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Joined August 2012
Today at the first Session of the 2026/27 CDL Cancer program, CDL announced that The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation @thePMCF, on behalf of @pmcancercentre, has joined CDL Cancer as its Global Cancer Research Advisory Partner. Read more: creativedestructionlab.com/b…
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SereNeuro Therapeutics (CDL'25), a company developing non-opioid therapies for pain has close a pre-seed round. Its lead program SN101 is an off-the-shelf therapy made from purified human pain-sensing neurons derived from induced pluripotent stem cells. prnewswire.com/news-releases…
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CDL Reading Group member, Associate Professor Avery Slater of the University of Toronto discusses the novel "1984" by George Orwell and its timely theme. @UofTEnglish @CodeZebra @SuthaKamal @betsymas youtube.com/watch?v=ZB_V-j7a…
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In 2019, Felix Baldauf-Lenschen joined Creative Destruction Lab with little more than just a hypothesis. Today, Altis Labs is developing AI-based endpoints for cancer clinical trials and has raised US$25M in Series A financing. creativedestructionlab.com/b…
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Elle MD (CDL'24) has raised $1.1M to develop a non-hormonal, easily removable birth control ring. betakit.com/elle-md-raises-1…
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ZuriQ (CDL'25) has raised $25.5M in seed funding to scale its trapped-ion quantum processors. globenewswire.com/news-relea…
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Announced today, @LaurentianU will receive research funding of up to $1M over two years to advance the Canadian Digital Core Library, a national initiative to digitize Canada's geological record and make it openly available through an AI-ready platform. creativedestructionlab.com/b…
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Creative Destruction Lab has been named one of America’s Best Incubators & Accelerators 2026 by @TIME and Statista, ranking #15 in the U.S. and #1 in Washington! time.com/article/2026/08/18/…
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Alchemity (CDL'26) has announced the successful close of a Seed Financing round to support demonstration of a single step, liquid fuel production reactor system with zero CO2 emissions. alchemity.com/news/seed-fina…
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Multiverse Computing (CDL'20) announced a $570M USD Series C funding round at a $1.7B pre-money valuation. Multiverse's platform CompactifAI, is a compression technology that applies tensor networks to the problem of AI model compression. multiversecomputing.com/reso…
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NewOrbit Space (CDL'22), a startup developing satellites for very low Earth orbit, has raised $18.5M in a Series A round. NewOrbit plans to provide commercial service beginning with its first flight in 2028 from an altitude of 250 to 300km. spacenews.com/uk-startup-new…
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D-CRBN (CDL'23), a startup developing electrified plasma technology to recycle CO₂ and hydrocarbons into circular carbon molecules, has closed a €17.5M Series A investment round. eu-startups.com/2026/05/belg…
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Quantum Bridge Technologies (CDL'21) has raised $8M in Series A funding to accelerate the global transition to quantum-safe cybersecurity infrastructure — bringing its total capital raised to $16M. qubridge.io/quantum-bridge-s…
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Superhuman (formerly Grammarly) has acquired GPTZero (CDL'24), an AI detection company founded in 2022. GPTZero grew to more than 19M users worldwide, building tools that identify LLM-generated content and flag hallucinated citations in academic research. betakit.com/superhuman-forme…
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