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Harvard Innovation Labs Announces Largest-Ever Fall Venture Program Cohort

9/22/2021

This fall, the Harvard Innovation Labs is welcoming 576 ventures into the initial Fall Venture Program cohort.*

“Later this fall will mark ten years since the Harvard Innovation Labs opened its doors, and we are thrilled to celebrate this milestone with the largest group of innovators and entrepreneurs who have ever participated in our fall venture programming,” said Matt Segneri, Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Executive Director of the Harvard Innovation Labs.

He added, “The Fall 2021 Venture Program cohort members are at a variety of stages in their entrepreneurial journeys — from just starting their venture, to developing a product or service, bringing on customers, and growing their teams. Our staff and global network of advisors look forward to providing them with the tailored resources they need to move their ventures forward.”

The Venture Program combines a supportive community with key resources for full-time Harvard students who are actively building an idea into a venture. This fall, the Venture Program will feature a wide range of virtual and in-person offerings, including one-on-one meetings with Harvard Innovation Labs advisors and industry experts from around the world, more than 50 workshops on topics such as building an MVP and understanding your customers, and panels that are both industry- and stage-specific. The Venture Program also features a number of events and spaces for building community, such as social mixers, peer “pitch swaps” where teams share feedback on their pitches, and a dedicated Slack channel where teams can engage with each other and advisors on a range of topics.

Of the 576 teams, the Harvard Innovation Labs selected 160 for the Build It track, designed for students at more advanced stages of building a business around their products and services. 416 ventures are participating in the Start It track, focused on helping students develop their ideas and discover their customers.

Below is the list of 160 ventures in the Build It track. You can learn about all of the 576 ventures in the Harvard Innovation Labs Fall Venture Program here, which will be updated with additional teams in October.

B2B/Enterprise or High Tech

Candelytics: A 3D data analytics and data management startup.

Cardinal LCA: A digital tool for architects that analyzes the environmental impacts of design decisions in the early stages of a project.

Clade Network: Creating a campus marketplace for favors and local forums.

dData: Accurately predicting real-time macro indicators for policy makers and financial data analysts so that they can make better decisions, faster.

DesignSmart Consulting: Creating training and development programs for small and large organizations.

ENABL: Using mentorship and data insights to spread knowledge, increase access to opportunities, and assess how well organizations enable their members.

First90: A platform to build experiential training for new employees — we give companies the tools to help employees practice the skills they need.

Fluna LLC: Unlocking credit for mid-market African companies.

Fork Careers: Advancing individuals to higher wages and more fulfilling careers.

Helthy: Providing real-time recommendations for people with diabetes as they shop for groceries online.

Hue Beauty: A beauty tech platform that helps makeup shoppers find perfect shade matches for their skin tone.

Irys: Providing AI-driven tools that engage communities to bring real-time visibility and data analytics for urban stakeholders.

KRADLE Structural Lifting Systems: Developing and manufacturing innovative, patented technologies to elevate homes and commercial structures for protection against climate change.

Larsen: Facilitating continuous feedback and appreciation between team members to help develop more engaged and better performing teams.

Lit Learning: A fully customizable, input-based digital language learning tool for teachers and students.

Lovage Labs: Building on-demand conversational AI models that automate specific business processes for companies.

Mineral Forecast: Supporting mining exploration teams that are struggling with their data to decide where to put their next drillhole and discover what is underneath.

My Dental Key: An online dental education platform transforming the way students learn dentistry to foster success in class, clinic, and beyond.

MyCode: A coding academy for kids that teaches children as young as five years old the foundations of computer programming.

Pathlight: Building a hiring platform where engineers build their careers in public.

Quorilla: A platform offering live, accessible and customized upskilling from the world’s best brands.

Rimble: A machine learning company that creates and sells real-time predictions for eSports matches to betting companies.

Soft Builder: Providing a no-code application platform to deliver custom solutions for the manufacturing industry in Latin America.

Stochastic: Building AI for making deep learning models smaller, faster and cheaper, enabling enterprises to reduce time-to-production without PhDs.

Stria Labs: Creating a technological ecosystem for blind individuals.

Synses Designs: Providing synthesized 3D printed models perceptible by the sense of touch to improve access to STEM education for students with disabilities.

syrup.tech: Supporting better decision-making for apparel and fashion brands in their inventory decisions using AI/ML wrapped in beautiful software.

Ving.AI: An AI-powered peer-to-peer currency exchange solving the problem of high remittance fees experienced by African migrants.

Consumer Products and Services

All In: A sports community app for isolated superfans.

Anise Health, Inc.: A culturally-informed digital mental health platform for ethnic minorities, starting with the Asian American population.

Ariya Labs: Placing instructional content in the physical world with augmented reality, giving us all a platform to learn by doing.

