MIT Accelerating Innovation in Design, Cities, and the Built Environemnt
The Middle Frame
Not your typical Arab images
Visible Hands
Inclusion improves innovation.
Rarify
Experience rare design.
Harness the Heat
Urban comfort out of thin air
UMarket
An urban microbusiness cultivator for retail and food vendors of color
Somoto
Somoto transforms community infrastructure into creative learning spaces for young people
Clearstory
Creating equity through negotiation.
ReFuse
Using the value of waste to create better living conditions in refugee camps.
Vertify Analytics
Combining drone technology and digital collaboration tools to revolutionize urban inspection
Tangible
A location Intelligence, AI prediction platform built to help tangible businesses scale.
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
Roofscapes
Making Green Places on the Roofs of Paris
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
QuiX
Turn-key services for home maintenance.
WATAsolution
Assuring water quantity and quality for households in Palestine and other developing countries.
Bandhu’
Enabling low income workers in India to make insightful seasonal migration decisions for employment, housing and transportation.
PlaceInt
Decoding human behavior in physical spaces to enable customer knowledge
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.
