Spotlighting UBC researchers throughout their innovation journeys.
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October 5, 2026Venture Founder alumni spotlight: Barry, the AI agent giving evenings back to field service-based business owners
In this Venture Founder alumni spotlight, read about Barry Co-founders Torrin Pataki and Griffin Velichko, what brought them to entrepreneurship, the field services admin problem that Barry is solving, and where they're headed in the next 12 months.
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October 5, 2026UBC researcher built the country’s only national dataset to shape Canadian road safety policies
A UBC emergency physician has developed Canada’s only national database providing insight into impaired driving using leftover hospital blood samples. Across 15 trauma centers, a decade of government partnerships has produced evidence to help shape road safety law across country.
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October 5, 2026Staff Spotlight: Sandi Swa, Technology Transfer Manager
In this Inventions and Licensing team spotlight, read all about Sandi Swa's expertise in immunology, questions we ask when assessing the commercial potential of a new invention, and the UBC AVENGERS program Sandi is supporting.
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September 29, 2026Venture Founder alumni spotlight: Cryo-Analytics, bringing advanced biomarker-detection technology to every research lab
Venture Founder is Innovation UBC's flagship entrepreneurship program, a 16-week deep dive that turns bold ideas and research discoveries into real startup companies. Open to University of British Columbia (UBC) faculty, staff, and students, the program offers experiential workshops on everything…
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September 28, 2026Mentor Spotlight: Tracey Gordon
In this Mentor Spotlight, meet Tracey Gordon, who has mentored with Innovation UBC since May 2023. Read the perspective of someone who has built, run, and sold her own company, now helping founders think about growth and exit from day one.
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September 28, 2026The right solution for Canada: UBC engineers are innovating tools to advance national security, sovereignty, and economic priorities
A UBC engineering lab is turning federal defense funding into engineering solutions and collaborative manufacturing capacity that will allow Canada to strengthen its Arctic sovereignty and fortify its defense capacity independently and more cost-effectively.
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September 24, 2026Venture Founder alumni spotlight: Shirin Kalyan and ImmunoWell, changing the way we assess immune health
In this Venture Founder Alumni Spotlight, read about Dr. Shirin Kalyan's journey from academia to entrepreneurship, what ImmunoWell is solving, and how conducting customer discovery has changed ImmunoWell's trajectory.
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September 10, 2026Venture Founder alumni spotlight: Formme, taking designers from sketch to production
In this Venture Founder Alumni Spotlight, hear from the Formme team on how they're taking designers from sketch to production, their biggest pivot as they were building Formme, and the importance of consistency in the context of entrepreneurship.
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August 31, 2026Episode 3: The Road to Spinal Cord Regeneration
On this episode of Beaker Banter, we sit down with Dr. Michelle Kunimoto, an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia and real-life planet hunter.
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