The building industry faces challenges in adopting healthy materials, but mass timber is emerging as a popular, low-carbon alternative to steel and concrete. Companies like Cambium are revolutionizing wood sourcing by salvaging wasted timber and using AI to streamline the supply chain, tracking data from source to customer.

The 10-episode series from World Within Studios, in partnership with Religion of Sports, will premiere on YouTube in September and feature such expert voices including Tsai CITY Summer Fellowship alumni.

Tsai CITY alum Cambium Carbon is bringing its Carbon Smart Wood™ to Lowe’s stores nationwide, expanding access to sustainable building materials that transform locally salvaged wood into products designed to reduce waste and store carbon.

A Tsai CITY Summer Fellowship alum and Miller Prize winner is featured in The Wall Street Journal among entrepreneurs whose unconventional paths demonstrate how hands-on experience can become a powerful classroom for building and leading a business.

Yale student founders, including participants in Tsai CITY’s Summer Fellowship, From Campus to Market Intensive, and Venture Ready, collectively raised $17 million in pre-seed and seed funding while building their startups together at the Yale Hacker House in San Francisco.

Tsai CITY alum Prospect Growth, which participated in the Accelerator and received Milestone Fund and VentureWell support, earned a Phase II EPA SBIR award to further develop and commercialize its environmental technology.

As AI reshapes traditional career paths and more students pursue entrepreneurship over corporate internships, Yale’s growing innovation ecosystem, including Tsai CITY’s Venture Ready Program and From Campus to Market Intensive alongside YES, is creating more pathways for students to build, test, and advance their own ventures.

Tsai CITY Summer Fellowship alum MiChaela Barker, founder of Match Scrubs, was named a 2026 Tory Burch Foundation Fellow, recognizing her as part of a national cohort of women entrepreneurs building and growing innovative businesses.

Yale seniors and former LAUNCH leaders Nathaneo Johnson (YC '26) and Sean Hargrow (YC '26) raised a $5.1 million pre-seed round for Series, reflecting how Yale’s innovation community can help students turn early ideas and connections into ventures with reach far beyond campus.