Supercharge retail strategy with AI powered foot traffic and sales insights.
Avenue Intelligence is a Canadian technology company helping cities, place-makers and retailers map foot traffic for a better understanding of how we use urban spaces.
Cohort: 2025
Program: Lab2Launch
Stage: HATCH Venture Builder
Founders
Jake McGregor
AI Driven Environmental Solutions
Bayes Studio harnesses AI, satellite data, and a multi-spectral sensor system to provide unparalleled environmental monitoring solutions to help detect wildfires early.
Cohort: 2025
Program: Lab2Launch
Stage: HATCH Venture Builder
Founders
High Performance natural fibre insulation
Baerfell is using sustainable technologies to produce the most advanced natural insulation.
Cohort: 2025
Program: Lab2Launch
Stage: HATCH Venture Builder
Founders
Marc Massicotte Pierre Massicotte Feng Jiang
Empowering newcomers through access to housing & financial visibility.
Binta provides financial inclusion and the tools to navigate the Canadian economic landscape.
Cohort: 2025
Program: Lab2Launch
Stage: HATCH Venture Builder
Founders
Paschal Okwundu
Workflow Management for Media and Comms teams
Broadsight transforms comms workflow of splintered messaging in shared drives, email, messaging apps & spreadsheets to a unified workspace for your team.
Cohort: 2025
Program: Lab2Launch
Stage: HATCH Venture Builder
Founders
Kurt Heinrich John-Jose Nunez
C02 Capture at a Gigatonne Scale
Carbonyx’s revolutionary process transforms industrial waste into valuable byproducts, like silica, while permanently storing carbon dioxide.
Cohort: 2026
Program: Lab2Launch
Stage: HATCH Venture Builder
Founders
Douglas Pimlott Mia Stankovic Adrien Noble Curtis Berlinguette
Treating brain diseases from within
CereCura Nanotherapeutics is a preclinical biotechnology company developing innovative RNA therapies for patients with untreated brain disorders.
Cohort: 2025
Program: Lab2Launch
Stage: HATCH Venture Builder
Founders
Louis Phillippe Bernier Nicholas Weilinger Richard Howlet Brian MacVicar Pieter Cullis
Unlocking the Power of Skin Drug Delivery
Next Generation Pharmaceutical Nano Carriers Focused on Efficacy and Sustainability
CNANO combines advanced dermal drug delivery technologies with cutting-edge material sciences to create next-generation topical products. Our innovations harness the skin’s natural healing properties for regeneration while ensuring targeted delivery. Our main product pipelines focus on topical pain relief, anti-aging and anti-scar treatments.
Cohort: 2024
Program: Lab2Launch
Stage: HATCH Venture Builder
Founders
Ellie Rahmani Mehran Khosravinejad
Developing solutions to decarbonize cement production by up to 85%
CURA’s electrochemical technology uses clean electricity—not heat—to split limestone into lime and pure CO₂, enabling production of low-carbon lime and Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) with existing feedstocks.
Cohort: 2026
Program: Lab2Launch
Stage: HATCH Venture Builder
Founders
Erin Bobicki Sabrina Scott Phil De Luna Curtis Berlinguette
Dream Photonics provides a billion devices with integrated Photonics
Tackling the biggest challenges of the semiconductor era, leveraging their expertise and resources in the world of photonics and electronics.
Cohort: 2024
Program: Lab2Launch
Stage: HATCH Venture Builder
Founders
Lukas Chrostowski Sudip Shekhar
The Next Generation of metal additive manufacturing.
DISC is combining optimization techniques, novel manufacturing methods and knowledge in metal behaviour to create the next breakthrough in the metal manufacturing industry.
Cohort: 2024
Program: CORE
Stage: HATCH Venture Builder
Founders
David Funes Rojas Stefano Fregonese
Digital Therapeutic Platform for Women’s sexual health
eSense has developed the first clinically validated digital therapeutic addressing female sexual dysfunction, delivering evidence based psychological care in a private, accessible, and scalable format.
Cohort: 2026
Program: CORE
Stage: HATCH Venture Builder
Founders
Elayne Wandler Dr. Lori Brotto Dr. Kyle Stephenson
Intelligent Seed Sorting
Insporos is developing intelligent seed sorting to remove diseased and defective seeds, enabling growers to significantly improve yields.
Cohort: 2024
Program: CORE
Stage: HATCH Venture Builder
Founders
Amanda Ackroyd Mallory Flynn
Transforming orebody characterization to improve productivity in mining and milling.
Transforming geotechnical and geo-metallurgical characterization, allowing for strength characterization of unconventional samples, including resource core.
Cohort: 2024
Program: CORE
Stage: HATCH Venture Builder
Founders
Stefan Nadolski
Mitra Biotechnologies is building nanomaterial-integrated diagnostics platforms for point-of-care applications to meet global healthcare needs.
Cohort: 2024
Program: Lab2Launch
Stage: HATCH Venture Builder
Founders
Neil Mitra
Upcycling glass bottles into unique home decor to reduce waste.
