March 31, 2023 – The winning pitch for the 10th anniversary Falcons’ Fortunes pitch competition and the $100,000 Ernsting Entrepreneurship Award was delivered by Dr. Sumaiyah Rehman, co-founder and CEO of DTPx Therapeutics.
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September 16, 2021 – September 16, 2021 – Both innovations were previous finalists in FACIT’s 2021 Falcons’ Fortunes pitch competition.
May 18, 2021 – May 18, 2021 – FACIT deploys Ontario First capital, enables rising local start-up to reach critical value inflection point. FACIT has previously supported Nanology, spun out of the University of Toronto, through both its early-stage Prospects Oncology Fund and seed-stage Compass Rose Oncology Fund.
February 4, 2021 – February 4, 2021 – FACIT’s Prospects Oncology Fund and its annual pitch competition help to advance Ontario oncology innovations.
December 10, 2020 – December 10, 2020 – The newest recipients of Ontario First seed capital include Dr. Rebecca Laposa of the University of Toronto, as well as London-based start-up Multi-Magnetics Inc.
February 5, 2020 – February 5, 2020 – The winning pitch was delivered by Mr. Meir Dick of Bridge7 Oncology. This local start-up is scaling clinical expertise with AI to automate and improve the efficiency, consistency and quality of delivering cancer care.
January 28, 2020 – January 28, 2020 – Spun out of the University of Toronto, both start-ups have previously received funding through FACIT’s proof-of-concept Prospects Fund.
July 10, 2017 – Ontario start-ups Radialis Medical of Thunder Bay, KA Imaging of Kitchener, and DNAstack of Toronto are the first to receive capital from FACIT’s new Prospects Oncology Fund for proof-of-concept development of breakthrough cancer technologies.
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