# Harvard Business School

> Harvard Business School is a VC fund backing Software. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last fund: Apr 2024
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/4867
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/HarvardHBS
- Website: http://www.hbs.edu
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HarvardBusinessSchool

Harvard Business School is a VC fund in Boston focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Harvard Business School educates leaders who make a difference in the world.HBS offers MBA Program, an intensive, two-year residential program leading to an MBA degree; Doctoral Programs with nine full-time programs leading to a Ph.D. or DBA degree; and Executive Education with more than 80 programs preparing talented professionals from all overthe world for new levels of leadership in their careers and within their organizations.Some of the notable graduates of Harvard Business School are former US president George W. Bush, Ratan Tata, and James Dimon. Harvard Business School is an ivy league school.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Harvard Business School. Shizune tracks 51 team members at Harvard Business School. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/harvard-business-school?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 58% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 42% |
| Internet | 3 | 25% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 25% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 17% |

35 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Grant | 6 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 33% |
| Seed | 2 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 83% |
| Brazil | 1 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lynda Applegate | Professor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lynda-m-applegate |
| Alex Iskold | Coach and Venture Capitalist in Residence | 112 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-iskold |
| Alistair Croll | Visiting Executive | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alistair-croll |
| Amy Schulman | Senior Lecturer - Business Administration | 24 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amy-w-schulman |
| Andy Wu | Assistant Professor of Business Administration (Strategy Unit) | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-wu-2 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| heva | heva is a vertical SaaS AI platform for doctors serving medical tourists. | $3.1M | Pre-Seed | Apr 25, 2025 |  |
| Argus Systems | Argus Systems builds data and evaluation infrastructure for robotics and physical AI |  | Grant | Mar 27, 2025 |  |
| Crop Diagnostix | Crop Diagnostix builds the future of predictive agriculture. | $75K | Grant | Mar 29, 2024 |  |
| ROOK | ROOK is an API-first company that connects apps and software with useful, usable health data and valuable insights from their users’ wearables. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | Mar 20, 2023 |  |
| Syrup Tech | Syrup Tech is a machine-learning decision-support engine for inventory in commerce. The company uses advanced demand forecasting and stochastic optimizations. Syrup Tech's software empowers brands and retailers to significantly increase full-priced inventory sell-through by (1) preventing stock-outs and end-of-season markdowns, (2) decreaseunnecessary excess inventory and reduce overproduction, and (3) reduce the time spent on manual tasks for stretched merchandising and planning teams. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Jun 01, 2021 |  |
| Gryps | Gryps provides access to quality information to make better decisions during the project life-cycle. The company was founded in 2020 and based in Bronx, New York. | $1.5M | Seed | Mar 30, 2021 |  |
| Magma Trading | Magma Trading has developed a platform for market-makers and order-entry broker-dealers to interact anonymously to improve execution quality. their management team includes professionals who have been CEOs and senior executives of several large Wall Street technology and trading firms. | $25K | Grant | Apr 19, 2018 |  |
| Alpha Vantage | Composed of a tight-knit community of researchers, engineers, and business professionals, Alpha Vantage Inc. is a leading provider of cloud-based APIs for realtime and historical data on stocks, forex (FX), and digital/crypto currencies. Our success is driven by rigorous research, cutting edge technology, and a disciplined focus ondemocratizing access to data. |  | Grant | Oct 30, 2017 |  |
| CozyKin | CozyKin provided personal care by matching families to share a Montessori-trained nanny with modern tools. The platform raised over $8 million in venture capital and was acquired by Higher Ground Education in 2020.“Who will take care of my baby when I go back to work?” Millions of new mothers in America asked this question every year as theyincreasingly plan to return to the workforce earlier and earlier. Millennial families struggle to find the right care due to the shortage of childcare, complexity of the search and their increasing desire for cognitively-appropriate care. CozyKin ran the two-sided market between new families and great nannies. Families were grouped based on location, schedule and preferences. CozyKin-employed nannies cared for 2-3 infants at the same time in the private home of these families.For parents, we delivered better quality, convenience, socialization and value than daycares or nannies. We backed this up with easy-to-use tech, 24/7 customer support and our 100% satisfaction guarantee. | $500.5K | Pre-Seed | Sep 01, 2017 |  |
| Cobli | Cobli is the leading IoT technology company for connected vehicles and logistics in Latin America. The company connects fleet vehicles to the internet through plug and play hardware and turns vehicle data into intelligence for a fleet manager through features such as vehicle routing and dispatch, client delivery communications, and automaticvehicle crash detection. Launched in 2017, Cobli is the fastest growing fleet management system in Latin America with more than 1,000 clients in a wide set of industries such as vehicle rental companies, ambulances, and equipment installers. Cobli was the first Latin American company to win the “Harvard Business School - New Venture Competition” and has been honored by LinkedIn as one of the top 10 starts in Brasil. |  | Grant | Apr 01, 2016 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Collide Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/collide-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Flybridge](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flybridge-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [1984 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1984-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Allied Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allied-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arcadis-city-of-2030-accelerator-powered-by-techstars) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Harvard Business School invest in?

Harvard Business School invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Internet startups, most often at Grant and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Harvard Business School?

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### Who are the partners at Harvard Business School?

The team at Harvard Business School includes Lynda Applegate (Professor), Alex Iskold (Coach and Venture Capitalist in Residence) and Alistair Croll (Visiting Executive), among 51 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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