We’re raising over $1,000,000 for life sciences companies on March 17th.
Applications Close
Jan 18, 2022
Top 20 Pitch Night
Feb 3, 2022
Summit Finale
Mar 17, 2022
Presented in Partnership With
Top 20 Companies
42 Health Sensors
42 Health Sensors is a start-up medical device company based in Calgary. They're designing the Beta Version of a small, wearable, continuous, wireless, on line or off line, remote ambulatory sensor for blood pressure, heart rate, and breathing rate.
Affinité Instruments
Affinité Instruments has minaturized an optical technology called SPR. As a result, they have not only democratize the use of SPR for R&D but also enable the use of SPR as a sensitive and reliable biosensor that can be applied in the point-of-care diagnostics.
Alethea Medical
Alethea Medical uses digital endoscopes and workflow software to enable Physicians to get faster specialist advice.
All Skin
All Skin is a skin health and beauty technology company that uses AI to help users detect skin sensitivities from home using a patch test kit.
AphioTx
AphioTx is developing a safe and effective non-opioid treatment for opioid withdrawal to help people overcome opioid dependence.
Cannabiscuit Canada
CannaBiscuit Canada offers a line of veterinary health products focused on the integration hemp-derivatives for improved animal health & wellness.
Creative Protein Solutions
Creative Protein Solutions develops rapid, real-time diagnostic tests that are all compatible with the same one device. We have an initial focus on farm animal diagnostics, but hope to serve humans someday as well.
Difinity
Difinity is creating the world's first interchangeable and modular autoinjector for emergent medical applications with the first target for Naloxone to combat the opioid crisis.
Exciton Pharma
Exciton Pharma's first-in-class small molecules target a broad spectrum of critical pathogens while simultaneously conferring pro-healing and anti-inflammatory properties.
Illucidx
Illucidx is an infectious disease diagnostics company enabling access to diagnostic technologies across the globe. Illucidx’s platforms detect genetic targets, allowing ultra-sensitive pathogen detection while maintaining the ability to bring diagnostics into the field.
MACH32
MACH32 is revoluntionizing pre-hospital hemorrhage treatment by developing IMSAFE; a novel, combination product TXA autoinjector to rapidly treat hemorrhage at the scene of injury.
NanoTess
NanoTess aims to treat chronic wounds like diabetic foot ulcers through the deployment of proprietary nanomaterials that provide the means for chronic wounds to start naturally healing again while offering broad spectrum antimicrobial protection.
Qualisure Diagnostics
Qualisure Diagnostics is a developer of genomics-based precision diagnostic products. Our products are designed to guide physicians and patients to more precise decisions about the treatment of cancer, avoiding unnecessary or unbeneficial treatments.
Smart Biomedical
Smart Biomedical is a medical device company focusing on improving the safety of emergency medical treatments in trauma.
sn biomedical
sn biomedical is inventing disgnostics for people starting with a non-regulated product in the veterinary space.
SolAeroMed
SolAeroMed is a respiratory drug company, with a mission to develop novel therapies for treatment of various obstructive airway disorders.
The Natural Nipple
The Natural Nipple provides seamless, stress-free breast and bottle feeding, with the only infant feeding system that is researched and designed to mimic a mother’s shape, feel, and flow.
Umay
Umay is a consumer medical wellness company that helps reset the effects of screen time with a tool for routine relaxation that helps produce and protect tears, calms and focus the mind and signals the body to sleep.
Wave View Imaging
Wave View Imaging develops a new breast imaging technology providing breast health information, at the point of care, without discomfort.
Zymedyne Therapeutics
Zymedyne Therapeutics is a small, Calgary-based Biopharma, developing non-opioid based pain therapeutics.
Past Event – Mar 17, 2022
LIFE SCIENCES SUmmit FInale
5 pitches. 1 massive Zoom party. 4 in-person afterparties.
Past Event – FEB 3, 2022
TOP 20 PITCH NIGHT
Life Sciences Investment Summit
20 pitches. 1 massive Zoom party. 3 in-person afterparties.
How Summits Work
We’re working with our investment partners to raise over $1,000,000
30+ Companies
apply and are evaluated by the investors with help from TNT’s investor education sessions
20-30 Investors
new and seasoned angels pool their capital
20 Companies
undergo light due diligence and pitch at the Top 20 Pitch Night
5 Finalists
negotiate deal terms and get to pitch at the Life Sciences Summit
Fundraising Goal
$1M+ raised live at the Life Sciences Summit on Mar 17, 2022
Min. $150k from the TNT syndicate
Why you should join the Life Sciences Summit
Raise Capital — Invest In Life Sciences — Have Fun — Build Community
Companies
Raise caPITAL AT THE LIFE SCIENCES SUMMIT
Company Applications Close Jan 18, 2022
Investors
LEARN HOW TO INVEST IN LIFE SCIENCES STARTUPS
Register to invest in companies
Capital Raised
Funded Companies
Summits Held
Investors Engaged
Presented in Partnership With
Startup TNT
We’re a community of entrepreneurs, scientists, investors, innovators and startup supporters that gathers every week to have fun, share stories, and build great companies. We host 2 industry agnostic and 2 sector specific investment summits each year. To date, we have helped over 24 companies raise capital and taught over 180 angel investors how to invest.
