Princess Margaret Cancer Centre scientists and clinicians will advise CDL Cancer ventures, and Princess Margaret researchers will gain new opportunities to explore commercializing their discoveries through the program.
Minister Hodgson announced newly-signed memoranda of understanding with provinces and territories and a contribution agreement of up to $15 million to Creative Destruction Lab, advancing the Canadian Digital Core Library (CDCL), a national platform that will make Canada's drill core data AI-ready and openly accessible.
CDL startups will receive OpenAI credits, and higher rate limits, giving founders more capacity to build, test, and scale with OpenAI’s technology. A select group of high-performing companies will also work directly with OpenAI teams to bring AI products to market at scale with hands-on technical support, research previews, and opportunities to provide feedback that informs future product development.
Government of Canada, Creative Destruction Lab, Laurentian University, and industry participants sign a Declaration of Intent to explore collaboration on digitization of Canada’s geological drill core and exploring an AI-ready national geoscience platform.
Laurentian University will receive up to $1 million over two years from Creative Destruction Lab to lead a research program characterizing Canada's drill core dataset and developing AI use cases for the Canadian Digital Core Library.
CDL is proud to present the complete list of the 240+ CDL Graduating Ventures from the 2025/26 program year. Congratulations to all!
CDL-Cleveland is the first site in the CDL network to be anchored to a health system. Founders in the program will have access to UH as a living laboratory, giving them an opportunity to test their technologies with actual clinicians and caregivers, not in simulation.
CDL Healthcare Robotics will support founders commercializing medical robotics, active sensing, and AI embodied hardware to address global healthcare capacity gaps.
MBA capstone program pairs students with startup founders to “transform bold ideas into companies that can thrive anywhere in the world.”
Hatch joins CDL Minerals as a corporate partner, bringing its engineering expertise across 150+ countries to accelerate science-based mining technologies from pilot to commercial scale.
Creative Destruction Lab is receiving a Government of Canada investment, through the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario), to support its newly launched CDL Defence program.
CDL-San Sebastian will join the global CDL Quantum program, and launch a CDL AI stream focused on natural language processing and multilingual models to complement the arrival of the IBM System Two quantum computer and strengthen Gipuzkoa’s role as a growing hub for deep tech commercialization in Europe.