What does Creative Destruction Lab invest in?
Creative Destruction Lab invests most often at Venture and Seed (62% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Genai, Data Science and Big Data.

Canada · Investor
Last cheque observed Sep 2026; 427 cheques on record.
Deploying nowAccelerator
65 cheques in the last 12 months
Mostly Venture and Seed: 62% of its rounds
Sole investor in 48 rounds, median $999K
Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a nonprofit organization that delivers an objectives-based program for massively scalable, seed-stage, science- and technology-based companies.From their own website
Every round we can evidence, newest first427 appearances
53 rounds
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Creative Destruction Lab invests most often at Venture and Seed (62% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Genai, Data Science and Big Data.
427 investments on record, 65 of them in the last 12 months. The most recent was in Sept 2026.
Its most recent investments on record: Axya (Series A, Sept 2026), Altis Labs (Series A, Sept 2026) and Lucent BioSciences (Grant, Sept 2026).
The median round it joins is $3.0M.
Rarely, if at all: none of its 427 investments on record names it as the lead.
Most of the companies it backs are in Canada (56%), the United States (23%) and the United Kingdom (5%).
Yes: it is actively investing, with 65 investments in the last 12 months.
Most often Y Combinator (33 rounds together), BDC Capital (32 rounds together) and Techstars (30 rounds together).
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