Mila Entrepreneurship Lab

Fostering the growth of artificial intelligence (AI) startups.

Logo of the elab with a picture of some participants of the entrepreneurship lab during pitch day

Cultivating Innovation

Mila's community of over 1200 members is committed to scientific excellence and innovation. The core mission of our Entrepreneurship Lab (eLab) is to develop their sense of entrepreneurship and support the growth of their business projects at any stage of development.

Targeted Support in Synergy with the Ecosystem

Mila's eLab encourages the growth of the entrepreneurial spirit of its community, accompanies several student-entrepreneurs annually, and contributes to the creation of startups from within the community.

Training Workshops

In collaboration with our allies, we aim to empower entrepreneurs through workshops designed to enhance their skills and foster growth.

Office Hours with Experts

Our entrepreneurs have access to exclusive sessions with our allies to benefit from expert advice.

Personalized Support

eLab participants receive personalized assistance to meet their unique needs.

Our Allies

The eLab collaborates with key organizations, such as accelerators, investment funds and service providers. These allies are selected for their alignment with Mila's values, their availability to our community and the added value they bring to our entrepreneurs' careers.

Unlocking the full potential of AI

What is a Mila Startup?

Mila Startups are founded by members of the Mila community and selected based on their scientific excellence and commitment to the responsible use of AI.

Mila Startups Benefits
  • Funding — Access to various compute credits and scholarships
  • Talent  — Access to Mila's community of qualified students through partner status
  • Workspace - Exclusive access to a shared workspace
  • Community — Support from Mila's applied AI experts, and mentoring opportunities

Startup Spotlight

Picture of Alexandre Duval and Victor Schmidt, along with Mathieu Galtier

Entalpic

Founded by two Mila researchers and a former executive from Owkin, Entalpic is an AI-driven startup dedicated to accelerating materials discovery to promote greener and more efficient industrial processes.

A Dreamfold employee working at his computer

Dreamfold

Founded by a team of Mila students and researchers, Dreamfold is a pioneering protein design startup at the intersection of health research and innovation. 

The Mila Startups

Montreal

Aeroport AI

Xuan Li
Aeroport AI reduces aircraft preparation time and flight delays by using computer vision and deep learning to monitor and analyze aircraft ground handling in real-time and provide delay alerts and predictions to optimize apron operations.
Montreal

AwakeAI Inc.

Benjamin Akera
AwakeAI Inc. is a Montreal-based health tech provider revolutionizing senior care management with a fully autonomous end-to-end machine learning solution.
Montreal

CertKor

Lionel Tidjon
CertKOR AI is a Quebec startup that provides RAIAAS (Responsible AI As A Service) solutions for compliance/quality management, automatic repair and 360° monitoring of enterprise-wide AI applications using trust metrics following ethical standards.
Addis Ababa

Chapa

Israel Goytom
Chapa is an Ethiopian financial service and data engineering company. It helps merchants and entrepreneurs accept payments online and offline and access loans without any troubles right from the same platform.
Toronto + Montreal

Dekki

Marawan Gamal
Dekki makes AI models of human memory, predicting when students forget information to improve long-term retention and learning.
Montreal

DreamFold

Maksym Korablyov
DreamFold is developing generative machine learning algorithms to navigate the vast space of proteins to discover medicines. We work at the intersection of machine learning, molecular simulation, and synthetic biology. Founded by researchers from Yoshua Bengio’s lab, as well as Michael Bronstein, a professor of AI at the University of Oxford, our goal is to save millions of patients left without a cure.
Montreal

Driad AI

Axel Bogos, Xavier Morin and Christophe Gallant
Driad AI is building novel multimodal deep learning and remote-sensing data analysis tools to redefine forest monitoring, forest inventories and land restoration at every spatial scale level. Its mission is to valorize wooded areas and promote sustainable forestry by providing comprehensive granular insights such as wooded volume, carbon sequestration and insect and diseases detection in an efficient and accessible manner.
France

