Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)

Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a nonprofit organization that delivers an objectives-based program for massively scalable, seed-stage, science- and technology-based companies. CDL is a global startup program for seed-stage, science-based companies. The program employs an objectives-based mentoring process by a selected group of accomplished entrepreneurs, angel investors, economists, and scientists. Founded at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto in 2012, CDL now operates five sites in Canada, three in the United States, four in Europe, and one in Australia.