Cohort: 2024
Program: Lab2Launch
Stage: HATCH Venture Builder
Founders
Prishita Agarwal Abhiudai Mishra
Sodium Battery Systems built for extreme temperature environments
Energy storage systems that enable energy equity for remote and extreme environments, replacing diesel dependence with reliable, affordable renewable power.
Cohort: 2026
Program: Lab2Launch
Stage: HATCH Venture Builder
Founders
Dr. Ivan Stosevski Dr. Arman Bonakdarpour Dr David Wilkinson
Reducing ships’ fuel consumption through proactive hull cleaning.
In-water robotic ship hull cleaning to improve fuel efficiency, reduce GHG emissions & maintenance costs, and protect the environment from invasive species.
Cohort: 2024
Program: Lab2Launch
Stage: HATCH Venture Builder
Founders
Voytek Klaptocz Bill Rawlings
Advanced radio-frequency (RF) pulses for MRI and MRS
phaseLab dynamics will transform Magnetic Resonance Imaging by controlling signal generation at its source, enabling faster, artifact-free, and highly reproducible scans.
Cohort: 2026
Program: Lab2Launch
Stage: HATCH Venture Builder
Founders
Christina Graf Armin Rund Alexander Jaffray Alexander Rauscher Cam Melvin
Bringing the power of Precision Medicine to more patients
Designing a personalized activatable nucleic acid-based treatment platform to deliver therapeutics for currently untreatable tumours.
Cohort: 2026
Program: Lab2Launch
Stage: HATCH Venture Builder
Founders
Dr. Dermott Kelleher Dr. Shane Duggan Dr. Corina Stewart Cam Melvin
Revolutionizing acute infection treatment
Resolve Nanotherapeutics is committed to bringing a first-in-class broad-spectrum therapeutic to market for acute bacterial infections.
Cohort: 2026
Program: Lab2Launch
Stage: HATCH Venture Builder
Founders
Dr. Jim Russell Dr. Cedric Brimacombe Dr. Evan Haney Dr. Pieter Cullis Dr. Ehsan Ansari Dezfouli
Long lasting targeted control over coagulation disorders.
Seragene is reimagining the treatment of coagulation disorders through innovative RNA and nanomedicine technologies.
Cohort: 2025
Program: CORE
Stage: HATCH Venture Builder
Founders
Erika Siren Lih Jiin Juang Amy Strilchuk Katherine Badior Christian Kastrup Pieter Cullis
Texting reliable information to promote safe pregnancy and parenting.
Cohort: 2024
Program: Lab2Launch
Stage: HATCH Venture Builder
Founders
Shaina Pennington
Plant-based ingredients that drive sustainability in the food industry.
SBI’s flagship product, ZroFat, is a plant-based fat substitute designed to replace traditional fats in food production.
Cohort: 2025
Program: CORE
Stage: HATCH Venture Builder
Founders
Dave Eto
Giving manufacturing equipment a “Sense of Touch”
A “Smart Roller” for the composite aircraft manufacturing sector that lets manufacturers see, in real-time, how evenly material is being deposited during automated carbon fiber layup.
Cohort: 2026
Program: CORE
Stage: HATCH Venture Builder
Founders
Charlie Picciotto Xiulun Yin Dr. John Madden Dr. Anoush Poursartip Dr. Adam Clare
Decision intelligence for critical minerals mining
Syris employs advanced AI to help translate complex sensor data across a variety of industries into easy to understand reporting.
Cohort: 2025
Program: Lab2Launch
Stage: HATCH Venture Builder
Founders
Vidya Kotamraju Bhushan Gopaluni
Trumotion:
TruMotion Empowering those with limited to no mobility & their caregivers with accessible & automated solutions to meet daily movement goals.
Cohort: 2025
Program: Lab2Launch
Stage: HATCH Venture Builder
Founders
Redefining Everyday Materials
Tydra has developed a biotechnological platform that transforms renewable resources into high-value materials. This process maximizes efficiency, minimizes waste, and prioritizes safety, all while taking inspiration from nature’s brilliance.
Cohort: 2026
Program: Lab2Launch
Stage: HATCH Venture Builder
Founders
Dr. Thanos Kritharis Jaiya Varshney Dr. Vikramaditya Yadav
Empowering People and Communities to Protect Water Sources Everywhere.
Cohort: 2021/2022
Program: CORE
Stage: HATCH Venture Builder
Founders
Clinically validated AI Platform for real-time critical illness detection
VitaPulse specializes in developing device-agnostic machine learning systems for the monitoring and detection of critical health events, based on real clinical data.
Cohort: 2021/2022
Program: CORE
Stage: HATCH Venture Builder
Founders
Dr. Jacob Hutton Dr. Saud Lingawi Dr. Brian Grunau Sadra Khosravi
Empowering a Net Zero Future
Vulcan X is accelerating the transition to net-zero by providing clean hydrogen and solid carbon.
Cohort: 2023
Program: CORE
Stage: HATCH Venture Builder
Founders
Omar E Herrera
Empowering Patients, Unburdening Pharmacies.
Xpress Select optimizes pharmacy operations with a digital platform that streamlines over-the-counter (OTC) medication recommendations and minor ailment prescription services.
Cohort: 2025
Program: Lab2Launch
Stage: HATCH Venture Builder