Ventures
Browse a selection of current and former i-lab ventures.
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All
37
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Harvard Business School
15
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Harvard College
6
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Harvard Extension School
2
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Harvard Graduate School of Education
1
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Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
1
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Harvard Kennedy School
7
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Harvard Law School
2
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Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
3
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Non-Harvard Affiliate
7
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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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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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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.
![AgDev team filtered]()
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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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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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Asude Foundation
Aiming to provide a holistic education for every child in India.
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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.
![BallotBox team lead]()
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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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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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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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Canopy Nepal
Providing equitable education access to underprivileged children of Nepal and promoting interactive learning used to make informed decisions.
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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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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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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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Debate Spaces
Connecting and empowering middle schoolers worldwide, teaching debate to foster critical thinking, cultural empathy, and civic engagement.
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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.
![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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Elio
A climate research data platform to optimize our climate response and drive innovation.
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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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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.
![Etched cofounders smiling in front of a window at Cogo labs]()
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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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FarmTeach
Cultivating spaces where marginalized learners imagine themselves as farmers, educators, and spiritual practitioners who become system influencers.
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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
![Adam Wasserman]()
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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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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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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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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.
![Dean Celaj]()
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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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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.
![Octavio Zapata]()
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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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LABHYA FOUNDATION
Making well-being programs accessible to vulnerable children in India, at scale.
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Mai Soli Foundation
Empowering young girls to break the cycle of child marriage with education and entrepreneurship.
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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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MindBodySpace
Developing science-backed lessons about the brain, stress, and time for peak performance and wellness in students PreK-12.
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Mitti Labs
Enabling sustainable rice farming by developing the most transparent and high-quality projects.
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Narratio
Activating, supporting, and highlighting the creative expression of young people, with a focus on displaced populations.
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Net3allem
Providing access to universal high-quality early childhood education for children in need, in Egypt.
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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.
![NextStep Health team lead]()
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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
![Ian Speers]()
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Parrots AI
Developing an AI-driven platform that helps healthcare providers manage neurodegenerative diseases, improve patient outcomes, and support caregivers.
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PODEROSAS
Developing a sexual education program for low-income communities in Colombia.
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Ranjitsinh Disale Foundation
Empowering young girls through teaching conflict resolution skills to foster a culture of harmony in the classroom.
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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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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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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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School-Based Wellness (a subsidiary of Butterfly Dreamz, Inc.)
Providing mental health services to under-resourced schools.
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Shamsina
Designing, manufacturing, and delivering affordable, locally-made solar water heaters for all Egyptians, from energy poor communities to energy-conscious consumers.
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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.
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Society of Women Coders
A nonprofit fighting gender-based digital inequality in low- and middle-income countries.
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Stellar University
Empowering students in Africa and Latin America to master blockchain technology through tailored, on-demand education.
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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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SXD
Turning fabrics — including leftover and wasted ones — into beautifully-designed apparel products with ~55% lower costs and zero waste.
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The Surpluss
Helping governments and small-to-medium enterprises bridge the gap between climate science and circular economy with a digital solution to share their underutilized resources and profit from them.
![Rana Hajirasouli]()
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THRIVE!
Building a software platform that helps state and local government agencies—including school systems—create budgets that mitigate disparities experienced by low-income residents and people of color.
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Tiny
Helping middle and high schooler students use their academic knowledge to win real-life rewards via a mobile digital olympiad.
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Two Rabbits
Empowering the world's hardest to reach children to live in dignity, respect, and peace through culturally-adapted preschool education that preserves and promotes their language and culture.
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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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Unherd.in
Helping high school students make informed career decisions through industry mentorships and experiential learning programs.
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XCharge
At the forefront of EV charging technology and a leader in battery-integrated fast charging solutions, we are committed to powering the future energy demands of the world.
