MassChallenge

MassChallenge is a global startup accelerator supporting early-stage entrepreneurs across various industries. Founded in 2009, it provides mentorship, resources, and networking opportunities through its programs worldwide.

Cait Brumme

Acting CEO

Nick Dougherty

Managing Director, MassChallenge HealthTech

Siobhan Dullea

CEO

Matthew Lashmar

Managing Director

Camila Lecaros

Managing Director

Yonit Serkin

Managing Director

Devon Sherman

Founding Director, Head of MassChallenge FinTech

Michelle Williams

Vice President and Head of Texas Strategy

Past deals in Boston, MA

Mona Lee Solar

Non Equity Assistance in 2023
Powered by AI, Mona Lee is the fastest, most efficient way for homeowners to go solar. Through a direct-to-consumer approach, Mona Lee’s AI-powered self-serve platform transforms the solar buying experience by eliminating non-stop solicitation calls, lengthy design and evaluation processes, and back-and-forth price negotiations that can take up to weeks. With Mona Lee, customers go from quote to scheduling their installation in minutes. Feel free to visit our website to read customer testimonials and Mona Lee solar reviews. Mona Lee was founded by a group of serial entrepreneurs with decades of experience in clean energy. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA and is proud to serve homeowners nationwide.

Gordon College, Wenham

Non Equity Assistance in 2023
Gordon College, located in Wenham, Massachusetts, is a nondenominational Christian institution dedicated to providing a liberal arts education grounded in evangelical biblical faith. The college offers a variety of undergraduate and graduate programs, including majors in Christian Ministries, Creative Writing, Sociology, Education, and Music Education, as well as interdisciplinary studies such as Gender Studies and Sports Studies. With a focus on character development across intellectual, spiritual, social, and emotional dimensions, Gordon College prepares students for leadership roles in both the workplace and the church. Situated less than 30 minutes from Boston and near the Atlantic Ocean, the college provides students with access to numerous cultural and recreational opportunities. Financial aid options include renewable merit-based scholarships and federal grants, ensuring that students can pursue their educational goals with necessary support.

Truelytics

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Truelytics is a Boston-based B-to-B enterprise software startup that specializes in an Advisor Transition Management platform. This innovative, data-driven platform is designed to assist wealth management, insurance, and tax firms in analyzing their business performance and recruitment strategies. By providing actionable insights and key performance indicators, Truelytics enables these enterprises to effectively attract, grow, and retain advisory businesses. The platform also aims to streamline the transition process, ultimately reducing the time and costs associated with these changes.

Rentable

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Rentable is a Boston-based real estate software company that provides a financial platform aimed at automating the management of security deposits and inspections for landlords. By streamlining these processes, Rentable enhances operational efficiency for property managers, thereby increasing leasing velocity and reducing rental disputes. The platform not only simplifies the tasks for landlords but also improves the rental experience for residents, making the handling of security deposits and inspections more accessible and transparent.

BrightUp

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
BrightUp is a financial wellness platform based in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 2020. The company aims to democratize financial wealth building and personal well-being by partnering with employers to provide a comprehensive financial wellness benefit for employees. This platform helps individuals grow their net worth and enhance their self-worth. Additionally, BrightUp offers low-cost emergency loans that can be repaid through paycheck deductions, promoting financial health and holistic wealth among employees.

Lyfegen

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Lyfegen is a global, independent provider of drug access, pricing and rebate management solutions, headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, with offices in Boston, USA. The company offers software and services to help healthcare payers and pharmaceutical companies identify appropriate price agreements, simulate and understand the financial impact of those agreements, and automate the execution and adjudication of rebates, reducing administrative effort. By enabling more efficient rebate management, Lyfegen aims to improve patient access to therapies, affordability, and overall health outcomes.

IndustrialML

Grant in 2020
Founded in 2018, IndustrialML is a Boston-based startup that empowers industrial customers by making factories smarter. The company develops enterprise software designed to maximize uptime and reduce scrap. Its platform collects, cleans, and curates factory sensor and enterprise IT data, combining process monitoring and real-time analytics to keep production lines running smoothly. This enables clients to gain actionable insights for operators and engineers in real time.

