Ventures
Browse a selection of current and former i-lab ventures.
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All
58
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Harvard Business School
16
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Harvard College
17
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Harvard Divinity School
1
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Harvard Extension School
5
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Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
4
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Harvard Graduate School of Design
1
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Harvard Graduate School of Education
12
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Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
4
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Harvard Kennedy School
8
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Harvard Law School
4
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Harvard Medical School
5
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Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
6
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Non-Harvard Affiliate
18
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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.
![Adaptilens founder]()
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Adaptive Reader
Transforming literature for grades 7–12 into multiple languages and reading levels.
![Adaptive Reader team lead]()
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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.
![Agents Of Discovery team lead]()
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Amira
Making a cooling mattress pad that keeps women experiencing disruptive hot flashes due to menopause asleep all night long.
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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.
![Aperture Bio team]()
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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.
![Aurie founder]()
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BallotBox
Building an e-voting platform designed to support both remote and onsite voting.
![BallotBox team lead]()
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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.
![Beacon team]()
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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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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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Bring4you
Enabling companies and individuals to seamlessly send bulky items anywhere at low cost while reducing carbon emissions.
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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.
![Chaku Foods founder]()
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Critical Healthcare Information Integration Network, Inc.
A free-for-use SMS messaging system providing validated medical reference information to community health workers in rural settings.
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Day Zero Diagnostics
Developing technologies to help control healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), where antibiotic resistant organisms can be especially dangerous.
![Day Zero team]()
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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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FoodNiche-ED
Leveraging technology to empower teachers to introduce nutrition education in the classroom.
![FoodNiche team leads]()
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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.
![Go And Slay team leads]()
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GoTeacher
An AI-powered planner and content aggregator that helps teachers and schools build lesson plans collaboratively.
![Dean Celaj]()
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Gridbrid
Helping companies simplify the process, maximize the profits, and reduce the risks of developing renewable energy power plants.
![GridBid team leads]()
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Growbie
Creating a networking bootcamp for international students building careers in the United States.
![Growbie team lead]()
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Halo Braid
Reducing hair braiding time from six hours to minutes, empowering hair stylists to double their business.
![Halo Braid team leads]()
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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.
![How To Change The World team]()
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IAMBIC
AI-tailored, made-to-fit footwear—making shoes size-inclusive.
![IAMBIC Cofounders]()
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Imago Rehab
Making high-quality rehabilitation available to anyone recovering from a neurological or cardiovascular condition.
![Imago founder]()
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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.
![Hemakshi Meghani]()
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Kaüna
Building the ultimate population health management platform for chronic kidney disease.
![Kauna team lead]()
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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.
![Kiwi team]()
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Koroid
An AI-powered platform for data-driven workforce and resource management, optimization, and logistics in the healthcare industry.
![Carl Gustaf Stefan Axelsson]()
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Kura
Offering efficient, seamless, and reliable financial support for relatives and beneficiaries living abroad.
![Kura team lead]()
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LABHYA FOUNDATION
Making well-being programs accessible to vulnerable children in India, at scale.
![Labhya]()
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Launch Girls
Developing entrepreneurship and economic empowerment programming for adolescent girls across Southeast Asia and Africa.
![Launch Girls team lead]()
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Light RFP
A procurement platform for property managers and owner-operators to find the best vendors for their properties.
![Light RFP cofounders]()
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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.
![LivXp team leads]()
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Manifold Bio
Designing tissue-specific medicines in living systems from the start by combining high-throughput in-vivo studies with AI-guided protein design.
![Manifold team]()
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Meomind
Offering on-demand access to 600+ recorded therapy sessions and mental health tools for personalized, interactive self-care.
![Sushant Gupta]()
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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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Moxie Apparel Inc.
Reimagining medical apparel for the modern healthcare worker with high-quality, fashionable, super soft scrubs.
![Moxie founder]()
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NextStep Health
Cultivating evidence-based mental health resilience through educational media and care coordination.
![NextStep Health team lead]()
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Oze
Supercharging business across Africa with simple tools, smooth payments, affordable capital, and digital shops.
