Harvard now tops AI startups with Cursor, Cognition, Mercor and more
bookwormengr · x · 2026-09-09
Vin Iyengar notes Harvard was long seen as a step down from Stanford and MIT for tech entrepreneurship, but in recent years its ecosystem has produced Cursor, Etched, Mercor, Degagon, Cognition, EnterAI, Basis, Hyperliquid, and Chai Discovery — making Harvard the undisputed startup leader of the AI era.
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