Research Corner

Boston's community for researchers and frontier startups. Small events and candid conversations with the scientists and founders working at the frontier of technology.

Research Corner
What is Research Corner

A Boston-based community for researchers and frontier startups

Research Corner brings together postgraduate researchers, scientists, and founders working at the frontier of science and technology. Through small events and candid conversations, researchers get a closer look at what companies are working on and where their own work could lead.

Most researchers hear about the same handful of paths, including Big Tech or quantitative firms, while some of the most interesting work happens in smaller teams and emerging organizations.

Anton Osika, CEO of Lovable, speaking with researchers at a Research Corner event

Seminar with Anton Osika, CEO of Lovable, May '26

Past partners

Dinners with teams pushing the frontier

A few of the companies that have sat down with the Research Corner community so far.

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  • The Extropic team and Research Corner members gathered for a group photo after dinner
    01Oct 22, 2026
    Extropic

    On October 22nd, the Extropic team visited Cambridge for dinner and talked with our researchers about thermodynamic computing hardware that is radically more energy efficient than GPUs.

  • The Factory team and Research Corner members gathered for a group photo after dinner
    02Oct 16, 2026
    Factory

    On October 16th, members of the technical staff at Factory visited Cambridge for dinner and talked with our researchers about agents and recursive self-improvement.

  • Researchers and the Neurophos team in conversation over dinner at a Research Corner event
    03Oct 13, 2026
    Neurophos

    On October 13th, the Neurophos team visited Cambridge for dinner and talked with our researchers about photonic computing, optical processors for AI inference, and what comes after the GPU.

What we do

Helping researchers discover new perspectives

We bring researchers together with founders building research-heavy companies through intimate events, open conversations, and a welcoming community.

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    Partner events

    Small gatherings and dinners in Cambridge and Greater Boston with founders and builders who have turned research into entire products and companies.

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    Community

    Meet researchers outside your immediate field or institution. We bring together people who are curious about what others are working on and where those ideas might go.

The community

Researchers across countless domains

Research Corner is for researchers curious about other people and ideas at the frontier of their work. That might mean a startup or a role that is still being defined.

Events
with founders & operators
Insights
into frontier startups and labs
Peers
across research fields
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new perspectives
Researchers working together in a Harvard lab

A community of researchers and startups building at the frontier