• About

  • Harnessing AI and technology for climate impact and ethical innovation.

    At Koru Labs, we specialize in designing and deploying AI and emerging technologies to tackle the world’s most pressing climate and sustainability challenges. From ideation to product launch, we work with startups, institutions, and global organizations to create tools and platforms that drive measurable impact - especially in climate, energy, sustainability, and learning systems. Our mission: turn technology into actionable solutions that protect the planet and empower communities.

  • About Our Principal Consultant

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    Jennifer Turliuk

    Principal Consultant

    Jennifer Turliuk focuses on reducing climate change and AI’s climate impacts, with an emphasis on governance, justice, and ethics. She supports youth in securing their legal rights to a safe climate, teaches at MIT and Harvard, and speaks at global forums including Davos, COP, TEDx, and UN groups.

    Jennifer is Principal Consultant of Koru Labs, a Short Term Lecturer at MIT, and an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School.

    She has been an:

    • Operator: co-founded a STEM education startup and exited through acquisition.
    • Venture investor: partner at one of the world’s most active climate tech funders.
    • Ecosystem leader: Practice Leader of Climate & Energy AI at MIT’s entrepreneurship center and Preceptor of the Google Data Center Community AI Fellowship.

    Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, and Wired, and she has received an IEEE Outreach Award and an honorary degree from Humber College. She holds an MBA from MIT, where she wrote her thesis on the net climate impact of AI, and a Bachelor’s degree from Queen’s University. She has completed executive education at Harvard Kennedy School and Singularity University at NASA Ames.

  • Where We Come From

    Koru Labs began as a grassroots initiative to explore the intersection of AI, climate, and ethics - and to scale solutions. Today, we deliver a full spectrum of products, advisory services, and educational programs for climate startups, academic initiatives, government pilots, and global conferences.

  • How We Work

    Our approach is collaborative, ethical, and impact-driven:

    • Discover: Understand your challenges, stakeholders, and goals.
    • Co-Create: Develop AI-driven tools, platforms, and systems with iterative, user-centered design.
    • Scale & Impact: Analyze outcomes, iterate, and expand what works to maximize social and climate impact.

    We partner with clients through consulting, product development, education, and speaking engagements, always ensuring solutions are aligned with justice, governance, and measurable climate outcomes.