About
Solving the world’s most pressing problems through open innovation and partnership.
Mission
MIT Solve is a marketplace for social impact. We find tech entrepreneurs from around the world and broker partnerships across our community to scale their innovative work—driving lasting, transformational change.
Meet the solve teamCore Values
- OPTIMISM
While big challenges exist in the world, they are solvable. - PARTNERSHIP
No one organization, sector or industry can solve these challenges alone. - OPEN INNOVATION
Talent and ingenuity are everywhere, and we must tap into them. - HUMAN-CENTERED
Solutions must start, end, and involve the people they’re designed for. - TECHNOLOGY
Solutions will include a technological component, but must also address political, economic, and cultural barriers and ensure that technology is adopted by most underserved communities.
Solve's Story
We will do more than talk about the greatest problems facing our world. We will set the course to solve them.
—L. Rafael Reif, President, MIT
Advisors
Noubar Afeyan
Founder, Senior Managing Partner & CEO, Flagship Pioneering
Colin M. Angle
Chairman, CEO & Founder, iRobot
H.S.H. the Prince Henri d’Arenberg
Founder & Chairman, be.Source, a private foundation under Belgian law
In memoriam Vanu Bose
CEO, Vanu, Inc.
Ursula M. Burns
Chairman of the Supervisory Board, VEON
Eric Cantor
Vice Chairman & Managing Director, Moelis & Company
Wenchi Chen
Chairman & CEO, VIA
Laurene Powell Jobs
Founder and President, Emerson Collective
Linda A. Mason
Leader in Residence, Center for Public Leadership at the Kennedy School, Harvard University
Lubna Olayan
CEO and Deputy Chairman, Olayan Financing Company (OFC)
Terry & Susan Ragon
CEO, Founder, Owner & VP Finance, Administration, Recruitment, InterSystems Corporation
Victoria Ransom
Founder & CEO, Wildfire
Ray A. Rothrock
Chairman & CEO, RedSeal, Inc.
Peter Sands
Executive Director, The Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Ratan N. Tata
Chairman, Tata Trusts
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