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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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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Alba
Empowering visually-impaired individuals to detect the onset of their period with a tactile menstrual wipe.
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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
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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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Archslate Inc.
A marketplace transforming the architecture and construction workforce through AI-driven hiring and upskilling.
![Vaishnavi More]()
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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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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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Barefoot Edu Foundation
Creating a movement of empowered educators in India who make education meaningful for children.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Clean Slate Clinic
Building a clinical protocol for at-home clinician-led care for intensive medicated treatments for addiction.
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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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Current Electric
Developing fast charger infrastructure focused on rapidly enabling the mass adoption of electric transportation.
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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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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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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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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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ELISA
Transforming child nutrition in Latin America through fresh and additive-free foods for kids.
![Rosalino Molina]()
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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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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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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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GoPowerEV
Building an affordable, hassle-free EV charging solution for multifamily communities.
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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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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.
![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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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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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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Inqui-Lab Foundation
Nurturing problem-solving capacity among first-generation learners.
![Smit Malkan]()
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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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Kiikter
A low-cost snack fortified with key micronutrients to improve children's nutrition and reduce anemia.
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Kinnos
Adding color to disinfectants, visualizing surface coverage for more effective and efficient cleaning in healthcare settings.
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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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LABHYA FOUNDATION
Making well-being programs accessible to vulnerable children in India, at scale.
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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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Limax Biosciences
Treating internal and external injuries with a stretchable adhesive hydrogel.
![Limax co-founder]()
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Lime Therapeutics
Creating a new class of therapies targeting lipid metabolism in cancers and neurodegenerative disorders.
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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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Melanin Doc
Supporting minority students interested in medicine with scholarships and mentorship opportunities.
![Melanin Doc founder]()
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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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MesaQuantum
Developing chip-scale quantum sensors for next-generation GPS capabilities in position, navigation, and timing.
![Wale Lawal]()
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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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MiKashBoks
Making saving and lending with friends easy and safe.
![MiKashBoks founder]()
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Mitti Labs
Enabling sustainable rice farming by developing the most transparent and high-quality projects.
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My Dental Key
An online platform that helps students learn clinical and preclinical dentistry.
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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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Neru Health
Developing AI sleep therapy to help businesses manage chronic sleep disorders and reduce $100B in absenteeism, accidents, and healthcare costs.
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Neumind Ltd
Digitizing neurorehabilitation for enhanced patient access, seamless caregiver involvement, and improved clinician overview.
![Claudia Hill]()
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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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NovaXS Biotech
Designing a smart needle-free drug delivery platform that simplifies the medication self-administration process and improves remote healthcare adherence.
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Nunchi Health
Building inclusive mental health programs for culturally diverse communities.
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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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Pathways
Developing an AI-powered platform ingests and transforms unstructured, operational data into automated, real-time reporting on emissions, delivering rapid deployments of LCAs and EPDs.
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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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PerioSense
Making early diagnosis of gum disease more accessible and efficient while saving time and money for patients and providers.
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Peripeach
Designing a medical device that protects the pelvic floor during childbirth.
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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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ProtectED Solutions LLC
Designing furniture that protects against domestic terrorism and active shooter violence in schools, government buildings, and offices.
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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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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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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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Shamsina
Designing, manufacturing, and delivering affordable, locally-made solar water heaters for all Egyptians, from energy poor communities to energy-conscious consumers.
![Shamsina co-founder]()
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Soteri Skin
Making the only eczema treatment that relieves recurring eczema symptoms.
![Soteri co-founder]()
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Stellar Sleep
Helping people learn how to sleep again with the award-winning mobile app for insomnia.
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Stochastic
An enterprise platform for businesses to build, customize, and control their own AI.
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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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Tana
Connecting tech teams to remote global talent.
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Taste of Kenya
Disrupting the supply chain with direct trade linking Kenyan coffee farmers with coffee buyers bypassing five levels of middlemen.
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The Ameliorating Health in Africa Initiative (A.H.A Initiative)
Transforming unused spaces in existing community institutions into free primary healthcare centers for extremely low-income residents.
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The NRI Nation
A digital media company that does journalism for and about the global Indian diaspora population.
![NRI Nation co-founder]()
