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Need a dose of good news? Check out these recent wins from across our network: 🪲 LymeAlert co-founder, Erin Dawicki, spo...
06/18/2026

Need a dose of good news? Check out these recent wins from across our network:

🪲 LymeAlert co-founder, Erin Dawicki, spoke to Motherly® about ways to stay safe during tick season → https://bit.ly/4xbOGoe

⛽ Lukera Energy won second place at the EPIC Pitch Competition → https://bit.ly/4vlECbb

🌾 Ecosystem Future Fellow Sadan Kulturel-Konak co-organized the Food Security and Access for Healthy Futures Symposium at Penn State → https://bit.ly/4e1UKIt

⚓️ Ocean Enterprise Stage 2 innovator Khalid Kamhawi published research in the Journal of Ocean Technology → https://bit.ly/4gaE0jA

🥬 Emma Ekua Hudson, executive director and founder of Food For Thought Foundation, won both first place in the Social Impact track and the Social Impact Audience Choice award at Boston University Innovate BU’s 2026 New Venture Competition → https://bit.ly/49TSUXI

🌊 Ocean Enterprise Stage 1 venture HALOBLUE Tech took first place in the tech track at the California State University, East Bay Innovation Festival 2026 → https://bit.ly/3Q7lVsj

Let’s hear it for these leaders who are advancing ideas that are making a difference in their communities and beyond! 👏 👏 👏

Photo Credits: LymeAlert, Department of Energy, Penn State University, Boston University Innovate@BU, Raisa Guisado (HALOBLUE Tech)

For startups building AI products, ethical considerations can feel like something to address later, once the product is ...
06/16/2026

For startups building AI products, ethical considerations can feel like something to address later, once the product is stable, growth is underway, and key milestones have been met.

But Ikigai Labs co-founder Devavrat Shah believes speed and responsibility aren’t at odds. In fact, both are essential to building products that earn and keep people’s trust.

We spoke with Devarat about creating an AI Ethics Council, designing systems with human oversight in mind, and why investing in responsible AI practices now can help organizations navigate what’s ahead.

Read the interview → https://bit.ly/4vfIf20

🔋⚡ Fueled up and ready to go. The Spring 2026 Aspire Climatetech cohort recently wrapped up five weeks of intensive inve...
06/15/2026

🔋⚡ Fueled up and ready to go.

The Spring 2026 Aspire Climatetech cohort recently wrapped up five weeks of intensive investor-readiness training with a two-day workshop at Greentown Labs.

The 15 seed-stage startups worked alongside experienced investor-mentors to sharpen their value propositions, business models, and investment readiness.

We can’t wait to see how these teams continue to scale their solutions and drive progress across the climatetech ecosystem!

Learn more about the teams → https://bit.ly/4uCGfAN

🌱 Meet the innovators putting climate solutions to work. Our 2026 Aspire Climatetech cohort is gearing up for our in-per...
06/09/2026

🌱 Meet the innovators putting climate solutions to work.

Our 2026 Aspire Climatetech cohort is gearing up for our in-person workshop at Greentown Labs, one of the country's leading climatetech startup incubators.

Get to know the teams → https://bit.ly/4uCGfAN

📸 A few snapshots from in Los Angeles!Our President & CEO, Phil Weilerstein, and Director of Higher Education Ecosyste...
06/09/2026

📸 A few snapshots from in Los Angeles!

Our President & CEO, Phil Weilerstein, and Director of Higher Education Ecosystems, Mike Brizek, spent the week connecting with inventors, researchers, and I&E leaders and exploring what’s next for the discovery ecosystem.

As a proud sponsor of the conference, we were also honored to have Phil moderate a fireside chat with David Dolby, Chief Executive Officer of Dolby Family Ventures, and Robert Lemelson, Board President of The Lemelson Foundation.

We’re feeling inspired and energized by the passion and creativity that make the National Academy of Inventors community so special.

Photo Credits: NAI

🌊 If U.S. coastal counties were their own country, they would rank as the world’s third-largest economy, behind only the...
06/08/2026

🌊 If U.S. coastal counties were their own country, they would rank as the world’s third-largest economy, behind only the United States and China.

And the blue economy reaches far beyond the shoreline. From trade and energy to food systems and resilience, ocean-connected industries are shaping how we live, work, and grow.

In our latest blog post, we explore how startups like Aloft Systems, VesselOps, FishLAT (Blue Latitudes, LLC), Mira Intel, Pittsburgh Coastal Energy, Sitkana, Dirigo Sea Farm, Astraeus Ocean Systems, and Sandbar Oyster Company are turning ocean innovation into real-world impact

This , discover how entrepreneurs, researchers, and coastal communities are helping shape what comes next in blue tech innovation → https://bit.ly/4etV1nA

Driving systemic resilience across global agricultural ecosystems 🌱We recently wrapped up the M4D Open Innovation Challe...
06/03/2026

Driving systemic resilience across global agricultural ecosystems 🌱

We recently wrapped up the M4D Open Innovation Challenge Bootcamp—the first stage of an initiative supporting growth-stage enterprises working to strengthen resilience in rural communities around the world.

Twenty-two teams completed the bootcamp and are advancing solutions across four core focus areas:
🌾 Insurance Solutions for Resilient Food Systems
🧱 Reducing the Drivers of Fragility
🛜 Digital Extension for Accountable Service Delivery
🌽 Agroecology for Productive, Climate-Resilient Systems

During the three-day virtual experience, participants explored strategic topics, strengthened connections to M4D Alliance Partners, and exchanged insights.

🌐 Thank you to our M4D consortium members and partners Asian Development Bank, IDB Lab, ESA - European Space Agency, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), CGIAR, EIIS - European Institute of Innovation for Sustainability, and the International Innovation Hub (IIH)—for helping make this possible.

06/03/2026

📚☀️ June is here, and so is our annual summer reading list.

Our executive team shares the books shaping their thinking, and the ones they’re reading just for fun.

🔖 See their picks → https://bit.ly/4uMF81f

We're excited to introduce the latest FLIPspace cohort: Bardia Saeedi, Graham Theisen, Walter Alejandro Sarmiento, Sidda...
06/02/2026

We're excited to introduce the latest FLIPspace cohort: Bardia Saeedi, Graham Theisen, Walter Alejandro Sarmiento, Siddarth Suresh! 🎉

Over the next three months, they’ll receive tailored venture development support, connect with mentors, and advance AI-driven innovations designed to address complex issues across industries.

Special thanks to the Walton Family Foundation, the Federal Laboratory Consortium, and Highway Ventures for bringing this program to life and supporting the next generation of innovators in Arkansas.

🌐 Get to know the cohort → https://bit.ly/43O4IXO

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