This summer, hundreds of Harvard students participated in the Harvard Innovation Labs membership — receiving guidance, community, and resources to support them along their entrepreneurial journeys. Recently, our community came together for an end-of-summer celebration, where our members shared their ventures’ latest accomplishments. Read on to learn about a few of the many milestones we celebrated!
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- Asiri Health Arts officially launched during a curated event hosted at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with support from the Real Colegio Complutense. AHA uses evidence-based social interventions to raise mental health awareness through arts and creativity.
- evoAI, which connects adults with ADHD to occupational therapists, just wrapped up its pilot. Seven customer-OT pairs had weekly sessions, showing great improvements with zero dropouts and highly positive customer testimonials. evoAI's second trial is launching soon.
- Healthful, which helps patients seek registered dietitians covered by insurance, launched its MVP in Canada.
- NeuroRehab AI (NRAI) recently consolidated a diverse and multidisciplinary team, refined its customer discovery strategy, and developed a business model plan.
- Parrots AI is establishing partnerships with two health organizations in Maine, facilitated by the Roux Institute at Northeastern University in Portland, ME. Parrots also secured multiple grants recently, including a €50,000 grant from Lux Innovation.
- PashuWealth, which provides cattle to smallholder farmers in India to enable economic self-sufficiency, secured initial funding from an angel investor and are preparing for scaling up. PashuWealth also onboarded an advisor with 20+ years of experience in dairy and consumables operations in developing countries.
- Ribara has provided essential career clarity to 3,300 youths who may not be able to afford traditional counseling, empowering them to make informed decisions about their futures. This democratization of career clarity fosters a more equitable society where every young person can reach their full potential and positively impact their community.
- Shared Harvest Foundation: Chief Medical and Innovation Officer Dr. NanaEfua Afoh-Manin received the Social Enterprise Initiative Award. This award allows her to join Harvard Business School's competitive Exec Ed course, Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management, at the end of this month.
- Skills.tech launched its service of personalized knowledge-based AI tutors for a wide range of exams and certifications, from HIPAA to the GMAT.
- Storyfave, a fully bootstrapped company, brought in a revenue ten times higher than its average from the past eight months.
- Trans Health HQ: From a pool of 1300 startups, Trans Health HQ was selected to be a part of this year's MassChallenge Early Stage Cohort. Trans Health HQ is looking forward to refining and disseminating its clinician resource hub with the support of MC's global partners and mentors.
- Weave, a new mobile platform for meaningful social engagement in parks and public spaces, is on track to get its first 100 users!
- Y-Health Corp established a strategic partnership with the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline of Westchester County, NY, integrating its crisis chatbot to enhance the speed of intervention and support.
