
AI used to help improve lung cancer biopsies
Node AI, a Hamilton-based medical AI company, has developed a real-time decision-support platform designed to assist clinicians performing lung cancer biopsies.

Node AI, a Hamilton-based medical AI company, has developed a real-time decision-support platform designed to assist clinicians performing lung cancer biopsies.

Join us in celebrating the 2026 LiONS LAIR finalists as they pitch innovative solutions to a panel of experts and the audience.

Every founder has an origin story. There’s one kind that may resonate with many Canadian femtech founders: interacting with a healthcare and benefits system that’s not designed to serve her at all.

Learn how Moonrise Medical is leveraging the CAMEDA program to scale its AI vascular imaging platform and accelerate its path to market.

INOVAIT committed $1.35M to support 10 new projects involving collaborations between small- and medium-sized enterprises, hospital research centres, and academic institutions, creating jobs and launching healthcare innovation across the country.

University Health Network and Hamilton-based NodeAI have launched a clinical trial testing an AI platform designed to improve the accuracy of EBUS lung cancer biopsies in real time.

Kitchener-Waterloo-based Scispot has secured $8 million USD in Series A funding to bring its platform to more companies.

Learn how CATTLEytics is transforming dairy farming by improving cow health and welfare with cutting-edge technology.

Mann Parikh, Founder and CEO of NerView Surgical, won the $100,000 Ernsting Entrepreneurship award at FACIT’s Falcons’ Fortunes 2026 pitch competition for the real-time nerve visualization system his team is developing.

Innovation Factory announces LIOR Pupillometry as the winner of the 2026 New Venture Pitch Challenge, sponsored by Macers.

Node AI, a Hamilton-based medical AI company, has developed a real-time decision-support platform designed to assist clinicians performing lung cancer biopsies.

Join us in celebrating the 2026 LiONS LAIR finalists as they pitch innovative solutions to a panel of experts and the audience.

Every founder has an origin story. There’s one kind that may resonate with many Canadian femtech founders: interacting with a healthcare and benefits system that’s not designed to serve her at all.

Learn how Moonrise Medical is leveraging the CAMEDA program to scale its AI vascular imaging platform and accelerate its path to market.

INOVAIT committed $1.35M to support 10 new projects involving collaborations between small- and medium-sized enterprises, hospital research centres, and academic institutions, creating jobs and launching healthcare innovation across the country.

University Health Network and Hamilton-based NodeAI have launched a clinical trial testing an AI platform designed to improve the accuracy of EBUS lung cancer biopsies in real time.

Kitchener-Waterloo-based Scispot has secured $8 million USD in Series A funding to bring its platform to more companies.

Learn how CATTLEytics is transforming dairy farming by improving cow health and welfare with cutting-edge technology.

Mann Parikh, Founder and CEO of NerView Surgical, won the $100,000 Ernsting Entrepreneurship award at FACIT’s Falcons’ Fortunes 2026 pitch competition for the real-time nerve visualization system his team is developing.

Innovation Factory announces LIOR Pupillometry as the winner of the 2026 New Venture Pitch Challenge, sponsored by Macers.
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