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Co-Chair of Scientific Advisory Board Akita Biosciences Professor of Medicine Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School Akita  Biosciences is a biotechnology company focused on redefining preventive and precision health by developing advanced nasal-spray technologies that strengthen the body’s natural defenses and deliver therapeutics more effectively. Lab-to-Launch Lounge Thursday, September 18, 2025 Dr. Jeff Karp is a distinguished professor of Anesthesiology at

President & Founder EndoShunt, PhD Candidate Harvard Biodesign Lab SEAS EndoShunt, provides trauma surgeons with a way to rapidly gain targeted control of abdominal hemorrhage. The company expects to receive FDA clearance in the next 18 months, following which it will begin a targeted launch in seven hospitals. Lab-to-Launch Lounge Thursday, September 18, 2025 Since his sophomore year of high school, Michael Finn Henry has been deeply involved in graduate-level research proje

Former Co-founder at Zapata and Head of Quantum and AI at BCG X After his postdoc at SEAS, he co-founded Zapata, a company born from Harvard IP with a meteoric run in quantum computing - attracted seed and Series A funding - but ultimately didn’t stick the landing. He’s since pivoted gracefully to lead Quantum & AI at BCG X, shaping cutting‑edge solutions. Lab-to-Launch Lounge Thursday, August 21, 2025 Yudong Cao is the Head of Quantum and AI at BCG X, the tech build & design

Co-founder and CTO at Tender Food Tender Food is a Boston-based food technology startup that creates realistic plant-based whole-cut meats, like pulled pork and chicken breast, using a proprietary fiber-spinning process. Its mission is to make alternative meats so delicious and affordable that eating animals becomes unnecessary. Lab-to-Launch Lounge Thursday, August 21, 2025 Grant Gonzalez is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Tender Food where he leads the reinve

Co-founder and former CSO at Righthand Robotics Righthand Robotics' RightPick system is the best-in-class piece-picking solution for reliable and autonomous order fulfillment, driven by machine learning and AI, using proprietary industrial hardware. Lab-to-Launch Lounge Thursday, June 27, 2025 Leif Jentoft is a co-founder of RightHand Robotics, a company that provides hardware and software solutions for automating order-picking in logistics. He and his colleagues designed an

Co-Founder and President of Nabla Bio Nabla Bio is expanding the universe of druggable targets with AI-powered protein design. Lab-to-Launch Lounge Thursday, March 27, 2025 Frances Anastassacos, PhD, is President and Co-Founder of Nabla Bio, Inc., a Series A stage biotech start-up focused on using AI and multiplex biology to enhance biologics design. She completed her PhD at Harvard in 2019 and has prior experience in venture capital at Flagship Pioneering, as well as roles i

Co-Founder and CEO of Adden Energy Adden Energy is a startup focused on developing next-generation solid-state batteries, particularly for electric vehicles (EVs). The company, spun out from Harvard University, is working on lithium-metal battery technology that aims to offer faster charging times, longer lifespan, and improved safety compared to traditional lithium-ion batteries. Their innovation could significantly enhance EV adoption by addressing range anxiety and chargin

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Strategist of QuEra Computing QuEra Computing is the scientific and commercial leader in quantum computers using neural atoms. QuEra is revolutionizing computation by developing scalable quantum computers to tackle some of today’s “impossible” problems, from complex simulations to groundbreaking advances in artificial intelligence. QuEra is backed by strategic industry partners such as Google Quantum AI and recently secured $230mil in funding.

President and Founder of Boréas Technologies Boréas Technologies ultra-low-power piezo drivers enable the next generation of high-definition piezo haptics. Using a multidisciplinary approach, our team crafts new reference designs and electronics to help you improve the touch user experience of your products with HD piezo haptics. Lab-to-Launch Lounge Thursday, November 21, 2024 Simon Chaput, while pursuing his Ph.D. at Harvard University between 2013 and 2017, invented a new

Founder and CEO of Mori Mori formerly Cambridge Crops manufactures all-natural protective layer to slow down the spoiling process of food and keep fresher food for longer. Lab-to-Launch Lounge Thursday, November 21, 2024 Adam Behrens is the Co-Founder and CEO of Mori, a company that enhances food resilience using a natural and edible protein derived from silk. Mori Silk™ can be integrated at any stage, from farm to shelf, optimizing the growth, processing, packaging, transpor

Co-Founder and VP of Metalmark Innovations Metalmark Innovations is a Harvard-based startup focused on developing innovative air purification technologies. Their flagship product, Tatama, is a self-renewing air cleaner that can effectively remove harmful airborne particles, wildfire smoke, and pathogens. This unique technology offers long-lasting performance and reduced maintenance costs. Metalmark's mission is to improve indoor air quality and contribute to a healthier envir

Co-Founder and CEO of Metalmark Innovations Metalmark Innovations is a Harvard-based startup focused on developing innovative air purification technologies. Their flagship product, Tatama, is a self-renewing air cleaner that can effectively remove harmful airborne particles, wildfire smoke, and pathogens. This unique technology offers long-lasting performance and reduced maintenance costs. Metalmark's mission is to improve indoor air quality and contribute to a healthier envi

Founder and CEO of Plex Research Plex Research was founded on the notion that more data should mean better medicines. To accomplish that goal, Plex is making the world's scientific data findable, accessible, searchable, and transparent from a single location. Lab-to-Launch Lounge Wednesday, September 18, 2024 Dr. Douglas Selinger is the CEO and Founder of Plex Research. As an early pioneer of microarray technology, Doug authored some of the first publications describing exper

Founding Partner at First Star Ventures First Star Ventures invests with conviction in visionary, technical founders inventing the future, inventing a better future with frontier computing technology Lab-to-Launch Lounge Wednesday, September 18, 2024 Drew Volpe is a Founding Partner of First Star Ventures. Drew is an accomplished investor, entrepreneur, and technologist with a deep experience in search, machine learning, sensors, mobile, computational bio, and blockchain tech

Co-founder and CTO of Fleet Robotics Fleet Robotics is driving deep data insights for shipping, powered by submersible, autonomous hull-cleaning and inspection robots. Industry Insights Tuesday, September 24, 2024 The umbrella of climate challenges can be daunting but by focusing on specific problems, results can be realized. Michael underscored this concept by emphasizing by exploring a variety of climate problems relating to the ocean. One problem their technology could ta

Co-founder and CEO of Tender Food Tender Food is a food technology company on a mission to make alternative meats so delicious, nutritious, and affordable that eating animals just won't make sense anymore! Industry Insights Tuesday, September 24, 2024 Christophe Chantre shared valuable insights into how scaling technology-based solutions can change the meat industry, which contributes a large share of total global greenhouse gas emissions, to embrace products that are cleaner

Founder and CEO of Singularity Singularity Energy provides data and software solutions for grid decarbonization. Lab-to-Launch Lounge Thursday, August 22, 2024 Dr. Wenbo Shi is the CEO and founder of Singularity. A passionate technologist with a strong background in smart energy innovations, Wenbo has published 20+ technical papers on smart grids and received 1,000+ citations worldwide. This includes two first-authored journal papers and PhD thesis on distributed energy manag

Co-founder and CEO of Lime Theraputics Lime is inventing breakthrough lipid-targeting therapeutics using our novel drug discovery platform. Lab-to-Launch Lounge Thursday, August 22, 2024 Dr. Shardule Shah is the CEO and co-founder of Lime Therapeutics. In 2022, he was awarded the prestigious Harvard Blavatnik Fellowship for Life Sciences Entrepreneurship and currently holds an Executive Fellow position at Harvard Business School. Prior to co-founding Lime in 2021, Dr. Shah wo

Co-founder and CEO of Voxel8 Voxel8 was a venture capital-backed multi-material 3D printing spin-out from Harvard until it was acquired by Kornit Digital. Lab-to-Launch Lounge Thursday, July 18, 2024 Travis Busbee is a returning PhD student in Jennifer Lewis' group at Harvard SEAS. Before resuming his academic pursuits, Travis was a co-founder and CEO of Voxel8, a venture capital-backed multi-material 3D printing spin-out from Harvard. At Voxel8, he successfully led the compa

Founder and CEO of 02139 Inc 02139 Inc. is a consulting company that she started in 2013 in order to provide executive services to both public and private technology companies with a heavy focus on accelerating growth and the creation of jobs in a variety of industries. Lab-to-Launch Lounge Thursday, July 18, 2024 Dr. Jill S. Becker is the CEO and Founder of 02139 Inc., a consulting firm established in 2013 to provide executive services primarily to technology companies. With