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Exploring the founder question at the center of one of Boulder Startup Week’s most candid healthcare conversations: Are you building a product… or a company?

AI can be used to prevent wrongful incarceration, offer mental health access to millions, and gamify daily wellness

 Build Fellows at the Health Care Alignment Retreat“MORE, MORE, MORE.”  That was Paolo Narciso’s enthusiastic feedback following Stand Together Ventures Lab most recent Alignment Retreat. The unique …

Fundamental problem: ‍The United States accounts for over 20% of the global incarcerated population[1], despite representing only 4% of the globe’s total population[2]. Incarceration has detrimental …

The (not so) new education entrepreneur: All of us. Our K-12 education system is undergoing a once-in-a-generation change. The topline trends are all too familiar: Only 25% of U.S. adults think K-12 …

Ensure Economic Progress   We believe every American aspires towards economic mobility, yet millions of Americans face material barriers to that goal. We engage with those closest to this problem and…

Over the next several months, we will bring you Behind the Scenes at ST Ventures Lab to share our strategy to invest in or build solutions to problems in the criminal justice system, education, the e…

Coming out of a recent retreat that marked the midway point of the Unbundle Policing Accelerator, the 11 Teams chosen by Stand Together Ventures Lab (STVL) are prepared to take the next step toward m…

The Stand Together Ventures Lab partner is modernizing public policy‍Each year, government agencies attempt to create thousands of policies across federal, state, and municipal governments. Ideally, …

This year, Stand Together Ventures Lab launched the Unbundle Policing: Reimagine Public Safety Challenge in partnership with MIT Solve. The two-phase challenge, which includes an Incubator and an Acc…

JusticeText CEO Devshi Mehrotra shares how leveling the playing field for public defenders is key to lasting criminal justice reform.Despite the fact that 80 percent of all criminal cases involve vid…

Stand Together Ventures Lab Seeks individualized education solutions for K-12 EducationThe COVID-19 pandemic exposed long-overlooked faults in the education system. After more than a year of disrupti…