Meet our 48th cohort of Venture Founder
With a commitment to empower the next generation of entrepreneurs and their transformative innovations from the University of British Columbia, we’re proud to introduce the newest cohort of startups supported by Innovation UBC. As the embedded venture builder at one of the world’s top 40 research institutions, Innovation UBC supports visionary entrepreneurs whose ideas and scientific breakthroughs are set to transform industries and create lasting global impact.
The Venture Founder program helps founders take their innovation to the next level with an approach that recognizes every venture-building journey is unique based on industry, team expertise, and market opportunity. Separated into two streams, each stream specializes in the impact and pace of commercialization. Stream 1 focuses on ventures disrupting existing industries or systems with innovations like software solutions, IT platforms, or new business models, typically with fewer regulatory hurdles and faster market entry. Stream 2 is designed for ventures translating deep technical innovations into commercial applications, often requiring longer development cycles due to regulatory processes, clinical trials, or complex system changes.
These 19 teams are creating solutions for some of the world's most persistent challenges in areas such as healthcare innovation, AI, cultural innovation and biotechnologies. Their ventures span various UBC faculties, including Medicine, Arts, Science, Applied Science, Kinesiology, and the Sauder School of Business.
Meet the 19 teams:
AI-Sentinel Intelligence Solutions
- Creating a service for medtech companies who use machine learning to improve security risks and evaluate software security.
- UBC affiliation: Faculty of Applied Science
- Venture Founder Stream: Stream 1
Autochart Technologies Inc.
- Automating nursing documentation to improve efficiency and quality of care.
- UBC affiliation: Faculty of Medicine
- Venture Founder Stream: Stream 2
FIBR.BIO
- Producing biopolymer alternative synthetic fibers from seawater and biowaste to replace Spandex, Gore-Tex, and Kevlar.
- UBC affiliation: Faculty of Applied Science
- Venture Founder Stream: Stream 2
Greasify
- Reducing carbon footprint by saving fuel through friction reduction in transportation.
- UBC affiliation: Faculty of Applied Science
- Venture Founder Stream: Stream 2
InnoXR
- Platform to help create thermoplastics in a lab environment to make liners for flower pots and such.
- UBC affiliation: Faculty of Applied Science
- Venture Founder Stream: Stream 1
LinguaSens
- Building device to measure tongue strength and flexibility to diagnose speech and swallowing disorders more quickly.
- UBC affiliation: Faculty of Arts
- Venture Founder Stream: Stream 2
OinC
- Automating nursing documentation to improve efficiency and quality of care.
- UBC affiliation: Faculty of Applied Science
- Venture Founder Stream: Stream 1
Otherside Health
- Creating mental health tools to the incarceration system.
- UBC affiliation: Faculty of Applied Science
- Venture Founder Stream: Stream 1
ParkEase
- AI-enabled app to help drivers find parking.
- UBC affiliation: Faculty of Applied Science, Faculty of Medicine
- Venture Founder Stream: Stream 1
Resolve Nanotherapeutics
- Treating infections like sepsis with lipid nanoparticle drugs.
- UBC affiliation: Faculty of Applied Science, Faculty of Medicine
- Venture Founder Stream: Stream 2
Sanicare
- Building sustainable consumer products from recycled diapers reducing landfill waste.
- UBC affiliation: Faculty of Applied Science, Sauder School of Business
- Venture Founder Stream: Stream 1
Securon
- Review government documents for compliance.
- UBC affiliation: Faculty of Applied Science
- Venture Founder Stream: Stream 1
Spero
- Platform offering video resources for physiotherapy.
- UBC affiliation: Faculty of Applied Science, Faculty of Kinesiology
- Venture Founder Stream: Stream 1
SpikeLess
- New solution to test for date rape drugs in drinks.
- UBC affiliation: Faculty of Applied Science
- Venture Founder Stream: Stream 2
Stretchy
- Learning platform to teach people in developing countries how to tell if they are ovulating.
- UBC affiliation: Faculty of Medicine
- Venture Founder Stream: Stream 1
VitaPulse
- Eliminating unwitnessed heart attacks via AI wearables as an “artificial bystander” for cases that occur in isolation to save lives.
- UBC affiliation: Faculty of Applied Science, Faculty of Medicine
- Venture Founder Stream: Stream 2
Wameid
- Transforming telecom with a single photon detector.
- UBC affiliation: Faculty of Applied Science
- Venture Founder Stream: Stream 2
Zenbu
- Enabling coated nanoparticles to help identify tissue types specifically and enable drug delivery (like chemotherapy) to become more effective.
- UBC affiliation: Faculty of Applied Science, Faculty of Medicine
- Venture Founder Stream: Stream 2
About Us
Innovation UBC supports pathways for UBC’s research community to bring their inventions to impact. Through research partnerships, technology transfer, and venture building services, UBC researchers have access to a robust ecosystem of services and support to strengthen their translation opportunities. Innovation UBC is committed to strengthening knowledge and understanding of the commercialization process through mobilizing university inventions for society's benefit. Our goal is to accelerate UBC research inventions to global impact with focused support rooted in removing systemic barriers across the continuum of research translation activities.
Welcome to the new teams!
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