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Smart undergarments for women, by women

Most wearables lack female-specific features. That's why IDEA Lab students and entrepreneurs Christy Fernandez Cull and Belen Fraile Ortiz created DaVinci Wearables, a first-to-market smart undergarment that tracks menstrual cycles and hormonal fluctuations to optimize fitness health for female athletes.

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Sourcing impact investors for product launch

Israel-based social technology company Intuition Robotics has a big idea: Their ElliQ voice-activated “care companion” is like Alexa for elderly adults, offering fitness reminders, wellness support, video calls, entertainment, photos, and even jokes. But can they land funding? A team of Israel Lab students were tasked with identifying $15 million in impact investments for the product, which involved clearly communicating its benefits and drilling down on its niche in the marketplace.

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Crafting a marketing plan for new health-monitoring device

When the Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center (MELIC) needed a go-to market strategy for a new hardware-software AI camera, they relied on IDEA Lab students Adil Bahadoor and Amre Nouh.

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Helping startup enter new energy market

RenewCO2 is an emerging company that designs processes for converting carbon dioxide into useful industrial products. Recently, the company tapped two students from MIT Sloan's Entrepreneurship Lab (E-Lab) to investigate the potential market for formic acid, a compound that could be useful in a variety of energy applications—particularly if the use of hydrogen fuel becomes more widespread, as formic acid can be used to deliver hydrogen to remote locations in a liquid form.

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Building brand awareness for autonomous vehicle technology company

Innoviz Technologies, a leading manufacturer of LiDAR sensors and perception software, tasked a team of Israel Lab students with finding creative ways to boost its brand among US investors.

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Expanding internet adoption in rural India

STL approached India Lab for help developing a business model for this for-profit initiative with the goal of expanding high-speed internet connectivity from 14 villages to 300,000 by 2024.

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Benchmarking to support e-commerce company expansion in emerging markets

Copia, an e-commerce company focused on bringing low-priced, high-quality goods to middle and low-income investors in Kenya, approached G-Lab for help increasing revenue and net profits.

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Quantifying an abstract concept, innovation, for a top brewing company

AB InBev tasked EM-Lab with assessing a new strategy: internal innovation.

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Developing a web app dashboard to identify children's quotes for greeting cards

LittleHoots asked A-Lab for help automating the process of finding marketable quotes from within its database of more than 500,000 children's quotes, conversations, and stories.

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Taking a startup to the next level

Looking for new markets.

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Supporting innovation in the Philippines

Fostering a startup ecosystem.

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Guiding international expansion

Seeking to scale up.

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Maximizing the luxury buying experience

A drive for excellence.

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A roadmap for emerging technology integration

Adapting to technological change.

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Tackling competitive threats

Seeking an 'early warning system'.

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Aid for an emergency response system

The challenge of market entry.

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Giving mobile credit a boost

Seeking a growth strategy.

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