This summer, the Harvard Innovation Labs and Amazon Web Services (AWS) welcomed 25 Black-led ventures to the inaugural NextGen Accelerator, a two-week founder bootcamp for early-stage student founders from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and universities in Sub-Saharan Africa.  

We’d like to thank the incredible founders who participated in the program, The Schultz Family Foundation for its generous grant and support, Amazon Web Services for their partnership, and all the startup leaders and investors who volunteered their time to speak to our cohort.