Accelerator🇨🇦 Canada
Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)
Vancouver, British Columbia
Launched at U of T Rotman 2012; CDL-Vancouver ventures generated $6.69B+ equity value (2025).
- Investment focus
- Hardware/DeeptechHealth/BiotechCleantech/ClimateAI/ML
- Stage
- Seed · Series A
- Check / terms
- Takes no equity (non-dilutive)
- Program / model
- Objectives-based deep-tech mentorship (~9-month cohort). Streams: Compute, Biomedical, Climate, Minerals, Advanced Therapies, Cancer. Nodes incl. Vancouver (UBC), Calgary, Toronto.
- Invests in
- Global intake; nodes across Canada
- Founded
- 2012