Felix Health

Felix was founded in Toronto in 2019 by Kyle Zien and Emma Stern — incorporated in January, in market by June. The idea began as a dinner-table pitch: Zien, a repeat founder, was describing it at Stern's house when she told him 'I will do that with you.' Neither was a doctor, pharmacist, or engineer — 'just two patients in the Canadian healthcare system,' as Stern put it on the TechTO stage. The platform turns common, often stigmatized health concerns into an online flow: a patient completes a medical questionnaire, a licensed physician or nurse practitioner reviews it and follows up by secure chat, and, where appropriate, writes a prescription that Felix's pharmacy delivers to the patient's door in about a day, with ongoing provider chat included. Roughly two and a half years in, Felix left its partner pharmacy to open its own pharmacy warehouse — going, in Stern's words, from a 'bits and bytes' company to a 'molecules' company. From early categories like erectile dysfunction, birth control, and hair loss, it has expanded into weight loss, mental health, menopause, metabolic health, and proactive testing, and as of mid-2026 serves patients in eight provinces with a team of roughly 120. Felix raised an $18M CAD Series B led by BDC Capital's Women in Technology Venture Fund (closed June 2022, announced April 2023), reached profitability, and in October 2025 closed a further $53M CAD in growth financing from Canadian Business Growth Fund and other existing investors.