Ventures
Browse a selection of current and former i-lab ventures.
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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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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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Alba
Empowering visually-impaired individuals to detect the onset of their period with a tactile menstrual wipe.
![Alba cofounders]()
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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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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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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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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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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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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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CartaBio Inc
A single-cell precision medicine techbio that uses proprietary spatial biology and AI to decode novel disease biology.
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CashEx
Bringing global financial services closer to Africans.
![Cashex]()
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CassVita Inc.
Using proprietary technology to foster prosperity for smallholder farmers in Africa.
![Cassvita founder]()
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Chaku Foods
Creating wealth for smallholder farmers in Africa while minimizing climate risk.
![Chaku Foods founder]()
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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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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.
![Debate spaces team]()
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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.
![Detoxyfi team]()
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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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ELISA
Transforming child nutrition in Latin America through fresh and additive-free foods for kids.
![Rosalino Molina]()
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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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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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Geem
Making seaweed snacks, taste-tested for a Western audience.
![Geem founder]()
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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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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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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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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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Kaüna
Building the ultimate population health management platform for chronic kidney disease.
![Kauna team lead]()
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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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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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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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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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Mai Soli Foundation
Empowering young girls to break the cycle of child marriage with education and entrepreneurship.
![Mai Soli team]()
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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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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.
![My Dental Key team]()
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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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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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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
![Ian Speers]()
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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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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.
![Patient First AI team]()
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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.
![Peri Peach founder]()
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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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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.
![Rarefied founder]()
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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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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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Scientific Financial Systems, Inc.
Developing AI-enabled tools to help investment management teams identify opportunities faster.
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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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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.
![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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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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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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Thermaband, Inc.
Creating the only smart bracelet that provides immediate preemptive hot flash relief with personalized digital insights.
![Thermaband team]()
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TransCrypts
Bringing emerging technologies to financial institutions.
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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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Ukraine Global Scholars Foundation
Providing mentorship, education, and career guidance to a new generation of Ukrainian leaders capable of accelerating the development of post-war Ukraine.
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UMA
Helping female artisans break free from the poverty trap by enhancing leadership skills and providing access to markets.
![UMA Team]()
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Unlock Education
Empowering public schools to leverage the data they already have to drive their decisions.
![Unlock Education team leads]()
