Sudbury-based Verv is developing home blood-testing kits that would let people measure anything from cholesterol to hormone levels. Randox Laboratories, an international vitro diagnostics company based in the U.K., led the round. (The Logic) 

Talking point: Home diagnostic technologies could go some way toward easing the overburdened healthcare system, which is suffering a shortage of doctors and nurses. Ontario recently announced it would allow pharmacists to assess minor ailments in an effort to take strain off of other healthcare providers. Verv says its pin-prick testing technology could “transform access to blood testing” and “improve timely decision-making between consumers and their healthcare providers.”