SureHire and Highmark Interactive Forge Partnership Enabling Real-time Mental Wellness Assessments
SureHire, a revolutionary occupational testing company renowned for providing testing services that foster foundations for safe, healthy, and productive workforces, today announced a strategic partnership with Highmark Interactive, an award-winning digital health company, to provide organizations access to practical, upstream, evidence-based solutions to assess and improve employee mental wellness and brain health through its innovative […]
Artificial intelligence is changing how we diagnose disease, triage cases in the ER, even help prep doctors
By: Nora Underwood “The health care system is overburdened and really needs sources of innovation to work through the backlog, especially after COVID,” says Catherine Bornbaum, head of clinical operations and partnerships at Toronto-based RetiSpec. “Technology can really help bring down those timelines, can help figure out who needs followup, who needs assessment, who can maybe […]
Medchart Ranks No. 8 on the 2021 Narwhal List, Shows Unicorn Potential
TORONTO, Ontario–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Medchart today announced that it placed 8th on the 2021 Narwhal List in the category of Computer Technology Companies. This list spotlights Canada’s leading private tech companies by their financial velocity – the rate at which they raise and deploy investment dollars to fuel growth – and is meant to predict the industry’s future Unicorns. (Please […]
MolecuLight Receives Innovative Technology Contract from Vizient for its i:X® Fluorescence Wound Imaging Device
PITTSBURGH, PA – (May 4, 2021) MolecuLight Corp., the leader in point-of-care fluorescence imaging for detection of wounds containing elevated bacterial loads, announces its MolecuLight i:X® fluorescence wound imaging device has received an Innovative Technology contract from Vizient, Inc., the nations’ largest member-driven health care performance improvement company. The new Innovative Technology contract for MolecuLight i:X signifies to Vizient members the device’s […]
Bio-Hermes Clinical Trial Launches to Compare Biomarker Tests; Seeks Rapid, Less Expensive Diagnostics for Alzheimer’s Disease
Washington, DC (April 20, 2021) – Today, the Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation® (GAP) announced eleven biopharma, technology, and nonprofit partners who are contributing to GAP’s Bio-Hermes Study. Bio-Hermes is the first-ever platform study to compare results of blood and digital biomarker tests, including digital cognitive and voice assessments, with the results of brain amyloid PET scans […]
Exact Imaging secures CDN $5.1 Million in financing from BDC Capital and EDC
“We are thrilled to have BDC Capital and EDC as new investment partners.” says Randy AuCoin, Exact Imaging’s President and CEO. “BDC Capital’s and EDC’s investment in Exact Imaging will allow us to continue to drive adoption of our novel ExactVu micro-imaging platform throughout Canada, USA, Europe and to new markets around the world. This […]
Medchart Closed $12M USD Series A Financing
Medchart Closed $12M USD Series A financing in combined equity and debt, led by Crosslink Ventures, with participation from iGan, Golden Ventures, Vast Ventures, Union Ventures, Stanford Law School, David Ko, Faktory Ventures, and Silicon Valley Bank.
MolecuLight Announces the Appointment of 11 Global Distributors
TORONTO, April 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ – MolecuLight Inc., the leader in point-of-care fluorescence imaging for detection of wounds containing elevated bacterial loads, announced that it has appointed 11 specialized global Distributors for its i:X fluorescence wound imaging device. MolecuLight’s Distributors are Tradis Gat ltd. (Israel), Al Zahrawi Medical Supplies LLC (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), AUMET Construction & Hospitals Management (Kuwait), Mintcare Sdn Bhd (Malaysia), Distribuidora Indexlab S.A. de C.V. (Mexico), Sedeer […]
SomaDetect Raises $6-Million To Help Commercialize Innovative Dairy Health Technology
The $6-million (U.S.) venture capital financing will be used to accelerate the commercialization of SomaDetect’s in-line sensor for milk quality, reproductive status and herd health. The financing is led by Ag Capital Canada (ACC), a private equity fund based in Tillsonburg, Ontario. Additional new investment is being provided by Merck Animal Health Ventures, Builders VC and Wilbur Ellis’ Cavallo Ventures. (Read […]
eSight Receives Key Patents for Augmenting Sight Related to its Enhanced Vision Platform
eSight announced today the addition of a key patent related to augmenting sight that is part of the foundation of its most versatile and advanced device for individuals with low vision and legal blindness. This patent (US10867449 and CA2916780) has been issued in multiple jurisdictions and continues to strengthen eSight’s intellectual property portfolio which now totals 45 patents […]
