Altis Labs: Using AI to Accelerate Cancer Drug Development
CDL Alumni Altis Labs has raised a US$25M Series A to advance AI endpoints that can predict cancer trial outcomes months earlier.
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Creative Destruction Lab and OpenAI Partner to Accelerate AI Innovation Across a Global Network of Science-Based Startups
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.
Laurentian University to Receive Funding for Research Advancing the Canadian Digital Core Library
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.
Creative Destruction Lab 2025/26 Graduate Companies
CDL is proud to present the complete list of the 240+ CDL Graduating Ventures from the 2025/26 program year. Congratulations to all!
Canadian Digital Core Library Enters Next Phase with Federal Support
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.
Creative Destruction Lab Launches CDL-Cleveland in Partnership with University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University
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-London and Imperial launch Healthcare Robotics stream to scale intelligent hardware for clinical and in-home care
CDL Healthcare Robotics will support founders commercializing medical robotics, active sensing, and AI embodied hardware to address global healthcare capacity gaps.
Xanadu: the first CDL Alumni company to go public
Almost ten years after going through the program, Xanadu listed on Nasdaq and the Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker XNDU on March 27th, 2026 — the first company in Creative Destruction Lab's 13-year history to reach the public markets.
Alberta’s top universities join forces to develop the next generation of science and tech leaders with CDL-Rockies
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 Corporate Partner to Advance Mining Innovation
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.
Canada Advances National Digital Core Library to Unlock Critical Minerals Discovery
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.
Government of Canada invests in CDL Defence to accelerate dual-use technologies from research to deployment
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.
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