PROTO VENTURES
MIT’S VENTURE STUDIO
Translating ideas into impactful ventures that address the world’s greatest challenges.
ABOUT PROTO VENTURES
The first venture studio of its kind within a university.
Proto Ventures creates startups from technology and research within MIT.
We believe that many potentially world-changing inventions remain on the lab room floor. Proto Ventures seeks to be more deliberate about identifying venture opportunities at an early stage and cultivating those ideas to solve the world’s hardest problems.
CURRENT CHANNEL:
GEOTHERMAL
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CURRENT CHANNEL:
FUSION AND CLEAN ENERGY
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FORMER CHANNEL:
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE + HEALTHCARE
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Proto Ventures gives sponsor organizations access to innovative people, ideas, and technologies across MIT’s ecosystem. Sponsorship is a perfect fit for innovative corporations and impact-oriented philanthropic donors.
VENTURE BUILDERS
NEWS
MIT Proto Ventures program readies new startups for launch
MIT Innovation Initiative Venture Builder Luis Soenksen accelerates the launch of unique AI and health care startups in record time.
Tapping into the million-year energy source below our feet
MIT spinout Quaise Energy is working to create geothermal wells made from the deepest holes in the world.
MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy
New superconducting magnet breaks magnetic field strength records, paving the way for practical, commercial, carbon-free power.