This week we sit down with Memme Onwudiwe for a conversation that starts in a Harvard Law classroom - transitions to his building an AI company before ChatGPT was a thing - and ends up in outer space 🚀

Memme co-founded Evisort while at Harvard Law School in 2016, building AI-powered contract intelligence from the Harvard Innovation Lab years before it became mainstream. Workday acquired the company in October 2024, where Memme now serves as an AI Evangelist.

Memme returns to Harvard each spring to teach legal entrepreneurship alongside co-founder Jerry Ting, and he’s a published space law scholar whose paper “Africa and the Artemis Accords” examines how emerging nations can secure their stake in the space economy.

Key References

Academic Research

Africa and the Artemis Accords — Memme Onwudiwe & Kwame Newton, New Space (2021)

Legal Frameworks

Artemis Accords — Non-binding bilateral space exploration principles (2020, 55+ signatories)
Outer Space Treaty — Foundational UN space law treaty (1967)
Moon Agreement — “Common heritage” framework (1979, 18 signatories)

Organizations

Harvard Innovation Labs — Where Evisort was founded
CLOC — Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (6,300+ members)
Space Beach Law Lab — Annual space law conference, Feb 24-26, 2026, Long Beach

Corporate

Workday-Evisort Acquisition — ~$310M, closed Oct 2024

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