The Accelerator Centre (AC) and the City of Waterloo are pleased to announce the inaugural cohort of AC:Health, a specialized healthcare innovation accelerator supported by the Province of Ontario and the City of Waterloo. The cohort brings together 30 high-potential companies developing AI, data, and software-enabled healthcare solutions designed to improve healthcare delivery, patient outcomes, and system efficiency across Ontario and beyond. By supporting founders building solutions in these areas, the AC aims to accelerate the development and adoption of Ontario-made innovations that can strengthen healthcare systems locally and scale globally.
Selected through a competitive application process, these companies are addressing some of Ontario’s most pressing healthcare challenges, including care coordination, clinical operations, mental health, diagnostics, patient engagement, health equity, and healthcare workforce efficiency.
Over the next nine months, founders will receive specialized mentorship, industry connections, healthcare partnerships, and commercialization support to help validate and scale their innovations.
The program responds to the growing demand for healthcare innovation and the increasing complexity of bringing new solutions into healthcare environments. Through AC:Health, the AC connects founders with healthcare leaders, clinicians, researchers, and industry experts who understand the unique challenges of the sector.
Delivered in collaboration with CareNext, Communitech, MacCelerate, Medical Innovation Xchange (MIX), Velocity, and other regional partners, AC:Health provides founders with:
- Access to a network of 50+ health innovation advisors, clinicians, researchers, healthcare leaders, and industry experts
- One-to-one mentorship and strategic guidance from experienced entrepreneurs, healthcare operators, and commercialization specialists
- Opportunities to validate solutions alongside healthcare organizations, health system partners, researchers, and prospective customers
- Support navigating healthcare procurement, adoption pathways, regulatory considerations, and enterprise sales cycles
- Specialized programming, workshops, and peer-learning opportunities focused on healthcare innovation and commercialization
Located in the heart of Waterloo Region’s growing health innovation corridor and just steps from the future Waterloo Regional Health Network (WRHN) hospital site, AC:Health serves as a launchpad for founders building solutions alongside the healthcare system, helping accelerate the validation, adoption, and commercialization of technologies that address real-world healthcare challenges.
“Health care touches every one of us, shaping the quality of our lives, our families, and our communities. Through AC:Health, we are honoured to support innovators as they build practical, meaningful solutions to strengthen our health-care system and help hard-working medical professionals deliver the best possible care to patients. Technology innovation can support the human side of health care by giving clinicians, caregivers, and patients better tools, better information, and better pathways to improve outcomes across Ontario and beyond.” – Ruth Casselman, CEO of the Accelerator Centre.
“Waterloo’s innovators are shaping the future of healthcare, and AC:Health will help turn promising ideas into impactful solutions. We’re grateful to the Government of Ontario and to the Accelerator Centre for partnering with us to support entrepreneurs, strengthen our health innovation ecosystem, and create lasting benefits for patients, providers, and our economy.” – Dorothy McCabe, Mayor of Waterloo.
The inaugural AC:Health cohort includes:
- Amicare Inc. – Amicare helps families, clinics, hospitals, and care organizations coordinate home care transitions through one unified workflow — making referrals, matching, and care continuity easier to manage in real time.
- Athel AI – Athel AI develops an AI-powered clinical teammate that conducts patient interviews and delivers comprehensive clinical summaries to physicians, helping improve efficiency and patient care.
- Blair AI – Blair AI automates healthcare front-office work including fax classification, referral management, patient intake, and patient calls, writing structured results back into clinic EMRs so teams can clear backlogs and reduce administrative burden.
- BookHealth AI Inc. – BookHealth AI develops AI-powered tools that automate patient scheduling, referral management, and clinic communications, helping healthcare providers streamline operations and connect patients to care faster.
- HomeSense by Casira Technologies – The HomeSense platform helps family caregivers understand daily wellbeing through clear summaries and important alerts without requiring wearables, cameras, or behavior change from the resident.
- CellaraRx Therapeutics – CellaraRx gives clinicians critical visibility into tumor biology, helping them enroll patients most likely to respond to cancer treatments in clinical trials – allowing effective drugs to demonstrate their true potential.
- DigiBiomics Inc. – DigiBiomics combines AI and precision diagnostics to help care teams detect disease sooner and deliver better outcomes.
- HerSay Technology Inc. – HerSay transforms scattered symptoms into a clear, structured story your doctor can act on — including timelines, triggers, patterns, and questions to ask.
- HIPAAtizer – HIPAAtizer helps healthcare organizations streamline patient intake, assessments, and clinical workflows through a secure, compliance-focused automation platform.
- Hiro – Hiro develops AI-powered therapeutic games that turn physiotherapy exercises into engaging at-home experiences for children with physical disabilities and developmental challenges.
