iGan Partners

iGan Partners is a Canadian private equity and venture capital firm based in Toronto, established in 1999. The firm focuses on early-stage investments in emerging technology companies, particularly in the healthcare sector, including digital health, medtech, healthcare information technology, and artificial intelligence. iGan Partners aims to support dynamic management teams by providing smart capital and an active management approach, alongside access to a network of industry partners and sector-specific co-investors. The firm prioritizes building impactful businesses and understands the challenges faced by growing companies, leveraging its experience to empower entrepreneurs in navigating these obstacles effectively.

Mark Bhattacharya

Chief Financial Officer and Chief Compliance Officer

Joel Finlayson

Venture Partner

Olivier Giner

Vice President and Principal

Sam Ifergan

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Billy Lai

Principal

Gregory Ogorek

Partner

Michael Stein

Partner

Amy Zaghloul

Investor Relations Director

Past deals in Ontario

Cosm Medical

Seed Round in 2022
Cosm Medical is a VC-backed health-tech startup building and commercializing a software-enabled medical device platform to improve the lives of women affected by pelvic floor disorders.

Curv Health

Seed Round in 2022
Curv Health develops AI-powered tools designed to enhance human movement and athletic performance. The platform transforms the camera on mobile devices into an accurate tool for measuring movement, enabling users to capture and analyze physical health and performance metrics through video. Curv's web and mobile solutions cater to a wide audience, including professional sports teams, universities, and recreational athletes. Over the next year, Curv aims to engage with a significant portion of NBA teams and over 700 colleges, as well as millions of recreational runners, helping them assess injury risk and improve their running form.

Hyivy Health

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Hyivy Health creates an intelligent and holistic pelvic rehabilitation device for the 1 in 3 women worldwide who will experience a pelvic health complication in their lifetime. Our device provides the first quantifiable data set on the pelvic floor and 3 different therapies from multiple sensors and mechanical functions to help keep track of progress, adapt treatment plans and provide more effective, comfortable rehab experiences.

Hyivy Health

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Hyivy Health creates an intelligent and holistic pelvic rehabilitation device for the 1 in 3 women worldwide who will experience a pelvic health complication in their lifetime. Our device provides the first quantifiable data set on the pelvic floor and 3 different therapies from multiple sensors and mechanical functions to help keep track of progress, adapt treatment plans and provide more effective, comfortable rehab experiences.

Medchart

Series A in 2021
MedChart Inc. operates a cloud-based platform designed to simplify the retrieval and management of healthcare records. Founded in 2014 and based in Toronto, Canada, the company enables patients to view, store, and share their medical records securely online. MedChart's offerings include a variety of document types, such as legal, hospital, clinical, and research documents. The platform automates the release of information process, enhancing the ease with which individuals can access their health data. By facilitating better ownership and management of medical records, MedChart aims to improve patient care and streamline interactions between patients and healthcare providers.

Flosonics

Venture Round in 2021
Flosonics is a medical device company that focuses on developing non-invasive sensors to improve the management of critically ill patients. Flosonics's flagship smart-bandage product, the FloPatch, addresses unmet clinical needs of critically ill patients and the physicians, nurses, and paramedics who care for them in the ambulance, emergency department, operating room, and intensive care unit.

Adracare

Seed Round in 2019
Adracare offers a comprehensive clinical management solution tailored for specialty clinics, primarily focusing on therapists and mental health providers. The platform includes features such as HD video conferencing, online booking, invoicing, group conferencing, and patient reminders, all designed to enhance patient engagement and streamline practice management. Adracare ensures the security of sensitive information by adhering to regulations like HIPAA, PHIPA, and PIPEDA, utilizing end-to-end encryption for data protection. By integrating virtual care capabilities and electronic medical records (EMR), Adracare addresses workflow inefficiencies, allowing healthcare professionals to concentrate on delivering quality patient care while improving overall productivity.

RetiSpec

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
RetiSpec is developing a non-invasive eye scanner for early detection of Alzheimer’s Disease pathology years before symptoms occur, so that clinicians can intervene with emerging therapeutics early, when there’s a chance of actually impacting the disease.