Applied Pharmaceutical Innovation
API is a not-for-profit institution with an expert interdisciplinary team that works with a network of collaborating organizations. We provide the expertise, services, and infrastructure of a pharmaceutical company. We help innovators launch their ideas into the real world, connect industry to the services they need for commercial success, and accelerate all aspects of the drug development process.
Our Sponsors
Edmonton Global
The purpose of Edmonton Global is to radically transform and grow the economy of the Edmonton Metropolitan Region. As a foreign direct investment (FDI) and international business development company, we work as an ally to attract investment to, and promote trade from, Canada and our region.
Meet the organizing Partners
Innovate calgary
Innovate Calgary is the innovation transfer and business incubator centre for the University of Calgary. We work closely with researchers, faculty, and students to help bridge the gap between discovery and creating economic and societal impact.
Innovate Edmonton
Innovate Edmonton leverages, unites and promotes home-grown innovation as a gateway to solving the world’s most pressing problems. They harness the power of the private sector, ground-breaking academic research and purpose-driven investment to build a shared prosperity and open international markets.
Health cities
Health Cities works with clinicians, innovators, philanthropic organizations, and companies to develop new models of care to drive better health outcomes and economic growth in the health sector.
HaloHealth
We want to help Canada’s early stage healthcare startups succeed & grow by connecting them with the clinical expertise, healthcare networks & capital of our HaloHealth physician investor-advisors.
UCeed
UCeed is a group of pre-seed/seed-stage investment funds with a mandate to help the most promising early-stage companies bridge the gap between innovation and commercialization. UCeed portfolio companies receive investment and business development support during the critical transitional stage of start-up companies.
Thin air labs
Thin Air Labs is an ecosystem studio igniting venture growth for greater human impact. We invest in very early-stage innovation through our venture arm, help ventures succeed with our services team and we help nurture the innovation ecosystem through our involvement and influence with community builders and critical ecosystem partners.
W21C
The University of Calgary’s W21C Research and Innovation Centre collaborates with partners locally and internationally to improve patient safety and quality of care, to make care better for our communities. W21C is the home of SPARK Calgary, a program supporting evidence-based digital health innovations.
Startup TNT Life Sciences Investment Summit
About the summit
Investment Summit Finale: Mar 17, 2022
Startup TNT is dedicated to improving access to capital for early-stage tech companies. We do this by increasing the pool of professional early-stage investors, educating entrepreneurs on fundraising best practices, and facilitating
lasting relationships between both parties.
We have partnered with Applied Pharmaceutical Innovation to raise money for Life Sciences Companies and introduce new Angels to the opportunities presented by startups positively impacting human health.
Important Information
Key Dates
Feb 3 | Top 20 Pitch Night
Feb 17 | Top 10 Selection
Mar 17 | Summit Finale (decision night)
Summit Details
2 live pitch nights
Top 20 undergo due diligence
Top 5 share company data rooms
Company Eligibility Requirements
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Seed-stage companies
Typical round size: $500k - $2.5M
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Companies must have or intend to have at least one of the following economic ties to Alberta
Headquartered in Alberta
Employ FTEs in Alberta
Engage in on-going research contracts with Alberta-based entities
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Applicant companies must be able to demonstrate that they are a life sciences company with a physical product that has a regulatory pathway.
We expect most applicants to fall under one of the following themes:
Therapeutics and Vaccines
Diagnostics
Medical Devices
Veterinary and Animal Applications
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Willingness to engage with investors for an 8-week due diligence process that could include 6 or more investor meetings.
Ability to join us in person in Alberta on March 17th for the Summit.
Register for the life sciences summit 2022
Raise capital for your Life Sciences Company
Companies
Gain confidence talking to investors and communicating your company’s unique value
Learn how to build a data room and manage the deal screening process
Receive valuable feedback from our group of qualified investors
Increase your visibility in the life sciences community and accelerate your investments
Expose your company to a supportive community of enablers that can help you scale
Learn how to invest in great companies with tnt
Investors
Make friends (you’ll be introduced to a community of like-minded investors)
Build relationships with promising entrepreneurs
Gain confidence investing in early-stage tech startups (you’ll receive hands-on investing education)
Support the growth of a life sciences startup community that is positively impacting human health
Have fun while investing in some of the highest potential startups in town