Today, we’re excited to announce the fifth cohort of the HAE Accelerator powered by Pegasus Tech Ventures, an equity-free program built to support Harvard-alumni founders who are already operating with discipline and momentum as they scale their companies.
This year’s cohort is tackling critical challenges across health, cybersecurity, data infrastructure, civic trust, financial access, and creative technology, showcasing the breadth of innovation emerging from the Harvard ecosystem.
2026 Cohort Companies
Avix Medical — Aditya Ranganathan (Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences)
Developing Catalina, a portable handheld device for real-time, non-invasive breast lesion characterization to improve early cancer detection and clinical decision-making.
Charlemagne Labs — Jeremy Philip Galen (Harvard College)
A privacy-first browser agent that prevents phishing and social engineering attacks in real time while exposing human-layer risks traditional tools miss.
CheckUps — Hoffman Lantum (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
Based in Africa, CheckUps combines healthcare delivery with instant medical microcredit, enabling patients to access care upfront through integrated virtual care, nurses, pharmacy, and diagnostics.
CivicVote — Josefina Correa Gutierrez (Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences)
Based in Latin America, CivicVote enables voter-verifiable digital elections while preserving privacy across in-person, hybrid, and remote voting with a paper-trail audit system.
MyEyesAI — Carl Rosen (Harvard Kennedy School)
Ophthalmology-specific AI that helps clinics and non-specialists triage symptoms, interpret images, and determine next clinical steps.
PhysaFlow — Gonzalo Wartjes (Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences)
An AI optimization layer for hyperscale data centers, improving energy, cooling, and workload efficiency through risk-free shadow-mode deployment.
Playkout — Jorge Guerrero (Harvard Kennedy School)
A compact, autonomous tennis and pickleball digital simulation experience that fits into small footprints, helping venues drive engagement, repeat play, and new revenue.
Skribe Medical — Ryan Neely (Harvard College)
A battery-free wearable patch that detects early cardiotoxicity from cancer treatments using multi-sensor AI and wireless connectivity.
Three M’s Creative — Lucas Cassels (Harvard College)
Rethinking 3D authoring by streamlining complex workflows and dramatically accelerating high-quality 3D creation.
Vezgo — Eric Lemieux (Harvard Business School)
A single API to standardize crypto asset data across exchanges and wallets for Web3, compliance, and lending applications.
Well — Murielle Kemougne (Harvard Business School)
Transforming independent pharmacies in sub-Saharan Africa into modern, patient-centered health hubs through redesign, digital infrastructure, and operational support.
WholeMind — Anthony Alagbile (Harvard Graduate School of Education)
An AI-powered mental health platform delivering personalized, science-backed care across recovery, prevention, and optimization.
The program begins in March and culminates on Demo Day, May 13, where these founders will present to a curated audience of investors, corporate partners, and industry leaders.
“What stands out about this cohort is not just the ambition of the ideas, but the clarity of thinking behind them,” said Regina Ryan, President of Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs. “These founders already have meaningful momentum. The Accelerator exists to give these companies the skills, strategies, support, and network connections to help them continue to scale their companies.”
“This is exactly the kind of innovation we love to see coming out of the Harvard community,” said Bill Reichert, General Partner at Pegasus Tech Ventures and Co-Director of the HAE Accelerator. “These teams are solving real problems. Our role is to help them accelerate what’s already working and scale it further.”
This cohort was selected from over 132 applications submitted by Harvard alums from around the world. Since the program began in 2021, 45 companies have graduated from the Accelerator. Collectively, the Accelerator graduate companies have raised over $124 million in funding.
About Pegasus Tech Ventures
Pegasus Tech Ventures is a global venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, managing over $2 billion in assets. It provides strategic and financial capital to emerging tech companies and offers a unique Venture Capital-as-a-Service (VCaaS) model for global corporations like ASUS, SEGA, and Marathon Petroleum. Pegasus has invested in 250+ companies, including SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, Airbnb, SoFi, and DoorDash. Pegasus also founded Startup World Cup, which is now the largest entrepreneur pitch competition on the planet, with competitions in over 100 regions around the world.