Out of 400+ applications, we've selected 25 finalists who will pitch live on May 6. These ventures represent 11 Harvard schools and are one step closer to winning a share of $500,000+ in Bertarelli Foundation funding.
2026
President’s Innovation Challenge
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All
25
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Harvard Business School
6
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Harvard College
4
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Harvard Extension School
2
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Harvard Graduate School of Design
1
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Harvard Graduate School of Education
2
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Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
2
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Harvard Kennedy School
3
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Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
3
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Harvard Law School
2
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Harvard Medical School
5
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Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
2
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Harvard University
2
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iNERDE Academy
Solving Africa’s teacher shortage by empowering community talent with an AI tutor, so children learn to read 20x faster at a tenth of the cost.
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Surna Technologies
Building sovereign AI infrastructure that enables emerging and frontier economies to build, deploy, and monitor their financial systems in real time.
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