Why we're watching

No. 1

Co-founder & CEO Ceren Koca has experience transforming data into action at Google and the UNFPA. She combines behavioral design expertise with global and rural project experience (like maternal mortality reduction) across all continents. This background drives her belief that AI can successfully reach underserved communities.

No. 2

Luigi De Angelis, a physician-epidemiologist and co-founder of the Italian Society for AI in Medicine, won AIMED for applying NLP to infection control. He co-authored tools on vaccination readiness and AI-driven infection analysis, and has also written on the ChatGPT infodemic threat.

No. 3

The Harvard-MIT graduates grew HumanTruths from their MIT AI Ventures win. As international students themselves, they've built a platform amplifying voices from conflict zones and underserved areas through AI interviews in 50+ languages, delivering robust behavioral data within hours at 1/15th traditional costs.

No. 4

Global development programs lose ~30–60% of resources to compliance, logistics, and research, often taking years or stalling with mixed results. HumanTruths cuts waste by over half, automating data collection, eliminating duplication, and enabling real-time compliance - but moreover, they're shrinking timelines from years to months and enabling data-driven policies which see notably higher ROI (~7x) and compounding community impact.

Founding team

Ceren Koca
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Co-founder & CEO
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Vice Chair @ United Nations Population Fund
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Harvard University & MIT
Ceren Koca
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Co-founder & Chief Research Officer
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Public Health & Epidemiology Resident @ Università di Pisa
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Harvard University & MIT
Ceren Koca
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