Ventures
Browse a selection of current and former i-lab ventures.
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1Climate
For clean energy developers who struggle with the time and costs of managing the regulatory sides of their projects, 1Climate offers an AI-powered, end-to-end platform that automates clean energy permitting and incentive processes.
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Aclaria Partners
Financing decarbonization of real estate at scale with a team that has best-in-class subject matter expertise; demonstrated leadership across multiple economic cycles; and proven track records in global finance, business, and policy.
![Gautam Barua]()
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ADAPT
An automated sustainability reporting platform for fleet operators with the aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation industry.
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Adaptilens
Developing the first and only intraocular lens that responds to the eye's natural signal to focus, thus eliminating the need for eyeglasses or contact lenses.
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Adaptive Reader
Transforming literature for grades 7–12 into multiple languages and reading levels.
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Adolescent Health Champions
Using peer-to-peer education to train adolescents in India in critical health topics.
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Adventus Robotics
Building autonomous wheelchairs to improve the lives of the severely disabled, and to minimize passenger-porter interaction for safer airports and hospitals.
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AgDev
Offering long-term debt capital for expansion-focused farmers in Brazil to purchase and restore degraded pastures to productivity, which reduces the need and financial incentive to clear native vegetation.
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Agents of Discovery Inc.
Using the latest innovations in Augmented Reality and interactive education to fully engage kids in real-world contextualized education.
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AgX
Building hardware-enabled software for sustainable livestock farming.
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Algoma
Designing and building net-zero multifamily homes by combining mass timber with an offsite manufacturing approach.
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Aperture Bio
Realizing orders-of-magnitude improvements in speed and sensitivity, Aperture rapidly analyzes proteins in whole cells to map immune interactions.
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ArtLifting
ArtLifting advances access to the art market by connecting artists impacted by disabilities and housing insecurity with socially conscious customers to create meaningful spaces and products.
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Aurie
Building a reusable, intermittent catheter system to improve quality of life and health outcomes for people living with urinary retention.
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Axle Technologies
Bringing together data from automakers, telematics providers, and other sources to optimize fuel usage, track vehicles, and reduce insurance premiums.
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BallotBox
Building an e-voting platform designed to support both remote and onsite voting.
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Base Operations
Aggregating, visualizing, and interpreting threat data to help organizations anticipate disruptions around the world — keeping their people, assets, and operations safe.
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Beacon Bio
Improving hearing and healing by restoring eardrums with regenerative grafts.
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Beaver Health, Inc.
Engaging older loved ones in stimulating, culturally responsive activities to boost cognition and quality of life.
![Emily Wang]()
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Bitmal
A social fintech solution that rewards community solutions and contributions and a trusted fund distribution channel optimizing transparency and accountability.
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blip energy
An affordable, portable smart battery that offers backup power and bill savings, reduces emissions, and stabilizes the grid. Now regular consumers can charge when energy is cheap and discharge when energy is expensive.
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Bounce Imaging
Bounce Imaging makes products that keep first-responders, warfighters, and civilians safer with best-in-class, low-cost, easy-to-use imaging and robotics systems.
![Francisco Aguilar of Bounce Imaging in the i-lab's Maker Studio]()
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Bright Feeds
Helping companies meet their sustainability goals and increase profit margins by turning their food waste into high-quality nutritious animal feed.
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Bring4you
Enabling companies and individuals to seamlessly send bulky items anywhere at low cost while reducing carbon emissions.
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Broadleaf HEA
Providing evidence-based health and education interventions for children in rural India that produce tangible improvements to participant’s wellbeing.
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Carbon Counts
For people who see climate change as a problem but don’t feel like they can help, Carbon Counts has built a mobile game, EverForest, and an impact platform to plant billions of trees and motivate meaningful climate action.
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Carbon Re
Using artificial intelligence to decarbonize energy-intensive industries, such as cement and steel.
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CartaBio Inc
A single-cell precision medicine techbio that uses proprietary spatial biology and AI to decode novel disease biology.
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Chaku Foods
Creating wealth for smallholder farmers in Africa while minimizing climate risk.
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Charli Charging, Inc.
Providing premium, turnkey EV charging solutions for the largest commercial and multifamily properties as well as single-family residences.
