehensive Top 30 Under 30 list, presenting the under-30-year-olds that are killing…
Starting January 26, startups can apply to the Canadian Technology Accelerator in Boston
The Canadian Technology Accelerator in Boston — or CTA@Boston for short — is accepting applications from startups that…