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Applications Are Now Open For The L2M Discover Winter 2025 Cohort! The deadline to apply is January 31, 2025. Full-time students, recent graduates, researchers, and faculty members at Canadian universities and colleges who are interested in exploring entrepreneurship are encouraged to apply. Please note that this opportunity also includes a dedicated health-specific programming stream, offering tailored content for those interested in pursuing ideas within the health sector or gaining a deeper understanding of the health ecosystem. Applicants can opt into this stream directly through the application form. The L2M Discover program runs for 10 weeks, commencing on February 12, 2025, with all training sessions scheduled from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM EST on Wednesdays. These dates and times also apply to the health-specific programming stream. Lab2Market Discover is offered to Quebec applicants and francophones across Canada through the QcSE - Quebec Scientific Entrepreneurship Program at V1 Studio. If you are an applicant from Quebec, we encourage you to check out their pages for details. Don't wait, apply today by visiting: https://lnkd.in/gSv7jbZn

Today marks the end of an incredible journey with the Lab2Market Validate - Alberta cohort, and I am filled with gratitude and excitement as I reflect on our time together. Thank you to the Lab2Market team, mentors, partners, and all my fellow participants for your support, and insights throughout this experience. I feel incredibly lucky to have been admitted into this great program. Special thanks to our facilitators Wendy Vrooman, Michael McCarthy, Bruce Alton, and my Technical mentor Talat Iqbal Syed for their invaluable guidance and support. I especially want to thank Bruce Alton for his unwavering dedication, he spent countless hours helping me refine VisioConTech's business model and strategy, always offering insightful feedback and encouragement. I would also like to extend my heartfelt thanks to the program manager, Claire Kay for her dedication and support throughout this journey, as well as my supervisor, Vicente A. Gonzalez, for his mentorship and encouragement. It has been inspiring to learn from such brilliant minds and to see how far we’ve come in transforming our research into impactful ventures. Through this program, I’ve gained invaluable knowledge about business and entrepreneurship, learned the importance of stepping out of the lab, and embraced customer discovery to better align our innovations with real-world needs. I look forward to continuing the journey with VisioConTech, expanding our customer discovery efforts, and taking steps toward launching my own company. Congratulations to all my cohort members on your achievements and excellent presentations. The future is bright, and I’m excited to see what’s next for all of us #Lab2Market #Entrepreneurship #ResearchImpact #VisioConTech #Edmonton #Alberta #UniversityOfAlberta #NRC #Albertainnovate

The Lab2Market Alberta program celebrated the accomplishments of its cohort 1 Validate participants today with an audience of funders, partners and mentors. It’s a very exciting time with so many brilliant researchers taking steps to create impact from their research, and doing so in an informed fashion as a result of their conversations with potential customers and other stakeholders. Although it's bittersweet to say goodbye to our time together as a cohort, as a team we were so impressed with the entrepreneurial leads’ progress as a result of them getting out of the lab and the building 🌟 Thank you to everyone who was able to join today, and congratulations to Gunjan Vasudeva, Ola Mabrouk, Khulood Alqaydi, Sorosh Abdollahi, Dr. Abdullah Mohiuddin, PhD, Ozioma Akakuru, Mozhgan Sabz, Zahra Samadikhoshkho, Mohammad Keshmiri, David Enoma, Ruoheng Zhang, Saeid Kalantari, Somayeh Raiesdana, Reza Safarzadeh, Zhitong(Lynn) Lin, Shamanth Shankarnarayan, Mohamed Sabek and Muskaan Puri on your excellent presentations. 🌟

Just how much can you learn in 3 months not only about your research idea as a potential startup, but also about who you are a budding entrepreneur? Quite a lot, judging by the the final presentations for Quebec's Lab2Market Validation's Fall 2024, run by V1 Studio. After making dozens of calls to potential clients and stakeholders, many participants validated that they were on the right track or pivoted towards a new path, but everyone came out with crucial information, a much larger network, and improved social skills for the next steps of their entrepreneurial journey. Congrats 👏

As the Alberta Validate fall cohort draws to a close and looks toward next steps, we hosted a stellar lineup of Alberta-based innovation leaders today to outline programs and supports available to founders and startups. We were thrilled to welcome Savannah Lane, Paula Berton, Jeffrey Shon, Anes Rachid, Nadim Chin, Ernest Siu, Lorena Forster, Kevin Dahl, Ebenezer Mensa, and Zack Storms who presented on behalf of the University of Alberta, Innovate Calgary, Edmonton Unlimited, Platform Calgary, Threshold Impact Venture Mentoring Service, NRC-IRAP, Alberta Innovates, ElevateIP Alberta, Migr8+, and Startup TNT, respectively.  Thank you to all involved - a great community supporting technology entrepreneurs! cc Claire Kay, Allan Waine, Hillary Sweet, Zehmina Kassam, Luc Roberts, Ph.D. Valerie Archibald Inês Bartilotti