Ascend Foods Inc. (Keto Kind): Making science-backed products to support metabolic health in patients.

bump: A mobile app that allows users to find small groups for spontaneous hangouts.

CelSell: Providing clothing and accessories from celebrity closets, to the public.

Chord: Making online communities more real, more impactful, and more valuable to their members while saving community leaders hours of work per week.

ChrysCard: A smart wallet that routes all your transactions to the right payment method.

EverActive: Wearables and data analytics for enabling, maintaining and augmenting strength training for overall wellness.

ezVenture Technologies Ltd: A web app for startup founders to build interactive, shareable pitch deck pages.

Fan.Zone: The first online platform allowing an unlimited number of (e)sports fans to meet and evolve in a 3D HD environment with video presence.

Flow: The future of coffee, cold brew optimized to help people think better—no jitters, 2x longer-lasting benefits, promotion of neurogenesis.

Fuddy’s: A collaborative community that connects students around international food and cultural experiences in college towns

Hibiscus Monkey: A director-to-consumer (DTC) venture on a mission to become India’s first body specialist brand that is powered by plants and ancient wellness rituals.

HiHome: The first instant home matching platform, improving search by providing comprehensive criteria and capturing its relative importance.

Jasper Cocktails: Making sophisticated non-alcoholic beverages for the non-drinker and flexi-drinker.

Lasso: A mobile app that makes it easy for users to plan and coordinate social events with their friends.

Link: Enabling individuals to make groups with friends, meet and message new people, and discover nearby events.

MATINET: An online entertainment platform for high performing arts, especially professional dance. Users edit long-form content into mini-movies and share with friends.

MemeBoard: A mobile app that allows users to search and make memes directly from the keyboard without leaving their chat application.

Memoir: A web app where families ask their aging parents and grandparents life story questions and save their answers in short videos.

Mi Lado Místico: An e-commerce store that sells anything that can help you connect with your inner self and “mystic side,” from crystals to books and tarot decks.

MoonPillow: An anti-wrinkle and anti-acne pillow, designed to free your face from pressure during use and packaged with premium pillowcases.

Munayprep: Providing consultation services and mentorship in portfolio preparation for Art and Design schools, and job/ internship applications.

Music Inc.: Collecting music publishing royalties for songwriters and copyright owners, making it easier for music creators to collect all the money they’re owed.

Namy.ai: A domain name generator that’s actually good.

Phu’s Phone Emporium: Buy, selling, and repairing phones and other electronics at an affordable price with a focus on superior customer service, quality work, & integrity.

PredictionStrike, Inc.: A sports stock exchange.

ProDream Education: Improving access to higher education for community college students.

Render: An app for gamers to upload and store saved screen captures, connect with the community, and combine their gaming profiles in one place.

Schmid Wines: Producing and marketing high quality and climate positive wine.

Slated Events: Sending calendar invites over text to make planning easy. Friends can add events to personal calendars without needing an app or visiting a site.

Spencer Jane: A direct-to-consumer pantsuit company.

Spur: A dating app designed to amplify creativity. Make friends and find dates by reacting to people’s profiles with fun effects, songs memes, and so much more!

Stealth Health Tech Company: Helping people find health coaches that meet their needs and accept their insurance.

The Cyclist House: Purchasing premium pre-owned bicycles, inspecting and certifying them, and putting them up for sale for reasonable prices.

The Goods: Waking up the sleepy canned goods aisle with a collection of modern pantry essentials.

The NRI Nation: A news network catering to the Non-Resident Indian (NRI) population worldwide, covering the local and international NRI community.

To Go Kitchens: Disruptive kitchens operating 15+ delivery brands, set in four different locations in Panama City, Panama.

Trove Finance: Providing infrastructure (APIs and Tools) for African Financial Institutions (banks and asset managers) and individuals to invest in global stock markets.

yas: A language learning app that uses AI to create brain-friendly and adaptive learning experiences.

Health and Sciences

Arda: Providing a delivery service for critical medical supplies, using drone fleets which operate within existing healthcare supply chains.

Bemlo: A platform for hiring nurses and doctors quickly.

Blue Ocean Therapeutics: Developing therapeutics and diagnostics for an array of rare diseases.

Clingo: A digital, all-in-one platform for parents who are looking for support during the prenatal and postpartum periods

Darby: Connecting remote clinicians with at-home diagnostic vendors (e.g., mobile x-rays) so that doctors can place at-home test orders.

FIXUS: A system that detects bone fractures and joint instabilities automatically using X-ray and CT scan images.

HealthDeck: A mobile-first platform that makes capturing, understanding, and sharing one’s complete medical history as simple as using Instagram.

Hive Health: Digital health insurance for SMBs in the Philippines, providing simple, affordable, quality health plans through a data science-powered platform.

Kiikter: Creating a low-cost edible gel fortified with key micronutrients to reduce malnutrition anemia.

