Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)/27 Cohort
Offers Creative Destruction Lab cohorts with mentorship, customer discovery, and venture readiness to help startups scale.
Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a Canadian nonprofit accelerator founded in 2012 at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Its core mandate is to enhance the commercialization of science and technology for the benefit of society. CDL delivers an objectives-based program for seed-stage, science- and technology-based companies with the potential for massive scale, operating across…
CDL funds seed-stage science and technology ventures through a mentorship-only, objectives-based accelerator program that takes no equity and charges no fees.
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