- HolisticMindAI – Responsible, therapist-guided AI that simplifies documentation, deepens understanding, and safely extends care between sessions.
- Homni Health – Homni Health works with care providers, organizations, and families to deliver home modifications that help people stay safe and independent at home.
- Kelsey Health – The Kelsey platform uses AI to help life sciences teams identify and assess clinical trial sites faster, accelerating feasibility, site selection, and study startup.
- Maman Biomedical – Maman Biomedical is transforming fertility care with needle-free hormone delivery technologies designed to reduce treatment burden and improve patient experience.
- MAPflow Inc. – MAPflow is designed to support pharmacy teams in minor ailment prescribing services, over-the-counter consultations, chronic disease management, preventative care, and incident reporting.
- Marlann – Marlann is a coordination infrastructure for long-term care. It detects clinical events automatically, executes the chain of work that follows, and closes the loop every time, so nothing falls through the cracks.
- Monitra – Monitra uses AI to automate clinical trial documentation, helping research organizations reduce reporting time, improve compliance, and accelerate study operations.
- Newself – Newself is an AI-powered mental health platform addressing the gap between therapy sessions, where many individuals lack timely support.
- Nytia Health – Nytia Health transforms workplaces with innovative, data-driven wellness programs, addressing the impacts of chronic conditions to create healthier, more productive work environments.
- MA EdTech Solutions Inc. – MA EdTech Solutions Inc. is an AI-powered parenting platform that helps caregivers support their children’s emotional, mental, and developmental well-being through personalized guidance, expert-backed resources, and real-time parenting support.
- PulseAI Solutions – PulseAI Solutions is transforming healthcare operations through AI-driven automation that reduces administrative burden, improves efficiency, and helps healthcare providers focus more time on patient care.
- Qcare – QCare is expanding access to healthcare through a virtual care platform that connects patients with healthcare providers, enabling timely, convenient, and coordinated care across a range of health services.
- Quip Medical – Quip Medical uses AI to automate billing optimization for physicians, helping reduce billing admin time, recover lost revenue, and support more efficient clinic operations.
- Skopien – Skopien is transforming critical care with a healthcare data platform that consolidates real-time patient monitoring data into a single dashboard, helping clinicians make faster, more informed decisions in intensive care environments.
- Sweat Free Telecom – Sweat Free Telecom provides a multi-network connectivity platform that helps individuals and organizations stay connected during telecom outages, emergencies, and travel through a resilient backup eSIM solution.
- Synod IntelliCare – Synod IntelliCare develops ethical AI solutions that help healthcare organizations detect bias in clinical data, supporting more equitable and informed healthcare decisions.
- Take Care – Take Care Together is a physician-founded digital platform that helps individuals and families create, store, and share advance care plans, ensuring loved ones and care providers have access to critical information during medical emergencies, illness, and end-of-life care.
- Translational AI Health Solutions – Translational AI Health Solutions developed ChartPrepper, an AI clinical documentation tool that turns referral documents and notes into source-cited summaries so clinicians can reduce documentation burden while preserving trust and traceability.
- VIBRAINT – VIBRAINT is developing AI-powered rehabilitation technology that combines brain-computer interfaces, robotics, and virtual reality to help people recovering from stroke, spinal cord injury, and other neurological conditions regain movement and independence.
- Virtual POCT – Virtual POCT is transforming point-of-care testing with a digital quality management platform that helps pharmacies, clinics, and community healthcare providers deliver safe, compliant, and scalable diagnostic services closer to patients.
About the Accelerator Centre
The Accelerator Centre empowers early-stage tech founders in the Waterloo Region with access to early-stage capital, mentorship, tactical supports, and industry networks essential to building businesses that thrive. This is where the real business of entrepreneurship gets done, every day. Everything we do begins and ends with founders—the problem solvers, builders, and bold thinkers driving Canada’s innovation economy forward. Supporting them isn’t just our mission; it’s our passion, and we are committed to being the most trusted partner as they create new industries, fuel local economies, and inspire the next generation of made-in-Ontario tech companies. Learn more at acceleratorcentre.com.
About the City of Waterloo
Located in the province of Ontario, the City of Waterloo is approximately 110 km west of Toronto, and situated on the land traditionally cared for by the Haudenosaunee, Anishnaabe and Neutral Peoples.
Waterloo (2020 population: 145,786) is a caring community that boasts a recognized knowledge economy and is home to think tanks, finance and insurance companies, a strong technology sector, a start-up culture and two universities and a college. Our diverse community includes long time locals with a variety of backgrounds, as well as students, immigrants, and Indigenous People.
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