

InfoSession: Lab2Market Validate Program
Are you a researcher or graduate student curious about how your innovation can make an impact beyond the lab? Join YSpace for an Info Session on the Lab2Market (L2M) Validate program — where you’ll learn how to take your research out of the lab and into the real world.
🚀 What to Expect:
This information session will walk you through the L2M Validate program, including:
Who it's for
What to expect during the program
How the $10K in funding can support your validation journey
Application tips and key deadlines
Whether you're ready to apply or just exploring your options, this is a great chance to get your questions answered and see if L2M Validate is the right fit for your research journey.
About Lab2Market Validate
The Lab2Market Validate program is a four-month program that provides research teams, consisting of a graduate student and their faculty supervisor, with the opportunity to evaluate the commercial potential of their technology through a structured, data-driven market research process with $10,000 in funding to support the journey.
As an academic partner, YSpace, a division of the Office of Research and Innovation at York University, will deliver the Ontario cohort of the Lab2Market Validate program in partnership with Lab2Market, a national initiative that helps brilliant minds in graduate programs and postdoctoral programs reimagine their futures.
About YSpace
YSpace is York University’s pan-university entrepreneurship and innovation hub supporting startups and entrepreneurs from a variety of sectors and communities. Our programming spans across scaling innovative technologies through customer and investor capital to scaling agri-food businesses into mass retail to diversity-focused initiatives like ELLA for women-led businesses and in partnership with Black Entrepreneurship Alliance (BEA) for Black-led businesses. We are also home to two physical hubs in the City of Markham and the Town of Georgina.