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UCeed Child Health and Wellness Fund

Canada's first early-stage investment fund for child and maternal health, creating positive health impacts for children and families.

UCeed Child Health is funded by the generosity of our community through the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation and their mission to inspire our community to invest in excellence in child health, research and family centred care.

Whether it's making sure that families have access to quality health care and child care, or making sure that our children receive the best educational opportunities we can give them, we must remain committed to these needs because our children are our future.

Blanche Lincoln

Opportunity Fund

UCeed accepts applications on an ongoing basis.

Investment and fund eligibility

Investment 

$50,000 up to $300,000 

Criteria

  • Applicant must have an established relationship with the University of Calgary as a current, past or visiting faculty member, a student, or has licensed or assigned intellectual property developed at the University of Calgary.
  • For-profit enterprise
  • Technology Readiness Level (TRL): Stage 1-9
  • Must be incorporated prior to receipt of funds
  • Minimum one (1) full-time employee within six (6) months of UCeed investment
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Our Investments

Learn more about our investments and how they are making an impact.

Investment Advisory Group - Child Health and Wellness Fund

Alice Reimer

Alice Reimer

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Mike Begin

Mike Begin

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Chen Fong

Chen Fong

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Derrick Hunter

Derrick Hunter

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James Lochrie

James Lochrie

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Zain Kassam

Zain Kassam

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Meg Bregazzi

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Clinical Advisory Board

The marketplace success of novel therapeutics, diagnostics, medical devices, and other healthcare products often depends on nuanced factors that require frontline clinician feedback to assess. The Clinical Advisory Board (CAB) is a group of physician volunteers who leverage their networks to connect UCeed Health staff to frontline clinicians who provide feedback on the clinical utility and feasibility of healthcare products and services in development by prospective investee companies. We are deeply grateful for their valuable assistance. 

Marcia Clark

Marcia Clark

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Derek Exner

Derek Exner

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James Kellner

James Kellner

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Lindsay Machan

Lindsay Machan

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Child Health Fund Portfolios

AazeinTx

AazeinTx

AazeinTx is commercializing a novel, fast-acting, orally delivered compound for the treatment of acute and chronic asthma.

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Child Health Imprints

Child Health Imprints is giving preterm babies a better chance at life with data-monitoring technology that supports clinicians.

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Fluid Biomed

Fluid Biomed

Fluid Biomed is revolutionizing the approach to vascular disease by creating the first bioabsorbable brain stent to treat aneurysms. 

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Nimble Science

Nimble Science

Nimble Science is developing an ingestible medical device capsule that samples small intestine contents for microbiome diagnostic applications obviating the need for invasive endoscopy procedures.

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Noa Therapeutics

Noa Therapeutics is developing multimodal therapeutics to address the complexity of immune diseases, innovation that will help break the cycle of trial-and-error treatment failures.

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Trexo Robotics

Trexo Robotics

Trexo Robotics has developed a sophisticated wearable robotic device to provide physiotherapy for children with walking impairments. The device monitors a child’s ability to move their legs with artificial intelligence algorithms and provides a level of assistance that maximizes therapeutic benefit. 

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True Angle

True Angle — a medical technology company focusing on disorders that affect an aging market — has developed unique at-home solutions, allowing people to get better and more convenient care.

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Xploro Inc.

Xploro Inc. uses artificial intelligence to ease procedural anxiety and reduce stress in children with cancer.

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Zymedyne

Zymedyne is developing therapeutics for the treatment of chronic pain that targets a recently discovered biological process that is abnormally activated in chronic pain conditions, offering an alternative to opioids.

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