Lumiio Receives $1.3 Million in Funding from Prairies Economic Development Canada

KASTx Ventures is excited to announce today our digital health venture Lumiio is receiving $1.3 million in funding from Prairies Economic Development Canada (PrairiesCan).  The funds will help the company continue building out its digital health projects and expand into wearable technologies to better collect real-world health data. This generous contribution Read more…

Raft Digital Therapeutics and Biogen Canada Launch Therapeutic Game Demo for Spinal Muscular Atrophy

KASTx Ventures is excited to announce our portfolio company Raft Digital Therapeutics and founding partner Biogen Canada have launched a therapeutic game for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) called Cloud Bazaar. The game is equipped with motion capture technology, designed to track players’ movements as they progress through progressively difficult level, Read more…

How KASTx Founding Partner Gord Anderson is Working to Change the Financial Landscape for Indigenous Communities

In honour of National Truth and Reconciliation Day, we wanted to highlight the work one of our Founding Partners, Gord Anderson, is doing with Indigenous communities across Canada. Anderson is a leader beyond KASTx Ventures and his passion and expertise informs our work in health communities and our portfolio companies.  Read more…

KASTx Ventures Scientist Receives BioAlberta’s Scientific Achievement and Innovation Award

KASTx Ventures celebrates the announcement today that Dr. Toshifumi Yokota has been selected for BioAlberta’s Scientific Achievement and Innovation Award. The award celebrates teams or individuals responsible for breakthrough innovations with commercial applications, and Dr. Yokota was one of two winners.   Dr. Yokota was selected based on his seminal discoveries Read more…

Two KASTx Ventures Portfolio Companies Join Plug and Play Alberta’s First Accelerator Program

Two of KASTx Ventures’ portfolio companies have been selected to join global tech investor Plug and Play Alberta’s prestigious digital health accelerator program, the first of its kind at the newly built Alberta offices. Lumiio, a company specializing in developing digital health programs for the purposes of improving health outcomes Read more…