Apple Struggles in Push to Make Healthcare Its Greatest Legacy
By: Rolfe Winkler Apple Struggles in Push to Make Healthcare Its Greatest Legacy Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook has said the company’s greatest contribution to mankind will be in health. So far, some Apple initiatives aimed at broadly disrupting the healthcare sector have struggled to gain traction, according to people familiar with them and […]
AI prompts a scramble for healthcare data
By: Brian Barth AI prompts a scramble for healthcare data (Read Full Article Here)
Toronto would like to be seen as the nice person’s Silicon Valley, if that’s not too much trouble
By: Brian Barth Toronto would like to be seen as the nice person’s Silicon Valley, if that’s not too much trouble It is a frigid February day when I visit Communitech, a bustling tech hub that occupies a renovated 19th–century tannery in the city of Kitchener, Ontario. Inside the brick-and-beam space, Harleen Kaur opens her […]
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 […]
The Venture-Capital Trends to Watch
By: Cheryl Winokur Munk Teladoc Sues Rival Over Hospital Robot Patents Last year, venture firms raised more cash than ever before—and many in the industry predict the momentum will continue. Even though 2020 was terrible for countless small businesses and startups, the venture industry raised $73.6 billion in the U.S. in 2020, blowing past the […]
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 […]
Teladoc Sues Rival Over Hospital Robot Patents
By: Sarah Krouse Teladoc Sues Rival Over Hospital Robot Patents Teladoc Health Inc., the country’s largest publicly traded telemedicine provider, has sued rival American Well Corp. for alleged patent violations related to technology behind robot-like carts that connect hospitalized patients with specialists in real time via video. The patent-infringement suit, filed Monday in a Delaware […]
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.
