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Celebrating AAPI Entrepreneurs at Harvard

Harvard Innovation Labs Staff

Announcing the 2023 Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge Winners

Staff

Restoring vision for blind patients, using AI to generate visual assets for creative teams, and providing mentorship and scholarships to minority students pursuing medical degrees, were three of the winning startup initiatives recognized during the Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge Awards Ceremony. More than 2,000 people watched the President’s Innovation Challenge Awards Ceremony on May 3, […]

Accelerating Climate Innovation: Sustainability Venture Teams at the i-lab

Alexandra Stephens

When temperatures soar into the mid-80s in April across New England, some may relish the early sense of summer, but entrepreneurs working to address climate change hunker down.  In celebration of Earth Day, the Harvard Innovation Labs caught up with two recent winners of the President’s Innovation Challenge Ingenuity Award, which celebrates high-potential ideas and […]

Announcing the President’s Innovation Challenge Finalists

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Reimagining how depression is assessed and treated, exploring business applications of generative AI, and developing a novel decarbonization solution, are just a few of the 25 ideas that have been selected as 2023 President’s Innovation Challenge Finalists. The President’s Innovation Challenge (PIC) is an invitation to Harvard students and select alumni to propel their ideas […]

Road to the PIC: Every Step is Sacred

Lindsay Tucker, Senior Writer

While only a fraction of teams advance as finalists in the President's Innovation Challenge, every team benefits from the experience. Three past semifinalists share key learnings from their PIC experience and how their ventures have since evolved, proving that no isn't the end.

Announcing the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab’s 2023 Ventures

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Today, the Harvard Innovation Labs announced the 11 ventures that are based in the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab to start 2023. Located on Harvard’s Allston campus, the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab’s 15,000-square foot facility features a fully-equipped and permitted wet laboratory and collaborative co-working space. As part of the Harvard Innovation Labs ecosystem, ventures have […]

8 Harvard Women Entrepreneurs Share Words to Live By

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Whether it’s creating products and services that intentionally benefit women, make life better for everyone, or transform an industry, women leaders in our i-lab community continue to inspire us. Over the past few years, we’ve interviewed a diverse group of 30+ women founders (students and alumni) from across all 13 Harvard schools. As we celebrate […]

Harvard Innovation Labs Announces 2023 Climate Circle Cohort

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The Harvard Innovation Labs has selected 23 ventures to join the third annual Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle, an incubation program for high-potential ventures working to address climate change. Since launching in 2021, The Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle has incubated more than 65 ventures founded by Harvard students and alumni that are actively uncovering new, unexpected […]

Holding Onto Momentum: Black-Led Venture Teams at the i-lab

Lex Schroeder, Senior Writer and Adrian Gill, Creative Director

I am excited to introduce you to more outstanding Black-led teams in our Harvard Innovation Labs community. But first, a note about Black History Month: Why is Black History Month important? It should go without saying, but it’s our chance to remind each other that Black innovators have been making major contributions to society for […]

Harvard Innovation Labs Announces Record-Setting Student Participation in Spring Programming

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This spring, the Harvard Innovation Labs is welcoming more than 1,300 student innovators and entrepreneurs from across all 13 Harvard schools. Approximately half of these students are working on 674 ventures, while the other half are at the idea stage of their innovation journeys. Today, the Harvard Innovation Labs is also announcing the 134 ventures […]