Investments
4Funds
1Partners & Customers
10About MIT Media Lab
MIT Media Lab goes beyond known boundaries and disciplines, encouraging the most unconventional mixing and matching of seemingly disparate research areas. It creates disruptive technologies that happen at the edges, pioneering such areas as wearable computing, tangible interfaces, and affective computing. Today, faculty members, research staff, and students at the Lab work in 24 research groups on more than 350 projects that range from digital approaches for treating neurological disorders, to a stackable, electric car for sustainable cities, to advanced imaging technologies that can "see around a corner." The Lab is committed to looking beyond the obvious to ask the questions not yet asked–questions whose answers could radically improve the way people live, learn, express themselves, work, and play.
MIT Media Lab Headquarter Location
77 Mass. Ave E14/E15
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139,
United States
617-253-5960
Latest MIT Media Lab News
May 16, 2022
The MIT Media Lab has shared insights into their pioneering project to build habitats in outer space. Named TESSERAE, the project seeks to create a highly-engineered tile which can be used as a building block for self-assembling, adaptive, reconfigurable structures. Artist's render of TESSERAE spaceship. Credit: MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative (Artist's Render courtesy of Igor Neminov)Rather than the traditional method of transporting fixed, rigid habitation modules into outer space, creating structures such as the International Space Station, the team behind TESSERAE believes that their modular, self-assembly method can lower payload weight and reduce construction complexity, while also broadening the possibilities of what future space architecture may look like. TESSERAE assembly concept: Flat-packed for launch, tiles released to swirl and quasi-stochastically self assemble, target geometry, constellation of multiple docked TESSERAE modules. Credit: Ariel EkblawEach TE...
MIT Media Lab Investments
4 Investments
MIT Media Lab has made 4 investments. Their latest investment was in SendFriend as part of their Seed VC - II on February 2, 2019.
MIT Media Lab Investments Activity
Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2/11/2019 | Seed VC - II | SendFriend | $1.48M | Yes | 3 | |
11/10/2011 | Convertible Note | |||||
8/4/2011 | Series A - II | |||||
7/15/2005 | Private Equity |
Date | 2/11/2019 | 11/10/2011 | 8/4/2011 | 7/15/2005 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Round | Seed VC - II | Convertible Note | Series A - II | Private Equity |
Company | SendFriend | |||
Amount | $1.48M | |||
New? | Yes | |||
Co-Investors | ||||
Sources | 3 |
MIT Media Lab Fund History
1 Fund History
MIT Media Lab has 1 fund, including Bitcoin Developer Fund.
Closing Date | Fund | Fund Type | Status | Amount | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
3/28/2016 | Bitcoin Developer Fund | $0.9M | 2 |
Closing Date | 3/28/2016 |
|---|---|
Fund | Bitcoin Developer Fund |
Fund Type | |
Status | |
Amount | $0.9M |
Sources | 2 |
MIT Media Lab Partners & Customers
10 Partners and customers
MIT Media Lab has 10 strategic partners and customers. MIT Media Lab recently partnered with Bank of Canada on March 3, 2022.
Date | Type | Business Partner | Country | News Snippet | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
3/18/2022 | Partner | Canada | 2 | ||
7/16/2018 | Partner | United States | This might be part of the questions that the IBM Research research team explores as it continues its collaboration with MIT Media Lab in a broader project focused on engineering moral reasoning . | 1 | |
4/2/2018 | Partner | United States | MIT Cuts Ties With Controversial Brain-Uploading Startup MIT Media Lab has ended its relationship with Nectome , a startup aiming to revive human brains after death through possible future digital upload . | 5 | |
9/7/2017 | Partner | ||||
4/23/2017 | Partner |
Date | 3/18/2022 | 7/16/2018 | 4/2/2018 | 9/7/2017 | 4/23/2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Type | Partner | Partner | Partner | Partner | Partner |
Business Partner | |||||
Country | Canada | United States | United States | ||
News Snippet | This might be part of the questions that the IBM Research research team explores as it continues its collaboration with MIT Media Lab in a broader project focused on engineering moral reasoning . | MIT Cuts Ties With Controversial Brain-Uploading Startup MIT Media Lab has ended its relationship with Nectome , a startup aiming to revive human brains after death through possible future digital upload . | |||
Sources | 2 | 1 | 5 |
MIT Media Lab Team
4 Team Members
MIT Media Lab has 4 team members, including current Founder, President, Birago Jones.
Name | Work History | Title | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
Swati Chaturvedi | Temasek, and Capgemini | Founder | Current |
Birago Jones | Enterprise Ireland, Upskill, and Motorola Mobility | Founder, President | Current |
Cindy Bishop | Founder | Former | |
Lisheng Wang | Founder | Former |
Name | Swati Chaturvedi | Birago Jones | Cindy Bishop | Lisheng Wang |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Work History | Temasek, and Capgemini | Enterprise Ireland, Upskill, and Motorola Mobility | ||
Title | Founder | Founder, President | Founder | Founder |
Status | Current | Current | Former | Former |
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