Partners
envisAGE Partners
The partners in the envisAGE network play a vital role in the development, validation, and adoption of innovative solutions in aging technologies. By bringing together complementary expertise, strategic networks, and co-funding opportunities, they help create conditions conducive to the success of collaborative projects and accelerate positive outcomes for older adults, caregivers, healthcare settings, and communities across Canada.
Coming from the fields of research, healthcare, investment, industry, digital technology, and communities, these partners provide resources and perspectives tailored to the various stages of the innovation journey. Their contributions may take the form of financial support, specialized guidance, access to infrastructure, strategic advice, or connections to markets, networks, and adoption environments.
This collaborative approach helps reduce the risks associated with innovation, promotes knowledge transfer, and maximizes the impact of projects for the benefit of society.
ASSESS offers expertise in evaluating, validating, and measuring the economic impact of innovations in real-world contexts. This partnership may take the form of helping companies demonstrate the value of their solutions, facilitating their adoption by real-world stakeholders and decision-makers or supporting the generation of evidence to underpin their deployment on a larger scale. Through a global network of experts, ASSESS also supports innovators and health technology startups in achieving key strategic milestones, including decision-making essential to the enterprise’s development, accessing investment, conducting trials, and securing market adoption of their solutions.
The Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation (CABHI, powered by Baycrest) is a leading pan-Canadian aging and brain health innovation catalyst that funds and accelerates promising solutions to some of the most pressing challenges facing older persons and care partners today. By providing scientists, researchers, and innovators access to a full suite of funding and acceleration services, it removes barriers that stall innovation across the full project lifecycle, from idea and early development through validation, commercialization, scale and adoption. As part of these end-to-end services, CABHI develops market intelligence reports under AgeTech Insights that highlight innovation trends, opportunities, and policy considerations to promote longer healthspans and a resilient economy. Over the years, CABHI and envisAGE have supported several portfolio companies, including Steadiwear, Careteam Technologies, Welbi, ImaginAble Solutions, Tochtech Technologies, PragmaClin, and Braze Mobility. Building upon this momentum, a formal collaboration brings together the complementary expertise and offerings of both organizations to strengthen the Canadian innovation ecosystem.
CAN Health Network provides financial resources for collaborative projects and facilitates the adoption of innovative technologies by Canadian healthcare institutions. As a national network bringing together healthcare organizations, innovation partners, and technology companies, CAN Health Network’s mission is to accelerate the procurement and integration of Canadian solutions into healthcare systems. The collaboration with envisAGE is based on a complementary approach, particularly regarding project co-funding and support for the growth trajectory of SMEs. By combining envisAGE’s validation and experimentation approach with CAN Health Network’s expertise in procurement and large-scale adoption, this partnership helps advance innovations from collaborative projects to their sustainable integration into healthcare and service settings. This partnership may take the form of support for the implementation of solutions in real-world settings, enabling the validation of their impact and accelerating their integration into health care systems.
CanSpark LTC Pan-Canadian Network is a consortium of national and provincial partners collaborating to create a pan-Canadian learning health system for long-term care. Its mission is to improve residents’ quality of life and the care they receive through coordinated governance, applied research, rapid access to data, and innovation. CanSpark LTC also supports network expansion and investment opportunities to foster innovations aimed at improving long-term care across Canada. The collaboration with envisAGE connects innovators with a broad ecosystem of stakeholders in the long-term care sector, promotes the sharing of knowledge and evidence, and supports the adoption of innovative solutions in care settings. This partnership may take the form of access to a strategic national network or strategic and financial support aimed at accelerating the deployment and integration of long-term care solutions.
The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) works with Canadian industry to transform research discoveries into real-world innovations that deliver benefits to people and communities. The NRC’s Aging in Place Challenge program supports older adults in their choice to live independently and comfortably within their own homes and communities. To achieve this goal, the program brings together a diverse network of partners, including researchers, health-care professionals, technology innovators and experts by experience working in collaboration to develop, implement and test cutting-edge solutions that address the unique needs of our aging population. Over the past 5 years, the NRC’s Aging in Place Challenge program has played a key role in Canada’s AgeTech ecosystem by supporting the development and adoption of innovative solutions that help older adults to age in place. Through its broad portfolio of research and innovation initiatives, as well as its extensive network of researchers, innovators, health-care professionals, experts by experience and community partners, the program brings valuable expertise and connections to the MEDTEQ+ and envisAGE community. This partnership will advance collaborative initiatives that support de-risking and acceleration of AgeTech innovations from concept development through commercialization and adoption. By leveraging the complementary programs, networks, resources and expertise of each organization, the partnership aims to accelerate innovation, increase adoption and maximize impact for older adults, caregivers and the health-care system.
DIGITAL is one of five federally funded Global Innovation Clusters and as Canada’s commercialization partner for digital technologies, brings together technology builders and buyers to develop, adopt and commercialize solutions in sectors critical to Canada, including health. The synergy between DIGITAL’s extensive network and that of Envisage creates unique opportunities to mobilize the Canadian innovation ecosystem in support of the development, validation, and commercialization of technological solutions that meet the needs of older adults and family caregivers. This partnership will enable transformative collaborative projects that foster the experimentation, validation, and large-scale adoption of digital technologies, while providing access to co-investments. DIGITAL also provides companies with IP expertise to strengthen their global competitiveness and maximize the commercial value of their innovations.
The Foundation of Fédération des médecins spécialistes du Québec (FMSQ)places family caregiving at the heart of its work, recognizing it as a strategic priority in fulfilling its mission to support the healthcare system and enhance specialized care. The Foundation acknowledges the essential role of the patient-caregivers-specialized care team triad, whose collaboration fosters more person-centered, seamless, and responsive care pathways, ultimately contributing to improved clinical outcomes, a better patient experience, and higher overall quality of care. In this context, the Foundation serves as a catalyst for the co-funding of collaborative projects and supports innovative initiatives that strengthen the contribution of family caregivers within this care triad. It invests in high-impact projects that promote the development, testing, and adoption of practical solutions aimed at better supporting family caregivers, recognizing the value of their lived experience, and facilitating their integration as partners in care decisions and care journeys.
Mitacs supports applied research and collaborations between academia and industry, while facilitating the recruitment of interns and access to co-funding. Its mission is to promote Canada’s prosperity by fostering collaboration between the private sector and post-secondary institutions, deploying skilled talent, and strengthening innovation capacity to increase the country’s productivity and competitiveness on the global stage. In this context, the partnership may take the form of support for collaborative projects that bring together highly qualified talent, foster knowledge transfer, technological development, and innovation, while accelerating the implementation of concrete solutions through co-funding mechanisms and close collaboration between academia and industry.
NUMANA is a not-for-profit organization that acts as a technology macro-accelerator. By mobilizing the private, public, academic and community sectors, Numana develops and propels high-impact projects so that tomorrow’s technologies can emerge, be tested and adopted, and benefit society as a whole. Through these projects, Numana supports the expansion of networks and facilitates access to an ecosystem of key players in the healthcare sector, as well as their integration into healthcare and innovation settings.
OBIOR is a not-for-profit, membership-based organization engaged in strategy, programming, policy development and advocacy to address the needs of the next generation of companies developing innovative human health products. As an integral part of Canada’s life sciences and health tech ecosystem, OBIO® supports early-stage and venture-backed companies in raising capital, hiring and training industry-ready talent, facilitating the commercialization and market adoption of their technologies in health systems, and accessing infrastructure. OBIO’s partnership with MEDTEQ+ and envisAGE strengthens Canada’s competitive advantage in healthcare innovation within the AgeTech sector and delivers transformative outcomes for patients, healthcare professionals, and health systems.