Kinnos: Highlight technology enhances pathogen decontamination by colorizing disinfectants blue for visibility and fading to show full decontamination.

Kleincise: Introducing automated and on-beat robotic solutions in interventional cardiology.

Limax Biosciences: Recreating nature’s toughest glue to transform treatments for injuries inside and outside the body.

Lime Therapeutics: Eliminating cancer and other diseases by finding novel ways to target lipid metabolism.

MyoExo: Developing a soft wearable system to monitor rigidity caused by Parkinson’s disease, without a clinician, from the comfort of a person’s home.

PACare: Utilizing an app to increase patient adherence and education, reducing readmissions and post-operative complications rate.

Purple Point Neurodiagnostics: Providing neurological (sleep and epilepsy) diagnostics in LMICs.

Shiny: The AI personal assistant for dentists.

Sylphi: A social network created for Gen Z and Millennials to share, discover, and discuss content focused on health and wellness.

TerraFlow: Mapping the immune system and showing scientists which levers to pull in order to re-engage the immune system in fighting cancer.

TVP Health: Aiming to bridge socioeconomic disparities in the medical device market by redesigning devices to be simple and affordable.

Vitally Health: Using several layers of clinical and molecular data to map early diagnosis and digital therapies.

ZircoPlant: Developing innovative technologies enabling clinicians to predictably perform autogenous therapies for dental tissue regeneration.

Social Impact

Afya Pamoja: An SMS patient feedback service to provide performance management data for public healthcare managers in Tanzania to improve service quality.

Ai Am Me: Interactive programs designed to help Asian American youth build the awareness, confidence, and soft skills to break the bamboo ceiling.

Akademi.al: Providing equal access to an excellent education to Albanian-speaking students around the globe.

Almond Finance: Achieving borderless financial inclusion and extending economic opportunity by making interoperability across financial service providers possible.

Belay Securities: Using capital markets to provide rideshare drivers the income security of full-time employment while maintaining the flexibility of gig work.

BUILD NIGERIA INC.: Creating a pathway for low-income and first-generation Nigerian students to study at world-class colleges through our cohort college access program.

Canopy Innovations, Inc.: Eliminating the language barrier in healthcare and improving outcomes for 26 million limited-English-proficient individuals, using solutions beyond interpreters.

Climate & Health Equity Practice Fellowship: Training physicians representing historically marginalized communities in Global South on health effects of climate change, advocacy, and communications.

Code Your Chances: Working to close the gender gap in computer science by introducing young girls (9-14) to the many creative uses coding.

Dear Loneliness: A crowdsourced art exhibit, research study, and COVID-19 archival effort, collecting thousands of letters on loneliness from around the world.

Dear Mémé: A personalized activity subscription service that assists people with dementia and their caregivers through science-backed, customized activity kits.

Debate Spaces: Connecting and empowering middle schoolers worldwide, teaching debate to foster critical thinking, cultural empathy, and civic engagement.

E=MC²: An engaging educational experience platform that accelerates learning by providing differentiated lessons and feedback at scale.

EduCore International: Developing international edu programs to for K-12 students in China as well as developing online brainstorming curriculum in our BrainLab.

Flame Bearers: The Women Athletes Carrying Tokyo’s Torch: Storytelling platform supporting women Olympians and Paralympians.

Flare Education: Providing a workforce development program focused on career development and paid job opportunities for low SES and BIPOC high school students.

Freedom Cups: Providing reusable menstrual products to menstruators. We work on a buy-one, give-one model to also get clean periods to underprivileged women.

Frost Education: An incentive-aligned, online bootcamp that helps deferred/waitlisted students get accepted to their dream universities.

G{Code}: Empowering women and non-binary people of color to gain economic mobility by providing housing, community, and intensive technical training.

Gedit: Providing insights for teachers based on student reactions to lessons and offering recommendations that help inform instruction and class culture.

Generation Girl: A non-profit organization that equips young women in Indonesia with hard and soft skills to become future female leaders through STEM programs.

Global Deeds: Serving social enterprises and public schools in running efficient and socially-responsible administrative pipelines.

Globaletic: A multilingual online educational platform, with products and workshops about International Etiquette, Protocol, and cross-cultural understanding.

GuruX: Allowing teachers to analyze their student’s learning, and communicate easily and effectively with parents and school administration.

Harbor: Using smartphone-based AI to interpret medical imaging and support rule-outs in low-resource settings. It’s a second opinion in your pocket.

Her Land: A podcast that explores how various institutions disadvantage millennial and Gen Z women by exploring eye-catching timely issues.

Herstory Lab: Producing and deploying data-driven and message tested media content countering harmful “disinfo” narratives targeting women and people of color online.

Holistic Wealth LLC: Providing culturally-specific wellness services that inspire community and self-healing.