FreightFlows

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Boston, FreightFlows provides a data-driven platform offering predictive analytics for global maritime trade. Its platform enables users to optimize operational decisions by analyzing market trends, vessel availability, routes, and commodity cargo activities.

TireTutor

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Founded in 2018, TireTutor operates an online platform that connects consumers with local tire dealers. It offers transparent tire pricing comparisons and unbiased recommendations, enabling users to find the best deals on tires while helping dealers optimize their supply chain and enhance their online presence.

Axonis Therapeutics

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Axonis Therapeutics is a biotechnology company focused on neurological disorders. It develops medicines targeting KCC2, a critical mediator of inhibition within the brain, using a proprietary neuron-specific K-Cl cotransporter (KCC2) discovery engine. The company aims to improve lives by treating conditions such as epilepsy and pain.

Considdr

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Considdr, Inc. is a Boston-based company that operates a sophisticated search engine designed to help users save, organize, and analyze data insights. Founded in 2017, the platform aggregates and distills information from various sources, providing relevant insights while filtering out irrelevant data. It focuses on delivering key findings in areas such as statistics, research outcomes, predictions, and expert commentary. By validating information across multiple documents, Considdr enables researchers, marketers, and business strategists to make informed decisions based on evidence. Through its innovative approach, the company aims to enhance the way individuals build and update their knowledge.

GoPeer

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
GoPeer is a tutoring platform that connects K-12 students with vetted college students for in-person and online one-to-one tutoring sessions. The platform provides convenient, affordable, subject-specific instruction and handles payments, scheduling, communication, and progress tracking. By focusing on quality and accessibility, GoPeer seeks to offer high-quality tutoring at a lower cost than traditional professional services. The company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Elsen

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Elsen Inc. is a financial technology company based in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 2013. The company specializes in providing a cloud-based platform-as-a-service designed specifically for large financial institutions. Its platform enables users to efficiently manage, access, and utilize vast quantities of data, facilitating improved decision-making and the resolution of complex financial challenges. Elsen's technology incorporates an accelerated computing engine and graphical processing unit-based algorithms, which optimize data handling and resource management, ultimately helping financial firms achieve faster access to insights and enhanced return on investment.

BASF

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Founded in 1865, BASF is a global chemical company headquartered near the Rhine River in Germany. It produces a wide array of chemicals, plastics, resins, and agricultural solutions, serving multiple industries with a focus on automotive, agricultural, construction, and pharmaceutical sectors. BASF is committed to leading the energy transition by expanding its recycled and bio-based product portfolio.

IQ Bar

Grant in 2018
IQ Bar, Inc. is a food and beverage company based in Boston, Massachusetts, specializing in the production and sale of nutrition bars and hydration mixes. Founded in 2016, the company offers a variety of protein bars in different flavors, catering to health-conscious consumers. IQ Bar distributes its products through various retailers and distributors across the United States, in addition to selling them directly online. The company's focus is on providing nutritious options for individuals seeking convenient and healthy snacking solutions.

NODAR

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Founded in 2018, NODAR specializes in developing camera-based 3D vision systems for autonomous vehicles. Its flagship product, Hammerhead, uses off-the-shelf cameras to deliver long-range, depth-sensing capabilities, enhancing safety features like forward collision warning and automatic emergency braking.

Orbita

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Orbita, Inc. is a Boston-based company that specializes in developing a cloud-based platform for voice and chatbot capabilities in healthcare. It provides a range of solutions designed to enhance patient engagement and improve healthcare outcomes while ensuring compliance with data security regulations. The core offerings include Orbita Voice, used for creating HIPAA-compliant applications, and various specific tools such as OrbitaENGAGE for patient outreach, OrbitaASSIST for virtual bedside assistance, OrbitaCONNECT for at-home patient support, and Orbita Employee Health Manager for workplace wellness. By leveraging AI-driven technology, Orbita enables healthcare providers, pharmaceutical companies, payers, and application developers to implement secure and effective conversational experiences that streamline patient interactions and reduce care costs. The company was founded in 2015 and originally named Bebaio, Inc. before rebranding to Orbita in February 2016.

