Ventures
Browse a selection of current and former i-lab ventures.
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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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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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AgX
Building hardware-enabled software for sustainable livestock farming.
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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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Archslate Inc.
A marketplace transforming the architecture and construction workforce through AI-driven hiring and upskilling.
![Vaishnavi More]()
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
![Coding it forward founders]()
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Coolant
Carbon MRV for forests.
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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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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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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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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.
![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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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.
![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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Illumicell AI
Providing AI-based sperm testing for healthcare providers, enabling accurate at-home fertility assessments for patients.
![Illumicell team]()
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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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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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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.
![Shira Hoffer speaks at a podium]()
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INVERSA
Regenerating native biodiversity by creating a market for leathers from invasive animals.
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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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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.
![Mark43 founder]()
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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.
![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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NeuronSpike Technologies
Developing brain-inspired custom chips to help enterprises build cutting-edge proprietary generative AI systems.
![Neuronspike founder]()
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New Voters Org
Inspiring civic action through mobilizing 80,000+ high school students to vote across the United States.
![new voters co-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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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.
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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.
![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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RapidSOS
Securely linking life-saving data from connected devices, apps and sensors to safety agents, 911 and first responders globally.
![Rapid SOS co-founder]()
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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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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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Rumi Spice
Bringing flavorful, ethically-sourced, and socially-responsible spices from Afghanistan to customers.
![Rumi Spice 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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Scientific Financial Systems, Inc.
Developing AI-enabled tools to help investment management teams identify opportunities faster.
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Shamiri Institute
Enabling thriving youths by making mental healthcare accessible in underserved regions of the world, starting with Kenya and Africa.
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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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SPOUTS OF WATER
Providing clean drinking water, clean air and clean energy to African households.
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Stochastic
An enterprise platform for businesses to build, customize, and control their own AI.
![Stochastic team]()
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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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Talaria
Providing free scientific research opportunities for high school students of marginalized genders.
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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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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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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.
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Tolemi
Integrating city data from multiple departments and systems into a single, easy-to-use platform.
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Tree-Plenish
Empowering students to create a more sustainable and equitable future through community tree planting.
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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.
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Upsolve
Creating free tools to help people dispute debt, negotiate debt, or file Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
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Virtudent
A telehealth solution for dentistry, expanding access to oral-health experts and improving the quality of dental care.
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Vitally Health
Using several layers of clinical and molecular data to map early diagnosis of heart disease and digital therapies.
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