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Cassvita field agents and farmers smiling together

Eradicating Food Insecurity and Empowering Farmers One Crop at a Time

Pelkins Ajanoh (HBS '22) shares how his venture, CassVita, is extending the shelf life of cassava to combat hunger and empower farmers.

Mar 13, 2025

Making EV Chargers Faster, Smarter, and More Affordable

How an EV charging idea evolved into publicly-traded company XCharge

Feb 10, 2025

Pacto co-founders smiling and holding syringes

Making Prefilled Syringes More Accessible and Carbon-Friendly

Pacto Medical has designed a prefilled syringe that will increase the distribution of critical medicines.

Nov 15, 2024

Rohan (left) and Raj (right), co-founders of Focal

Heat People, Not Spaces

Focal has reimagined outdoor heaters, making them more efficient and climate-friendly.

Sep 24, 2024

How a Mentor-Mentee Relationship Helped Power a Renewable Energy Venture

Energy and sustainability expert Frank Yang played a key role in the progress of Veritel Energy, founded by Tony Keslinke (HES '24).

Sep 05, 2024

Turning Ideas Into Impact: Chaku Foods

Since winning the top prize in the open track at the 2021 Harvard President's Innovation Challenge, Chaku Foods continues to improve the lives of smallholder farmers in Ghana.

May 29, 2024

Earth Day 2024: Lessons From the Climate Circle

Get to know founders in the 2023-2024 Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle and what they've learned about climate innovation.

Apr 22, 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

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

The EarthAcre team with local partners and community members at a pilot site.

Bringing Back the Elephants

With the support of the UN, conservationists, and policymakers, global innovators like EarthAcre are devising new models for financing biodiversity preservation to protect the world’s most-endangered ecosystems — bringing back diverse wildlife in the process.

Oct 17, 2023

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

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 funds early-stage ventures, and two members of the 2023 Harvard Climate Entrepreneur’s Circle.

Apr 18, 2023

Harvard Innovation Labs Announces 2023 Climate Circle Cohort

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.

Mar 07, 2023

Climate Week: How Harvard Climate Circle Entrepreneurs Are Addressing Climate Head-on

In honor of this year’s Climate Week, the Harvard Innovation Labs spoke with many members of the Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle to learn more about their accomplishments over the last year.

Sep 21, 2022

Reducing Waste Through Beautiful Design

Shelly Xu (MBA 2021) is on a mission to eliminate fashion's environmental impact through innovative zero-waste design, using leftover fabric to create beautiful, sustainable clothing.

Sep 16, 2022

Harvard Climate Entrepreneur’s Circle Announces 28 Startups for Second Annual Cohort

Today, the Harvard Innovation Labs announced that it has selected 28 ventures to join the second annual Harvard Climate Entrepreneur’s Circle, an incubation program for high-potential ventures working to address climate change.

Apr 11, 2022

Announcing the Inaugural Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle

Today, the Harvard Innovation Labs introduced the inaugural participants selected for the university innovation center’s Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle, a selective incubation program for high-potential ventures working to address climate change.

Apr 23, 2021

Aquaplastic graphic of water bottles and straws

Celebrating Plastic-Free July With the AquaPlastic Team

Earth-friendly AquaPlastic does what regular plastic can, but better — and we're proud to say the venture is being incubated right here at the i-lab. In celebration and support of Plastic-Free July (and a healthier planet year-round) we connected with the duo developing a robust, eco-friendly, scalable (and, frankly, brilliant) material that biodegrades not in 500-1,000 years, but a mere two months.

Jul 19, 2019

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