# Stories

**Source**: https://city.yale.edu/tsai-city-stories
**Parent**: https://city.yale.edu/

Published

March 09, 2026

Startup Yale 2026 finalists have been announced, highlighting the ventures advancing to pitch live across multiple prize categories and showcasing the breadth of innovation emerging from Yale and the broader New Haven community.

Published

February 20, 2026

Announcing Tsai CITY’s Spring 2026 Venture Development programs

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 26, 2026

Startup Yale 2026 is built through months of collaboration across the Yale innovation community, bringing together partners who shape the process, review applications, and support founders. Led by the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (Tsai CITY), this collective effort ensures Startup Yale reflects the full breadth of ideas, disciplines, and impact across the ecosystem.

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 09, 2025

Tsai CITY’s fall mentorship series connected 41 mentors with 46 teams across 13 themes, offering 323 sessions and tapping into a mentor network of 700+ experts driving student innovation forward.