Spring Health is acquiring Alma, combining its AI-enabled, precision mental healthcare platform with Alma’s network infrastructure to deepen access to coordinated, outcomes-driven care across employers, health plans, and clinicians.

This Yale SOM Insights piece explores how founders (and Tsai CITY alum) who prioritize purpose over certainty navigate risk, failure, and ambiguity in pursuit of meaningful impact. It reframes startup success not as avoiding failure, but as committing to work that feels worth building, even when the outcome is uncertain.

Yale’s new Cultural Innovation Lab will make the arts more sustainable, thanks to a partnership between the university, the state of Connecticut, and the Midnight Oil Collective.

A conversation with Karina Gupta SOM ’26, whose startup KarinaJ produces jeans that accommodate everyday weight fluctuations.

Symbrosia, Tsai CITY Summer alum, is accelerating the commercial scale-up of its flagship product SeaGraze after raising an additional $5.8M in Series A-1 funding. The company’s work sits at the intersection of climate, food systems, and biotechnology, translating university research into a market-ready solution with global impact.

Nick Callegar, Tsai CITY Summer Fellowship alum, was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Manufacturing & Industry 2026 for rethinking how sustainable building materials are designed, manufactured, and deployed at scale. His work blends deep technical rigor with real-world impact, showing what it looks like when student-born innovation grows up, gets operational, and starts shaping the future of construction.

Startup doubles its target as investors back technology that compresses months of planning into minutes.

Forbes highlights six top-tier professional development fellowships in the energy and climate space—each designed to help working professionals gain skills, shift careers, and build networks without pausing their current trajectory.

From growing up on dusty building sites to closing deals with America’s top builders, the founders of LeanCon are proving that AI can finally modernize construction.