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Chirps Chips
Creating packaged foods made of edible insects as a healthier, more environmentally sustainable alternative to other sources of protein on the market.
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Circlez
Creating a social goal-setting app designed for young adults.
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Coding it Forward
Empowering the next generation of mission-driven technologists by creating new pathways into public interest technology.
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Coolant
Carbon MRV for forests.
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Crop Diagnostix
Building the future of predictive agriculture with patented, AI-powered gene expression technology.
![Brandon Chi]()
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Day Zero Diagnostics
Developing technologies to help control healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), where antibiotic resistant organisms can be especially dangerous.
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Debate Spaces
Connecting and empowering middle schoolers worldwide, teaching debate to foster critical thinking, cultural empathy, and civic engagement.
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Delfina
Building an integrated pregnancy platform delivering personalized care based on deep insights into each member's needs.
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Earth Warriors Global
Providing a comprehensive climate education school curriculum for 3-11-year-olds using a positive and empowering approach.
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Earthacre
Deploying cutting-edge technologies that enable Indigenous landowners to quantify, measure, and get paid for protecting nature and fostering healthy ecosystems.
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EarthBond
Affordable energy for African small businesses. Reliable solar energy that saves business owners money on fuel for their generators.
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Eki Agrivoltaics
Enabling the coexistence of agriculture and solar energy by scaling an innovative photovoltaic technology and sharing the revenue generated from the solar energy with farmers.
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Elio
A climate research data platform to optimize our climate response and drive innovation.
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ETCHED
Creating next-generation art paper that does not buckle or bleed. Making ETCHED’s stone paper uses 85% less energy, 60% less C02, zero water, zero trees, and is infinitely recyclable.
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Finpublica
Empowering finance leaders to foster a more sustainable, inclusive, and equitable society. The organization works with existing and emerging leaders, from across the finance industry and around the world, to help them develop and achieve their own environ
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Firn
Investments in clean assets have traditionally been too big or off-limits for mainstreet investors. Firn’s technology fractionalizes investments into clean energy in an easily manageable way.
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FlatPeak
Building an energy data platform that provides a complete energy optimization solution for any product or service.
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Focal
Using smart sensing and directional heat to warm people, rather than entire spaces.
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FoodNiche-ED
Leveraging technology to empower teachers to introduce nutrition education in the classroom.
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GoAnd Slay
Combining AI-driven study plans with live online classes to empower non-native English speakers to communicate more effectively and achieve socioeconomic mobility.
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GoPowerEV
Building an affordable, hassle-free EV charging solution for multifamily communities.
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GoTeacher
An AI-powered planner and content aggregator that helps teachers and schools build lesson plans collaboratively.
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GramHeet
For Indian smallholder farmers facing post-harvest challenges, GramHeet provides integrated solutions that increase earnings, foster self-reliance, and mitigate environmental effects.
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Grassroots Energy Inc
Providing reliable and rugged proprietary biogas digesters to process agro and animal waste.
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Green AI
Providing AI-driven software that optimizes energy use in data centers and reduces carbon emissions.
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Gridbrid
Helping companies simplify the process, maximize the profits, and reduce the risks of developing renewable energy power plants.
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Growbie
Creating a networking bootcamp for international students building careers in the United States.
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Halo Braid
Reducing hair braiding time from six hours to minutes, empowering hair stylists to double their business.
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Henua Technologies
Combining environmental management technology, innovation, and business intelligence, Henua Technologies’ tools help corporations implement sustainability, ESG, regulatory compliance, process transformations to meet their goals.
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How to Change the World
Teaching higher education students the mindsets and skills they need to apply their knowledge and experience to tackle real-world global challenges.
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IAMBIC
AI-tailored, made-to-fit footwear—making shoes size-inclusive.
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Imago Rehab
Making high-quality rehabilitation available to anyone recovering from a neurological or cardiovascular condition.
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Immigrants Help
Preparing immigration documents for free for people who can't afford a lawyer.
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Indian School of Democracy (ISD)
A non-partisan organization that conducts leadership programs for young adults (25-40 years old) who want to run for office and be ethical politicians.
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Institute for Earth Observations
An institute dedicated to developing and innovating STEM education.
