We're thrilled to introduce 10 new UBC spin-off companies joining the HATCH Venture Builder (HATCH) program this winter! This cohort brings together entrepreneurs from UBC's Faculties of Science, Medicine, and Applied Science, developing breakthrough solutions in climate tech, healthcare, advanced materials, and aerospace. These early-stage ventures represent the next wave of companies and leaders advancing innovative technologies and approaches to address critical challenges facing our world.
Meet our new HATCH ventures:
Carbonyx Minerals Inc.
Carbonyx is developing a carbon-negative platform to replace high-emission industrial materials.
- UBC Affiliation: Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry
- Founding Team: Douglas Pimlott, Adrien Noble, Mia Stankovic, Curtis Berlinguette
- Website/Socials: carbonyx.com; linkedin.com/company/carbonyx/
CURA Climate Inc.
CURA enables cement producers to make general use cement with 85% less emissions at cost-parity or below using existing mines, plants and supply chains.
- UBC Affiliation: Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry
- Team: Erin Bobicki, Sabrina Scott, Phil De Luna, Curtis Berlinguette
- Website/Socials: curaclimate.com
eSense Health
eSense has developed the first clinically-validated self-directed digital platform for female sexual dysfunction based on gold standard psychological treatments.
- UBC Affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
- Team: Dr. Lori Brotto, Dr. Kyle Stephenson, Elayne Wandler
- Website/Socials: esensehealth.com; linkedin.com/company/esense-health/
Narval Energy Inc.
Sodium battery solutions designed for the harshest conditions, reliable everywhere.
- UBC Affiliation: Faculty of Applied Science, Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Team: Ivan Stosevski, Arman Bonakdarpour, David Wilkinson
- Website/Socials: linkedin.com/company/narvalenergy/
phaseLab dynamics
phaseLab dynamics will transform Magnetic Resonance Imaging by controlling signal generation at its source, enabling faster, artifact-free, and highly reproducible scans.
- UBC Affiliation: Faculty of Science, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics
- Team: Christina Graf, Alexander Rauscher, Alexander Jaffray, Armin Rund, Cam Melvin
- Website/Socials: phaselab.ca
Promirin Therapeutics
At Promirin Therapeutics we are "flipping the switch on cancer" shutting down tumours at their source with precision gene control.
- UBC Affiliation: Faculty of Medicine
- Team: Dr. Shane Duggan, Dr. Corina Stewart, Dr. Dermot Kelleher
- Website/Socials: promirin.com
Resolve Nanotherapeutics
Developing novel universally active therapeutics for severe acute bacterial infections including pneumonia.
- UBC Affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
- Team: Jim Russell, Cedric Brimacombe, Pieter Cullis, Ehsan Ansari Dezfouli
- Website/Socials: hli.ubc.ca/researchers/james-russell/
Sentact Technologies
Pressure-sensitive roller to improve manufacturing of carbon fiber aircraft.
- UBC Affiliation: Faculty of Applied Science
- Team: Charlie Picciotto, Xiulun Yin, Adam Clare, Anoush Poursartip, John Madden
- Website/Socials: linkedin.com/company/sentact-technologies
Tydra Labs
Tydra Labs develops scalable biomaterials by converting waste feedstocks into high-performance chitin and chitosan for industrial applications.
- UBC Affiliation: Faculty of Applied Science, Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Team: Vikram Yadav, Jaiya Varshney, Thanos Kritharis
- Website/Socials: tydralabs.com
VitaPulse Technologies
VitaPulse is a digital health company that delivers clinically validated algorithms and alerting infrastructure to detect and predict life-threatening medical events, enabling faster recognition and response in the community.
- UBC Affiliation: Faculty of Medicine
- Team: Saud Lingawi, Jacob Hutton
- Website/Socials: vitapulse.ca; linkedin.com/company/vitapulsebc
About HATCH Venture Builder
HATCH accelerates early-stage venture growth by supporting entrepreneurs as they develop their companies through intensive training in finance, sales and marketing, personalized mentorship from our Entrepreneurs and Executives in Residence (EiRs), connections to funding opportunities, and access to more than 10,000 square feet of cutting-edge office and Makerspace. Ventures in this program test and refine their innovations and business models in an environment built for creativity, collaboration and resilience. HATCH is a collaboration between Innovation UBC and the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS).
About us
Innovation UBC is a service-oriented unit dedicated to enabling UBC researchers and students to translate their work into societal and economic impact.
Innovation UBC works with UBC’s researchers to support and accelerate the translation of their research into real world impacts. 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. Our successful history of translation and commercialization has led to the creation of 284 spin-off companies, establishing over 500 active licensing agreements, and enabling thousands of research partnerships each year with industry, government, and non-profit organizations. We support $190M+ annually in sponsored research activities (which is more than 80% of provincial sponsored research funding). UBC licensed technologies have attracted over $8.4 billion in investment capital and generated over $13 billion in revenues. 91% of UBC spin-off companies remain in Canada, 88% in BC. Our mission is to help create impact from UBC’s breakthrough research to generate social, health, environmental and economic benefits.
