eSight and CNIB Announce National Partnership to Benefit Canadians with Sight Loss
Expanded national access to electronic glasses will change what it means to be blind today for many Canadians TORONTO, Oct. 10, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — In honour of World Sight Day, eSight, a Canadian-based world leader in vision technology, is proud to announce a new partnership with CNIB, a non-profit organization driven to change what […]
iGan Partners welcomes Stacey Kline as new Impact Partner
iGan Partners is pleased to announce its new partnership with Stacey Kline, Managing Director of The Good Fund. Stacey is focused on mobilizing capital for good. She’s determined to prove that profit and purpose go hand-in-hand, and that impact-per-share is just as relevant as earnings-per-share. Stacey is the founder and managing director of The Good […]
Cancer Is Still Beating Us – We Need a New Start
By Azra Raza (WSJ) I have been studying and treating cancer for 35 years, and here’s what I know about the progress made in that time: There has been far less than it appears. Despite some advances, the treatments for most kinds of cancer continue to be too painful, too damaging, too expensive and too […]
Toronto researchers study how eyes may be window into brain disease
By Wency Leung Toronto researchers are testing a technique they say has the potential to be a painless, easy and economical way of identifying the growing number of individuals affected by the neurodegenerative disease – one that consists of a simple eye exam. Using a specialized camera and software that analyzes how light reflects off […]
iGan Partners welcomes Mark Bhattacharya as new CFO/CCO
iGan Partners is pleased to announce that Mark Bhattacharya has joined our firm as our new CFO/CCO. Prior to joining iGan Partners, Mark was at Morneau Shepell Asset and Risk Management Ltd. (‘MS ARM’) as Head of Operations and Chief Compliance Officer. Mark brings over 20 years of experience to iGan Partners having previously worked as the […]
Canada seen poised to lead world in food production if we can seize ‘fourth agricultural revolution’
By Naomi Powell. Were the need to arise, Brian Tischler could simultaneously sip coffee in a café in Vienna, Austria while using his smartphone to steer a tractor across his 2,500-acre farm in Mannville, Alta. Tischler, 55, is the inventor of AgOpenGPS, an open source software for autonomous tractors that has been downloaded thousands of […]
MOLECULIGHT RECEIVES $7.5 MILLION USD LOAN FROM OXFORD FINANCE
Reposted from BetaKit | Toronto-based MolecuLight, which develops fluorescence-guided imaging for visualizing bacteria of chronic wounds, has received a $7.5 million USD loan from Oxford Finance. Oxford Finance provides senior debt to life sciences and healthcare services companies, and has originated over $5 billion in loans, with lines of credit ranging from $5 million to […]
photonamic GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) Acquires the Oncology Business from MolecuLight ™ Inc. (Canada)
Reposted from Moleculight | Photonamic GmbH & Co. KG (Head office: Pinneberg, Germany; CEO: Ulrich Kosciessa, Ph.D.) (“photonamic”), a subsidiary of SBI Holdings, Inc. (Head office: Minato-ku,Tokyo; Representative Director, President and CEO: Yoshitaka Kitao) is engaged in the business of pharmaceutical development of 5-aminolevulinic acid (“5-ALA”) (*) hereby announces the acquisition of the Oncology Business of […]
Akira Health Acquired By Telus Health
Reposted from BetaKit | Virtual care platform, Akira Health, which offers a healthcare app, as well as in-person healthcare clinics, has been acquired by Telus Health. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Akira announced that the acquisition had been finalized in a letter to its customers on August 8. As part of the deal, […]
The mental health costs of building a new business
By Jonathan Moules. David Baird became an entrepreneur because he wanted to do something positive. But he had no idea how high the cost to his mental health would be. He launched Selocial — an online community to support artists and musicians like himself — in 2014, bootstrapping the operation until it had a few […]
