MassChallenge

Util is a developer of sustainability intelligence technology that provides investors with an objective, evidence-based view of a company's impact. By leveraging big data and machine learning, Util aggregates and analyzes quantified company data across various stakeholders, including employees, customers, and the environment. This data is transformed into a dollar-based annual value generated metric, allowing responsible investors to evaluate both financial and non-financial returns on investment. The company goes beyond traditional ESG metrics to present a comprehensive assessment of companies as complex value generators. Util's methodology covers all listed securities and is designed for investment managers seeking unique analysis that parallels conventional financial reporting. Currently, Util is collaborating with two investment manager partners that collectively manage $130 billion in assets to refine its products and methodologies, aiming to enhance the integration of sustainability in investment decision-making.

Micruity is a developer of an income connectivity platform focused on enhancing financial infrastructure for secure retirements. The company's technology facilitates seamless data sharing among insurers, asset managers, recordkeepers, and third-party technology providers. By streamlining this process, Micruity enables clients to convert retirement savings plans into sustainable retirement income, addressing the financial stress that individuals face both during their working years and in retirement. The company's mission is to support innovative solutions that empower employees to achieve better financial and mental well-being as they plan for their future.

DRB is a patented solution that provides autonomous drone inspection services of electrical transmission and distribution lines, renewable energy production sites, and infrastructures.

Mod Tech Labs is a developer of an automated workflow platform tailored for the visual effects industry. The company has created an AI Cloud SaaS platform that significantly streamlines the processing of imagery assets, including photogrammetry, volumetric video, and scans. By allowing users to simply drag and drop raw imagery, Mod Tech Labs’ software processes these assets up to 99% faster than traditional manual workflows. This technology not only enhances the quality of three-dimensional digital content but also helps clients reduce infrastructure costs and labor hours, making the creation of 3D content more efficient and accessible.

Cybrik is on a mission to radically transform how engineering and construction projects are delivered. Engineering and construction is a $13.5 Trillion dollar industry. But it is one that suffers from poor project outcomes, flat productivity and rising costs. Unlike other solutions that just digitise traditional workflows we are creating new tools and methodologies that give the project team the right information at the right time so that they can make quicker and faster decisions. This results in significant improvements in cost and schedule performance.

Advanced Interactive Response Systems - AIRS in Newaygo, Michigan, provides oxygen supply monitoring systems for hospitals, homes, and other remote areas. With this system, the patient is able to safely monitor air flow for oxygen tanks. It has an alarm feature that sends updates via text messaging or Bluetooth™. The AIRS devices are also wirelessly linked to each other using a secure and robust mesh networking protocol. Hospitals and medical personnel will greatly benefit from this state-of-the-art monitoring system.

GreenJams is a clean construction technology startup focused on creating a carbon-neutral built environment. The company has developed two primary innovations: Agrocrete and BINDR. Agrocrete is a carbon-negative building material made from agricultural residues, such as paddy straw and cotton stalks, combined with industrial by-products from various sectors, including steel, paper, and power. BINDR serves as a low-carbon alternative to conventional Portland cement. These innovative materials offer a more sustainable option compared to traditional AAC blocks and clay bricks, allowing businesses to reduce construction costs and improve operational efficiency. GreenJams aims to revolutionize the construction industry by promoting environmentally friendly practices and materials.

TrashCon is an automated zero waste system, with globally awarded waste recycling technologies and circular economy models.

IMMA is reinventing the fertility journey by offering women a self-operated remote device to perform their own follow-ups in the comfort, safety, and intimacy of their home, part of a broad system creating a comprehensive, dedicated, and innovative environment.

Fabriloo's VRB technology uses an innovative unique composite hydrophilic and hydrophobic membrane to reduce the volume of human waste in toilet sites by a factor of 10. It eliminates environmental contamination and the need for infrastructure. Fit for ALL environments, it is compact, light, and easily stored for disaster preparedness. The scalable design enables immediate latrine facilities for early-stage response and beyond, saving stakeholders resources, precious time, and logistical burdens.

HUB85 is a business intelligence software solution which enables an organisation to identify, analyse and govern their internal spreadsheet environment. An organisation can get complete transparency on their spreadsheet inventory and can see real-time actionable insights to reduce risks, cut costs and improve operational efficiency across their enterprise. HUB85 has received a Founders Award from the Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and has offices within the London Business School Incubator. HUB85 is also part of cohort 4 of the FCA Regulatory Sandbox.

