GenUnity Receives Grant from Harvard iLab Social Impact Fellowship Fund

December 5, 2022

Today, the Harvard Innovation Labs announced a series of accomplishments from ventures that have received grants from the Social Impact Fellowship Fund.

Established in 2019 by Alexander Navab, the Social Impact Fellowship Fund (SIFF) supports impact-focused for-profit and nonprofit ventures that are founded by current Harvard students. Mr. Navab was born in Isfahan, Iran. Following the 1979 Iranian Revolution, his family took refuge in Greece and then in the United States. He graduated from Harvard Business School in 1991 as a George F. Baker Scholar. Supporting the institutions that gave him so many opportunities, and creating those opportunities for others, would be central to Mr. Navab’s life, and part of the motivation for creating the Social Impact Fellowship Fund.

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