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Ideas to Enterprise

Across Harvard’s campus, our students, scholars, and faculty turn ideas into ventures that solve problems and create value.

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How does innovation move from lab to market?
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Turning ideas into enterprise

Chief Technology Development Officer Isaac T. Kohlberg explains how Harvard’s Office of Technology Development helps researchers and scientists at the University bring their innovations and discoveries to the market.

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Student and alumni founders representing 12 different Harvard schools

Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge

Founders with bright futures

Helping mothers protect their bodies during childbirth, reimagining how hydrogen can be transported safely and affordably, and leveraging AI and robotics to transform the thousands-year-old process of hair braiding are a few of the 2025 Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge’s extraordinary winning ventures.

Learn more about the innovation challenge

The business of better health

These businesses join a history that includes Massachusetts General Hospital, founded by alum John Bartlett, and Partners in Health, founded by alum Paul Farmer.

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Creating a new class of antibiotics

Kinvard Bio, a biotechnology company launched out of the Harvard’s Myers Lab, is creating a new class of antibiotics in the hopes of treating drug-resistant infections and diseases.

Creating a new class of antibiotics

Pioneering regenerative medicine

Nabiha Saklayen founded Cellino to transform the body’s blood cells into tissues that can be used for healing and repair.

Nabiha Saklayen
Pioneering regenerative medicine

Decreasing eating disorder risk

Amanda Moreno founded the Body Empowerment Project to improve student’s coping mechanisms and decrease eating disorder risk.

Amanda Moreno
Decreasing eating disorder risk

Detecting deadly lacing agents

MabLab has been developing a single test strip to detect the five deadliest lacing agents in drugs.

Skye Lam and Vienna Sparks
Detecting deadly lacing agents

Transforming health care

Ivan Hsiaois founded Trans Health HQ to be a one-stop shop for clinicians seeking to improve care for transgender patients.

Ivan Hsiao
Transforming health care

Listening to patients' needs

Manny Simons founded Akouos, Inc. to develop gene therapies to restore hearing.

Manny Simons
Listening to patients' needs

Education Entrepreneurs

These businesses join a history that includes alum Walter William Spencer Cook, co-founder of the New York University Institute of Fine Arts, and alum Edith Lesley, founder of Lesley University.

Explore more businesses making a social impact

Manasi Mehan and Chhavi Khandelwal founded Saturday Art Class to provide visual arts and social emotional learning education to children across India.

Joe Wolf believes his Imagine Worldwide can solve the literacy and numeracy crisis in sub-Saharan Africa.

Joy Lindsay founded Butterfly Dreamz to help teen girls and young women from underserved communities become leaders.

When Jenny Woo created “52 Essential Conversations” she aimed to help parents and educators through difficult conversations.

Team players

Founding the future of technology

These businesses join a history that includes alum Dan Bricklin’s VisiCalc, the first independent software company, and alum Scott McNealy’s Sun Microsystems, which created the Java programming language.

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Computing with quantum

John Levy hopes his startup SEEQC can turn quantum computers from an experimental technology into a commercially viable, enterprise-grade tool that will be exponentially more powerful than today’s digital computers.

Computing with quantum

Finding his focus

Metalenz, which Rob Devlin helped develop, has already shipped 100 million of its light-focusing metasurfaces to an array of electronics companies.

Rob Devlin
Finding his focus

Building together

Shruti Shruti founded ApnaKlub to create a digital platform that helps variety store owners in India aggregate their buying power and access credit tools.

Shruti Shruti
Building together

Touching the future

Simon Chaput founded Boréas Technologies to improve how we interact with technology.

Simon Chaput
Touching the future

Solving debt

Upsolve founder Rohan Pavuluri created the nonprofit to help Americans deal with their debt.

Rohan Pavuluri
Solving debt

Owning your health

Laura Wegner created Mii to empower patients to take ownership of their medical data.

Laura Wegner talking to a crowd about her company Mii
Owning your health

Earth-friendly enterprises

These businesses join a history that includes alum Thomas Jaggar’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory and alum Mark Plotkin’s Amazon Conservation Team.

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Solving global problems