When AgeWell Toronto invited Cortex President Dylan Horvath to present a workshop to their network of researchers and entrepreneurs, our goal was to relate the vital importance of using ethnography to de-risk the product design process. Many startups (especially those under time pressure and budget limitations) choose to dive straight into development, assuming the product…

In 2015 the Voltera V-One team became the first Canadian winner of the international James Dyson Award, a prestigious engineering design competition judged by the British inventor.

Shout it from the rooftops: Cortex Client Voltera has just ranked #24th overall on Canadian Business’s Startup 50 list for 2018. Voltera makes the V-1 PCB Printer, which is a transformational rapid prototyping platform that allows product developers to quickly produce printed-circuit-board (PCB) prototypes in-house.

As the healthcare sector rebounds from the pandemic, providers and medtech manufacturers encounter a transformed economic landscape. For over a decade, hardware investments consistently outperformed S&P rates. Despite a recent COVID-19-induced slowdown, the medtech hardware sector – resilient and poised for disruption – once again holds significant value for investors. Context and Industry Trends in…