# MIT Solve

> MIT Solve is a VC fund in Cambridge backing Software and AgTech. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Apr 2024
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/solvemit/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/solvemit
- Website: https://solve.mit.edu
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SolveMIT/

MIT Solve is a VC fund in Cambridge focused on Software and AgTech. Solve is an initiative of MIT that advances lasting solutions from tech entrepreneurs to address the world's problems.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for MIT Solve. Shizune tracks 8 team members at MIT Solve. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/solve-mit?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 42% |
| AgTech | 3 | 25% |
| Health Care | 3 | 25% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 25% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 25% |

38 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 42% |
| Grant | 3 | 25% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 8% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 8% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 33% |
| Kenya | 3 | 25% |
| Sweden | 1 | 8% |
| Zambia | 1 | 8% |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 8% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Amouyel | Executive Director | 0 | — |
| Bruna Braga | Head of Partnerships | 0 | — |
| Eliza Berg | Lead, Learning and University Communities | 0 | — |
| Hala Hanna | Managing Director, Community Solve | 1 | — |
| Matthew Minor | Director, International Programs | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| VunaPay | VunaPay is an agritech payment company that uses collects, manages and payouts of farmers with the help of IoT technology. |  | Grant | Apr 22, 2024 |  |
| Synnefa | Synnefa provides an ecosystem of Smart Greenhouses and Solar Dryers equipped with FarmShield™ IoT sensors connected to our FarmCloud™ software enabling farmers to double incomes on less land, use less water, reduce post harvest losses and access premium markets. |  | Non-equity Assistance | Sep 18, 2023 |  |
| Dawa Health | DawaMom is a standardized mobile clinic that delivers maternal and neonatal health through a digital health platform leveraging a wide network of trained 1st level clinicians and community health workers (CHWs) for emerging markets. | $250K | Pre-Seed | Sep 18, 2022 |  |
| JusticeText | JusticeText is a software platform that makes it easier for public defenders to process and incorporate crucial audio and video evidence in defense of their clients. | $2.2M | Seed | Sep 06, 2022 |  |
| GLOBHE | GLOBHE operates a global drone data marketplace that connects organizations with local drone operators to collect and analyze aerial imagery worldwide. The company leverages AI, computer vision, and geospatial analytics to transform drone-captured data into actionable insights for industries such as agriculture, mining, construction, energy,infrastructure, and environmental monitoring. | $1.9M | Seed | Sep 02, 2022 |  |
| CENTURY Tech | CENTURY is the award-winning artificial intelligence teaching and learning platform for schools, colleges and universities.Founded in 2015, CENTURY uses AI (ML & deep learning), neuroscience and learning science to provide each student with an education that dynamically adapts to their individual needs, while empowering teachers to performeven better as educators. | $6.2M |  | Jun 23, 2021 |  |
| CENTURY Tech | CENTURY is the award-winning artificial intelligence teaching and learning platform for schools, colleges and universities.Founded in 2015, CENTURY uses AI (ML & deep learning), neuroscience and learning science to provide each student with an education that dynamically adapts to their individual needs, while empowering teachers to performeven better as educators. | $6.6M | Seed | Jun 23, 2021 |  |
| Humans in the Loop | Humans in the Loop is an impact-first company which provides human input for AI computer vision systems. We provide ethical dataset collection and annotation services to companies looking to train their models on diverse and consistently labeled high-quality data. In addition, we help companies set up human-in-the-loop pipelines for continuousmonitoring of their AI models in deployment, so that human operators can handle edge cases in real time, 24/7, so as to ensure the reliability of their systems. | $54K | Grant | Nov 05, 2020 |  |
| Access Afya | Access Afya is committed to improving healthcare options for low-income Kenyans. They are doing this through a mini-clinic model that is using the latest health technologies to deliver high quality, efficient healthcare. | $900K | Convertible Note | May 25, 2020 |  |
| Queen of Raw | Queen of Raw is a global marketplace with AI-powered supply chain software to eliminate and monetize textile waste, tracking and analyzing data to keep unused raw materials out of landfills and turn pollution into profit. An integrated dashboard allows its customers to visualize savings to their bottom- and top-lines as well as to the environmentby the actions they take across the Queen of Raw platform. Queen of Raw has helped 400,000+ users save millions of dollars—and more than a billion gallons of water.Queen of Raw is powered by mmx (http://www.materiamx.com/). | $1M | Seed | Apr 30, 2020 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Grand Challenges Canada](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grand-challenges-canada) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [True Wealth Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/true-wealth-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bloomberg Beta](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bloomberg-beta) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Course Corrected](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/course-corrected) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Meta](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/facebook) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Google for Startups](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-for-entrepreneurs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does MIT Solve invest in?

MIT Solve invests primarily in Software, AgTech and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Grant 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 MIT Solve?

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### Who are the partners at MIT Solve?

The team at MIT Solve includes Alex Amouyel (Executive Director), Bruna Braga (Head of Partnerships) and Eliza Berg (Lead, Learning and University Communities), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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