Starting your Venture Founder Journey: Info Session and Q&A
Are you thinking about translating your research into a product or service for societal impact? Innovation UBC supports UBC's community of students, staff, faculty and researchers who want to develop transformative solutions to solve global problems.
Join us October 17 for an online info session to discover Venture Founder, what it offers, who it’s for, and how it can help drive your ideas into impact through company building. You’ll also have the chance to ask your questions directly to our team!
During the info session, you can expect to:
Get an inside look at our flagship Venture Founder program, its structure, process, and benefits.
Hear directly from Venture Founder Leads, Lynn Kulli and Angela Hamilton, and have the chance to ask your questions live.
About Venture Founder
Venture Founder is our 16-week flagship program that equips aspiring UBC founders with a business skillset, connecting them with highly skilled mentors and community to support their start-up-building process.
Applications for our Spring 2026 Venture Founder cohort now open! Apply by October 27, 2025.
Who is it for?
Venture Founder is for UBC students, staff, faculty and researchers interested in taking the next step in their venture building journey. The key applicant and co-founder must be an existing UBC student, staff, or faculty member.
Where is it located?
This info session session is being held online via Zoom. Find the link in your confirmation email.
About Innovation UBC
Innovation UBC works with UBC’s researchers to support and accelerate the translation of their research into real world impacts. Through research partnerships, technology transfer, and venture building services, UBC researchers have access to a robust ecosystem of services and support to strengthen their translation opportunities. Our successful history of translation and commercialization has led to the creation of 275 spin-off companies, establishing over 500 active licensing agreements, and enabling thousands of research partnerships each year with industry, government, and non-profit organizations. We support $190M+ annually in sponsored research activities (which is more than 80% of provincial sponsored research funding). UBC licensed technologies have attracted over $8.4 billion in investment capital and generated over $13 billion in revenues. 91% of UBC spin-off companies remain in Canada, 88% in BC.
Our mission is to help create impact from UBC’s breakthrough research to generate social, health, environmental and economic benefits.