Our Progress
August, 2018
Idea conceived from a Hacking Health Event in St. John's, NL
October, 2018
Team members introduced.
February, 2019
First feedback from industry that our extraction process is possible.
March, 2019
First sale! Invoice written for 100mg of atorvastatin for $50.00.
July, 2019
Dr. Hitesh Viedya joins as Co-Founder. Research continues.
September- November, 2019
Contact over 50 pharmaceutical industry representatives. Including one of the worlds largest active ingredient manufactures in India.
April 2020
Full time laboratory researcher hired.
July 2020
Full time research and development analyst hired.
July 2020
July 2020
Extraction team achieves 99.98% extraction purity from targeted medication.
October 2020
UnBound Chemicals is accepted into Creative Destructive Labs, a nonprofit organization that delivers an objectives-based program for massively scalable, seed-stage, science-based companies
April 2021
UnBound Chemicals is one of six graduates from Creative Destructive Lab- Atlantic Cohort.
April 2021
UnBound Chemicals begins trials with pharmaceutical industry.
October 2021
Industry partner uses our process to identify $4 million worth of material and from custom synthesis project.
September 2018
Team enters Genesis Evolution, a startup validation program held by the Genesis Centre.
January, 2019
Proof of concept research begins in advance of laboratory work.
February, 2019
Team wins First Place in St. John's Hacking Health Hackaton by developing Artificial Intelligence based pill recognition software. The solution would become the catalyst for medication recycling program.
March 2019
Team wins First Place in Mel Woodward Cup, a pitch competition held by Genesis Centre and Memorial University.
September, 2019
Team members enter Memorial University Entrepreneurship Internship, focus on market validation.
March, 2020
UnBound Chemicals accepted into award winning Genesis Enterprise incubation program.
July 2020
Began recruiting pharmacies for research.
July 2020
Pitched at START2020, a pitch competition for Atlantic Canada bioresource companies.
September 2020
CBC News article gets national audience: LINK
January 2021
Company fully pivots to recovering pharmaceutical R&D and production waste, rather than post consumer waste.
April 2021
The company enters CleanTech Accelerator Ecofuel (by Cycle Capita), based in Montreal, Quebec.
May 2021
UnBound begins the recruitment of its second Board of Advisors.
We are currently seeking an expert in the field of Pharmaceutical Supply Chain and Procurement.
November 2021
Generation of dark reaction dataset begins.
So too does the development of ML models.