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Startups
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MIT Energy Conference explores changes to the grid in coming decades
Student-run event spans energy policy, carbon pricing, storage technologies, and the rise of renewables.
April 9, 2019 -
MIT spinout seeks to transform food safety testing
An affordable, easy-to-use handheld sensor, soon to enter the market, can indicate the presence of bacterial contaminants in food in seconds.
April 9, 2019 -
MET Fund launched to support MITdesignX
Seed fund will support venture-design education and entrepreneurship in the School of Architecture and Planning.
April 9, 2019 -
With new Proto Ventures Program, MIT Innovation Initiative turns ideas into impact
MITii will hire experts to pursue new business opportunities by matching MIT expertise and innovation with real-world problems.
April 2, 2019 -
Apptimize helps companies create seamless digital experiences
After a personal loss led to a new perspective, Nancy Hua ’07 left a career in finance to start the company.
March 21, 2019 -
Streamlining restaurant operations
Alumni-founded Toast provides technologies that help get an order from a customer to the kitchen and back again.
March 10, 2019 -
Israeli and Palestinian architects and planners seek common ground on innovation, entrepreneurship
Visiting fellows engage with students in the School of Architecture and Planning to create startups aimed at social impact.
March 7, 2019 -
Solve launches 2019 global challenges
Anyone can submit tech-based solution applications until July 1.
March 4, 2019 -
Low-cost ventilator wins Sloan health care prize
Device was one of eight inventions pitched at this year’s MIT Sloan Healthcare Innovations Prize competition.
February 25, 2019 -
Twenty-five ways in which MIT has transformed computing
From digital circuits to ingestible robots, the Institute has helped spearhead key innovations in the technology revolution.
February 25, 2019 -
Podcast reveals the tough reality of building a business
Frederic Kerrest MBA ’09 recently launched the podcast "Zero to IPO" to help entrepreneurs with each stage of the startup journey.
February 14, 2019 -
Finding love in the lab
Mechanical engineering alumni and married couple Larissa Nietner and Scott Nill started their relationship — and two companies — as MIT graduate students.
February 13, 2019 -
Redesigning pharmacies with the consumer in mind
Alto Pharmacy uses software and an innovative operations model to improve access to medication.
February 13, 2019 -
At StartMIT, students gain advice for building a successful startup
“The purpose of a business should be to solve real problems for real customers,” says MIT Professor Hari Balakrishnan, cofounder of Cambridge Mobile Telematics.
February 8, 2019 -
Teaching the entrepreneurial craft at startup speed
MIT’s Entrepreneurship Development Program takes attendees through every step of the company-building process.
February 6, 2019 -
First step on Volpe parcel planned for 2019
Building and landscape designs for new federal building are now complete.
February 5, 2019 -
Optimizing solar farms with smart drones
MIT spinoff Raptor Maps uses machine-learning software to improve the maintenance of solar panels.
January 30, 2019 -
Democratizing app development
Thunkable gives noncoders the ability to create professional-grade mobile apps.
January 16, 2019 -
Empowering impoverished artisans through fashion
Soko uses a mobile-based supply chain to give artisans in Kenya access to the fashion world.
January 3, 2019 -
Weather monitoring from the ground up
ClimaCell uses wireless signals to track and forecast the weather in every 500-meter patch of the Earth’s surface.
December 14, 2018