New York, N.Y., July 2018 — The Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship (Trust Center) today announces the expansion of its MIT delta v summer accelerator for student-founded ventures to a second location in New York City. This new home mirrors the capstone entrepreneurial experience based at MIT in Cambridge, ...
from BostInno by Lucia Maffei As a two-person team, Bill Aulet and Trish Cotter are among the finalists of this year’s 50 on Fire. They both work side by side at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, Aulet as managing director and Cotter as director of “delta v,” MIT’s student ...
from BostInno by Lucia Maffei At the end of the movie The Big Short, viewers are informed that Michael Burry – the man who predicted the 2008 worldwide financial crisis years before anyone else – is now focused on investing in one commodity: water. Nowadays, the signals that water is becoming ...
from BostInno by Lucia Maffei Let me set the scene for you. Eva Breitenbach is pursuing her MBA at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. On December 1, 2016 she wakes up and discovers that she cannot move half of her face. Later, she’s diagnosed with Bell’s Palsy, a rare neurological ...
by Jamie Ducharme, Boston Magazine Newsha Ghaeli and Mariana Matus’ big idea doesn’t exactly sound glamorous—but it might just revolutionize the way we handle public health issues. Ghaeli, an MIT research fellow, and Matus, an MIT Ph.D. candidate, are the founders of Biobot Analytics, a startup that seeks to bring cities ...
By Colin W. Barry, VentureFIzz “If you’re looking for another dating app, you won’t find it here,” Bill Aulet, the Managing Director of MIT’s Martin Trust Center, joked. “We wanted our entrepreneurs to create companies with a social purpose.” On September 9, the Kresge Auditorium at MIT was the stage ...
by Olivia Vanni Even the strongest of people can tweak their backs mid-lift or leave the gym with a newfound limp if they aren't correctly doing their workout routine. Enter Perch, an MIT startup that's developing a system of 3D cameras that tracks workouts and gives athletes critical data on ...
When people think of virtual reality, most of them probably equate it with the ultimate gaming experience. But for folks with relatives living in elder care facilities with debilitating disease that render them immobile or confused, VR will soon serve a more profound purpose. Rendever, a startup founded by Reed ...
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