FlipGive

Series A in 2019
FlipGive helps brands acquire new customers & drive loyalty. Our team funding app allows our members to pool their spend as a group to earn cash from everyday shopping spend. We're aggregating the traditionally fragmented youth sports market to create a direct digital channel between our 700+ merchant partners & the North American youth sports market.

eSight

Debt Financing in 2019
eSight Corporation manufactures wearable electronic glasses for the blind. Its eyewear helps people with macular degeneration, retinopathy of prematurity, diabetic retinopathy, and other eye conditions. The company also offers a headset, which houses a high-definition camera, OLED screens, and supporting technologies used to capture and display a real-time video feed; and The Controller, a lightweight processing unit for adjusting pixels of the video in real time. It serves customers in Canada and the United States. eSight Corporation was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Toronto, Canada with additional offices in Ottawa, Canada; Los Angeles, California; Nashville, Tennessee; and Switzerland.

Finaeo

Seed Round in 2019
Finaeo Inc. is a Toronto-based company that develops applications designed to assist financial advisors by acting as a digital assistant and sales coach. Founded in 2016, Finaeo's platform serves as a digital marketplace that connects independent life insurance brokers with carriers and clients, offering a fully integrated experience. Its applications allow users to share documents, track tasks, answer questions, and schedule meetings, enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of insurance transactions. By providing tools for both iOS and Android users, Finaeo is focused on transforming the life and health insurance industry through innovative technology.

Rna Diagnostics

Series A in 2018
Rna Diagnostics Inc. is a cancer diagnostics company based in Toronto, Canada, focused on enhancing the lives of cancer patients through innovative biomarker platforms. Founded in 2010, the company has developed The RNA Disruption Assay, which serves as a diagnostic tool measuring tumor response early in cancer treatment. This assay assesses the degree of ribosomal RNA disruption, a key biomarker indicative of impending cell death, allowing oncologists to evaluate the effectiveness of current cancer therapies. By providing insights into whether specific cancer drugs are likely to benefit patients, Rna Diagnostics helps healthcare providers make informed decisions, potentially reducing harmful side effects and improving patient survival rates. The company serves a diverse clientele, including patients, physicians, healthcare systems, and clinical research centers across multiple countries, including Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Rna Diagnostics operates a laboratory in Ontario, Canada, where it conducts its research and diagnostic activities.

BrainFx

Seed Round in 2018
BrainFx is a company focused on developing a neurological assessment platform aimed at identifying the subtle effects of brain disorders. Founded by experienced Occupational Therapists Tracy Milner and Heather Condello, the company emerged from their extensive practice in neurorehabilitation. Recognizing a significant gap in the availability of comprehensive assessment tools for individuals with neurological deficits, BrainFx offers a suite of clinical assessments that measure the functional impact of conditions such as mild to moderate brain injuries, learning disabilities, concussions, mental illnesses, dementia, and cognitive effects of chronic conditions. This platform enables healthcare providers to create targeted and personalized care plans, ultimately enhancing the quality of treatment for clients with diverse neurological challenges. Additionally, BrainFx actively promotes the integration of technology in clinical practice, drawing from their deep understanding of both clinical needs and current research to improve outcomes for individuals affected by brain disorders globally.

Medchart

Seed Round in 2018
MedChart Inc. operates a cloud-based platform designed to simplify the retrieval and management of healthcare records. Founded in 2014 and based in Toronto, Canada, the company enables patients to view, store, and share their medical records securely online. MedChart's offerings include a variety of document types, such as legal, hospital, clinical, and research documents. The platform automates the release of information process, enhancing the ease with which individuals can access their health data. By facilitating better ownership and management of medical records, MedChart aims to improve patient care and streamline interactions between patients and healthcare providers.

Flosonics

Seed Round in 2018
Flosonics is a medical device company that focuses on developing non-invasive sensors to improve the management of critically ill patients. Flosonics's flagship smart-bandage product, the FloPatch, addresses unmet clinical needs of critically ill patients and the physicians, nurses, and paramedics who care for them in the ambulance, emergency department, operating room, and intensive care unit.

Triage

Seed Round in 2018
Triage is an app using AI to instantly screen skin disorders using a smartphone

Cosm Medical

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Cosm Medical is a VC-backed health-tech startup building and commercializing a software-enabled medical device platform to improve the lives of women affected by pelvic floor disorders.

