Lab2Market Launch Program 2026 for Students in Canada ($10,000 stipend) – YOA

Deadline: September 26, 2025

Applications are open for the Lab2Market Launch Program 2026. Lab2Market Launch is a transformative 4-month program designed to assist entrepreneurial college students and analysis groups flip modern concepts into scalable expertise-based mostly ventures. Tailored for bold people able to kind, construct, and develop their companies, this system combines native innovation hub help with the credibility and assets of the nationwide Lab2Market community.

Lab2Market Launch empowers members with the instruments, help, and confidence to show their imaginative and prescient into actuality. Join a collaborative community devoted to fostering your progress and success.

Benefits

• Expert Guidance: Benefit from tailor-made just-in-time instruction, mentorship, and training from seasoned entrepreneurs, business consultants, and a simulated board of administrators.
• Financial Support: Access $10,000 in stipends for gratis to members.
• Practical Skills and Validation: Refine your enterprise mannequin by way of workshops, all whereas gaining actionable insights to speed up your enterprise.
• Showcase and Networking Opportunities: Pitch your enterprise to key ecosystem stakeholders and depart with a validated enterprise case prepared for funding alternatives.
• Supportive Ecosystem: Collaborate with a Canada-wide community of skilled entrepreneurs, business leaders, and researchers devoted to serving to you construct and develop your enterprise.

Eligibility

Lab2Market Launch is designed for college students, researchers, and up to date graduates with analysis-based mostly ventures able to discover their business potential. The program operates nationwide by way of a community of seven regional and nationwide hubs, serving numerous disciplines.

Eligibility Requirements:

• Team Composition: Each staff should embrace:
  • A present graduate pupil (Masters or PhD), postdoctoral fellow (inside 5 years of commencement), or a current graduate inside two years of finishing their educational program in Canada.
    Note: College college students are eligible.
  • A college supervisor.
• Market Validation: Teams ought to have performed substantial major market analysis, together with at the very least 50 buyer discovery interviews, and be capable of reveal the market OPPORTUNITY for their expertise with supporting proof.
• Funding & Time Commitment: The program is partially funded by way of the Mitacs Business Strategy Internship (BSI) program. Participants should:
  • Meet Mitacs eligibility necessities.
  • Commit full-time (30+ hours per week) to qualify for the stipend.

Application

The application deadline for the Lab2Market Launch Program is September 26, 2025.

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For extra info, go to Lab2Market Launch Program.