About
Andrew Lippman has spent his entire learning and teaching career at MIT. He started as an undergraduate, was the founding Associate Director of the MIT Media Lab from 1983 to 2001, and co-directs and the Institute-wide Communications Futures Program and an NSF-funded program on Viral Radio (PDF, 384KB). At the Media Lab, he is the director of the Digital Life Program, a $3Million/year exploration of the impact of bits on personal, social and economic expression. He has testified at Congressional Committees on communications, been associated with startups in areas as diverse as animation and radio ID tags, and is on the board of WaveExpress. He is a Diamond-Cluster Fellow, and was on the technical advisory board of Robert Kahn's Cross Industry Working Team at the non-profit Corporation for National Research Initiatives. He has twelve patents and has worked on IP lawsuits for several others, and he helped develop the MPEG audio and video standards that play both HDTV pictures and MP3 aud
Position in the VCSift Database
- • 2 investors at MIT Media Lab are tracked.
- • 1 investors hold the Sr Scientist role in VCSift. Andrew Lippman is one of them.
- • 2,293 investors are based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated July 2026.
Investment Focus
- Location
- Boston, US
Contact Information
Find more investors like Andrew
Search Investors