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Healthcare Venture Fund

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Created in 2013, the Healthcare Venture Fund invested in transformative Canadian companies with a focus on dramatically increasing healthcare productivity while reducing costs and improving patient health.

Frontiers of health

The fund allocated $270 million to develop innovations in precision medicine, biotech and medical imaging.

This fund is closed to new investments and now focused on supporting existing portfolio companies.

Our focus

  • Developing Canada’s biotech sector
  • Supporting genetic-level innovations
  • 25+ enterprises supported by our 2 funds

Latest news

Certain news link to external sites and are presented in French only.

March 06, 2018

Clinician-Friendly AI Enables Personalized Healthcare Discoveries in the Cloud

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November 15, 2017

Imagia Completes Acquisition of Cadens Medical Imaging

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August 01, 2017

Milestone Pharmaceuticals Closes $55 Million Series C Financing

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February 02, 2017

Petroleum Development Oman deploys Video Collaboration Technology for Rapid Response and Improved Safety in the Field

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