Entalpic

Victor Schmidt
Entalpic is an AI company dedicated to accelerating materials research for a fair ecological transition. Our team develops a machine learning platform to discover new catalysts that optimize chemical reactions, significantly reducing CO2 emissions and making a substantial impact on the environment.
Montreal

ExplorAI

Rémi Dion
ExplorAI lowers the barrier to entry for SMEs to leverage their data and machine learning applications for their operations and products.
Montréal

Hiotto AI

Yuchen Lu
Hiotto AI provides conversational systems for tourism partners to enhance visitor engagement and satisfaction. Additionally, Hiotto AI provides visualized conversation data analysis, allowing partners to extract valuable insights from large volumes of multilingual conversation data, aiding in operational improvements. Our mission is to effectively promote local culture, history, and heritage through AI-powered interactions with tourists.
Austin, USA

Jumpcut AI

Étienne Denis
Jumpcut.ai's mission is to make editing video as intuitive and efficient as editing text.
Montreal

Korbit Technologies

Iulian Serban
Korbit Technologies develops an AI-powered teacher that is highly effective, costs nothing to deliver, and is infinitely scalable to transform learning for 8 billion people to solve the significant talent shortage in tech.
New York

Lamarck Labs

Blake Richards, Guillaume Lajoie
Lamarck Labs builds foundation model based on Neural Data to accelerate diagnostics and bring next-gen Brain Computer Interface.
Montréal

Local Energy

Simon Dufort-Labbé
Local Energy is transforming the way industries and communities collaborate and consume energy. Our platform designs and operates energy grids, creating local energy markets that reduce emissions and lower energy consumption. By enabling peer-to-peer energy trading, we empower participants to access affordable renewable energy and monetize their energy assets, driving a sustainable future. We are on a mission to unlock access to tomorrow's energy networks.
Montreal

Neural Drive

Marco Bonizzato
NeuralDrive is a precision neuromodulation medicine company leveraging AI to develop a new generation of neural interfaces. It has established a revolutionary technology for movement recovery after spinal cord injury, based on intracortical microstimulation, and now aims at clinical trials.
Toronto

Overmind

Aditya Joshi
Overmind is an AI-native, collaborative data science editor. We're building tools to make computation accessible and intuitive.
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Montreal

PerceivAI

Christian Danserau
Perceiv.ai is an AI-driven precision medicine company developing a multimodal prognostic platform to forecast disease progression in age-related disorders. Our forecasts provide new tools to physicians for improved patient care and to pharmaceutical companies for faster drug development. Our current applications are in Alzheimer's disease.
Montréal

Phantasi AI

Roberto Salamanca-Giron
Phantasi AI is building personalized and non-invasive neuroprosthetics tailored to patient's medical data by means of AI algorithms that ensure an optimal, adaptive and accelerated rehabilitation after a neural lesion (e.g. stroke, cerebral palsy, spinal cord injury, etc.). We thus leverage neurodiversity to unlock the full potential of recovery in an individual, whether in clinics or at home, prioritizing our systems’ affordability and accessibility.
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Montreal

Rubisco AI

Arthur Ouaknine, Etienne Laliberté
Rubisco AI's mission is to allow anyone to easily map all trees in their forests, determine their species, and measure the carbon they contain. We do so by providing artificial intelligence and computer vision tools that translate drone imagery into accurate tree-level carbon and biodiversity metrics. We believe that better monitoring of forests can help to improve their restoration, conservation, and management, which is important in our fight against climate change and biodiversity loss.
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Toronto

SilicoLabs

Benjamin Alsbury-Nealy, Kyla Alsbury-Nealy
SilicoLabs creates tools that empower anyone to create virtual and real-world interactive experiences that humans and AI can engage with while capturing high-fidelity behavioural data. This innovative approach bridges the gap between psychology/neuroscience and AI research to ensure that AI is aligned with human values and capabilities.
Montreal

