The CVCA, Precision Medicine and Code Tuesdays: The June 15th, 2020 Episode of the Age of Ingenuity

Welcome to the June 15th, 2020 episode of the Age of Ingenuity.

The future is being built as we speak, although it might not turn out the way we want, especially when it comes to the development of advanced medical diagnostics technologies, an industry currently  booming in Canada or the latest report from the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association.

Sources cited during this episode include the following:

• The June 12th, 2020 Cision press release from the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (CVCA) titled, "CVCA Announces 2020 Deal of The Year, 2020 Global Dealmaker, Private Capital Regional Impact and Ted Anderson Community Leadership Award Recipients."

• The Toronto ON based Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association.

• Boston MA based HarbourVest Partners.

• The 2019 Canadian Venture Capital Report from the Financing.ca website.

• The October 2nd, 2019 Bowery Capital post, "What Will Happen to Venture Capital When the Recession Hits?"

• The September 2019 Impact Brief on "Canadian Venture Capital Sufficiency: Does Canada Have Enough Venture Capital Funding."

• The May 8th, 2020 BNN Bloomberg post, "Brookfield puts US$950 million into public firms, hunts deals."

• Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) website on the topic of "Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance (CECRA) for small businesses."

• The June 2nd, 2020 CBC News post, "Businesses, landlords say federal rent help falling short."

• The June 15th, 2020 Capital Current post, "Struggling small businesses thankful for eviction ban to Aug. 31 but wonder about future."

• The June 9th, 2020 Betakit post, "Startup Canada Podcast: Growing from Grassroots with Sonya Satviet."

• Wiktionary, the free dictionary definition of Qanik.

• The Qanik DX website.

• November 2016 Science Direct post, "Bioreactors."

• The July 26th, 2018 Visual Capitalist post, "How Big Data Will Unlock the Potential of Healthcare."

• The June 9th, 2020 ZDNet post, "Microsoft June 2020 Patch Tuesday fixes 129 vulnerabilities."

• The November 10th, 2019 It's Foss post, "11 Reasons Why Linux Is Better Than Windows." 

• The October 8th, 2020 Medical Futurist post, "From Surgeries To Keeping Company: The Place Of Robots In Healthcare."

• The May 30th, 2020 CBC News post, "Talking Animals: How do dogs sniff out diseases in humans?"
• The July 5th, 2016 Science Fiction and Fantasy post, "Were McCoy's medical instruments Swedish salt shakers?"

• The June 10th, 2020 Berkshire Hathaway Businesswire post, "Global Personalized Medicine, Targeted Therapeutics and Companion Diagnostic Market Analysis and Forecasts to 2025."

• The Canadian Cancer Society's "Targeted Therapies" web-page.

• The February 19th, 2020 Medgadget post, "Regenerative Medicine Market | 2020 Size Estimation, Share, Growth Rate, Industry Trends, Leading Players, Competitive Analysis, Regional Insights With Forecast To 2026."

• The June 3rd, 2020 Science Alert post, "Tiny Human Livers Grown in The Lab Have Been Successfully Transplanted Into Rats."

• The undated Genome Canada post on "A Precision Health Strategy for Canada: Think big, start small, learn fast."

• The June 2020 Report Linker post, "Precision Medicine Market Research Report by Technology, by Application, by End User, by Deployment - Global Forecast to 2025 - Cumulative Impact of COVID-19."

• The various Report Linker overviews of the “Diagnostic Technology Industry in 2020."

"Age of Ingenuity" tracks Canada's "innovation ecosystem," the organizations, agencies and individuals attempting to turn innovative Canadian start-ups into world class, billion dollar "unicorns," able to anchor industries and create jobs.

Age of Ingenuity Credits

Producer and Host - Chuck Black

Host and Contributor - Brian Orlotti

Host and Contributor - Al Calder

Associate Producer and Contributor - John Penturn

Music: Freesound House Flow by Jaturo licenced under a Creative Commons 0 Licence.

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