Sleepbox

Grant in 2017
Sleepbox, Inc. is a Boston-based company that designs and develops modular hotel pods, offering innovative sleeping solutions in various public settings such as airports, offices, and hospitals. Founded in 2016, Sleepbox creates compact hotel units that come in different configurations, including the InnerSpace module and single or double Sleepbox units. Their products are intended to provide privacy and relaxation to travelers, allowing for hourly or overnight stays. By providing a turn-key solution, Sleepbox enables its partners to efficiently establish accommodation spaces wherever there is a demand for rest, making high-quality sleep experiences more accessible to a diverse clientele.

OCC Youth Unleashed

Grant in 2017
OCC Youth Unleashed is a youth-led non-profit organization focused on enhancing youth engagement in community centers and child-oriented programs throughout Boston. The organization addresses the challenge of limited access to updated information about available activities by developing and managing a consolidated, user-friendly mobile application. This application serves as a comprehensive resource for youth activities and opportunities within various community centers, facilitating awareness and promoting youth development. By streamlining access to information, OCC Youth Unleashed aims to empower young individuals in the community and foster greater participation in local programs.

Pykus Therapeutics

Grant in 2017
Founded in 2016, Pykus Therapeutics develops a dissolvable intraocular surgical device designed to enhance retinal surgery by reducing patient discomfort. The company's core innovation is a polymer-based hydrogel that replaces the use of intraocular gas during such procedures, eliminating the need for patients to maintain face-down positioning and facilitating quicker recovery.

Project Lever

Grant in 2017
Founded in 2012, Project Lever facilitates university research for students by aggregating institutional resources. It offers searchable databases of courses, past projects, faculty profiles, grants, and library guides, matched with student interests using NLP algorithms. The platform connects students to relevant resources via keyword search, ranks resources based on research ideas, and provides interactive text visualizations for brainstorming. Project Lever sells subscriptions to universities, implementing solutions efficiently.

Waypoint Labs

Grant in 2017
Waypoint Labs, founded in 2016 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, specializes in real-time movement software that leverages augmented reality to enhance the productivity of front-line workers. The company, which originated from MIT, enables trainers to create three-dimensional instructional content that can be accessed via augmented reality headsets, such as Microsoft HoloLens. Its software facilitates the spatial mapping of assets and environments in three dimensions, allowing businesses to tag these assets with relevant information and monitor both workforce and equipment effectively. This innovative approach aims to improve workplace safety and efficiency. Waypoint Labs became a subsidiary of PTC Inc. in June 2018.

Adhark

Grant in 2017
Adhark is an image performance software company that quantifies design to elevate brand performance. The Adhark Platform uses patented artificial intelligence and machine learning technology to understand the visual preferences of consumer audiences, guide creative decision-making, and deliver marketing success through enhanced imagery. Adhark also developed and maintains the I-Score™, which is relied on by creative and marketing professionals to evaluate the resonance of imagery. Headquartered in Boston, Adhark’s award-winning application of AI technology demystifies the impact of creative art, exposing a variety of unforeseen visual stimuli that ignite engagement. Join the Adhark Community and be a part of the movement: www.adhark.com.

Skillist

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Skillist is a job application platform founded in 2016 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The company focuses on connecting employers and jobseekers by emphasizing a skills-based application process. This approach allows candidates to present their abilities rather than relying on traditional credentials, making it particularly beneficial for individuals without four-year degrees. Skillist primarily targets entry-level roles that emphasize soft skills, such as administration, coordination, and customer service. By facilitating identification and verification of necessary skills, the platform helps community college students and other jobseekers identify career-advancing opportunities while offering employers a clearer understanding of what candidates can contribute.

