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CDL Space Stream Meets in Paris, Will Expand to Oxford

CDL Insights chat with Chris Hadfield, Firouz M. Naderi, Anousheh Ansari and Dante Lauretta

The Creative Destruction Lab's (CDL) newly globalized Space Stream has now officially started meeting outside North America, having just concluded a two-day session in Paris at the HEC Paris business school. It’s also been confirmed that they’ll be expanding to Oxford next fall, with CDL founder Ajay Agrawal commenting on HEC’s students and the Oxford expansion. This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? …

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Aird & Berlis Forms Canadian Space Tech Law Group

Aird & Berlis Space Tech Law Group

Toronto Law firm Aird & Berlis LLP has created a new space-focused task force. The Toronto corporate law firm has been practicing for over a hundred years, developing a strong reputation in the corporate finance space. It has even recently seen a senior partner, Angela Swan, receive the Order of Canada.

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CDL graduates new space stream with Canadian representation

CDL Insights chat with Chris Hadfield, Firouz M. Naderi, Anousheh Ansari and Dante Lauretta

The Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) has been successful and growing. CDL is an accelerator program whose unique approach is to take in a wide variety of startup ventures, expose them to sectoral mentors, and slowly eliminate them until a few top-flight companies remain. They started in Toronto, but now have branches across the United States and Europe, showing growing appetites for the opportunity to compete …

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Creative Destruction Lab graduates nine companies in its 2020-21 space stream

CDL Insights chat with Chris Hadfield, Firouz M. Naderi, Anousheh Ansari and Dante Lauretta

The Toronto based Creative Destruction Lab Space Stream has graduated nine of 21 companies that participated in its third cohort session. Of note, of the 20 companies originally selected, none were Canadian. This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. Fact-driven space news, columns, business, policy, technology and more. Support independent journalism. SUBSCRIBE TODAY

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Creative Destruction Lab space stream graduates four Canadian startups

Edgehog technologies has developed dio-inspired, nanotextured, anti-reflection glass for high performance solar panels and is a graduate of the CDL space stream

The second year of the Creative Destruction Lab's (CDL) space stream concluded with a virtual graduation of 12 companies of the original 26 that were selected. Four Canadian companies graduated while a fifth didn't. That fifth company did manage to rebound and tell us their story. This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. Fact-driven space news, columns, business, policy, technology and …

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Questions Raised After Bankruptcy of CDL Graduate PTScientists

CDL Insights chat with Chris Hadfield, Firouz M. Naderi, Anousheh Ansari and Dante Lauretta

This past summer SpaceQ wrote about the successful graduates of the first cohort for the Creative Destruction Lab's (CDL) new Space Stream. While some companies were more satisfied with the process than others, all the companies interviewed believed that they were better off for the CDL process, and that the process had helped make them business-ready. This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? …

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CDL Space Stream Makes the Grade, but There is Room for Improvement

Richard Lachance and Yotam Ariel (left) of Bluefield Technologies discuss their business with Chris Hadfield (right)

A few weeks ago the Creative Destruction Lab’s (CDL) inaugural space stream had their first “super session”, where teams that had successfully made it through the competitive CDL process presented their technologies, people, and business model to the entire CDL business network, including Fellows, Associates, venture capitalists, scientists, and many others.  This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. Fact-driven space news, …

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