2023 HATCH Venture Builder Investor Showcase
The Investor Showcase spotlights high-potential HATCH ventures across a range of industries to the investor community. These ventures have participated in rigorous training and mentorship through the HATCH Venture Builder program offered by entrepreneurship@UBC in collaboration with ICICS. The Investor Showcase is their opportunity to shine. Join us on Tuesday, May 2 at UBC Robson […]
ICICS Research Excellence Clusters Supported
Three established ICICS research clusters are among 38 emerging and established Research Excellence Clusters to receive support from UBC-Vancouver’s Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters (GCRC) competition. Research Excellence Clusters are interdisciplinary networks of researchers addressing societal and cultural problems, and working together to solve challenges that transcend traditional boundaries associated with departments, institutions, and funding […]
Jade Salazaar of UBC-Rogers Partnership Named Peak Emerging Tech Leader
March 1, 2023
Rogers Innovation & Partnerships Lead Jade Salazaar, who is based in ICICS and helps manage the UBC-Rogers Partnership, has been named an Emerging Leader in the Tech category by The Peak.
Meet the Six Ventures Joining HATCH Venture Builder Winter 2023
This story originally appeared on the entrepreneurship@UBC site. This winter, we are excited to welcome six new ventures into HATCH Venture Builder (HATCH), a collaboration between entrepreneurship@UBC and the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS), supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs and innovators. HATCH helps to propel early-stage venture growth, working with entrepreneurs to […]
Summer Entrepreneurship Program
The Faculty of Applied Science (APSC) and the ICICS team behind HATCH are pleased to offer the 2023 APSC Summer Entrepreneurship Program (SEP). The program provides support to students and teams wishing to advance their ideas utilizing novel technologies or systems that could have an impact on the world. The program will also help teams […]
Addressing the Healthcare Crisis at the Leading Edge
January 31, 2023
Dr. Kendall Ho, Digital Emergency Medicine lead in UBC’s Faculty of Medicine and a practicing emergency department physician at Vancouver General Hospital, is leading a multidisciplinary effort supported by the UBC-Rogers partnership to address the healthcare crisis in the emergency department with new patient monitoring technologies.
New Ventures Joining HATCH
We would like to welcome some promising new ventures entering the HATCH Venture Builder in ICICS. Brief descriptions follow, with links to the venture websites for more information. Verdi: Irrigation Automation. Verdi customizes water & fertilizer for individual groups of plants. This reduces the cost of irrigation automation by up to 80% and enables growers […]