Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)

Montréal, QuébecFoundations & Ecosystem-BuildingMember

BUILD SOMETHING MASSIVE

Overview

Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a nonprofit organization that delivers an objectives based program for massively scalable, seed stage, science and technology based companies.

Type

Not-for-Profit

Founded

2012

Affiliation

HEC Montreal

CDL operates 23 specialized streams across 16 global locations: 5 in Canada, 3 in the United States, 6 in Europe, 1 in Australia, and 1 in Asia. Founded at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. Receives funding from major institutions including Qatar Investment Authority and Qatar Research, Development, and Innovation Council.

Classification

Industries

General/industry agnostic

Focus Areas

Advanced TherapiesAgriFoodArtificial IntelligenceBiomedical EngineeringCancerClimateComputational HealthComputeDigital SocietyEnergyHealth & WellnessManufacturingMineralsNeuroNext Gen ComputingOceansPrimeQuantumRiskSpaceSupply ChainWeb3

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Stages supported

ValidationEfficiency

Services offered

Free educational events or programming (ie. lunch and learns)
Mentorship and access to advisors
Networking opportunities and community events

BAI Positioning

Foundations & Ecosystem-Buildingmedium confidence

Build the entrepreneurial foundations and an innovation platform for ventures and founders to build from

Sector-agnostic (broad industry focus). Flexible accountability (community-oriented, earlier-stage).

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Programs

Putting AI to Work Program

accelerator

Program focused on unlocking enterprise productivity through AI

CDL-Doha

accelerator

Research-driven entrepreneurship program advancing Qatar's role in the global innovation economy

CDL-San Sebastian

accelerator

Program joining the global CDL Quantum program with a CDL AI stream focused on natural language processing and multilingual models

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Leadership

Chris Hadfield
Mentor, Former Commander of the International Space Station

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