Canada has never had a discovery problem. What’s been missing is the ground in between.
Audacity North is building it. A MedTech and life sciences hub in York Region, founded around an accredited testing laboratory that already works, and designed to grow into the largest of its kind in Canada.
A working lab, not a lease
An ISO/IEC 17025 laboratory, accredited by A2LA, certifying products for companies across Canada and around the world.
Aurora campus
Joint programming from the Schulich School of Business and YSpace at York University begins at Megalab in Aurora.
Whitchurch-Stouffville campus
Construction begins in late 2027 on phase one of a campus designed to expand with demand.
Everything a MedTech founder needs is within an hour’s drive. Almost none of it is connected.
Where the pieces sit today- Lab spaceLeased by the month, in whichever town has a vacancy.
- TestingBooked after the design is frozen, when changes cost the most.
- Clinical accessOne cold introduction at a time.
- Capital and talentSomewhere else, on someone else’s schedule.
Every hand-off costs a company months. Too many finish the work somewhere else. Audacity North puts the pieces on one path.
“I started Skinopathy from my home in Aurora. Most of what we needed was within an hour’s drive, and almost none of it was connected. Audacity North connects it.”Keith Loo, Co-founder
Every stage, from first idea to global market, in one place.
Eight stages on one path, each with the partner who delivers it. A company can join at any stage.
- 01
Ideation
Problem statements from clinicians and industry, and an ecosystem of founders, mentors and partners ready to act on them.
Clinical and industry partners - 02
Validation
Entrepreneurs-in-residence, mentors, venture training and commercialisation cohorts.
Schulich Startups · YSpace - 03
Prototype
Wet and dry lab space to build, break and rebuild.
Aurora and Stouffville labs - 04
Design
Industrial and engineering design partners in our network, with compliance designed in from the start.
Design partners · Megalab - 05
Testing
Accredited EMC, safety, environmental and wireless testing on site.
Megalab - 06
Clinical validation
Pathways into hospitals, clinics and care settings.
Clinical partners - 07
Regulatory
Certification support for Canada, the U.S. and international markets.
Megalab - 08
Scale
Not just your first customer. Your fiftieth. With capital from the venture studio when you’re ready.
Industry · venture studio
Some of this operates today. Some is being built. We always say which.
Seven buildings on the plan. The first breaks ground in 2027.
The concept site plan for Whitchurch-Stouffville, oriented north. Phase one is the first new building. The rest of the plan shows how the campus grows as demand arrives, not before.
What runs today, and what is being built.
- Megalab, Aurora. An ISO/IEC 17025 testing laboratory accredited by A2LA, serving companies across Canada and around the world.
- Testing across disciplines: EMC and EMI, safety, environmental, mechanical, wireless and RF, packaging.
- A venture studio operating inside the founding partnership.
- Founding agreements signed with the Schulich School of Business and YSpace at York University.
- 2027: programming at the Aurora campus, at Megalab.
- About 5,000 sq ft of new wet lab, office and event space, with joint Schulich and YSpace programming.
- About 15,000 sq ft of dry lab across the new building and existing capacity in Aurora.
- Late 2027 to 2028: construction and opening of the first building in Whitchurch-Stouffville.
- The Logan Institute: research funding and lab space for rare disease, a patient registry and a biobank.
Nothing here is described as operating until it is.
Megalab, the Schulich School of Business and YSpace at York University.
Megalab Group
An independent Canadian testing laboratory in Aurora, helping companies from around the world design, test, certify and bring products to market.
Schulich School of Business
Venture training, commercialisation programming and the talent to run growing companies.
YSpace York University
York University’s innovation and entrepreneurship hub, which has helped more than 1,750 startups grow.
Keith Loo
Co-founder and CEO of Skinopathy.
Garry Lee
Founder of Megalab.
Launched with the Town of Aurora and the Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville.
In discussions with hospitals, industry, investors and government. Further partners will be named as agreements are signed.
Whose life does it change?
Logan was born here in York Region with an ultra-rare genetic condition. He is the reason this exists.
The Logan Institute is the charitable research institute at the centre of Audacity North. It will fund research and provide lab space for people studying rare disease, and build a patient registry and a biobank, so that families living with these conditions are counted, studied and reached by research rather than left waiting for it.
Rare diseases are underserved because each one touches few people. That is not neglect. It is arithmetic, and arithmetic does not correct itself.
Nobody here builds medical technology for its own sake. If a company in this building cannot say whose life it changes, it is in the wrong building.
Audacity North announces plans for Canada’s largest MedTech innovation hub
With Megalab, the Schulich School of Business and YSpace (York University): an 86-acre campus in Whitchurch-Stouffville, and programming at the Aurora campus from 2027.
A limited number of founding partner positions remain.Taken up before there is anything to point at. That is what founding means.
Talk to usBuild it with us.
Industry, health systems, investors, municipalities and companies who want to be resident. Tell us who you are and what you would bring. A founder will reply.