Seven start-up ventures founded by faculty of medicine community members have joined the 49th cohort of UBC’s Venture Founder program to help build solutions for some of the world’s most persistent challenges in areas such as healthcare, AI and biotechnologies.
The program, which is part of Innovation UBC, supports UBC’s community of students, staff, faculty and researchers whose ideas and scientific breakthroughs are set to transform industries and create lasting global impact.
UBC Medicine-affiliated ventures
Stream 1
Focus: Ventures disrupting existing industries or systems
2nd Reviewer
Automating systematic reviews for researchers to accelerate evidence-based discoveries worldwide
UBC affiliation: Faculty of Medicine
Founding Team: Spencer Anderson
eSense
An interactive, evidence-based tool for women struggling with sexual difficulties.
UBC affiliation: Faculty of Medicine
Founding Team: Lori Brotto, Elayne Wandler, Kyle Stephenson
Leap
Motivating and guiding ambitious individuals to achieve their goals.
UBC affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, Sauder School of Business, Faculty of Science
Founding Team: Filip Herle, Stash Currie, Victoria Zhou, Sabrina Ellis-Liu
Stomp Loyalty
Retail businesses face churn from customers who don’t interact with their loyalty programs.
UBC affiliation: Faculty of Medicine
Founding Team: Sarthak Garg
Vastis
Building a service that supports fitness and wellness spaces by integrating healthcare practitioners.
UBC affiliation: Faculty of Medicine
Founding Team: Lynda Li
Stream 2
Focus: Translating deep technical innovations into commercial applications
Nanoscopy AI
Molecular architecture by SuperResNET to support drug discovery and personalized medicine.
UBC affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Applied Science
Founding Team: Robert Nabi, Ben Cardoen, Timothy Wong, Ghassan Hamarneh, Lydia Li
PhaseLab
Providing robust control to spin systems for error reduction for MRI machines and Quantum Computing.
UBC affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Science
Founding Team: Christina Graf, Alex Rauscher, Alexander Jaffray