Fractal lets you work, create, and play faster and better from any device, anywhere, by streaming your favorite and most demanding applications from the cloud.

Vitro IoT employs integrated ECC hardware cryptography in small, low power, low cost devices that interface with any type of digital device (e.g. scanners, cameras, sensors, scales, meters) to capture and secure verified data at the source. Verified data is assembled into authenticated IoT Blocks: data encrypted, hashed and signed with Proof-of-Origin for secrecy and security in transport and at rest. A hosted "oracle" decrypts IoT Block data through Zero-Trust (IAM) authenticated access by users and applications.

ShardSecurity offers simple yet powerful protection for your sensitive files. ShardSecurity is built on a proprietary, patent-pending security platform that encrypts, shards and stores files on a decentralized multi-cloud storage network providing, multi-layer protection from internal or external threats. We offer both B2C & B2B solutions. Use Shard Security as an obfuscation layer to your Local, OnPremise or Cloud drives.

Quartux designs build and operate energy storage systems with intelligent software.

Spatio Metrics presents architecture as a new tool for advancing health by filling the gap between design, data, and performance. The company helps hospitals manage facilities with a dashboard that shows how spaces influences patients’ health outcomes. The company's product analyzes floor plans, reveals design gaps, and recommends performance improvements. Hospital administrators are encouraged to make smarter design investments by quantifying the human and financial impact of design.

Cloudline Africa operates autonomous airships to connect hard-to-reach communities that are disconnected from the global logistics network. Its airships fly over populated areas; track linear infrastructure, such as roads and railways; travel over people and animals; carry camera payloads and multi-sensor rigs; and show off the company brand while completing the functional role. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Cape Town, South Africa.

NetObjex specializes in providing a Decentralized Digital Asset Management Platform as a Service, leveraging Internet of Things (IoT) and Distributed Ledger technologies. The company targets four primary market segments: Smart City, Transportation/Automotive, Supply Chain & Logistics, and Manufacturing/Industry 4.0. Its platform facilitates inter-device communication, enhances asset performance, and improves tracking and tracing capabilities, ultimately reducing inefficiencies and waste. By utilizing various communication protocols, including Cellular and specialized options like LoRA and Sigfox, alongside a robust cloud infrastructure, NetObjex enables secure information sharing through blockchain technology and automates processes using smart contracts. The solutions developed on this platform range from smart electricity meters and electric vehicle charging systems to managing fleets of retail kiosks and powering smart medical devices, all aimed at optimizing asset management and operational efficiency.

Cloud 9 is on a mission to disrupt massive waste and mistreatment of people with mental illness. Cloud 9’s proprietary patient-centric technology platform allows multidisciplinary care teams (including mental healthcare, primary care, substance use specialists and first responders) to communicate and share data with one another and their patients. They keep high risk patient populations engaged in treatment to keep them out of crisis, before they land in ERs, jails, courts or the streets. Their technology and service model innovation deliver a paradigm shift that can save billions for state and local budgets, while also helping underserved individuals. The larger social impact is that healthy minds create healthier communities, workplaces, homes, and future generations.

Cloud 9 is on a mission to disrupt massive waste and mistreatment of people with mental illness. Cloud 9’s proprietary patient-centric technology platform allows multidisciplinary care teams (including mental healthcare, primary care, substance use specialists and first responders) to communicate and share data with one another and their patients. They keep high risk patient populations engaged in treatment to keep them out of crisis, before they land in ERs, jails, courts or the streets. Their technology and service model innovation deliver a paradigm shift that can save billions for state and local budgets, while also helping underserved individuals. The larger social impact is that healthy minds create healthier communities, workplaces, homes, and future generations.

Flexify.IO is a developer of a cloud storage virtualization platform that provides users with the ability to migrate and manage data across multiple cloud storage providers seamlessly. By utilizing connectors that read and write cloud data, the platform enables clients to migrate, split, or replicate their data without requiring any modifications to their existing applications. This innovative solution allows businesses to avoid vendor lock-in and offers the flexibility to choose where to store or move their data, thereby enhancing their cloud storage management capabilities.

