Healthcare Photo Sharing App Figure 1 Secures $2M In Seed Funding

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Dave Forde
December 11, 2013

Figure1Figure 1, a Digital Media Zone at Ryerson University (DMZ) alumni company recently secured $2 million in seed funding that the startup will to help expedite its growth. Figure 1’s healthcare photo sharing app was incubated at the DMZ from December 2012 to August 2013 and also completed the Ryerson Futures accelerator program.

The funding round was co-led by Version One Ventures and Rho Canada Ventures, a division of New York-based Rho Capital Partners. It also included the Investment Accelerator Fund, and a number of prominent angel investors, such as Zen Chu (Founder of Accelerated Medical Ventures and Faculty Director at MIT’s HackingMedicine) and Daniel Debow (Co-Founder of Rypple, acquired by Salesforce.com) and DMZ Investments, a seed-stage fund established by Ryerson Futures.

Figure 1’s goal is to build the world’s largest free repository of medical images that can easily be searched and made available to the medical community.  It is a mobile, crowdsourced platform that allows healthcare professionals to upload and tag images, use each other’s images for information, and rate images for accuracy or clinical representativeness.

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Dave “The Connector” Forde has been involved in the marketing, public relations and technology industry across Canada for over 20 years in various sales and marketing roles, he launched The Connected One network of business sites which connects buyers to the right sellers. Profectio and PR In Canada covers news about the marketing and public relations industry each day helping professionals advance their career and businesses. He also serves as an advisor to a number of businesses across the country. Find Dave on LinkedIn and Twitter.


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