Accelerating health innovation journeys through the CAN Health Network
A Recap of the June Hamilton Health Innovation Check-up What if you could pinpoint the challenges health organizations face and offer solutions that fit perfectly? A system designed to put your innovations exactly where they can drive change. That’s the vision driving the CAN Health Network, highlighted at the latest Hamilton Health Innovation Check-up hosted […]
Innovation Factory and the CAN Health Network join forces to accelerate the adoption of Canadian health tech innovations
Find out how CAN Health is working with Innovation Factory to boost the adoption of Canadian health tech innovations.
HEALTHI secures renewal for fourth cohort to support 36 new health innovation projects
HEALTHI’s continued success highlights its role in healthcare innovation, with continued funding for health technology ventures.
Able Innovations announces $7.5 million to take the pain out of patient transfer
The Toronto-based robotic medical device startup (and Innovation Factory HEALTHI program participant) focuses on the problem of patient transfer—a run-of-the-mill, labour-intensive procedure that usually involves some combination of porters, nurses, and orderlies lifting a patient from point a to point b, sometimes using bed sheets or a slider board. The typical patient transfer process as […]
Two Hamilton innovators win national Arthritis Ideator Awards
Two Hamiltonians were among 4 winners (and eight finalists) in a national competition which provides funding for innovative projects that help people suffering from arthritis. The Arthritis Ideator Program — run by the Arthritis Society — received 21 submissions from innovators, entrepreneurs, and startups across Canada working on solutions to help improve the lives of […]
Hyivy Health secures $1.1 million in pre-seed funding to ease women’s pelvic health problems
Born from its founder’s own experience with cervical cancer, FemTech startup Hyivy Health has secured $1.1 million in pre-seed funding to improve womens’ pelvic health. Threshold Impact, Beresford Ventures, Equation Angels, Zambon Research Venture, The51, OCI, iGan, and Velocity all participated in the oversubscribed round, along with a number of individual angel investors. The round […]
EmergConnect raises $350,000 to fund emergency room wait time predictor
EmergConnect, a Hamilton startup, has raised $350,000 CAD in what the company classified as an all-equity, SAFE, pre-seed investment round that closed in September. The financing was led by Loyal VC, a global startup index fund, and saw participation from Maple Leaf Angels and Front Row Ventures. With its mission to “revolutionize emergency care,” EmergConnect […]