Developer a disposable incubator designed to provide next-generation biocontainment and neonatal services. The company provides a digital-native and low-cost infant incubator platform with disposable housing that consists of a micro-controlled lightweight infant housing unit and a reusable compact electronic control module and in-house developed software will provide the critical necessities for neonatal critical care such as heat, humidity, HEPA ventilation, phototherapy, enabling healthcare providers and parents to access a user-friendly, efficient, low maintenance, incubator designed to reduce neonatal mortality and morbidity.

Criaterra Innovations specializes in the development of eco-friendly building materials designed to replace traditional precast products such as masonry blocks and cladding. The company utilizes a unique approach by upcycling 70% of its raw materials, which significantly reduces energy consumption in the manufacturing process by 90%. Criaterra's materials, which include masonry blocks that are six times more insulative than conventional concrete blocks, not only minimize the environmental impact—creating only 5% of the carbon footprint of concrete—but also promote a circular economy. All products are 100% natural, recyclable, and biodegradable, making them suitable for various applications in green building projects. Currently, Criaterra is launching a biophilic collection of wall tiles aimed at business-to-business customers, further enhancing its commitment to sustainable construction solutions.

Manufacturer of an ultraportable sterile system intended to function independently of existing infrastructure to make surgery safer. The company's system integrates consumables with reusable components in the form of an automated environmental control module and popup frame to streamline surgical protection, enabling patients to access safer surgeries by reducing intraoperative air and skin contamination of incisions and providers by reducing exposure to bodily fluid splashes and aerosols.

OffGridBox is a company that delivers renewable energy and clean water solutions in remote and underserved regions. The OffGridBox™ is a compact, all-in-one system housed within a shipping container measuring 6x6x6 feet, designed to produce electricity and purify water using solar energy. This innovative technology aims to address the needs of over 2 billion people globally who lack access to reliable energy and safe drinking water. Each unit can significantly impact local communities; for example, a single unit operated by a women’s cooperative in Rwanda can serve up to 300 families, providing essential electricity and sterilized water. OffGridBox has deployed 38 units across nine countries, including Italy, South Africa, Rwanda, Nigeria, the Philippines, Madagascar, the United States, and Colombia, catering to various sectors such as humanitarian aid, household retail, and industry services. These units have collectively operated for over 400,000 hours, promoting sustainable living and improving the quality of life in the areas they serve.

Cloudboost is Database Service that allows developers to leverage strengths of multiple types of databases with a simple API. Today developers use multiple types of databases (like Document Database, Cache, Graph Database) to build one app, and we eliminate "multiple databases" with a single database service.

Social challenges like joblessness, homelessness, and chaotic living conditions drive continued and unproductive encounters with the health and social care systems designed to help people. These needs can be intersectional and persistent in nature. To create lasting community health outcomes, we must go beyond closing the loop at one point in time in one person or family’s life. Imagine if our healthcare system seamlessly coordinated care around all of our physical, behavioral, and social needs. With Activate Care, this is the new standard of care. The Activate CareHub™ platform is the industry's only all-in-one solution for SDOH care – offering tools for community coordination, referral management, data analytics, and more. Since 2013, hundreds of healthcare and social service organizations across the country have implemented Activate Care to disrupt the cycles of social vulnerability occurring across their community, for community health outcomes that last.

Nimblr is an IoT based knowledge network that brings best practices to the food processing industry in improving global food security.Food processors worldwide struggle to maintain quality, yield and costs due to variation in inputs, plant health or operator skills. nimblr combines the power of IoT, sensors and predictive models to address these pains. They minimise process risks for customers by constantly adapting their plant operations to the gains in network knowledge. Processors get real-time feedback on key parameters. nimblr improves accuracy of the model through periodic validation and makes processing nimble.

FLYX.Systems develops technological platforms for the new IUAS, fully autonomous, no human intervention. They are creating the infrastructure for a new generation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, fully autonomous, reliable and redundant for industrial applications that will expand aerospace productivity for both rural and urban areas. They have designed a landing platform that allows "industrial drones" to land, recharge and take­off without human intervention/error in a matter of seconds. Applications include package transportation, mapping, day/night security, agriculture, quick response, and a big ETC.

Ubuntu Power dedicated to improving the lives of millions of Sub-Saharan Africans living without access to electricity, Internet or water.

CloudBeat is an intelligent testing platform tailored for Agile and DevOps teams, focusing on automated testing to enhance product quality and expedite release cycles. The platform facilitates the integration of testing into continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes, allowing development teams to monitor live websites and mobile applications by simulating real-user behavior. By automating manual testing processes, CloudBeat helps teams reduce costs and accelerate delivery, while ensuring that critical business processes and popular use cases are effectively monitored. This combination of features positions CloudBeat as a valuable tool for organizations aiming to improve their software development and deployment practices.

uLink enable developing world energy service providers to quickly develop and easily manage low-cost, modular microgrids in off-grid areas.

