MIT Proto Ventures is the Institute’s in-house venture studio — a program designed not to support existing startups, but to create entirely new ones from the ground up. Operating at the intersection of breakthrough research and urgent real-world problems, Proto Ventures proactively builds startups that leverage MIT technologies, talent, and ideas to address high-impact industry challenges. Each venture-building effort begins with a “channel” — a defined domain such as clean energy, fusion, or AI in health care — where MIT is uniquely positioned to lead, and where there are pressing real-world…
