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Women Founders Lead the Way at Harvard

While women entrepreneurs, particularly women of color, face unique challenges with regard to financing, they are nevertheless transforming industries by pursuing bold ideas and solving real customer problems.

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 […]

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

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

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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 […]

Harvard Innovation Labs Launches Virtual Venture Program for Summer Cohort

The Harvard Innovation Labs is thrilled to welcome more than 250 teams to the Harvard Innovation Labs Summer Venture Program. “This summer, our team is more committed than ever to engaging with student innovators from across the University who share a passion for making the world a better place,” said Matt Segneri, Bruce and Bridgitt […]

Introducing the Winners of the 2020 Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge

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$510,000 in Bertarelli Foundation prizes awarded to ventures across industries during virtual awards ceremony presented by the Harvard Innovation Labs

Harvard Innovation Labs Announces 2020 President’s Innovation Challenge Finalists and Unique Virtual Awards Ceremony

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Today, the Harvard Innovation Labs announced the 25 finalists for the 2020 President’s Innovation Challenge, an annual competition that calls on the Harvard community to work on compelling solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems.    “In a given year, the teams competing in the President’s Innovation Challenge represent the extraordinary talent that exists […]

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 […]