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Hugo Van Vuuren is a founding partner of The Experiment Fund, an agile seed investor anchored in Cambridge, MA.
He is a graduate student studying Design and the Economics of Collaboration at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Fellow at The Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
Hugo has co-founded startups backed by YCombinator and helped grow Artscience Labs, an international network of culture and education labs. He enjoys the adventure and camaraderie of small startup teams in the social media, fashion, and appropriate technology industries.
Still active in his homeland of South Africa, Hugo has played leading roles researching technologies such as Dirt Power, and building communities through Design With Africa and TEDxStellenbosch. Hugo was named a fellow at TED (2010), Poptech (2009 Social Innovation Fellow), and the Aspen Ideas Festival (2011 Scholar).
Hugo studied Behavioural Economics at Harvard College before joining the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, where he was Founding Fellow of The Laboratory at Harvard, an interdisciplinary platform for idea experimentation and exhibition in the arts and sciences. Hugo is a graduate student Fellow at The Berkman Center for Internet and Society, an inter-faculty initiative that focuses on the study of cyberspace, as well as the MIT Media lab ID³ Hub, a research and action orientated community exploring the future of data ecosystems.
