Companies

TORONTO – Swift Medical, a leader in enterprise-grade digital wound care management, has secured $11.6 million in funding led by Data Collective in Palo Alto, Calif., with participation by Montreal-based Real Ventures, as well as Relay Ventures in Toronto, DHVC in Palo Alto, and Business Development Bank of Canada in Montreal. Read More

TORONTO – ThoughtWire, developers of the award-winning Ambiant IIoT platform, has announced the closing of a combined $20 million debt and Series A financing. ThoughtWire will use the financing to further the company’s geographic growth, using Ambiant to make cities smarter, buildings more automated and energy efficient, and hospitals and workplaces safer, by interconnecting and orchestrating people, workflows, data and things in real-time. Read More

TORONTO – Nanovista Inc., a start-up company co-founded by Drs. David Jaffray, Jinzi Zheng, and Christine Allen of University Health Network and the University of Toronto, recently received investments of $1.8M with the help of GreenSky Capital Inc. and its affiliated venture capital funds. Read More

MONTREAL – ICU Medical, Inc., a leader in the development, manufacture, and sale of innovative medical devices used in infusion therapy, oncology, and critical care applications, announced it has established its Canadian headquarters in Montreal to bring the company’s IV therapy products and services to the Canadian market. Read More

WESTBOROUGH, Mass. – Navin, Haffty and Associates (NHA) is pleased to announce it is now offering consulting services to the Canadian Meditech market. In business for 17 years and the largest consulting firm dedicated exclusively to providing Meditech services, NHA has traditionally focused on the United States as its primary geographic market. Read More

TORONTO – The Blockchain Research Institute (BRI) today announced a partnership with Tectonic Advisory Services Inc., with the goal to expand its focus to, and membership in, the healthcare community. The BRI is a multi-million dollar global research initiative conducting the definitive investigation into blockchain strategy, opportunities, and implementation challenges. Read More

TORONTO – VitalHub announced an agreement to acquire HI Next for $6.6 million in cash and shares. HI Next offers a suite of peer reviewed tools to identify and address the full range of behavioral, medical, and social problems affecting the seriously mentally ill. Providers can document, share, and collaborate patient results, care plans, and progress notes with peer providers in real-time. Read More

TORONTO – The Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN) has qualified SeamlessMD as one of three vendors on a new Ontario Vendor of Record (VOR) for mature and market tested patient engagement technologies that standardize surgical pathways and improve health outcomes. Read More

TORONTO – The province of Ontario is partnering with Think Research Corp. to help the company improve and expand its cloud-based technology platform and services, creating 228 new highly skilled jobs and retaining 130 positions in Toronto. Read More

CHICAGO – GE Healthcare and NVIDIA have announced they will deepen their 10-year partnership to bring the most sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) to GE Healthcare’s 500,000 imaging devices globally and accelerate the speed at which healthcare data can be processed. Read More