Launchit Solutions and Privacy Horizon Partner to Help Canadian Health Tech Companies Build, Govern, and Scale with Confidence
Launchit Solutions and Privacy Horizon announced a strategic partnership that gives Canadian health tech startups and scale-ups coordinated access to healthcare software development, Canadian cloud infrastructure, data governance, privacy and security readiness, and responsible AI governance.
Ontario invests in wHealth Ignite program to support women’s health innovation
The Government of Ontario announced its investment in wHealth Ignite program to support women’s health innovation
U of T, McMaster Announce Early-Stage Life Sciences Venture Fund With Genesys Capital
The University of Toronto, McMaster University and Venture Ontario announced they are joining with veteran investor Genesys Capital to create a new life sciences venture capital fund.
AI used to help improve lung cancer biopsies
Node AI, a Hamilton-based medical AI company, has developed a real-time decision-support platform designed to assist clinicians performing lung cancer biopsies.
For Canadian femtech, women’s autonomy is part of the business model
Every founder has an origin story. There’s one kind that may resonate with many Canadian femtech founders: interacting with a healthcare and benefits system that’s not designed to serve her at all.
AI-powered trial at Toronto General aims to improve accuracy of lung cancer biopsies
University Health Network and Hamilton-based NodeAI have launched a clinical trial testing an AI platform designed to improve the accuracy of EBUS lung cancer biopsies in real time.
Scispot closes $8-million USD Series A to become the operating layer for life sciences labs
Kitchener-Waterloo-based Scispot has secured $8 million USD in Series A funding to bring its platform to more companies.
Life Sciences Innovation Fund Mobilizes $19.3 Million to Accelerate Made-in-Ontario Health Innovation
The Ontario government is investing $5 million through the fourth round of the province’s Life Sciences Innovation Fund (LSIF) to help 10 companies develop and launch made-in-Ontario medical technologies.
Stoked Bio announces the closing of seed financing round
Stoked Bio Inc. announces the closing of an oversubscribed $2.5M Seed round to advance pipeline of novel therapeutics for conditions of high unmet medical needs.
NerView Surgical wins Falcons’ Fortunes 2026 for its precise nerve visualization technology making cancer surgeries safer for patients
Mann Parikh, Founder and CEO of NerView Surgical, won the $100,000 Ernsting Entrepreneurship award at FACIT’s Falcons’ Fortunes 2026 pitch competition for the real-time nerve visualization system his team is developing.