A curated feed of external coverage and announcements connected to Innovation UBC's work — from funding milestones and venture achievements to research breakthroughs and new partnerships.
In the News
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May 26, 2026Arca gets $2M funding to advance carbon technology from lab to field deployment National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program Clean Tech initiative
Entrepreneurship & Ventures | Advancing through its $7M project, Arca’s technology is the first field‑scale system to accelerate carbon mineralization in mine waste, aiming to turn a major industry challenge into a scalable CDR solution.
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May 19, 2026Sustained Therapeutics presents positive phase 2 data for ST-01, a proprietary non-opioid therapy, at the American Urological Association 2026 Annual Meeting
Entrepreneurship & Ventures | Sustained Therapeutics is a UBC spin-off working on the issue of chronic scrotal content pain (CSCP): a challenging, underrecognized condition with few effective long-term options.
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May 14, 2026Sustainable Bioproducts Innovation, Tydra Labs, and PrecisionPest Guard take the climate stage at Web Summit Vancouver to showcase their innovations in the University Power Pitches
Entrepreneurship & Ventures | The University Power Pitches featured 5 minute presentations from ventures working on problems ranging from plastic pollution and crop loss to shipping emissions, food waste, and industrial carbon emissions.
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May 13, 2026UBC Ventures 3C Therapeutics and NZ Technologies are first to receive $823,000 and $350,000 respectively through Innovate BC's Integrated Marketplace, a program by the Government of BC and the Pacific Economic Development Canada
Entrepreneurship & Ventures | The Integrated Marketplace’s Health Testbed is designed to help companies validate new technologies with health-care partners, reducing adoption risk while giving innovators a pathway to scale.
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May 12, 2026SenseNet Inc., Venture Founder alumnus, recognized as leading AI company by Evan Solomon among 44 Canadian businesses receiving $66 million funding through AI Compute Access Fund
Entrepreneurship & Ventures | SenseNet is a wildfire risk resilience intelligence company dedicated to strengthening operational certainty and decision advantage for municipalities, emergency responders, and critical infrastructure operators across wildfire-prone regions.
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May 11, 2026Dream Photonics receives $1.1M from PacifiCan to accelerate the commercialization of AI and quantum technologies in B.C.
Entrepreneurship & Ventures | Dream Photonics is a UBC spin-off and semiconductor company working to build Canada's first domestic production of ready-to-use quantum photonic chips. This will strengthen Canada’s quantum supply chain, anchor production capacity and create jobs.
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April 30, 2026NorthX invests in CURA to double down on industrial decarbonization in Canada
Entrepreneurship & Ventures | CURA, a UBC spin-off, is producing zero-carbon lime through an electrochemical process that captures pure CO₂ for permanent storage with technology that retrofits directly into existing cement and lime plants.
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April 17, 2026UBC researchers aim to deliver earlier warnings on the toxic drug supply
Sponsored Research | The Track & Trace pilot program will map where substances are coming from, and going to, informing public safety and health. UBC spin-off Aidos Innovations is heading the pilot program.
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April 2, 2026Aspect Biosystems announces $280 Million partnership with Government of Canada to advance development of bioengineered cellular medicines
Entrepreneurship & Ventures | Aspect Biosystems, a biotechnology company pioneering a novel category of regenerative medicine, today announced that it has received a $79 million investment from the Government of Canada.
