MIT Accelerating Innovation in Design, Cities, and the Built Environemnt
Synergy
Redesigning pylons into sources of civic pride through place-specific design, modular construction, and early local participation
JOIRA
System engineer fusing AI with real-world physical systems—where physics, not prompts, sets the rules
Guara
Transforming how multifamily affordable housing is designed, built, and operated in Brazil
Apidae Forms
Automated and affordable construction of custom-shaped concrete
WellSpace
An app that helps residents make small but meaningful improvements to their homes
Illume
Lighting a path of hope for victims of human trafficking through discrete tracking wearables
Voice to Vision
Providing effective and sustainable civic infrastructure for community engagement
WoodSpray
WoodSpray turns sawdust waste into a robotic, spray-applied, carbon-storing construction material
VISIBLE
Territorial intelligence solution for informal settlements
SoftMetrics
SoftMetrics is a modular, plug-and-play textile measurement toolkit that brings testing to the desktop for accessible research.
Aashraya Habitats
Addressing India’s unmet demand for purpose-built housing
crop*d
Utilizing harvested crop stubble for construction as an alternative from crop burning.
Geni Computers
An AI-powered storytelling platform that combines large language models and physical play to allow children to co-create stories in real-time.
acaciapulse
Correlating real-time incidents of war-related violence from social media platforms with displacement patterns to better coordinate humanitarian aid distribution.
Helix
A fashion marketplace where secondhand stores and individuals can locally buy, sell, or rent their collections via an infinite commission model.
reframe
A design-to-fabrication workflow to generate high-performance walls from salvaged or cutoff studs.
CLIMA Technologies
An AI software that dynamically adjusts temperature setpoints in multi-zone commercial buildings.
ARCA
Pre-fabricated construction material built on the power of structural curves.
DAERO
Using speech-to-text, VLM, LLM, and low-tech tablets to better design and execute construction punchlists.
Axiom
Creating second-life battery solutions.
Traverse
A visual news platform that leverages machine learning technologies to curate and present news stories that are customized to each user’s unique informational needs, familiarity, and preferences.
Kokus
A coconut fiber-based composite that offers a sustainable alternative to conventional building materials.
TangibleImpact
An AI-powered social impact assessment and informative platform tailored for real estate developers.
BioBoost
A small-scale biogas upgrader and generator for households.
Cortado
Giving coffee grounds a second life – Coffee Leather has the touch, feel, and durability of leather while being 100% biodegradable.
Vassar Robotics
Advanced automation for metal 3D printing post-processing.
Numanac
An agri-knowledge management solution powered by a knowledge graph-grounded AI for farmers to acquire, share and manage knowledge.
Civic Leaders of Today
A peer-to-peer learning platform aimed at making government more efficient, transparent, and responsive to the needs of its citizens.
BosaiPlus+
Helping people better prepare for everyday uncertainties by designing a series of beautiful, intuitive, dual-use personal objects that have an embedded emergency use.
Empati
Indonesia’s AI-assisted virtual primary care clinic dedicated to women’s sexual and reproductive health.
COBI
Empowering homeowners and contractors to build modular, flexible structures with locally sourced, natural materials.
TOPPA
Developing dynamic surfaces that support health and wellbeing, such as a wheelchair cushion that prevents pressure injuries.
BridgeHealthAI
Bridging gaps in access by centralizing health and social services into one intuitive platform – using AI to automate the most bureaucratic steps.
ONE Community
Helping struggling informal businesses reach more customers, secure a steady income, and scale through a digital network.
BendShelters
Adaptable, modular, and easily deployable bamboo structures to create spaces such as classrooms, clinics, and community centers in displaced communities.
Mí.katã
Leveraging generative AI, VR, and AR to create immersive simulations for community engagement.
Littor.al
Predictive mapping to protect coastal communities and regions.
Loopa
Furniture asset manager and marketplace.
SofDesk
Medium is the Massage. Tailor-made technology that feels you.
Ingot AI
A computer vision-based 3D monitoring technology synced with a marketplace that helps contractors efficiently manage and resell construction waste
Chakula bora
Safer food systems for all
romps
A good fit for growing feet
The Middle Frame
Not your typical Arab images
Hera Materials
Accelerating the transition towards a circular economy by developing new biodegradable materials.
Lamarr.ai
An autonomous solution for rapid building envelope diagnostics using aerial data and cloud computing.
Visible Hands
Inclusion improves innovation.
Rarify
Experience rare design.
Somoto
Somoto transforms community infrastructure into creative learning spaces for young people
ReFuse
Using the value of waste to create better living conditions in refugee camps.
Tangible
A location Intelligence, AI prediction platform built to help tangible businesses scale.
Harness the Heat
Urban comfort out of thin air
T-Space
Improving transit stations through revolutionary retail
p(art)ner
Matching developers with diverse artists and managing public art requirements
Out of the Box
Creating exceptional learning environments, right out of the box
Elements
Design learning in a box
ECHO
Digital platform to improve housing and mobility choices of lower income populations
Buy-In
Database and platform to improve government buy-out process of flood prone properties
acelab
Preconstruction intelligence for architects and manufacturers
Starlings Technology
Enhancing the sustainability, safety, and harmony of urban streets with peer-to-peer synchronized technology for micromobility
TULU
Live Large in Small Space
Bandhu’
Enabling low income workers in India to make insightful seasonal migration decisions for employment, housing and transportation.
Ogee!
A business-to-consumer company that will help homeowners save their architectural histories using digital fabrication.
Quipu
A marketplace digitalization of informal economies operating in low income environments
Spatio Metrics
Creating a world where every building makes us healthier
Zilper Trenchless
A novel machine for installing pipelines in urban environments without digging trenches.
Nesterly
A social enterprise that matches empty nesters with graduate students to provide housing and social solutions.
HostaLabs
Software algorithms to turn simple pictures into intelligent 3D models for design and renovation.
Placeful
Technology to identify, design and develop neighborhood-scale housing with the efficiencies of larger development.
LearningBeautiful
Creating Montessori-inspired toys for young children to learn computer science-without using computers.
Bitsence
A space utilization analytics company helping managers of physical space maximize the utility of their assets through automated monitoring.
Biobot Analytics
Measuring the concentration of drugs that are excreted in urine and collected in sewers and mapping this data to empower communities to tackle the opioid epidemic in real time.
Alight
Transforming public buses into vehicles of urban exploration by employing audio-augmented reality on smartphones.
Airworks
Capturing and converting aerial imagery into digital CAD plans for site surveys and construction monitoring.
Frolic
Revolutionary new financing model for homeownership that allows a greater cross section of society to engage in the housing market.
Kawsay
Connecting infrastructure providers with people living in informal communities in the developing world.
predictRE
Software to help commercial real estate investors, brokers, and lenders make data-driven investment decisions based on planning and environmental trends and forecasts.
Spaceus
Empowering creative communities in cities by transforming vacant and underutilized buildings into collective and collaborative artist studios and gallery space.
Season Three
Next generation all-weather boot sold direct-to-consumer.
SkinPixel
Real-time diagnostic "smart tattoo" for human skin to monitor levels of blood analytes like glucose, sodium, potassium, albumin, and others such as those found on a basic blood panel.
Dormio
Physical and digital interface to influence and record your dreams.
PREPHub
Public space infrastructure for disaster resilience and response.
Credi
Early childhood learning environment furniture in rural and developing parts of India.
Adaviv
AI-enabled adaptive environment for improving yields in indoor agriculture.