Hope Storytelling Project: For those suffering from loneliness and loss, we provide poetry workshops, teaching materials, and resources to help participants find community.

International Orchestra of Refugees: Connecting talented refugee musicians with good opportunities to preserve their cultural heritage, find economic prosperity, and boost social integration.

Jamii Life: A platform connecting qualified health workers with people that can’t care for themselves and families that need help.

KadaKareer: A low-bandwidth and community-based career development platform for low-income students in the Philippines.

La Huerta de Elisa: Creating nutritious baby food for children in Mexico by working with local farmers and cold-pressing our products to preserve nutrients.

Leaders Dream Big: Broadening the horizons and maximizing the potential of underserved students through annual, cost-free Washington, D.C. trips.

Mandala: A mental health platform for the BIPOC community. We conduct a four-week program, and follow it up with a year-long community resources.

Mission: Mentor: An edtech nonprofit building a free, virtual college counselor for high school students.

Narratio: Activates, supports, and highlights the creative expression of refugee youth through fellowships, workshops, publishing, and partnerships.

Net3allem: A non-profit that provides Montessori pre-schooling for low-income students, employment opportunities and sponsorships for our alumni student network.

New Voters: Working towards 100% U.S. high school voter registration and civic engagement via our personal mentorship program and state specific summits and resources.

OneStep Relief Platform: A comprehensive disaster relief resource powered by the Algorand blockchain.

PODEROSAS: Comprehensive sexual education for teens of vulnerable communities, based on an innovative disruptive methodology and a replication leadership cycle.

ProtectED Solutions: Making easy-to-move pieces of furniture that serve as physical and ballistic barriers to protect people against active shooter violence and domestic terrorism.

Puentes Community Translators: Training young adults from low-income immigrant areas to become professional translators and help bridge language barriers in their communities.

Residents Abroad: An online platform facilitating medical international electives for doctors around the globe.

ReThink, Inc.: A patented, innovative app that detects offensive messages and gives users a chance to reconsider posting them.

Rhymes with Reason: An e-learning app that helps students learn important English words by showcasing their existence in widely known music lyrics.

Root: A phone-based, gamified app that promotes the learning, feedback, and regular assessment of developmentally appropriate math milestones.

Sacred Innocence International, Inc.: Providing healing resources for survivors of sexual abuse to heal through online support groups and a self-directed interactive website.

Scholar Supreme: A one-stop-shop platform connecting students with extracurricular opportunities and articles written by college students.

Second Sight: Creating devices that aid the visually impaired and blind by letting them hear what they cannot see.

Slam Out Loud: Using visual and performing arts to enable children from disadvantaged backgrounds to build creativity, increase confidence, and find their voice.

Snappea: A network of fridges located in convenient community locations that brings discounted produce to those experiencing nutrition insecurity.

Spotlight Perú: Providing English language learning and leadership through performing arts training to youth in Peru and around Latin America.

Stuttering Scholarship Alliance: At $15,000/year, most families cannot afford speech therapy. Stuttering Scholarship Alliance has built the first framework to provide sponsored therapy for low-income families.

TechNotes: Building an authoritative, collaboratively developed online library of detailed, practical information about engineering and tech.

The Big Sisters Project (BSP): Mentoring people of underrepresented genders in social entrepreneurship to materialize aspirations and contribute to a network of inspiration.

The Concordium: Combating the loneliness epidemic through an e-support network matching socially isolated seniors with youth volunteers via video chat.

Tutu Education: Helping students explore career possibilities and find the career path that fits them best through a customized career development education program.

The Equity Network: Helping Black, Latinx and Native American candidates book free, one-on-one conversations with professionals in their dream jobs.

Think and Speak Academy: Offering competitive debating classes online and in-person to secondary school students all around the world.

Thrive Industries Incorporated (Thrive!): Thrive! Equity Audits help local governments root out systemic racism in spending allocations and budget for equity with community input.

Tirana English School: Developing innovative early childhood education based on arts.

Todaydream Inc.: Providing a web platform that allows schools and nonprofits to book the largest collection of minority college-educated professionals ever assembled.

UpstartED: Building curriculum-based programs at the intersection of STEM, entrepreneurship, and SEL that empower vulnerable youth to discover their potential.

UCSF Health and Human Rights Initiative (UCSF HHRI): Upholding justice for immigrants by providing access to forensic medical evaluations, training of physicians, research and advocacy.

Wave Learning Festival: Addressing educational equity through free, live, online programming and mentorship for low-income K-12 students and schools.

WeUnlearn: Aiming to empower India’s youth to build their self-efficacy and lead gender-equitable lives.

Wonder Year: A robust entrepreneurship curriculum for middle school girls that will help them launch, or think through the steps of launching their own venture.

*The venture team statistics in this article were updated on 9/29/2021 to reflect the second cohort of teams accepted into the Harvard Innovation Labs Fall Venture Program.

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