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Resilient Teams: How Harvard Innovation Labs Ventures Are Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic

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During a time when the world faces unprecedented challenges due to COVID-19, it’s more important than ever to share the stories of the innovators and entrepreneurs who are working tirelessly to keep people healthy and connected to each other.   Many startups in the Harvard Innovation Labs Spring Venture Program are creating products and services that have the potential to reduce the spread of the virus, improve patient care, and create community when in person gatherings are not possible. We’ve also recently seen numerous examples […]

More Than 350 Student-Founded Teams Are Participating in the Harvard Innovation Labs Spring Venture Program

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Last week, hundreds of students from across the Harvard community gathered at the Harvard Innovation Labs for our Spring Venture Program orientation. We couldn’t think of a more fitting way to start the decade than by welcoming our largest spring cohort ever. More than 350 teams are participating in the Spring Venture Program. Students come […]

Harvard Innovation Labs 2019 Year in Review

Jodi Goldstein

Every December, we look back on what some of our current and former ventures have accomplished in the past year. This piece offers an overview of the collective achievements from the Harvard Innovation Labs community in 2019.

Harvard Innovation Labs Opens Applications for 2020 President’s Innovation Challenge

Bringing together students and alumni from every Harvard school, the President’s Innovation Challenge will award record total of $510,000 to winners across six categories

Harvard Innovation Labs Introduces 12 Alumni-Led Ventures for Launch Lab X Startup Accelerator

The Harvard Innovation Labs today announced the 12 ventures selected to participate in the second annual Launch Lab X program, a nine-month startup accelerator for Harvard alumni-led companies. “When designing the Launch Lab X program, we had many conversations with Harvard alumni who were founding companies about the need for a startup accelerator that offered […]

Harvard Innovation Labs Introduces the Allston Venture Fund and Social Impact Fellowship Fund

Collectively, the Allston Venture Fund and Social Impact Fellowship Fund will distribute $7 million in investments and grants to ventures led by Harvard students over the next five years.

Introducing the 176 Teams in the Harvard Innovation Labs Fall Venture Incubation Program

Now that the 2019–2020 academic year is in full swing across all 13 Harvard schools, we’re thrilled to announce the student-founded ventures that will participate in the Harvard Innovation Labs 2019 Fall Venture Incubation Program. Before introducing the teams, we wanted to note a change in how we will support innovators and entrepreneurs this fall. […]

Celebrating Plastic-Free July with the AquaPlastic team

Earth-friendly AquaPlastic does what regular plastic can, but better - and we're proud to say the venture is being incubated right here at the i-lab. In celebration and support of Plastic-Free July (and a healthier planet year-round) we connected with the duo developing a robust, eco-friendly, scalable (and, frankly, brilliant) material that biodegrades not in 500-1,000 years, but a mere two months.

Announcing the Harvard Student Ventures Selected for the Summer Venture Incubation Program

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Read about the Harvard students that will spend this summer moving their innovative ideas and ventures forward as part of the Harvard Innovation Labs Summer Venture Incubation Program (VIP).

Harvard Innovation Labs to Host Inaugural Launch Lab X Startup Showcase

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Event to highlight accomplishments of ventures that graduated from Harvard’s nine-month accelerator for alumni-led startups.