Venture Capital
Ideas and insights about venture capital from MIT Sloan.
10 MIT AI startups to watch in 2025
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From assessing bridge infrastructure to predicting worker fatigue risk via voice analysis, these startups are widening the scope of what artificial intelligence can do.
What is systemic investing?
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Systemic investing offers a route to sustainably realizing financial and eco-social value. The key is understanding and embracing the complexity of systems.
7 MIT-spun ventures driving prosperity in emerging markets
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From professional education courses to mobile apps that monitor crop yields, these startups aim to kick-start innovation ecosystems across the globe.
Disciplined entrepreneurship: 6 questions for startup success
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In the updated version of “Disciplined Entrepreneurship,” MIT Sloan’s Bill Aulet delves into the importance of knowing your customer, scaling your business, and more.
How AI helps acquired businesses grow
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To tap the power of artificial intelligence to grow a small company, make conservative tech bets and consider what work is ripe for augmentation.
Why impact investors are embracing systems change
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It’s no longer enough to invest solely in single-point solutions. Here are nine ways impact investors succeed in driving systems-level change.
Why investors should look at ‘tough tech’
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Tough tech, which applies science and technology to the world’s biggest problems, is redefining industries.
A VC seeks global talent, and centers funding in the US
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Doug Zingale on healthy routines, negotiation as a horizontal skill, and what he asks of the biopharma and medical device companies he invests in.
New courses at MIT Sloan include ‘Pursuing happiness’
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Before it’s in the boardroom, it’s on the syllabus at MIT Sloan — including a new course on pursuing a meaningful life.
The 5 types of entrepreneur: Which one are you?
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If you want to take advantage of the different types of entrepreneurial minds in your organization, you first have to know what they are.