Startups Based on Harvard Innovations Devise Solutions for a Warming World
Five companies started with discoveries in Harvard labs and, with various forms of support, developed impactful solutions that are enhancing our quality of life.
Harvard faculty are preeminent scholars and prolific inventors. In OTD, we also understand that some academic innovations need a boost to succeed commercially.
OTD’s pioneering technology accelerator programs—the Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator and the Harvard Grid Accelerator—help bridge the development gap, providing focused funding and resources to validate and de-risk promising technologies for successful partnering.
What ultimately makes it all work? Passionate people.
Our wide network of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs—many of whom are Harvard alumni—give generously of their time and expertise, leading and investing in new startup companies, engaging with labs as Entrepreneurs in Residence or Experts in Residence, serving on our accelerator advisory committees, speaking at OTD events, and making valuable connections throughout Cambridge and Boston.
Five companies started with discoveries in Harvard labs and, with various forms of support, developed impactful solutions that are enhancing our quality of life.
Axoft, a startup launched with technology developed in Harvard labs, is transforming care for traumatic brain injuries with its soft, biocompatible neural probe that can quickly measure recovery and consciousness within a few minutes.
Bioengineering researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a soft, thin, stretchable bioelectronic device that can be implanted into a tadpole embryo’s brain and record electrical activity with no impact on normal tadpole embryo development or behavior. This novel device could help researchers better understand and treat diseases that manifest in early brain development.
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