iGan Partners Leads Seed+ Financing for Cosm Medical to Advance Personalized Gynecological Devices
TORONTO, June 5, 2025 /CNW/ – iGan Partners is pleased to announce that it has led the first close of a Seed+ financing round for Cosm Medical, a medical device company modernizing pelvic health through personalized gynecological care. The round included new investor Spring Impact Capital and several angels, and will support Cosm’s U.S. expansion, clinical validation, and commercial growth. […]
iGan Partners Invests in Cyborg to Advance Confidential AI for Regulated Industries
TORONTO, May 29, 2025 /CNW/ – iGan Partners is excited to announce an investment in Cyborg (www.cyborg.co), a pioneering company developing confidential AI infrastructure designed to meet the stringent privacy and compliance requirements of regulated industries such as healthcare. Cyborg’s flagship product, CyborgDB, is the first vector database that enables fully encrypted inference—ensuring that data remains encrypted […]
MolecuLight Secures $27.5 Million From Hayfin, a Leading Healthcare Institutional Investor
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ – MolecuLight Inc., a global medical device company pioneering point-of-care fluorescence imaging for measuring bacterial load in wounds, today announced it has secured a $27.5 million investment from Hayfin Capital Management LLP (“Hayfin”). This significant investment will accelerate MolecuLight’s continued growth in the United States, Canada, and Europe across hospital in-patient and out-patient clinics, independent wound care clinics, podiatrists, mobile […]
Toronto, the Quietly Booming Tech Town
By Cade Metz TORONTO — In late February, Microsoft opened four floors of new office space near the top of a 50-story glass tower in downtown Toronto, a block from Scotiabank Arena, home of the Maple Leafs and the Raptors. Apple and Amazon were already in towers just down the street, and Google was about […]
Will AI turbocharge the hunt for new drugs?
By Hannah Kuchler In January 2020, as doctors struggled to treat the first coronavirus patients, data scientists and biochemists at BenevolentAI turned to artificial intelligence to hunt for a drug to help. The researchers had only a few clues about how the new virus operated. They fed them to their algorithm and set it to […]
‘Tech wreck’ looks more like another dotcom bubble bursting
By Robin Wigglesworth At what point does the slump in US technology stocks stop being dismissed as a mere “tech wreck” primarily centred on the most speculative companies and become considered a fully-fledged dotcom crash 2.0? The combination of increasingly hawkish central banks and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been toxic for equity markets this […]
Curv Health closes $5.1 million to connect employers, insurers with healthcare providers
Curv Health’s initial focus was on measuring human motion using computer vision and machine learning. The Toronto and Halifax-based digital health startup’s early efforts went towards developing a proprietary tool that used these technologies to derive insights designed to inform preventative and rehabilitative care, which it built and then began licensing. In an interview with […]
MolecuLight Featured in Unprecedented 32 Presentations and Posters at World Union of Wound Healing Societies (WUWHS) 2022 Conference
Wide-Spread Clinical Evidence using the MolecuLight i:X Platform Reveals its Significant Global Adoption and Proven Utility in Wound Care Toronto, CANADA and Abu Dhabi, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – (March 1, 2022) MolecuLight Inc., the leader in point-of-care fluorescence imaging for real-time detection of wounds containing elevated bacterial loads, announces that its MolecuLight wound imaging platform […]
Latest Clinical Evidence Presented at APWCA’s Wound Week™ 2022 Illustrates the Significant Clinical Utility of the MolecuLight Point-of-Care Imaging Platform
8 Clinical Posters and a Presentation and Hands-On Workshop Highlights the Breadth of Clinical Benefits of the MolecuLight Device for Wound Care Applications TORONTO and PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — MolecuLight Inc., the leader in point-of-care fluorescence imaging for real-time detection of wounds containing elevated bacterial loads, announces the presentation of 8 Clinical Posters and a Presentations and a […]
Faisal Belhoul joining forces with iGan Partners to launch US$250 million iGan Arabia fund to drive MedTech innovation in MENA
Targeted fund of US$250 million with limited partners and US$250 million through co-investments aim to transform healthcare systems in MENA Fund will explore investment opportunities in AI/Cloud-enhanced medical devices and digital health technologies Identifies four breakthrough technologies for investment in areas in prostate cancer, advanced wound care, eye disease, and digital patient management Dubai/Toronto; February […]