Spheroid AI

Sal Elkafrawy
We offer a virtual medical assistant that uses genetic and metabolic information from blood samples to predict the early development of ovarian cancer. The prototype integrates an artificial intelligence algorithm that accurately predicts whether a genetic dataset comes from a cancer patient. This solution will assist oncologists in providing optimized treatments.
Montreal

Sportboost

Selim Gilon and Yassine Kassis
SportBoost AI democratizes access to cutting-edge sports data through the power of computer vision. Its variety of solutions provides athletes and teams with accessible tools to measure, analyze and improve their performance.
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Montreal + Tuebingen, Germany

Tiptree

Martin Weiss and Nasim Rahaman
We build AI research assistants to help you make better decisions. Our mission is to modernize the way people buy and sell information.
Québec City

Tracel AI

Nathaniel Simard
Tracel is building a deep learning framework and an ML ops platform for researchers and engineers. It provides them with the most flexible, efficient and reliable tools, leveraging the Rust programming language, to bring their ideas to life.
Montreal

Ubenwa

Charles Onu
Ubenwa is solving communication with infants pre-speech, enabling parents and physicians to discover neurological insights and physical needs solely from cry sound analysis.
Toronto

Vivid Machines

Jonathan Binas
Vivid Machines is using computer vision technology to help fruit farmers optimize yield and quality.
New York

Wscripted

Laura Suarez
Wscripted accelerate story discovery in Film, TV and Publishing. Wscripted disrupts story discovery in entertainment, publishing and beyond. Wscripted's AI literary assistant helps professionals review scripts and books 90% faster, letting them reclaim precious time to source great and diverse stories.
Montreal + San Francisco

Zette AI

Mohammad Reza Samsami
Zette AI is developing an intelligent newsfeed platform that provides users with access to premium, fact-checked content. By combining AI with high-quality, premium news sources, Zette AI aims to curate a personalized, trustworthy, and insightful news experience for each reader.
They took part in the program
Alpaca (Nicole Fitzgerald et William Buchwalter)
Apex (Simone Totaro and Manuel Del Verme)
Buzzle (Bhairav Mehta)
Eureka (Enning Yang)
Gradients (Marc-Antoine Beaudoin)
Lyrebird (Kundan Kumar)
Oogway (Brady Neal, Aniket Malvankar and Federico Campeotto)
Raiv Computers (Parikshat Sirpal, Julien Rimok and Michael Phelan)
Ruse (Philippe Beardsell and Marc-Antoine Provost)
Stitch AI (Kellin Pelrine)
Unser Dialog (Julia Kaltenborn)
Photo of Gabrielle Hurtubise-Radet.

Mila's student community is among the best positioned in the industry to develop innovative AI application ideas. Our role is to help them maximize the entrepreneurial potential of their project.

Gabrielle Hurtubise-Radet, Principal Manager, Startup Program, Mila

Annual Impact of the eLab

+30

Events

More than 30 events of mentoring, workshops and other activities to develop the entrepreneurial spirit of our researchers.

+200

Supported Entrepreneurs

More than 200 entrepreneurs from our community benefiting from personalized support.

+$70

Million Dollars

Mila Startups raised over $52M dollars since their inception.

+30

Allied Organizations

More than 30 collaborating organizations offer their expertise, mentoring and know-how to our entrepreneurs.

+160

Jobs created

More than 160 jobs created since the beginning of the entrepreneurship lab.

Photo of Marco Bonizzato.

Mila’s Entrepreneurship Lab gives us the opportunity to meet fellow entrepreneurs at the same stage of development and network with other stakeholders in the entrepreneurial system that could be potential investors.

Marco Bonizzato, Chief Technology Officer, Neural Drive and Former Mila Postdoc

Do you have a project in mind, or would you like to learn more about our programs?


Please note that the Entrepreneurship Lab only supports entrepreneurial projects originating from Mila's scientific community.