Harvard University
VC Fund
Cambridge, United States
Harvard University is a VC fund in Cambridge focused on Software and Education. Harvard University is devoted to teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders in many disciplines who make a difference globally. Harvard faculty are engaged with teaching and research to push the boundaries of human knowledge. For students who are excited to investigate the biggest issues of the 21st century, Harvard offers anunparalleled student experience and a generous financial aid program, with over $160 million awarded to more than 60% of our undergraduate students. The University has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a truly global education. Harvard University is an ivy league school. Established in 1636, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States. The University, which is based in Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, has an enrollment of over 20,000-degree candidates, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. Harvard has more than 360,000 alumni around the world.
- Total investments:
- 16
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 25%
Last updated:
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Industries Harvard University invests in
Stages Harvard University invests in
Countries Harvard University invests in
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (19%)
- Education 3 (19%)
- FinTech 2 (13%)
- Finance 2 (13%)
- Health Care 2 (13%)
Stage
- Grant 7 (44%)
- Seed 4 (25%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (13%)
- Funding Round 1 (6%)
- Non-equity Assistance 1 (6%)
Country
- United States 10 (63%)
- Peru 1 (6%)
- India 1 (6%)
- Zambia 1 (6%)
- Germany 1 (6%)
Team
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Angel Morales
Fund Executive Committee
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Fund Executive Committee | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
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Catherine Buell
2024 Harvard Loeb Fellow
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2024 Harvard Loeb Fellow | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
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David McCann
Professor
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Professor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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David Sinclair
Professor
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Professor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Drew Faust
President
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President | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Investments
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The Association of HBCU Research Institutions is dedicated to advancing research, education, and innovation across Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). | $1.1M / Grant / Apr 29, 2026 | |
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Luable is a fintech company that enables users to compare and invest in high yield savings account without stepping into a bank. | $1M / Seed / Apr 09, 2025 | |
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Duniya Healthcare helps retail pharmacies to source their medicines from wholesalers. | Grant / Feb 16, 2024 | |
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Autonomo build checkout-free software that enables retailers to convert existing stores into a cashierless shopping experience. | $2M / Pre-Seed / Dec 30, 2022 | |
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Gaia AI is an MIT spinout applying similar perception AI as to what the team has built for autonomous vehicles, but built from the ground up for forestry management (demo of our data and AI: bit.ly/gaia-ai). We use sensors and perception AI to modernize the data that we have to work with for managing forests for the timber and loggingindustry, while reducing frictions towards evaluating all of the values of forests in forestry management decisions, including carbon projects, ecosystem services (for supporting local biodiversity), and wildfire risk. | $3M / Pre-Seed / Dec 07, 2022 | |
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The Giant Magellan Telescope will be one member of the next class of super giant earth-based telescopes that promises to revolutionize Their view and understanding of the universe. It will be constructed in the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. Commissioning of the telescope is scheduled to begin in 2021. | $205M / Grant / Aug 02, 2022 | |
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DigiBuild develops a construction management software that utilizes blockchain technology. It captures transactions from all of the different systems being utilized on the project and puts them into a filterable, searchable, and comparable project timeline to remove the waste and fraud for better data insights and decision making that will stopbudget overages. | $4M / Seed / Jul 25, 2022 | |
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OlaClick is a web-based digital menu solution that helps businesses receive simplified online orders through WhatsApp | $2M / Seed / Jan 07, 2021 | |
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Whist is a Chrome browser that fully isolates, controls, and monitors how your employees access company resources on any device— without the hassle of remote desktop. | $75K / Non-equity Assistance / May 26, 2020 | |
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Anthem is a simple, but very powerful SaaS tool built to keep the needs of mid-sized educational institutions in mind. It helps automate their four fundamental functions – fee collection, expense management, admissions, and communication. | Seed / May 02, 2018 | |
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FAQ
What does Harvard University invest in?
Harvard University invests primarily in Software, Education and FinTech startups, most often at Grant and Seed stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Harvard University?
The team at Harvard University includes Angel Morales (Fund Executive Committee), Catherine Buell (2024 Harvard Loeb Fellow) and David McCann (Professor), among 46 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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