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Pathway raises C$5m in Yamaha Motor Ventures-led seed dealPathway is a Montreal-based artificial intelligence-enabled medical knowledge platform.
- Carbon Upcycling Technologies raises $26m in Series A financing
Climate Investment and BDC Capital's Climate Tech Fund led the round.
Fly biotech startup Future Fields raises $11.2m in seed extensionFounded in 2018, Future Fields built a biomanufacturing platform called the EntoEngine to be the first synthetic biology system to use fruit flies for recombinant protein production.
Digital therapeutics platform Lucid raises C$3.14m in seed financingAmplify Capital, a Canadian impact fund, led the round.
- Amplify Capital closes second impact VC fund at C$30.7m
Amplify Capital, formerly MaRS Catalyst Fund, has closed its second impact venture capital fund at C$30.7 million.
- Healthtech company Pathway Medical snags $1.3m in VC
Montreal-based health technology company Pathway Medical has raised $1.3 million in financing to scale its clinical decision support platform.
- Biomaterials startup ALT TEX scores C$1.5m in pre-seed VC
Toronto-based biomaterials startup ALT TEX has raised C$1.5 million in a pre-seed financing.
- Classcraft secures $3.5m in Brightspark-led financing
Classcraft, a Sherbrooke, Quebec-based learning technology company, has secured $3.5 million in financing.
- Verto Health lands C$2m in MaRS IAF-led seed financing
Verto Health, a Toronto-based provider of connection and communication software for the healthcare industry, has closed a C$2 million seed-stage financing.
MaRS Catalyst Fund becomes Amplify Capital, launches $30 mln fundMaRS Catalyst Fund, a Toronto-based early-stage impact fund created in collaboration with MaRS Discovery District, has rebranded as Amplify Capital and launched a new fund. The fund has a target size of $30 million and is seeking an initial close by early 2020. MaRS Catalyst Fund was launched in 2016 with the backing of Virgin Unite, as well as other investors, including Chawkers Foundation, Fondaction, J. W. McConnell Family Foundation and Lino et Mirella Saputo Foundation. It made nine investments in Ontario and Québec.