Calgary based Surface Medical Inc has received a new round of financing through The Accelerate Fund, a co-investment fund between AVAC Ltd and local angel investors. Surface Medical has developed CleanPatch — a medical surface repair kit for hospital beds and stretchers — to combat healthcare-associated infections — which cost $48 billion and cause 100,000 deaths in North America annually. It is currently being used in more than 50 Canadian hospitals and was recently launched in the US. AVAC manages The Accelerate Fund and Alberta Enterprise Corp is its limited partner....