Strattic Ltd. is a company based in Jerusalem, Israel, that specializes in converting WordPress websites into static versions to enhance speed and security. Founded in 2016, Strattic's platform utilizes serverless architecture to make websites faster and more scalable while minimizing vulnerabilities. By disconnecting the dynamic aspects of a WordPress site from the web, Strattic allows site owners to continue managing their content and plugins in the familiar WordPress environment. Once changes are made, they can deploy their site with a single click, resulting in a static site composed of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This process makes the websites virtually unhackable and leverages a global network of content delivery networks (CDNs) to ensure quick and secure delivery.

Future Healthcare NI is a software development company dedicated to enhancing emergency care through innovative digital solutions for healthcare professionals. The company focuses on improving patient safety and communication among medical staff by offering an integrated digital dashboard designed for clinical communication. Additionally, it provides a user-friendly bed management application that enables healthcare providers to efficiently manage patients and resources. By ensuring easy access across various devices, Future Healthcare NI aims to streamline hospital operations and enhance the overall quality of patient care.

Converge is a technology company based in London, United Kingdom, that specializes in hardware and software solutions for the collection, storage, and analysis of sensor data. The company develops wireless and cloud-based technologies designed to enhance the operational efficiency of industries, particularly in the medical and construction sectors. Converge offers transmitters that connect to both digital and analog sensors, converting them into wireless devices for real-time data transmission. Its software platform facilitates the storage, analysis, and visualization of this data, enabling healthcare providers to tailor patient treatments and optimize discharge processes. In the construction industry, Converge’s sensors are embedded in concrete slabs to monitor temperature in real-time, helping clients to streamline concrete cycles and improve project outcomes. Through these innovations, Converge aims to replace manual monitoring with automated, continuous data collection and analytics.

Jisto Inc. is a cloud-computing company based in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 2013. It offers a range of services, including enterprise data centers, private clouds, public clouds, and hybrid clouds. Jisto's solutions enable enterprises to utilize their stranded server capacity, allowing them to run additional applications without compromising the performance of their core operations. The company serves diverse industries, including financial services, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, research, e-commerce, government, and oil and gas. By transforming idle computational resources into an effective cloud computing platform, Jisto helps businesses maximize the value of their computing assets.

Ubidots specialized in connected hardware and software solutions to remotely monitor, control, and automate processes for healthcare clients at well funded startups and Fortune 1,000s in the American Southeast and across Latin America. Between 2012 and 2014, Ubidots expanded their support industries and accomplished countless internet connected projects across – Healthcare, Energy / Utilities, Manufacturing, Transportation, and Retail – learning the many small characteristics of IoT and Cloud enablement that digital transformation experts cannot speak to unless they have gotten their hands dirty in the field. With a strong backbone and a steadfast determination to be more than another Latin American “copy-cat,” Ubidots joined the Boston MassChallenge Accelerator in 2014, pivoting into a global product-based cloud IoT startup, gaining US venture and support and leaving behind the local services business. Since Ubidots pivot in 2014, Ubidots has become known within hardware, software, embedded engineering, and maker circles as the affordable, reliable, and most useable platform in an IoT platform ecosystem filled with strong competition.

RainBank Inc. is a civil engineering firm based in Newton, Massachusetts, established in 2012. The company specializes in constructing and installing distributed runoff collection storage systems on rooftops, utilizing trays with small holes to facilitate slow drainage and reduce flooding in lowland areas. RainBank's team has extensive experience in water sector technologies and funding strategies, which has enabled them to innovate in stormwater management. Their systems enhance existing passive stormwater infrastructure, allowing municipalities to optimize both current and new networks for improved efficiency and effectiveness in flood prevention.

Zero+ deploys innovative thermoplastic structural panels to offer highly efficient low-cost thin-skin buildings. These offer a radical alternative to current building methodologies, economizing drastically on material, labor and energy in fabrication; providing highly resilient, low maintenance, high quality buildings; offering accurate, energy-efficient, elegant building envelopes. These can be built locally using no heavy site machinery, and offer earthquake, hurricane and flood-proof housing.