E14 Fund is an early-stage venture firm that invests only in startups with key contributors from MIT. Its own About page states it is "Officially affiliated with MIT" and that it "invests in the MIT founders, whether recent graduates, faculty or long time alumni", and it describes its targets as "scalable, deep-tech startups tackling big, meaningful missions" with "core, differentiated science or engineering". The firm says it is typically the company's first institutional investor, with a core first check the FAQ page puts at "somewhere between $500k and $5M" plus reserves for later rounds, alongside an E14 Fellows programme of $50k to $100k investments on founder-friendly terms. It states no geographic restriction - "E14 Fund invests in great, world-changing MIT companies wherever they may be" - and says it will not invest before founders have left MIT. MIT Media Lab's own page describes E14 as investing "in early-stage deep tech startups in many areas, including climate tech, industrial automation, digital health, life sciences, mobility, development tools, and more". The firm also states on its About page: "We donate a large portion of our profits to MIT."
AUM63/100 Power Score™2017 FoundedCambridge, MA
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MIT Media Lab launches the experiment from which E14 Fund originated; the firm's About page dates the origin to 2013 and MIT News describes an initial prototype fund of $2 million that year.
2017
E14 2017 Fund, LP is formed in Delaware; its SEC Form D records a first sale on 14 September 2017 and, in the February 2019 amendment, $37,250,000 sold, with Habib Haddad and Calvin Chin as Managing Members of the general partner E14 GP, LLC.
2020
E14 2020 Fund, LP files a Form D showing an $80,000,000 offering and a first sale on 17 August 2020; the November 2020 amendment records $24,650,000 sold at that date.
2023
E14 Fund 3 Limited Partnership records a first sale on 25 January 2023; its April 2024 Form D/A reports $117,713,000 sold.
2025
E14 Fund 4 Limited Partnership files a Form D on 30 December 2025 for a $100,000,000 offering, with $0 sold and the first sale yet to occur at that date.