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Listen: Harvard Extension School Founders Featured on Podcast

AudienceAI Founder Vivien Kocsis and The NRI Nation Founder Nikita Roy on their venture-building experiences at the i-lab.

Mar 06, 2024

How RxAll is Combatting Fake Drugs and Improving Healthcare Access in Africa

After falling into a 21-day coma from bad medicine purchased at a Nigerian pharmacy, Adebayo Alonge (MPA 2024) was inspired to improve access to high-quality medications for Africans.

Feb 20, 2024

Four people look at colorful mural on wall

Harvard Innovation Labs and ArtLifting Announce Mural Installation by Madison Elyse Rubenstein

The mural was created by artist Madison Elyse Rubenstein and sourced through ArtLifting, a former Harvard Innovation Labs venture creating access to the art market for artists impacted by disabilities and housing insecurity.

Feb 13, 2024

vast wheat field flanked by solar panels

Harvard Innovation Labs Announces 2024 Climate Entrepreneurs Circle Cohort

Thirty ventures are joining the 2024 Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle, an incubation program for high-potential ventures working to address climate change.

Feb 06, 2024

NetaCarbon founders Grace Lam and Mar Velasco speak at COP28 in Dubai. (Courtesy photo)

Democratizing Access to Climate Finance

A Harvard Climate Circle startup its cofounder calls “TurboTax for carbon credits” aims to bring transparency and accountability to a messy market.

Feb 06, 2024

Hairiette of Harlem Comes to Life at Harvard

Tanya Wright (EdM 2022) is taking on the achievement gap with a new series of books, films, and software aimed at improving children’s literacy.

Jan 30, 2024

Announcing 1,600+ Harvard Innovation Labs Members and 137 President’s Innovation Challenge Semifinalists

This spring, the Harvard Innovation Labs is welcoming more than 1,600 student innovators and entrepreneurs from all 13 Harvard schools as members. The 137 student semifinalists in the 2024 Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge are also announced.

Jan 24, 2024

You’ve Heard of Thrifting, But How About ‘Sifting’?

Meet the online-shopping tool designed by i-lab members to save money and the planet.

Jan 17, 2024

The Art of the Pivot

Armed with a PhD’s sensibility, i-lab founder Lydia Zemke is looking at new ways to transform her venture building — and the future of life on our planet.

Jan 04, 2024

purple streaks of light on a black background

Former Harvard Innovation Labs Venture Lightmatter Hits Unicorn Status

Since receiving the 2017 PIC Grand Prize in the Open track, Lightmatter has become a leader in photonic computing, which involves the use of light instead of electricity for performing computations. In December 2023 — only six years after winning the PIC — the company, founded by Nicholas Harris and Darius Bunandar, announced $155 million in new funding at a unicorn valuation of $1.2 billion.

Jan 03, 2024

2023 Venture Accomplishments from the Harvard Innovation Labs

Explore more than 100 extraordinary accomplishments from current and former i-lab ventures in the past year year.

Dec 11, 2023

Top 10 Innovation Moments of 2023

This year saw no shortage of exciting milestones for our community of innovators. Here are just a few of the highlights.

Dec 05, 2023