Finaeo

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Finaeo Inc. is a Toronto-based company that develops applications designed to assist financial advisors by acting as a digital assistant and sales coach. Founded in 2016, Finaeo's platform serves as a digital marketplace that connects independent life insurance brokers with carriers and clients, offering a fully integrated experience. Its applications allow users to share documents, track tasks, answer questions, and schedule meetings, enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of insurance transactions. By providing tools for both iOS and Android users, Finaeo is focused on transforming the life and health insurance industry through innovative technology.

SceneDoc

Venture Round in 2017
SceneDoc Inc. develops a platform for data collection, digital evidence management, and workflow. The company offers its software for use by front line officers, field agents, and specialized crime scene teams. It serves law enforcement, education, and government markets. SceneDoc Inc. was formerly known as Siamese Systems Inc. and changed its name to SceneDoc Inc. in December 2013. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Mississauga, Canada. As of December 7, 2018, SceneDoc Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Tyler Technologies, Inc..

Right Health

Seed Round in 2017
Right Health was founded with a vision of providing a combination of virtual and face-to-face care to optimize the health and engagement of Canadians. Right Health has partnered with leading healthcare providers to facilitate easy patient access through a consumer-facing portal and app, linked with a patient’s electronic medical record.

Exact Imaging

Series C in 2017
Exact Imaging develops high-resolution micro-ultrasound systems for enabling real-time imaging and guided biopsies in the urological market for prostate cancer. Its micro-ultrasound system enables visualization and targeting of suspicious regions, in addition to performing systematic TRUS biopsies for prostate cancer imaging and the surrounding anatomy. The company also offers FusionVu micro-ultrasound/MRI fusion application to complement its ExactVu micro-ultrasound system for prostate imaging and biopsy. Exact Imaging was formerly known as Imagistx, Inc. and changed its name to Exact Imaging in March 2015. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Markham, Canada.

Meta

Convertible Note in 2016
Meta is a company focused on transforming the experience and consumption of scientific knowledge through artificial intelligence. It provides an AI-based search engine that efficiently organizes and analyzes scientific research papers, allowing researchers to sort and access new publications based on specific subject matter. By offering powerful insights into the trajectories of science and technology, Meta aims to make all scientific knowledge computable, thus supporting innovators across the scientific ecosystem. The company's mission centers on unlocking the world's scientific and technical insights, facilitating a more comprehensive understanding of complex information.

Think Research

Venture Round in 2016
Think Research offers knowledge-based tools and clinical contents for clinicians at the point of care. Health care organizations are facing a growing number of complex challenges. Health system reform, quality improvement policies, constrained funding, disconnected systems, and a constantly expanding base of medical knowledge. Adapting to and navigating all this complexity requires new ways of thinking. Health care organizations need practical and cost effective solutions that approach its users’ health care challenges in new and creative ways. It connects clinicians, facilities, and entire health care systems with the quality clinical contents and the technologies to put it into practice. It also offers its users with knowledge translation services, partner apps such as eMED-PASS and how2track, and EntryPoint platforms and applications. Think Research is a Canada-based company that was founded in 2006. The company utilizes ontologic and semantic based Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to make better use of the data they collect from the patients.

Limelight Platform

Seed Round in 2016
Limelight Platform, Inc. operates Limelight platform that provides tools to build automated, data driven live marketing campaigns. Its SaaS based platform provides various elements, such as live strategy, activation tools, consumer communication, social amplification, real time data, and analysis to run a live marketing program. The company offers solutions for mall tours, contests and surveys, events, experiential marketing, activations and in store experiences, kiosks, samplings, sponsorships and activations, and test drives. Limelight Platform, Inc. is based in Toronto, Canada.

Meta

Series A in 2015
Meta is a company focused on transforming the experience and consumption of scientific knowledge through artificial intelligence. It provides an AI-based search engine that efficiently organizes and analyzes scientific research papers, allowing researchers to sort and access new publications based on specific subject matter. By offering powerful insights into the trajectories of science and technology, Meta aims to make all scientific knowledge computable, thus supporting innovators across the scientific ecosystem. The company's mission centers on unlocking the world's scientific and technical insights, facilitating a more comprehensive understanding of complex information.

eSight

Venture Round in 2015
eSight Corporation manufactures wearable electronic glasses for the blind. Its eyewear helps people with macular degeneration, retinopathy of prematurity, diabetic retinopathy, and other eye conditions. The company also offers a headset, which houses a high-definition camera, OLED screens, and supporting technologies used to capture and display a real-time video feed; and The Controller, a lightweight processing unit for adjusting pixels of the video in real time. It serves customers in Canada and the United States. eSight Corporation was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Toronto, Canada with additional offices in Ottawa, Canada; Los Angeles, California; Nashville, Tennessee; and Switzerland.

