Ventures
Browse a selection of current and former i-lab ventures.
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All
219
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Harvard Business School
73
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Harvard College
29
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Harvard Divinity School
2
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Harvard Extension School
11
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Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
1
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Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
12
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Harvard Graduate School of Design
7
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Harvard Graduate School of Education
27
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Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
16
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Harvard Kennedy School
46
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Harvard Law School
6
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Harvard Medical School
30
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Harvard School of Dental Medicine
4
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Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
15
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Non-Harvard Affiliate
56
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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.
![1Climate team]()
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1Room
For schools in Kenya with one room and one generalist teacher, 1Room is digitizing and delivering school curriculum via tablets.
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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.
![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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Adolescent Health Champions
Using peer-to-peer education to train adolescents in India in critical health topics.
![founder headshot]()
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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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AgX
Building hardware-enabled software for sustainable livestock farming.
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Akademi.al
Providing equal access to an excellent education to Albanian-speaking students around the globe.
![Akademi founder]()
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Alba
Empowering visually-impaired individuals to detect the onset of their period with a tactile menstrual wipe.
![Alba cofounders]()
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Alfred
Delivering a next generation living experience to renters through its resident-centric, technology-powered operating platform that also directly manages rental properties.
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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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Almond Fintech
Providing financial institutions with near-instant FX settlement across borders, consistently beating mid-market rates.
![Almond team]()
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Alokito Hridoy Foundation
Building a teacher development platform that aims to support, nurture and empower teachers in Bangladesh as compassionate leaders and lifelong learners
![Alokito founder]()
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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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Anise Health
Reimagining mental health for the Asian community by providing personalized online interventions that acknowledge cultural context and addresses intersectional needs.
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Archslate Inc.
A marketplace transforming the architecture and construction workforce through AI-driven hiring and upskilling.
![Vaishnavi More]()
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Argus Systems
Offering faster data labeling services at cheaper prices for enterprises training AI models with human-labeled or poor programmatically labeled data.
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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.
![ArtLifting founder]()
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AugMend Health
Helping mental health professionals save time and increase coverage with self-guided VR intake and AI-tailored patient onboarding.
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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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Barefoot Edu Foundation
Creating a movement of empowered educators in India who make education meaningful for children.
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Bartega
Promoting the integration of art practice in both schools and workplaces as a catalyst for collaboration, communication, and creativity.
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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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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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Body Empowerment Project
An evidence-based eating disorders intervention platform for adolescents.
![Body Empowerment Project founder]()
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BonePixel
Building a fully-automated, AI-powered platform to assess hip pathology in 3D, using routinely collected clinical data.
![Bone Pixel founder]()
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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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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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BXPORTS
Creating an efficient and sustainable supply chain for exporting textile related commodities from Peru into international markets.
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C16
Making environmentally-conscious palm oil using synthetic biology.
![C16 founders]()
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CarePort Health
An intelligent online platform for hospitals, patients, and skilled nursing facilities to coordinate efficient and high-quality discharges.
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CashEx
Bringing global financial services closer to Africans.
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CassVita Inc.
Using proprietary technology to foster prosperity for smallholder farmers in Africa.
![Cassvita founder]()
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CBase AI
Building data infrastructure to solve for data silos in the construction industry.
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Cellforma
Developing life-saving, first-of-its-kind regenerative cell therapies to overcome the unmet need for donor lungs.
![Cellforma cofounders]()
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Change The Tune
Closing the opportunity gap for youth in underserved communities by creating holistic, radical, and transformational extended learning experiences in partnership with communal organizations.
![Change the tune founders]()
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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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Cherish
Offering education, support, fun, and community for families impacted by dementia.
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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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Civic Roundtable
Building a dedicated ecosystem for public servants to ask questions, find experts, and access resources within government and across the civic sphere.
![Civic Roundtable co-founder]()
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CLBB NeuroLaw Library
Building an open source neurolaw library used to level the playing field in the criminal justice system.
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Coastal Protection Solutions, Inc
Specializing in easily deployable systems to help at-risk coastal communities protect themselves from the effects of climate change, storm surge, and sea-level rise.
![Coastal Protection Solutions founder]()
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Coding it Forward
Empowering the next generation of mission-driven technologists by creating new pathways into public interest technology.
![Coding it forward founders]()
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Concerto Biosciences
Discovering microbial ensembles for health via a patented screening platform.
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Coolant
Carbon MRV for forests.
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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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Crop Diagnostix
Building the future of predictive agriculture with patented, AI-powered gene expression technology.
![Brandon Chi]()
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Cunning Folk Theatre
Telling stories about religion, myth and folklore, particularly related to the experience of women and gender minorities.
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Current Electric
Developing fast charger infrastructure focused on rapidly enabling the mass adoption of electric transportation.
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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.
