Female entrepreneurs in Alberta helped garner $116 million in capital for their companies through 2024. Calgary.tech has covered the vast majority of their origin stories in the past. Honouring March’s International Women’s Day, Start Alberta used its Deal Flow data platform to segment fundraising in 2024 to reveal that women founders and co-founders captured $116 million across […]
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RetinaLogik Secures $1.1M and Health Canada Approval for VR Eye Care Innovation
RetinaLogik, a Calgary-based health tech company, has successfully closed a $1.1 million funding round and secured Health Canada’s Class II medical device approval for its AI-powered virtual reality (VR) eye exam platform. The company’s VR-AI technology enables eye care professionals to conduct essential tests, such as visual field exams, with greater efficiency and accessibility. Its […]
Calgary’s RetinaLogik Secures $1.1M, Gains Health Canada Approval
Calgary-based healthtech startup RetinaLogik has raised $1.1 million in convertible note financing and secured a Class II medical device licence from Health Canada, marking a major milestone for its innovative portable eye test product. The funding round, classified as an extension of RetinaLogik’s initial $783,000 pre-seed round last summer, was co-led by Spring Impact Capital […]
Healthcare Innovators in Alberta Attract Investment to Advance Medical Tech
Alberta has been attracting investment recently. The province garnered more venture capital than British Columbia for the first time. Alberta’s success that quarter was largely powered by energy technology company ClearSky Global, who provided a major boost to the province’s numbers thanks to a raise of more than $200M in June. That kind of capital […]
Discover the Future of Health Tech at HaloHealth Live! XXIV in Calgary
See the next generation of innovative health tech companies at HaloHealth’s upcoming event at Platform Calgary. HaloHealth is a physician angel group that provides specialty matched advisory, healthcare connections & capital to early stage healthtech ventures. HaloHealth Live! will feature founder pitches from HaloHealth selected health tech ventures RetinaLogik, Aya Care, OraQ AI, and XeroStrip. Dive into discussions, […]
Freshly Funded RetinaLogik Looks to Prevent Vision Loss with VR Tech Solution
Over two billion people live with vision impairment, data from the World Health Organization shows, with at least half of these cases being preventable or treatable. Targeting this sizeable global market, Alberta’s RetinaLogik this month announced a successful round of pre-seed funding. The Calgary-based eye care innovator raised $783,000 from HaloHealth, Spring Impact Capital, UCeed, […]