Stories

Source: https://city.yale.edu/tsai-city-stories?type=74 Parent: https://city.yale.edu/

Published

February 05, 2026

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.

Published

January 29, 2026

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.

Published

January 13, 2026

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.

Published

January 02, 2026

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

Published

December 16, 2025

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.

Published

December 01, 2025

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.

Published

December 01, 2025

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

Published

October 31, 2025

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.

Published

October 22, 2025

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.