Sea Machines Robotics

Grant in 2016
Sea Machines Robotics, headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, specializes in developing and manufacturing advanced autonomous control and navigation systems for the commercial marine industry. Established in 2014, the company produces systems like SM300 for remote vessel command, SM200 for collaborative operations, SM400 for AI-powered situational awareness on container ships, RC NXT for PLC-based wireless control, and DP-NXT for crew reduction or elimination on vessels. Sea Machines offers solutions for various unmanned applications, including bathymetric surveys, AUV-tendering, subsea asset inspection, passive acoustic monitoring, and dual towing.

Buttery

Grant in 2016
Buttery is an alcohol delivery application based in Boston, Massachusetts, that allows consumers to discover, order, and receive a wide range of wines, spirits, and beers from local stores. Users can conveniently browse the extensive catalogs of nearby liquor stores through their smartphones or the web, placing orders with just a few taps. Buttery ensures that customers pay the same prices as in-store, without any markups. The platform serves various neighborhoods in the Boston area, including Beacon Hill, Chinatown, Back Bay, and many others, facilitating easy delivery or in-store pickup of preferred beverages.

QSM Diagnostics

Grant in 2016
QSM Diagnostics develops point-of-care diagnostics for identifying bacterial infections, with a focus on veterinary applications. The company specializes in electrochemical sensors and disposable sensor-based devices that rapidly detect target bacteria at infection sites, such as ear infections caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa in dogs. Founded in 2014 as a Northeastern University spin-out, QSM Diagnostics brings together extensive experience in sensor development and medical device commercialization to provide practical diagnostic solutions for animal care.

LeakSpotter

Grant in 2016
LeakSpotter is a Boston-based startup that manufactures a compact device designed to detect and alert users about toilet leaks in real-time, thereby reducing water waste and associated costs.

New View Surgical

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
New View Surgical, Inc. is an innovative medical device company based in Boston, Massachusetts, focused on the development and commercialization of the VisionPort technology. Founded in 2009, the company has created a novel surgical imaging and access system designed specifically for minimally invasive surgery. The VisionPort system consolidates four essential surgical devices—laparoscope, camera, light source, and access port—into a single, user-friendly, disposable device. This integration provides surgeons with enhanced control over both visualization and instrumentation, aiming to address various unmet needs in the market. By simplifying the surgical process, New View Surgical seeks to deliver significant clinical and economic advantages to operating rooms worldwide.

FuelDrop

Grant in 2015
FuelDrop, is an up and coming start-up that formed out of MIT in the greater Boston area. For anyone living in a major city, filling up your car with gasoline can be a real pain. Limited gas stations coupled with high gas prices results in an experience that is dreaded by all. At fueldrop they ask ourselves, why are they still using this archaic method of getting gas? Why do they have thousands of cars driving to one gas station... what if the gas just came straight to your car? The team at fueldrop is creating a fuel delivery service so you will never have to go to a gas station again.

Cintell

Grant in 2015
Cintell is a SaaS technology company founded in Boston in 2014 that specializes in customer intelligence solutions. Its cloud-based platform is designed to help businesses understand their buyers by enabling the creation of live customer personas, referred to as SmartPersonas. Cintell's proprietary Cintelligence process allows companies to capture and analyze voice-of-customer research alongside actionable third-party data, ensuring that insights are continuously validated and maintained. By integrating seamlessly into existing business workflows and systems, Cintell delivers rich, contextual customer insights across the organization, facilitating a customer-centric approach.

Fathom

Grant in 2015
Fathom is a company that specializes in creating hologram-like 3D experiences through the use of standard printers, inks, and media. Founded in 2014 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, Fathom enables users to print special patterns duplex on clear film, resulting in 3D objects that appear to extend significantly beyond the film's thickness. The firm's innovative approach allows for the production of immersive visual experiences that are accessible and can be created using readily available printing technology.

