Cleantech company Cura (CDL'26) has closed a $10M USD fundraise to develop systems to produce low-carbon cement, offsetting greenhouse gas emissions in the concrete industry that contribute roughly 7% of global emissions.
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Specific Biologics (CDL'20) is advancing a novel gene-editing approach that could address the underlying genetic cause of ALS in a subset of patients and has raised US$35M to advance development.
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Xona Space (CDL'21) has announce $250M in Series D funding at a $2.45B valuation, bringing the total capital raised to more than $570M.

Xona is building Pulsar, a commercial satellite navigation constellation in Low Earth Orbit. #BuildSomethingMassive
xonaspace.com/news/series-d

AI infrastructure company Tenstorrent (CDL'17) has closed $1.5B USD ($2.1B CAD) in Series E funding to fuel its global expansion plans.
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Today at the first Session of the 2026/27 CDL Cancer program, CDL announced that The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation @thePMCF, on behalf of @pmcancercentre, has joined CDL Cancer as its Global Cancer Research Advisory Partner.

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SereNeuro Therapeutics (CDL'25), a company developing non-opioid therapies for pain has close a pre-seed round. Its lead program SN101 is an off-the-shelf therapy made from purified human pain-sensing neurons derived from induced pluripotent stem cells.
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CDL Reading Group member, Associate Professor Avery Slater of the University of Toronto discusses the novel "1984" by George Orwell and its timely theme. @UofTEnglish @CodeZebra @SuthaKamal @betsymas
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In 2019, Felix Baldauf-Lenschen joined Creative Destruction Lab with little more than just a hypothesis. Today, Altis Labs is developing AI-based endpoints for cancer clinical trials and has raised US$25M in Series A financing.
creativedestructionlab.com/blog/altis-lab…

Elle MD (CDL'24) has raised $1.1M to develop a non-hormonal, easily removable birth control ring.
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Planetary infrastructure company Pixxel (CDL'20), announced the close of its $100M Series C funding round.
pixxel.space/news/pixxel-ra…

ZuriQ (CDL'25) has raised $25.5M in seed funding to scale its trapped-ion quantum processors.
globenewswire.com/news-release/2…

Feathery (CDL'25), an AI operating and decisioning system for financial services, raised $30M in total funding, including its recently completed Series A.
feathery.io/blog/feathery-…

Announced today, @LaurentianU will receive research funding of up to $1M over two years to advance the Canadian Digital Core Library, a national initiative to digitize Canada's geological record and make it openly available through an AI-ready platform.
creativedestructionlab.com/blog/laurentia…

Creative Destruction Lab has been named one of America’s Best Incubators & Accelerators 2026 by @TIME and Statista, ranking #15 in the U.S. and #1 in Washington! time.com/article/2026/0…

Alchemity (CDL'26) has announced the successful close of a Seed Financing round to support demonstration of a single step, liquid fuel production reactor system with zero CO2 emissions.
alchemity.com/news/seed-fina…

DISA (CDL'21) has entered a definitive agreement to acquire IsoEnergy Ltd.'s Utah uranium portfolio and secured commitments for a $105M USD private placement, launching DISA Uranium to recover and produce uranium.
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Multiverse Computing (CDL'20) announced a $570M USD Series C funding round at a $1.7B pre-money valuation.

Multiverse's platform CompactifAI, is a compression technology that applies tensor networks to the problem of AI model compression.
multiversecomputing.com/resources/mult…

Quantum hardware company Qubic (CDL'22) has raised $2.5M USD in seed funding to commercialize its signal amplifiers, which boost the signals from qubits used in quantum computing. #BuildSomethingMassive
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NewOrbit Space (CDL'22), a startup developing satellites for very low Earth orbit, has raised $18.5M in a Series A round. NewOrbit plans to provide commercial service beginning with its first flight in 2028 from an altitude of 250 to 300km.
spacenews.com/uk-startup-new…

Lunar Outpost (CDL'22) has raised $30M in Series B funding to scale production of its lunar robotics and mobility systems that would be required for a permanent human presence in space.
lunaroutpost.com/post/lunar-out…