#ConnectedMinds was at the Lab2Market Summit at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre last week! The summit offered inspiring sessions on #health, #sustainability, #cleantech, and equity in #innovation, with insights from leaders in the field—including Connected Minds Innovation and Commercialization Committee member Helen Kontozopoulos. A great opportunity for networking and knowledge-sharing with innovators, entrepreneurs, and policymakers! #Lab2Market #Innovation #ConnectedMinds

Reliving the #L2MSummit Thank you to everyone for an unforgettable 2 days🌟 Stay tuned for more recaps coming soon! Mitacs, MindFrame Connect, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Toronto Metropolitan University, Innovation Boost Zone, Ontario Brain Institute, OBIO, BDC, City of Toronto, CASTL - Canadian Alliance for Skills and Training in Life Sciences , Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Canada Foundation for Innovation/Fondation canadienne pour l'innovation, SpinUp at UTM, eCampusOntario, The Dais at Toronto Metropolitan University, Ontario Centre of Innovation, University of Toronto Entrepreneurship, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, National Research Council Canada / Conseil national de recherches Canada, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, adMare BioInnovations, Ocean Startup Project | Projet Startup Des Océans, Canadian Food Innovation Network, V1 Studio, Axelys, Desjardins, Cooperathon, Diversity Institute, Pocketed Grant Platform, Femtech Canada, Zone Learning at Toronto Metropolitan University 🎥 Parsa Faramarzian

October went by in a flash 💥 , but was packed with great events and opportunities for MycoFutures, so I wanted to recap the month and share our updates: 📢 I pitched in the University of Toronto Entrepreneurship showcase at Elevate, hosted by Jon French. I was also front row at Tegan & Sara's fireside chat. So cool to see one of my favourite bands talk about their creative and professional evolution. 🎥 Leo and I were part of a special project that filmed at SpinUp at UTM. We won't be able to share until next year, but it is very exciting that we can promote our work and our message with a broader audience. 🍁 I attended the kickoff for the current cohort of Communitech Fierce Founders Uplift that I was selected for. I'm very pleased to be working with Allison Mitchell, CLC and Mike Kirkup. 🌱 At AZURE Media's inaugural Human/Nature conference, I sat on a panel with inspiring designer-innovators at CICIL & COMMON OBJECT and spent two days immersed in the intersection of sustainability, design and creativity. 🎉 I presented my final pitch to the investors for SheBoot. Lots of hard work went into my final deck and presentation. I will post more about my amazing experience in the program after the grand finale next week. 💚 I had the pleasure of speaking on a panel with fellow founders and materials innovators, Myra Arshad, Christian Euler, PhD and Srinivasa Reddy at Lab2Market Summit, moderated by Moien Giashi, PhD. 💪 I attended the The51 Toronto Roundtable and got to catch up with some powerhouse women investors, ecosystem stakeholders and founders. There's more to come in November! 👀 We'll be seeing you! 🍄

Community and Media Partners will be joining us at the 2024 QT Qonference! We are grateful for these partners, and their dedication to our joint mission of increasing inclusion and representation in the tech sector 💜 Ranging from academic institutions and entrepreneur support organizations, to accelerators and community groups, all of our partners will be showing up to QTQ 2024 ready to support you on your career journey. Learn more about these partners, and explore their available opportunities, in the event app or at their Virtual Booths! #QTQ2024 #QueeringTech InMagazine - Pride at Work Canada / Fierté au travail Canada - Volta - CEIMIA - Digital Nova Scotia - The Enchanté Network / Le réseau Enchanté - Startup Canada - ICTC-CTIC - Platform Calgary - Le Wagon Canada - Lab2Market - Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat | Secrétariat du Conseil du Trésor du Canada - Futurpreneur - Venture for Canada - Fintech Cadence - Innovation Factory - StartOut - Dignity Network Canada - TECHNATION - V1 Studio - Dal Innovates - Pride Toronto - Coalition of Innovation Leaders Against Racism (CILAR) - Council of Canadian Innovators | Conseil canadien des innovateurs

Axelys est fière d’avoir participé au Lab2Market Summit la semaine dernière à Toronto ! Un événement dédié à la mise en relation des startups innovantes et des acteurs de l'écosystème entrepreneurial canadien. Nous avons eu notamment l'opportunité de partager nos expériences et d'échanger sur les meilleures pratiques en matière d'entrepreneuriat scientifique, en assistant à des conférences inspirantes et en participant à des discussions enrichissantes. Notre équipe est toujours ravie de prendre part à des initiatives qui valorisent l'entrepreneuriat scientifique au Canada. Encore une fois, merci à Jean-Philippe Delisle, directeur principal en investissements et support à l’entrepreneuriat, d’avoir représenté notre organisme lors de cet événement d’envergure. Pour consulter les événements auxquels notre équipe participe, visitez notre site web : https://lnkd.in/gzhq3FFU #innovation #recherchepublique #valorisation