SceneDoc

Series A in 2015
SceneDoc Inc. develops a platform for data collection, digital evidence management, and workflow. The company offers its software for use by front line officers, field agents, and specialized crime scene teams. It serves law enforcement, education, and government markets. SceneDoc Inc. was formerly known as Siamese Systems Inc. and changed its name to SceneDoc Inc. in December 2013. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Mississauga, Canada. As of December 7, 2018, SceneDoc Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Tyler Technologies, Inc..

Vemba

Seed Round in 2014
Vemba has created the first player-agnostic technology solution for video distribution, allowing publishers to integrate third-party video content and advertising within their preferred editorial process and existing video workflow. Producers maintain better control of their content with Vemba, and publishers can feature original and complementary video without needing to adjust for unwieldy third-party players or advertising restrictions. With Vemba at the intersection of every transaction, both content owner and publisher receive real-time analytics on the performance of video and advertising, regardless of OVP, video player, ad server, or CDN.

MolecuLight

Seed Round in 2014
MolecuLight is a company focused on developing non-invasive optical imaging technology for the healthcare sector, specifically targeting wound care. Their portable handheld devices enable real-time visualization and analysis of bacteria, which is critical for accurate wound assessment and diagnosis. Unlike traditional methods that rely on standard white light visualization, MolecuLight's technology provides unique bacteriological information, allowing medical practitioners to make informed decisions about treatment options. This innovation aims to improve patient outcomes by facilitating timely and precise diagnosis in the global wound care market, where there is a pressing medical need.

eSight

Venture Round in 2014
eSight Corporation manufactures wearable electronic glasses for the blind. Its eyewear helps people with macular degeneration, retinopathy of prematurity, diabetic retinopathy, and other eye conditions. The company also offers a headset, which houses a high-definition camera, OLED screens, and supporting technologies used to capture and display a real-time video feed; and The Controller, a lightweight processing unit for adjusting pixels of the video in real time. It serves customers in Canada and the United States. eSight Corporation was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Toronto, Canada with additional offices in Ottawa, Canada; Los Angeles, California; Nashville, Tennessee; and Switzerland.

Meta

Seed Round in 2014
Meta is a company focused on transforming the experience and consumption of scientific knowledge through artificial intelligence. It provides an AI-based search engine that efficiently organizes and analyzes scientific research papers, allowing researchers to sort and access new publications based on specific subject matter. By offering powerful insights into the trajectories of science and technology, Meta aims to make all scientific knowledge computable, thus supporting innovators across the scientific ecosystem. The company's mission centers on unlocking the world's scientific and technical insights, facilitating a more comprehensive understanding of complex information.

Exact Imaging

Venture Round in 2013
Exact Imaging develops high-resolution micro-ultrasound systems for enabling real-time imaging and guided biopsies in the urological market for prostate cancer. Its micro-ultrasound system enables visualization and targeting of suspicious regions, in addition to performing systematic TRUS biopsies for prostate cancer imaging and the surrounding anatomy. The company also offers FusionVu micro-ultrasound/MRI fusion application to complement its ExactVu micro-ultrasound system for prostate imaging and biopsy. Exact Imaging was formerly known as Imagistx, Inc. and changed its name to Exact Imaging in March 2015. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Markham, Canada.

FlipGive

Seed Round in 2012
FlipGive helps brands acquire new customers & drive loyalty. Our team funding app allows our members to pool their spend as a group to earn cash from everyday shopping spend. We're aggregating the traditionally fragmented youth sports market to create a direct digital channel between our 700+ merchant partners & the North American youth sports market.

Quandl

Seed Round in 2012
Quandl offers essential core financial and economic data alongside a suite of unique, alpha-generating alternative data. With an unrivaled delivery system -- whether through API or popular analytic tools, such as R, Python and Excel -- Quandl has cemented a reputation for understanding and providing what professional quantitative analysts need and want. The Quandl user base includes analysts from the world’s top hedge funds, asset managers and investment banks. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Toronto, Canada.