

Conestoga Venture Lab: Open House (Waterloo Campus)
Come see what's happening inside Venture Lab and Venture Lab for Tech at Conestoga College's Waterloo Campus.
This open house is your chance to get a firsthand look at the space, meet the team behind the Conestoga Entrepreneurship Collective's Venture Lab programs, and learn how the Lab supports founders at every stage of their journey.
Whether you're a student with an idea you've been sitting on, an alumni already building a startup, or simply curious about what entrepreneurship looks like at Conestoga, you'll have the opportunity to ask questions, explore the resources available to you, and connect with others who are navigating the same path.
Come with questions, come with curiosity, and see if this might be the right environment to help move your ideas forward.
What Is the Venture Lab?
The Venture Lab is a business incubator designed specifically for Conestoga students and grads with a business idea.
Participants accepted into our Phase 1: Discovery + Validation Cohort gain a better understanding of where their business idea stands in comparison to the market; talk to customers and validate their hypotheses; create a high-fidelity POC; test and measure their solution with customers; and gain the confidence to build, pivot or scrap their idea based on these data-driven insights.
We offer three Venture Lab programs tailored to your idea: