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Media Lab Spinoffs

For more than three decades, the people of the Media Lab have spurred progress and change not just through academia, but across startups an…

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MIT spinoffs listed among Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies 2023

Media Lab spinoff Sourcemap and MIT spinoff Overjet have been listed among Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies for 2023.

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Media Lab Spinoffs make Fast Company's 2024 World's Most Innovative Companies list

The following spinoffs were recognized in different industry sectors.

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"MiNDS" technology named to Top 100 Science Spinoffs

The Conformable Decoders group's new method to deliver drugs directly to the brain was selected to the Top 100 Science Spinoffs according t…

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Spinoff Xander secures $1.41 million in seed funding

Xander, a Media Lab spinoff company dedicated to enhancing communication for individuals with hearing challenges, has successfully complete…

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Media Lab spinoff Xander honored at CES 2023

Co-founded by Media Lab alum Alex Westner, Xander will introduce its first product, XanderGlasses, at CES 2023.

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Spinoff Xander raises $1.4 million in pre-seed funding

Xander plans to launch its first product, XanderGlasses, designed for people with hearing loss or auditory processing challenges.

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Spinoff Graviky Labs unveils collaboration with Johnnie Walker and Bulletproof

The “Keep Walking City Collection" features art that uses Graviky Lab's AIR-INK to evoke a strong sense of place.

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Spinoff Graviky Labs wins Falling Walls Science Summit 2021 award

Spinoff Graviky Labs has been listed as a winner in the Science Start-Ups category of this year's Falling Walls Science Summit.

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Media Lab spinoff Empatica receives new FDA clearance for its Health Monitoring Platform and announces Series B financing

Co-founded by Professor Rosalind Picard, Empatica develops medical-grade wearables and algorithms for health monitoring and diagnostics.

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MIT spinoff, OPT, ramps up production of its 3D-printed nasal swab

Spinoff OPT Industries is scaling up production of novel metamaterials, such as swabs for Covid-19 testing.

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Spinoff companies

More than 100 companies have spun out of the Media Lab.

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Fast Company's 2023 World-Changing Ideas Awards: Media Lab Honorees

A number of Media Lab and MIT projects and spinoffs were recognized.

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Using robotics to supercharge health care

Spinoff Vecna Technologies uses a wide range of robotic and digital technologies to help solve a variety of issues in healthcare.

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ML Focus Series | Extended Intelligence—Q+A with Tulip

Future-proof your operations with Rony Kubat, co-founder of Tulip, as he shares his insights into how data-driven platforms have impro…

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May 20, 2021
1:00pm — 2:00pm ET
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Media Lab Startup Showcase - Fall 2019

Fall 2019 Member Meeting Media Lab startup showcase (3rd Floor)The MIT Media Lab fall 2019 member meeting is an invitation-only event.…

Wednesday
October 23, 2019
5:00pm — 7:00pm ET
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E14 Fund Startup Showcase - Spring 2018

Please note: attendance at this event is by invitation only.10:15 | welcome Habib Haddad & Calvin Chin, Managing Partners of …

Thursday
May 10, 2018
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E14 Live: Supply Chain Innovations | From the source, to the warehouse, to customers

We'll take a look at innovations throughout the supply chain and the pressure points (and opportunities) companies are seeing in the midst …

Wednesday
May 6, 2020
1:00pm — 1:45pm ET
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E14 Fund Startup Showcase - Fall 2018

Fall 2018 member meetingE14 Fund Startup ShowcaseAttendance at this event is by invitation only.Unable to join us in person? Join via …

Thursday
October 25, 2018
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MIT clean tech companies to watch

Explore a few of the clean tech startups begun by MIT researchers and alumni, including Media Lab spinoffs Graviky Labs and Stable Auto.

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TIME's Best Inventions of 2024: Media Lab honorees

The companies were selected in the following categories: Consumer Electronics, Manufacturing + Materials, Agriculture, and Medical Care.

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E14 Live: Virtual work and Distributed Manufacturing

Panel 1: Inventions for the virtual workforce; Panel 2: Distributed manufacturing and resiliency to COVID-19

Thursday
April 2, 2020
1:00pm — 2:00pm ET
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Media Lab Venture Summit 2020

Featuring dozens of Media Lab startups + nonprofits with interactive demos and opportunities to meet and identify potential collaborations.

Tuesday — Wednesday
January 28, 2020 —
January 29, 2020
8:30am — 7:00pm ET
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The Media Lab at the 2024 Core77 Design Awards

Congratulations to the winners and honorees of the 2024 Core77 Design Awards!

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MIT Community Summer Softball: The Media Labradoodles

Read more about this program via this blog post!

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Virtual Fall 2021 Member Meeting | Day Two | Channel 1: E14 Fund

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Media Lab Startup Event - Fall 2017

This event is an opportunity for member companies to meet and interact with many of the Media Lab's spinoff companies.

Wednesday
October 18, 2017
3:30pm — 5:30pm ET
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E14 Fund Startups: Mobility and Urban Tech

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E14 Fund Startups: Productivity + Insights

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Virtual meetings are about to turn the art of management into a scalable science

Quartz at Work looks at ways that online meetings, with tools like those developed by certain spinoffs, can improve management decisions.

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E14 Fund Startups: Manufacturing + Materials

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E14 Fund Startups: Health, Synthetic Biology, and Food Tech

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Media Lab @ SXSW 2024

See what the Media Lab community is bringing to SXSW 2024!

Friday — Saturday
March 8, 2024 —
March 16, 2024
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E14 Fund Startups: Logistics and Supply Chain

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OpenSpace.ai

OpenSpace provides next-generation 360 photo documentation, powerful integrations and the smartest analytics tools in the industry.

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Tulip

Tulip connects the people, machines, and devices on the shop floor as manufacturing's first platform as a service.Browse the company w…

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Optimus Ride

Optimus Ride is the leading self-driving vehicle technology company developing fully autonomous (SAE Level 4) systems for geofenced environ…

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Unitary Labs, Inc.

Dry.io lets people with little or no programming skills build full-stack social, group collaboration, and messaging software applications i…

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Fast Company's 2023 Innovation by Design Awards: Media Lab Honorees

Congratulations to the Media Lab community members and projects honored in Fast Company's 2023 Innovation by Design Awards!

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Rosalind Picard and Mary Lou Jepsen among 2022 Forbes 50 Over 50 honorees

Rosalind Picard and Media Lab alum, Mary Lou Jepsen, make the 2022 Forbes 50 Over 50: Entrepreneurs list.

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The Research Powering Humanity’s First Space Civilization with Ariel Ekblaw

On StarTalk, Dr. Ariel Ekblaw talks about her work with the Media Lab’s Space Exploration Initiative (SEI) and the Aurelia Institute.

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The Rise of the Chatbots

Fluid Interfaces alum Beerud Sheth talks to Bloomberg Businessweek about his conversational messaging platform, Gupshup.

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Formlabs

Formlabs is a 3D printing technology developer and manufacturer. The Somerville, Massachusetts-based company was founded in September 2011 …

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E14 Fund—Fall 2020 Update

You can browse through the startup videos and demos below.  We've broken them down into 5 categories:Health, Synbio, Food tech.Logisti…

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OPT Industries, Inc.

OPT Industries brings together automation engineering, computational design, and material science, unifying the production processes for fu…

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You can go back to the office—You just need a virtual-reality headset

Meeting up with holographic versions of distant colleagues is a great change from flat, boring video calls

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Media Lab startup showcase: Spring 2018 member meeting

A video playlist portraying companies supported by the E14 Fund.

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Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope!

MIT EECS student Andi Qu re-created the classic video game—developed by Media Lab spinoff Harmonix—using an oscilloscope as the display.

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DeepCure

DeepCure is transforming the field of small-molecule drug discovery, by delivering better drugs in a faster and cheaper way. DeepCure reima…

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Q&A: Dolapo Adedokun on computer technology, Ireland, and all that jazz

MIT EECS student and Mitchell Scholar hopes to play music in Dublin while working on his MS in intelligent systems.

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BRELYON

BRELYON is a new category of displays that gives immersion and high fidelity with no need for headsets.

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DeepCure scores $40M for AI-enabled drug discovery

Spinoff DeepCure, co-founded by Molecular Machines head Joe Jacobson and alumni Kfir Schreiber and Thrasyvoulos Karydis, raised $40 million

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Culture Biosciences

Culture Biosciences runs bench-scale fermentation services using automated bioreactors. They focus on aerobic, high-cell density fermentati…

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Augmental Tech among 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 honorees

Fluid Interfaces alum Tomás Vega and his Augmental Tech co-founder Corten Singer were recognized in the Social Impact category.

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Leonardo Bonanni testifies before US Senate Committee on Finance in Fighting Forced Labor hearing

Alum Leonardo Bonanni, founder of spinoff Sourcemap, testified before the US Senate Committee on Finance in this virtual hearing.

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Rana El Kaliouby named to 2023 USA Eisenhower Fellows

Former Labber Rana El Kaliouby has been named to the 2023 USA Eisenhower Fellows and hopes to explore AI investment while on fellowship.

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FIGUR8 and Toppan Create Service for Upper-Body Misalignment Visualization

Spinoff Figur8 and member company Toppan Printing have developed a new service using musculoskeletal sensors to assess body misalignment.

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Meet mouthpad^, a mouthpiece with trackpad that fully controls devices using tongue

Spinoff Augmental announces The MouthPad^, a custom-fit 3D-printed mouthpiece that lets users control digital devices hands-free.

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Startup Creates Mouthpiece for Controlling Devices with Your Tongue

The device converts the user's tongue position and pressure into cursor actions by processing signals through a machine-learning algorithm.