![Debate spaces 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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Dermocratize
A one-stop-shop to buy clean beauty that actually works for your unique skin type, using personalized medicine algorithms, dermatologist product screening, and carcinogen lab-testing.
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DetoXyFi
Developing science-backed, all-natural water filters inspired by nature — removing disease-causing agents from drinking water to provide World Health Organization-quality water.
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Disease Diagnostic Group
Making a handheld device that provides an accurate malaria diagnosis in less than 60 seconds from a finger prick.
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Dombelfarms Ltd
Providing access to high-quality agro products and technology-enhanced services to empower smallholder farmers feeding Africa.
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Drink Suma
Making an electrolyte drink for Argentina.
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dtenAI
An AI-driven financial management and education platform that democratizes quality personal finance planning in Southeast Asia.
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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.
![EarthBond founder]()
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Edufun Technik STEM HUB
Empowering rural and semi-urban Nigerian K-12 schools with essential STEM education and advanced digital skills training for youth.
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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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Elevate Social
Curating events catered towards young professionals, creatives, and visionaries.
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Elio
A climate research data platform to optimize our climate response and drive innovation.
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ELISA
Transforming child nutrition in Latin America through fresh and additive-free foods for kids.
![Rosalino Molina]()
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Elucidate Education
Providing Australian students with equitable access to the education resources they need to succeed in school.
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EndoShunt Medical Inc.
Controlling abdominal bleeding in trauma surgery with an innovative medical device.
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Escucha a tu escuela
Empowering Mexican public school directors with real-time insights through a WhatsApp-based chatbot to better understand and address the unique challenges faced by their schools.
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EuMotus
Developing an AI-empowered movement analysis system that helps physical therapists and athletic trainers better treat physical health.
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Evisort
Evisort offers enterprise-grade AI that connects contract data across critical business systems and transforms contract lifecycle management.
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Evolving Thinkers
Designing an activity-based learning program to enhance and foster essential social and transferable skills in young learners, particularly those aged 3–8.
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Fanory.ai
Empowering marginalized creators earn stable income, making it easier for them to turn their passion into a sustainable career and foster a more equitable world.
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FarmTeach
Cultivating spaces where marginalized learners imagine themselves as farmers, educators, and spiritual practitioners who become system influencers.
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First Gen Empower (FGE)
Supporting first-generation, low-income, and undocumented students, as well as their schools and families, with college and career-readiness programming.
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Flare Jewelry
Stylish, tech-enabled, safety bracelets designed by survivors.
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Focal
Using smart sensing and directional heat to warm people, rather than entire spaces.
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FOCO
An civic tech solution that allows for the real-time monitoring of the national investment in education infrastructure and school meals.
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Fortuna-Insights, Inc.
Using artificial intelligence to write, predict for, and strategize legal briefs and memos.
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Foundation of Research in Careers & Education
Building a virtual education initiate to run personalized skill development programs for high school students in South Asia.
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Freedom Cups
Making reusable menstrual products to women, and implementing a buy-one, give-one model to increase access to menstrual cups in underserved communities.
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Frontlearners, Inc.
Creating ready-to-use, curriculum-aligned, AI-enabled content for K-12 schools and universities that helps boost students' competency and school enrollment.
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GC Therapeutics
Using synthetic biology to program stem cells into any cell type with best-in-class efficiency, speed, and scalability.
![GC Therapeutics co-founders]()
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Geem
Making seaweed snacks, taste-tested for a Western audience.
![Geem founder]()
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GenUnity
Activating everyday adults to create a community by everyone for everyone.
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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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Green AI
Providing AI-driven software that optimizes energy use in data centers and reduces carbon emissions.
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Healthyslide
Providing health information to non-medically inclined audiences in Africa and the world at large through a website, podcast, and news outlets.
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Hometeam
Enabling family and paid caregivers to deliver the best care possible, as efficiently as possible.
![Sarah-Scott Lewis]()
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Hue
Developing technology to help beauty brands embed user-generated videos on their marketing channels.
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humanID
An anonymous, bot-resistant authentication for safer online communities.
![Human ID team]()
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IAMBIC
AI-tailored, made-to-fit footwear—making shoes size-inclusive.
![IAMBIC Cofounders]()
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Illumicell AI
Providing AI-based sperm testing for healthcare providers, enabling accurate at-home fertility assessments for patients.
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Immigrants Help
Preparing immigration documents for free for people who can't afford a lawyer.
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InConfidence
A smart patch technology that delivers at-home posterior tibial nerve stimulation to treat urinary incontinence and overactive bladder.
![Cofounders of InConfidence]()
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Inqui-Lab Foundation
Nurturing problem-solving capacity among first-generation learners.
![Smit Malkan]()
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Institute for Earth Observations
An institute dedicated to developing and innovating STEM education.