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PathCision Medicine, Inc.
Transforming tissue pathology insights into targeted therapies for complex diseases.
![Pathcision Medicine team leads]()
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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.
![Patient First AI team]()
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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.
![Plantaizin' team]()
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Polis
Providing universities with personalized, data-driven, 1:1 virtual advising resources to cost effectively reduce student attrition.
![Michael Tworek]()
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Readlee
Effortlessly identifying struggling readers, monitoring progress, and automating differentiated scaffolding.
![Readlee co-founders]()
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Reel Seafood
Making thick, flaky, 100% cell-based fish fillets, grown in a lab, that will be indistinguishable from wild and farmed fish.
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Respired.io
Leveraging AI to streamline social media management, allowing companies to focus on strategic growth over content creation and scheduling.
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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.
![Rhymes With Reason team]()
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Saturday Art Class
Unleashing the creative potential of one of the world's largest marginalized child populations by developing social-emotional skills through visual arts education.
![Manasi Mehan and Chhavi Khandelwal]()
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SchoolYourself
Reinventing online math education in the style of 1-on-1 learning.
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Scientific Financial Systems, Inc.
Developing AI-enabled tools to help investment management teams identify opportunities faster.
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Seeing Hope
Partnering with indigenous communities to build educational technologies and community initiatives for language and culture revitalization.
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Slam Out Loud
Using the visual and performing arts to enable children in India from disadvantaged backgrounds to find their voice.
![Slam Out Loud Team Leads]()
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smoodi
Making people happier and healthier with a self-cleaning machine for fresh, customized smoothies.
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Soteri Skin
Making the only eczema treatment that relieves recurring eczema symptoms.
![Soteri co-founder]()
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SoWork
Creating a smart virtual office that gives remote teams efficiency, presence, spontaneity, and connection.
![SoWork team]()
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Sprxng
Developing holistic period care solutions through data-driven menstrual research and innovation.
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SubjectToClimate
A nonprofit online connector for K-12 educators of all subjects to find credible and engaging materials on climate change at no cost.
![Margaret Wang]()
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SurgiBox
Making surgery safer for both patients and healthcare providers around the world through innovative technology, co-developed with users and centered around patient needs.
![Surgibox co-founder]()
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SXD
Turning fabrics — including leftover and wasted ones — into beautifully-designed apparel products with ~55% lower costs and zero waste.
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TANGapp
An international, peer-to-peer transaction app with a social mission of financial inclusion for emerging markets.
![TANGapp co-founder]()
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Tau Finance
Offering a legal operating system for digital assets.
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TecHustle, Inc.
Building Africa's largest small business network for global trade by providing financial services and market access.
![Evita Grant]()
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TerraFlow
Mapping the immune system and showing scientists which levers to pull in order to re-engage the immune system in fighting cancer.
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TetraScience
Developing the world's only data and AI cloud built for science.
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Thermaband, Inc.
Creating the only smart bracelet that provides immediate preemptive hot flash relief with personalized digital insights.
![Thermaband team]()
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Tribal Mobility LLC
Providing top-tier, cost-effective electric bikes, scooters, and mobility products.
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Tuverl
An app that makes public transport cheaper and more accessible to millions of commuters across Africa.
![Tuverl team]()
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UCNLEARN
Empowering teachers to deliver reading intervention effectively using a tablet for students learning one-on-one, in groups, and independently.
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Unlock Education
Empowering public schools to leverage the data they already have to drive their decisions.
![Unlock Education team leads]()
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UrSure
UrSure was acquired by OraSure Technologies. The company developed urine and blood tests that measure and improve adherence to medications.
![UrSure team]()
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Vincere Health
Vincere Health was acquired by RVO Health. The company developed a healthcare technology platform to motivate people to smoke less, walk more, and live healthier lives.
![Vincere team]()
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Vocadian
Using voice AI to predict and manage fatigue risk, empowering a safer, healthier, and more productive workforce.
![Vocadian team lead headshot]()
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WHOOP
Unlocking peak fitness through a wearable system designed to help athletes track and optimize physical performance.
![WHOOP CEO]()
