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Women-Led Wednesdays: Black Founders’ Voices and Perspectives

Adrian Gill and Lex Schroeder

This month, we’re celebrating Black History Month by featuring Black women founders’ voices and perspectives. Read on for short interviews with founders at all stages of the entrepreneurial process. We will continue to update this edition of #womenledwednesdays throughout February.

Introducing the Harvard Innovation Labs 2021 Spring Venture Program Cohort

Staff

Today, the Harvard Innovation Labs announced that more than 420 ventures are joining the 2021 Spring Venture Program. “Last spring, soon after welcoming hundreds of students to the Harvard Innovation Labs at our in-person Venture Program orientation, we transitioned to entirely virtual programming,” said Matt Segneri, Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Executive Director of the Harvard […]

Harvard Innovation Labs: 2020 Year in Review

Since the Harvard Innovation Labs opened its doors in 2011, we’ve brought together thousands of students, alumni, and faculty from across disciplines to learn from each other, and work on solutions to some of the world’s most challenging problems. During a year that has been defined by some of the greatest challenges we’ve ever faced, […]

Harvard Innovation Labs Kicks Off 10th Annual President’s Innovation Challenge

The Harvard Innovation Labs today kicked off the 10th Annual President’s Innovation Challenge, a competition designed to bring together the Harvard community to work on compelling solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems. For the 2021 Challenge, winning teams will receive $510,000 in prizes, made possible by a generous gift from the Bertarelli Foundation, co-founded by Ernesto Bertarelli (MBA ’93).  “As we kick […]

Harvard Innovation Labs Announces 22 Alumni-Led Ventures in 2020 Launch Lab X GEO Cohort

Today, the Harvard Innovation Labs announced that it has accepted 22 startups into the Launch Lab X GEO (LLX GEO) accelerator, a nine-month program designed to bring together Harvard alumni-led ventures from around the world and help them build sustainable, disruptive businesses with real-world impact. “From making surgery safer for patients and healthcare providers, to turning restaurants into micro grocery stores, all of the ventures participating in this year’s Launch Lab X […]

Women-Led Wednesdays: Surfing the Highs and Lows of Entrepreneurship

Lex Schroeder, Senior Writer

Here, we chat with more women founders across the Harvard Innovation Labs about how they are navigating a global pandemic and what challenges and surprises them about entrepreneurship.

Harvard Innovation Labs Introduces Fall 2020 Venture Program Cohort

The Harvard Innovation Labs welcomed more than 250 ventures into the initial Fall Venture Program cohort in September. For the first time this year, the Harvard Innovation Labs offered a second applicant deadline for the Fall Venture Program, and had 130 additional teams join the Program in October.  In total, 394 teams have joined the […]

Looking Ahead to Fall 2020 & Beyond

Matt Segneri

Dear Harvard Innovation Labs community, What does the world need right now? What has it always needed more of? How can we stay socially connected while physically distanced? How might the Harvard Innovation Labs community work to address the world’s most complex challenges and serve the greater good? What does it mean to be a […]

Harvard Innovation Labs Announces Recipients of $900,000 in Capital from Allston Venture Fund and Social Impact Fellowship Fund

Staff

The Harvard Innovation Labs today announced that 25 ventures received $900,000 in capital from the Allston Venture Fund and Social Impact Fellowship Fund during the 2019-2020 academic year.   “We’re constantly exploring ways to more effectively nurture innovators from across the University, and one resource that students consistently need is capital to support ventures at their earliest stages,” said Matt Segneri, Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Executive Director of the Harvard Innovation Labs. “Thanks to the […]

Women-Led Wednesdays: Equity and Justice in Venture Creation

Lex Schroeder, Senior Writer

We've continued to have conversations with women founders, this time about their core values and their perspectives on equity and justice.