Ventures
Browse a selection of current and former i-lab ventures.
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All
13
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Harvard Business School
4
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Harvard Extension School
1
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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
4
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Harvard Law School
1
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Harvard Medical School
2
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Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
1
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Non-Harvard Affiliate
9
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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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Adolescent Health Champions
Using peer-to-peer education to train adolescents in India in critical health topics.
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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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Almond Fintech
Providing financial institutions with near-instant FX settlement across borders, consistently beating mid-market rates.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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.
![Cashex]()
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Cherish
Offering education, support, fun, and community for families impacted by dementia.
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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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Debate Spaces
Connecting and empowering middle schoolers worldwide, teaching debate to foster critical thinking, cultural empathy, and civic engagement.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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GenUnity
Activating everyday adults to create a community by everyone for everyone.
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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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humanID
An anonymous, bot-resistant authentication for safer online communities.
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Ilios Therapeutics
Combating neurodegenerative diseases through rationally-designed multi-functional small molecules.
![Ilios team]()
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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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JustFix
Building free tools for tenants to exercise their rights to a livable home.
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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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Limax Biosciences
Treating internal and external injuries with a stretchable adhesive hydrogel.
![Limax co-founder]()
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Loo Works Limited
Building the first manufacturing facility in West Africa to use waste materials to create toilet housings and digesters
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MDaaS Global
Building and operating modern, tech-enabled diagnostic centers to provide healthcare for Africa's next billion.
![Mdaas founder]()
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Melanin Doc
Supporting minority students interested in medicine with scholarships and mentorship opportunities.
![Melanin Doc founder]()
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Metalmark Innovations, Inc.
Building a self-renewing air cleaner that performs better and delivers with 10x the filter life of a typical HEPA system.
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MiKashBoks
Making saving and lending with friends easy and safe.
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Mozambique School Lunch Initiative
Providing nutritious school meals to children attending rural primary schools in Mozambique.
![Mozambique School Lunch Initiative founder]()
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Net3allem
Providing access to universal high-quality early childhood education for children in need, in Egypt.
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Nunchi Health
Building inclusive mental health programs for culturally diverse communities.
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Oze
Supercharging business across Africa with simple tools, smooth payments, affordable capital, and digital shops.
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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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Paint it Red Foundation
Striving to impart body literacy to eliminate intergenerational misinformation that prohibits menstruators from living a life of dignity.
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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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Penn Collective
Creating an informed cadre of women politicians in Tamil Nadu by building essential political skills and fostering a community of leaders who can run for office at all levels of government.
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Peripeach
Designing a medical device that protects the pelvic floor during childbirth.
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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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RapidSOS
Securely linking life-saving data from connected devices, apps and sensors to safety agents, 911 and first responders globally.
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Rehydrate
Creating a decentralized, low-energy water recycler for the disaster relief, Department of Defense forces, and developing communities.
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RxAll, Inc.
A digital commerce platform empowering independent pharmacies in Africa with payment processing, point-of-sale, and pharmacy automation software.
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SES
Powering a new era of electric transportation with the world’s most advanced Li-Metal battery.
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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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Sparrow.Vote
Simplifying voter contact by enabling users to record a voice memo, upload their target universe of phone numbers, and start dialing!
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SpeakPerfect
Revolutionizing the speed of content creation with a creative engine that turns raw ideas into polished content.
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Stitch3D
Helping teams manage and deliver LIDAR and photogrammetry point clouds on a secure and fully collaborative web platform.
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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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TANGapp
An international, peer-to-peer transaction app with a social mission of financial inclusion for emerging markets.
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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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Tech2Peace
Building bridges between young Israeli and Palestinian leaders through technology, dialogue, and entrepreneurship.
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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 Apprentice Project
Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to provide personalized learning experiences and support to students across India.
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The NRI Nation
A digital media company that does journalism for and about the global Indian diaspora population.
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Tolemi
Integrating city data from multiple departments and systems into a single, easy-to-use platform.
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Twisted Kelp
Developing robust, multi-frequency connectivity solutions for emergency service providers that are designed to operate in austere environments.
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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.
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UrSure
UrSure was acquired by OraSure Technologies. The company developed urine and blood tests that measure and improve adherence to medications.
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Vaxess Technologies
Developing a novel transdermal patch technology to transform home delivery of therapies and vaccines
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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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Vocal Justice
Partnering with educators to transform their classrooms into healing-centered communities where youth imagine and advocate for a more just world.
