Creative Destruction Lab

Startup accelerator · run by Creative Destruction Lab, Rotman School of Management · Toronto · Canada · United States

Objective-setting programme for science and deep-tech ventures, run in themed streams at several university sites, where mentors re-commit session by session.

Apply on the programme's own site

Creative Destruction Lab terms

Read from the programme's own page on September 12, 2026, and re-read every morning. A figure nobody states is left empty rather than estimated.

Cost to apply
takes no equity
CDL charges no fees and takes no equity. check it

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