ClinicGlide Raises Six Figures from NBIF and TLT for Healthcare AI

Fredericton’s newest digital-health cheque is for the front desk, not the radiology suite.

ClinicGlide Technologies raised a six-figure pre-seed co-led by the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation and TLT East Ventures, Entrevestor reported on October 26, 2025. NBIF put in $200,000; TLT did not disclose its share. The money is meant to deepen EMR integrations and push what co-founder Scott MacIntosh calls “sovereign healthcare AI” — automation that sits inside clinic and hospital workflows instead of another disconnected chatbot.

What they automate

ClinicGlide’s public product line centres on multi-channel patient access: phone, text, and web. The company sells an AI receptionist (Clara), booking automation (BookingGlide), and reactivation tools aimed at cutting repetitive front-end admin. Entrevestor relayed NBIF’s claim that early deployments have cut administrative load by as much as 50% for providers using the tools.

The sharpest wedge so far is appointment booking inside Jane.app, the clinic EMR popular with allied-health and private practices. MacIntosh told Entrevestor ClinicGlide was first to market with a Clara AI Booking Agent that books directly in Jane, with hospital and health-authority connectors next.

The wedge, and its ceiling

Booking inside Jane.app is a shrewd place to start and a revealing one. Jane is the EMR that allied-health and private practices actually run on — physiotherapy, massage, chiropractic, mental health — which means those clinics are small, numerous, run their own front desks, and can buy software without a procurement committee. A clinic owner who is also the person answering the phone does not need to be convinced that phone triage is expensive.

It is also a wedge with a hard edge. Building on someone else's EMR means the integration is permitted rather than owned, and the roadmap of a booking agent that books into Jane is ultimately constrained by what Jane allows. Being first to market there is worth something; it is not a moat. The stated plan — hospital and health-authority connectors next — is the move that would change that, and it is a completely different sale: multi-year procurement, privacy review, and integration with provincial systems rather than a credit card and a weekend.

The 50% administrative reduction figure relayed through NBIF is an early-deployment claim from interested parties, not a measured result, and should be read that way.

“Sovereign healthcare AI” is the other claim worth interrogating, because it is doing real work in the pitch. In Canadian health procurement it means data residency and Canadian control — a genuine differentiator against US-hosted assistants when the buyer is a health authority bound by provincial privacy law, and close to irrelevant to a three-physiotherapist clinic choosing a booking tool. The term is aimed at the customers ClinicGlide wants next, not the ones it has.

Why these two founders

The founding pair maps onto exactly that two-stage plan. Per ClinicGlide's about page, MacIntosh founded SwiftRadius (later acquired by Deloitte), worked as a Deloitte consulting partner, and has chaired Propel ICT and co-chaired TechImpact — the skill set and the contact list for selling into institutions. Emergency physician Dr. Hanif Chatur founded eVisitNB, a telemedicine marketplace the company says has served more than 300,000 patients, and previously led the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New Brunswick — the credibility that gets a clinical product taken seriously by regulators and physicians. Systems integrator plus practising ER doctor is not an accident of who met whom.

TLT's participation extends the Saint John–rooted fund's early pattern (Eigen, Profitual, SnapTrade) into digital health. MacIntosh told Entrevestor the round was still taking remaining pre-seed commitments, aimed at more EMR and scheduling connectors.

The comparison that frames the bet is VeroSource, which built provincial health software in Fredericton and was bought for up to $24.5 million by a TSX company. ClinicGlide is starting at the opposite end — small private clinics rather than provincial contracts — and betting it can walk up to the same buyers from below.

Sources

• NBIF, TLT Invest in ClinicGlide — Entrevestor (Oct 26, 2025) — round size framing, $200K NBIF, TLT co-lead, product and founder detail, MacIntosh quotes
• About Us — ClinicGlide — founders’ backgrounds, mission
• ClinicGlide — product lineup (Clara, BookingGlide, reactivation)
• TLT East Ventures — investor
• NBIF — investor