Hugo Van Vuuren

Hugo Van Vuuren is co-founder and partner at the Experiment Fund, expert-in-residence at the Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, and an entrepreneur. Van Vuuren received his masters of design studies from the Harvard Graduate School of Design where he was a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. A TED Fellow 2010, Van Vuuren studied economics at Harvard College and co-founded two startups backed by Y Combinator before helping grow Artscience Labs and The Laboratory @ Harvard as Founding Director. South African by birth, Van Vuuren enjoys the camaraderie and adventure of small teams tackling big problems and can be found in New York or Cape Town when not at home in Cambridge, MA.