When LaunchDal holds its annual summer Demo Day on Wednesday, it will be the latest chapter of Mary Kilfoil’s seven-year mission to launch more startups from Dalhousie University.
LaunchDal is the organization within Dalhousie that mentors early-stage companies, usually with students from the university and often with technology they’ve developed in their time at the Halifax institution. For the last few years, the group has offered a summer program called LaunchPad, in which 10 teams receive $10,000 each to develop their company.
The Demo Day for the 2019 cohort will be held July 31 at