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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
With funding from the Qatar Investment Authority and the Qatar Research, Development, and Innovation Council, CDL-Doha will advance research-driven entrepreneurship and strengthen Qatar’s role in the global innovation economy.
The nine-month program will accelerate dual-use ventures, while educating founders on how to navigate procurement and deployment.