Cabbige

Grant in 2015
Cabbige, Inc. is a Boston-based company that develops and markets a business intelligence web application aimed at enhancing the profitability of small farms. Established in 2014, Cabbige's platform employs a proprietary price optimization algorithm, enabling farmers to determine the most advantageous pricing for their crops and select appropriate distribution channels. The application facilitates the digital management of post-harvest operations, allowing farm business owners to effectively monitor their farms and manage various crops and products. By focusing on economic sustainability, Cabbige seeks to strengthen local food systems, ensuring that farmers can achieve profitable operations while paying their workers a living wage. As of January 2018, Cabbige operates as a subsidiary of Freight Farms, Inc.

SixPlus

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
SixPlus is an online platform that enables individuals and corporate event professionals to discover and book private and semi-private venues for group events. The service provides a curated network of venue partners and offers concierge-assisted planning to simplify reservations for board dinners, client dinners, team lunches, and company holiday parties. It supports end-to-end workflow by enabling venue selection, proposal building, bookings, contracts, and communications in a single place. Targeted users include event planners, corporate groups, and marketing directors who organize private dining and other group events, with availability across major U.S. cities such as New York, Washington, DC, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago.

BrightLoop

Grant in 2014
BrightLoop, Inc. is an educational technology company based in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 2012. The company offers an online platform designed to assist teachers in collecting insights about their students, facilitating more effective planning and communication. BrightLoop provides tools for formative assessment, lesson planning, and parent communication, enabling educators to track student needs through various devices such as mobile phones, tablets, and computers. By empowering teachers to personalize learning experiences and communicate student progress, BrightLoop aims to enhance teacher satisfaction, reduce reliance on standardized assessments, and ultimately improve student achievement. The platform seeks to alleviate the challenges of personalized instruction, thereby contributing to higher teacher retention rates and fostering a renewed respect for the teaching profession.

OpportunitySpace

Grant in 2014
OpportunitySpace, Inc. is a Boston-based company that has developed a digital platform aimed at enhancing the public real estate market in the United States. Founded in 2013, the company offers BuildingBlocks, a cloud-based application that consolidates data from various city departments, including information on code violations, tax delinquency, public safety incidents, and utility shut-offs, into a single, interactive map-based dashboard. This tool provides comprehensive property details, facilitating informed decision-making. Additionally, OpportunitySpace operates a Marketplace that enables governments to list available properties, engage with interested parties, and articulate redevelopment objectives. By creating dynamic online tools and communication channels, OpportunitySpace aims to promote investment and development in under-valued urban real estate.

Trill

Grant in 2014
Trill operates a media platform focused on arts and culture, enabling users to discover live local events such as music, comedy, theatre, and dance shows in cities like Boston, New York City, Asbury Park, and Los Angeles. The platform serves as a discovery engine, promoting daily dialogue around these events and encouraging attendance at both free and smaller, classical venues. By highlighting diverse live performances, Trill aims to connect audiences with the vibrant cultural offerings in their communities.

Crypteia Networks

Grant in 2014
Crypteia Networks is a security service provider based in Athens, Greece, with additional offices in Boston, Massachusetts. The company specializes in offering a patent-pending technology designed to detect zero-day threats in their early stages, as well as identifying misconfigurations in existing security defenses. Their solution provides enterprises with visual representations of threat pathways and recommends mitigation actions, enhancing the intelligence of current security systems. This non-intrusive technology is operating system independent and requires no integration changes, allowing organizations to maximize the value of their existing log data without altering their infrastructure.

3Derm Systems

Grant in 2014
3Derm Systems, Inc., based in Boston, Massachusetts, is a pioneering company in 3D dermatology that provides a specialized handheld skin imager and cloud-based software designed for capturing, storing, and transmitting high-resolution 3D images of the skin. Established in 2011, the company enables non-dermatologists to take clinical-quality skin images remotely, facilitating efficient monitoring of skin lesions by dermatologists. This innovative approach reduces healthcare costs, shortens wait times, and enhances access to dermatological care, particularly for the two million Americans diagnosed with skin cancer annually. By allowing patients to capture images from the comfort of their homes and upload them for review, 3Derm helps prioritize in-office appointments for those with more concerning conditions. The company's technology aims to transform teledermatology, offering a cost-effective solution that maintains the continuity of care with local dermatologists while ensuring high diagnostic quality. As of August 2020, 3Derm operates as a subsidiary of Digital Diagnostics, Inc.

