Through their venture-building programs, entrepreneurship@UBC provides UBC innovators with the industry expertise, practical business training and mentorship to develop their discoveries into viable ventures that yield social and economic impacts.
entrepreneurship@UBC, which transitioned all of its programming to an online format in mid-March, recently announced the new ventures joining their Social Venture, Lab2Launch and Core Technology incubator programs.
Social Venture Incubator program
entrepreneurship@UBC’s Social Venture Incubator program backs UBC founders with solutions to some of the world’s most prolific social, environmental and economic problems. Cultivating social ventures from ideation to market, the program provides a unique opportunity for startups to create and grow their venture with impact at the helm. On May 8, entrepreneurship@UBC announced the new cohort of ventures to join the incubator program, delivered in collaboration with global incubator, accelerator and advisory firm Spring:
- AI Forte Solutions is developing powerful digital identity and eHealth platforms for aid agencies and institutions, especially those supporting refugees and vulnerable people around the world.
- Angular Materials is setting out to become a global supplier of environmentally friendly, fibre-reinforced concrete for construction, recreation and design elements.
- Asense is developing highly sensitive, selective and low power gas sensors for indoor/outdoor air monitoring systems through designing, manufacturing and integrating advanced UV-LED activated gas sensing solutions.
- C³ (Clean Carbon Conversion) is a carbon utilization venture building sustainable technologies to manage carbon emissions efficiently, working with industrial carbon emitters to repurpose captured CO2 into value added carbon byproducts.
- C.O.D.E helps neurodiverse individuals and under-represented groups have access to equal educational opportunities by providing them with personalized education plans that are fitted to their needs and strengths.
- FLIK is the first-female focused apprenticeship platform that allows female founders/leaders and female apprentices to browse each other, connect, and work together.
- Informedin utilizes hardware-AI integration to monitor nutrients' concentrations and pesticides in smallholder farms, in order to help farmers increase yields of higher quality produce as well as reduce operational costs.
- mugshare takes a systems approach to reducing single-use items by providing a convenient alternative to coffee cups that operates on a deposit-return system, enabling cafes to eliminate their reliance on disposable cups without sacrificing the quality of their customers’ experience.
- Nautical C. Investigations offers drone technology equipped with AI to fight crimes at sea in a sustainable, pragmatic and cost effective manner.
- Samaritoken is a crypto token used by an organization, business or government to reward volunteers with a tangible asset that also records the volunteers’ time, effort or expertise on a publicly-verifiable blockchain.
Lab2Launch Incubator program
The Lab2Launch program is designed for UBC researchers and scientists who want to transform their knowledge into solving significant global problems. The innovations in this program are proprietary and difficult to reproduce, and the Lab2Launch team, Entrepreneurs-in-Residence and mentor network work with founders to identify viable and valuable business opportunities. On April 17, entrepreneurship@UBC announced a new cohort of ten ventures in the Lab2Launch program:
- ABOenzymes is developing a product to make blood typing a thing of the past, turning all blood types into universal donor blood and eliminating the need for blood typing and blood matching.
- Amphoraxe Life Sciences Inc. aims to replace conventional antibiotics used by farmers that can spread dangerous antibiotic resistant bacteria to humans with a new generation of products that don't cause drug resistance, increasing farmers' productivity without harming human health.
- D.I. Self Composite Alloys Inc. will create the next breakthrough/new generation of highly optimized Alloys with custom properties that can be used virtually anywhere.
- Deformance Design Labs Inc. offers zero-waste, rapid delivery of building designs and components of almost any form reducing construction costs and time by 20% and 40%, compared to the current building industry standards.
- Fluoride Labelled Tomography (FLAT) is developing proprietary PET radiotracers that will help oncologists and radiologists detect cancer or recurrent cancer sooner by providing customized, sensitive and precise imaging.
- Smart Bandage is developing a bandage with integrated sensors to alert healthcare providers when a wound becomes infected, providing peace of mind to patients and improved health outcomes for healthcare providers and the healthcare system.
- Thor Technologies' Thor Reactor is an electrochemical system that allows drug developers to easily and reliably replace hydrogen with deuterium in a broad range of molecules under ambient conditions using only deuterated water, helping the pharmaceutical industry to bring safer and more effective drugs to market.
- Tractus Medical is developing a device that can be operated by a single physician to successfully realign a broken wrist, avoiding the need for surgery entirely.
- Verdi is building self-learning irrigation systems to help wine growers grow better wine with $0 lost, delivering water to the right grapevines at the right time, compared to $3.3 billion lost each year due to imprecision from conventional irrigation systems in North America.
- Viridis Research's proprietary technology offers a decentralized approach that reduces residential water consumption by over 30% by rerouting our “grey water” - water from sinks, showers, and baths - and cleaning it in a proprietary and green electrochemical system for recycling.
Core Technology Incubator program
entrepreneurship@UBC’s Core Technology Incubator program champions tech-enabled teams by helping them to validate their ideas, develop their business model and prepare them for company building, investment and growth. At the end of March, entrepreneurship@UBC announced the following ventures will join the program:
- 3DQue Systems Inc. is creating 3D printer automation hardware and software for high volume functional prototyping and mass production in industrial and academic settings.
- 5G Compute Platform is providing the next-gen compute platforms by increasing the discoverability and searchability of native apps.
- ApplyChance Technologies Inc. is the one place to go for graduate applicants and university professors looking for talented graduate students.
- Asset Data Analytics is a data and analytics solution that enhances the reliability of supply chain departments within the mining sector.
- ByteCycler is a platform for crowdsourced news topics focused on removing bias from news sources.
- Clotech is brining 3D modelling technologies to tackle challenging problems in the clothing retail space.
- Club Row Fitness is reinventing the sport of rowing through a row-at-home experience with remote classes.
- FoodBuddy is enhancing community involvement on campus by encouraging students at UBC to grab a meal with other fellow students.
- Gumption.AI is an API for integrating an organization's AI/ML solutions to the traditional dev stack.
- Immersio App - Immersio is creating an app to support the learning of ancient languages.
- MarkMate is making it cheaper and easier for small businesses and start-ups to secure legal rights to brand protection.
- Mendel's Peas provides personalized vitamin and mineral supplements delivered through a monthly subscription package.
- Mentor Abroad is building a platform to help connect university applicants with mentors from their respective universities.
- Remedy Clinical Consulting Inc. provides a virtual platform for client data and messaging for healthcare professionals.
- Remity Biotechnologies is developing wearable technology embedded with biometric devices to assist with the early detection of cardiac issues.
- Room Market is building property technology allowing users to connect and search for reliable data on a location's price, population and density.
- Roost Medical is an online platform allowing patients to "visit " their doctor online and have prescriptions delivered directly to their home.
- Storagehotel is a web-based storage solution to help people safely store their goods.
- Susgrainable Health Foods is a sustainable food producer that addresses food waste through upcycling while achieving balanced nutrition with its flour and bakery products.
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Synaptitude Brain Health is aiming to reduce the risk of cognitive decline, bringing revolutionary advances in brain research to the general public.