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Dreamit Health 2017 Accelerator Applications Now Open

The team at Dreamit takes a hands-on approach with each startup including weekly meetings with Managing Directors where startups hone their go-to-market strategyand pressure test ideas and critical assumptions.

Dreamit brings startups on a two-week customer immersion roadshow, expediting relationship building with at least 6-8 enterprise-level customers, including providers, health insurers, pharmas, and more.

Applications Close on February 10th 2017

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Ontario Bioscience Innovation Organization (OBIO®) Leadership Summit Hosts Top Health Science Minds to Define Future of the Industry

January 24, 2017 TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Ontario Bioscience Innovation Organization (OBIO®) hosted a summit of industry, academic, government and investment leaders about the future of health science innovation in Canada. Attendees engaged in group discussions and heard from subject matter experts to extrapolate a mandate of action for anchoring health science companies in Ontario. The outcome of the summit lays a foundation for actionable business cases for private and public sector solutions to the health science industry’s biggest challenges: Innovation Pull, Adoption and Capital Attraction.

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Pre-CAAP Company: Winterlight Labs Closes the First Tranche of $500,000 in seed funding from Novatio Ventures

WinterLight Labs, a Toronto-based company commercializing a speech-based platform for accurately detecting cognitive conditions such as dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease, recently closed the first tranche of $500,000 in seed funding from Novatio Ventures, an early stage life sciences investment firm.

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OBIO® CEO Gail Garland Selected as Founding Member of Springboard Enterprises Canadian Advisory Council

WASHINGTON, D.C. (January 19, 2017) – Springboard Enterprises (www.sb.co), a venture catalyst dedicated to promoting high growth potential companies led by women, announced the formation of the Springboard Canadian Advisory Council and its seven Founding Members. The Founding Members are connected influencers, investors, and innovators from the technology and life science sectors across Canada.

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MRIS in partnership with the Consulate General of China in Toronto will host the 6th Ontario-China Research and Innovation Collaboration Forum on May 15

You are invited to participate in this year’s biggest Ontario-China collaboration event in Toronto. Registration is free!

The Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science in partnership with the Consulate General of China in Toronto will host the 6th Ontario-China Research and Innovation Collaboration Forum (May 15) in conjunction with the 2017 OCE Discovery event to further strengthen collaboration under the Ontario-China MOU on Research and Innovation signed between the Government of Ontario and the Ministry of Science and Technology of China.

China is investing significantly in innovation to drive the economic growth. This provides golden opportunities for all of Ontario’s technology sectors. We look forward to your participation and engagement. 

The Honourable Minister Reza Moridi of the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science and the Consul General from the Consulate General of China, have been invited to participate in the event and provide opening remarks at the Forum.

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Exact Imaging Secures CDN $21.5 Million to Support Commercialization of Its Exactvu™ Micro-Ultrasound

TORONTO, CANADA -- (January 5, 2017) Exact Imaging (www.exactimaging.com), the world’s leader in high resolution micro-ultrasound systems enabling real-time imaging and biopsy guidance for the prostate, announced it has secured CDN $21.5 million in a Series C investment to commercialize its ExactVu™ micro-ultrasound system.

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