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Institute for Multipartisan Education, Inc
The Institute for Multipartisan Education is dedicated to sustainably increasing and improving capacity for curious approaches to difference and disagreement in educational settings.
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INVERSA
Regenerating native biodiversity by creating a market for leathers from invasive animals.
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Julius
Solving the talent needs of the cleantech transition by providing innovative programs to help energy employers attract new talent and upskill current talent for the future of work.
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Kaüna
Building the ultimate population health management platform for chronic kidney disease.
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Kiwi Biosciences
Creating the first enzyme solution addressing FODMAPs, a family of hard-to-digest carbohydrates and notorious symptom triggers for those with sensitive guts.
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Kura
Offering efficient, seamless, and reliable financial support for relatives and beneficiaries living abroad.
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LABHYA FOUNDATION
Making well-being programs accessible to vulnerable children in India, at scale.
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Launch Girls
Developing entrepreneurship and economic empowerment programming for adolescent girls across Southeast Asia and Africa.
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Light RFP
A procurement platform for property managers and owner-operators to find the best vendors for their properties.
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LivXp AG
Giving sports fans a chance to create lifetime memories through access to interactive experiences from their favorite teams and idols.
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Lotus
Fostering connection and conversation among adolescent women+ with reproductive health conditions and/or concerns.
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Lumos
The world's smartest bike helmets and lights.
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Mark43
Empowering communities and their governments with new technologies that improve the safety and quality of life for all.
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MDandMe
Leveraging generative AI to help patients decide where and when to seek care and help doctors pre-populate their medical notes.
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Meomind
Offering on-demand access to 600+ recorded therapy sessions and mental health tools for personalized, interactive self-care.
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Metafin
For Indian retail customers who want to install cleantech solutions but lack the upfront capital, Metafin provides rapid financing decisions and works with partners to systematically minimize installation and operational risk.
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Metric
Data analytics software to help private market investors measure their portfolio’s environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance.
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Mitti Labs
Enabling sustainable rice farming by developing the most transparent and high-quality projects.
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Moxie Apparel Inc.
Reimagining medical apparel for the modern healthcare worker with high-quality, fashionable, super soft scrubs.
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New Voters Org
Inspiring civic action through mobilizing 80,000+ high school students to vote across the United States.
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NextStep Health
Cultivating evidence-based mental health resilience through educational media and care coordination.
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Oze
Supercharging business across Africa with simple tools, smooth payments, affordable capital, and digital shops.
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Pacto Medical
For public health and healthcare workers who use pre-filled syringes, Pacto Medical makes a collapsible syringe that reduces transportation volume by 40%, allowing them to ship and deliver more syringes for less money and with a lower environmental impact
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PathCision Medicine, Inc.
Transforming tissue pathology insights into targeted therapies for complex diseases.
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Patient First AI
Designing an AI-powered app to help students submit their health forms effortlessly, providing real-time feedback on compliance status and addressing any issues that may arise.
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Philo
Working to reinvent the television experience for the modern age and create a service you'll love as much as the shows you watch.
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PIVOTtheWorld
A mobile app revealing what places looked like in the past — showing authenticated histories of locations (from everyday places to popular tourist attractions), through images, videos, and text-audio.
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Plantaizin'
A fun and tech-enabled plant-based snack brand that seeks to treat bodies well and do good in the world.
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Polis
Providing universities with personalized, data-driven, 1:1 virtual advising resources to cost effectively reduce student attrition.
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RapidSOS
Securely linking life-saving data from connected devices, apps and sensors to safety agents, 911 and first responders globally.
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Rarefied
Developing a propulsion mechanism that can fly in near-space, a region that is inaccessible to aircraft and satellites, to deliver climate insights and offset satellite emissions.
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Readlee
Effortlessly identifying struggling readers, monitoring progress, and automating differentiated scaffolding.
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RescaleMed - Tibb Mental Health chatbot
Creating an AI-driven mental health chatbot for cognitive behavioral health therapy.
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RESILIFT
For homeowners with flood risk, RESILIFT provides end-to-end residential flood-proofing solutions focusing on project financing and physical mitigation using innovative technology to optimize the process.
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Rhymes with Reason
An e-learning app that helps students learn important English words by showcasing their existence in widely known music lyrics.
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