April 2015
Co-founders Balaji Gopalan and Simon Woodside introduced the concept of MedStack and demonstrated how health data from a wearable device could be surfaced in a compliant and secure cloud interface.
May 2016
We traveled to Philidelphia to join Dreamit Health, a growth-focused health tech accelerator backed by Independence Blue Cross and Penn Medicine. This experience helped us expand into the U.S. and get our first U.S. customers.
May 2017
We completed the Creative Destruction Lab program in Toronto, in a cohort of high-profile startups, which helped us set product development objectives and sharpen our story, leading to investment from several prominent angel investors.
August 2017
After four whirlwind months in California, we wrapped up our time in the 500 Startups Seed Program with Batch 21’s Demo Day for which we were honoured as a top pick from TechCrunch. Learn more about our 500 Startups experience here.
April 2018
We enhanced our product offering with a next-generation Monitoring engine which specifically tracks compliance commitments, and forms the foundation for our Active Compliance System.
December 2018
Over 50 healthcare technology companies around the globe are using MedStack’s secure cloud tools to host and protect their healthcare apps.
February 2019
We closed a $1.8M ($2.4M CAD) round led by TELUS Ventures, with ScaleUP Ventures, Panache Ventures and BCF Ventures. Ontario Centres of Excellence added to their existing investment with this round, and several other previous investors doubled-down in participation.
April 2019
We came back to our original launchpoint in Toronto's DMZ, working with focused mentors to strengthen and mature our sales, marketing and product processes with our growing team.
May 2019
MedStack was the proud recipient of the 2019 prestigious TELUS Outstanding Product Achievement Award for Mobility Health Innovation Excellence in Canada’s Health Care Sector. The award was presented by the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance and recognized a Canadian organization whose outstanding technology development has resulted in the production of a uniquely innovative or bold product for the healthcare industry.
May 2019
MedStack took part in Collision, the fastest-growing tech conference in the world. In Toronto for the first time, we celebrated our home town’s important position on the world stage as an innovation and technical talent epicentre alongside over 25,000 attendees. It was our biggest event presence ever, with our own dedicated island of booths for our customers.
May 2019
We publicly launched the beta for our new generation platform, MedStack Control: A complete reinvention of the MedStack experience to be more robust, scalable and powerful for the community of healthtech developers.
We are working with healthcare innovators every day to bring better outcomes to patients and healthcare professionals. Are you building a healthcare app or looking to better integrate apps into care practices? Talk to us.
Want to see what our clients have to say about MedStack? Read some of our testimonials here.
Balaji leads business development, strategy and marketing at MedStack and is an expert in product management and building software platform ecosystem businesses across a wide range of industries. He is also a well-respected startup educator, advisor and mentor. His proudest achievement comes as the lead Product Manager in the original skunkworks team that built and launched BBM at BlackBerry, now relied upon by millions worldwide.
Simon is the visionary behind the MedStack platform and developer offering. He has led a rich career in software development and entrepreneurship, and is a recognized expert in digital security and healthcare technology. He followed a stint at Apple with his first entrepreneurial venture, the world’s first downloadable 2D barcode scanner, covered extensively in the press, then built and led to success a healthcare and IOT-focused full-stack digital app consultancy. Simon is an active community leader, working with both Hacking Health and Engineers Without Borders.
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