3Derm Systems

Grant in 2014
3Derm Systems, Inc., based in Boston, Massachusetts, is a pioneering company in 3D dermatology that provides a specialized handheld skin imager and cloud-based software designed for capturing, storing, and transmitting high-resolution 3D images of the skin. Established in 2011, the company enables non-dermatologists to take clinical-quality skin images remotely, facilitating efficient monitoring of skin lesions by dermatologists. This innovative approach reduces healthcare costs, shortens wait times, and enhances access to dermatological care, particularly for the two million Americans diagnosed with skin cancer annually. By allowing patients to capture images from the comfort of their homes and upload them for review, 3Derm helps prioritize in-office appointments for those with more concerning conditions. The company's technology aims to transform teledermatology, offering a cost-effective solution that maintains the continuity of care with local dermatologists while ensuring high diagnostic quality. As of August 2020, 3Derm operates as a subsidiary of Digital Diagnostics, Inc.

BeTH

Grant in 2013
BeTH, or Benevolent Technologies for Health, specializes in developing innovative human-device interface technology aimed at improving the fit and function of rehabilitation devices, such as prosthetics and orthotics, without the expense of custom fabrication. The company's patent-pending materials enable adjustable prosthetic sockets that eliminate the need for intensive fitting procedures, thereby reducing overall prosthetic care costs. BeTH has garnered recognition for its advancements, winning awards such as the MIT 100K Accelerate, the Dyson Award for Innovation, and the CASIS prize, which supports testing its materials in space. Additionally, BeTH is part of Bolt, a hardware startup accelerator located in Boston.

Mootus

Grant in 2013
Mootus is a platform for online legal argument for law students and new lawyers. Mootus is reinventing the way lawyers work through the platform for open, online legal argument, which lets users collaborate, and compete to solve legal issues submitted by other users, with the results of that activity posted to an open legal repository. Mootus was founded on 2012 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

VerbalCare

Grant in 2013
VerbalCare is a Boston-based company founded in 2013 that specializes in developing cloud-based patient engagement software tailored for individuals with communication disabilities, such as stroke patients suffering from aphasia. The company's platform includes an iPad application and an online care portal, enabling patients to express their needs through picture-based buttons that vocalize their selections. This innovative approach facilitates communication between patients and caregivers, enhancing patient care, engagement, and overall efficiency in healthcare settings. VerbalCare's mission is to improve the quality of life for patients facing communication challenges.

DrinkSavvy

Grant in 2013
DrinkSavvy is a Boston-based company that manufactures and distributes drinkware such as plastic cups, straws, and stirrers. Its products feature a proprietary, patented technology, integrating indicators into barware in order to provide consumers with a colorimetric indication of the presence of illicit drugs such as GHB, Ketamine, and Rohypnol in their drink. DrinkSavvy was founded in 2009 and is based in Boston, M.A.

Rifiniti

Grant in 2013
Rifiniti, Inc. is a provider of data-driven analytic software solutions designed to optimize workplace environments. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with additional offices in London and Sofia, the company offers a suite of tools, including Rifiniti Optimo, a software-as-a-service dashboard that monitors key performance indicators such as space utilization, total cost of occupancy, and employee work styles. The platform includes several modules, such as the Collaboration Analytics Module and the Booking Analytics Module, which provide insights into departmental interactions and meeting room usage. Additionally, Rifiniti offers consulting services focused on workplace strategy and technology. As of July 2019, Rifiniti operates as a subsidiary of FM:Systems.

Beantown Bedding

Grant in 2013
Beantown Bedding produces compostable linens designed to reduce laundering, promoting sustainability and convenience. Originally targeted at college students, its products now serve hospitality and healthcare industries, offering eco-friendly alternatives that save time, water, and energy.

Ubidots

Angel Round in 2013
Ubidots is a cloud-based Internet of Things (IoT) platform that offers solutions for connected hardware and software to facilitate the remote monitoring, control, and automation of processes, primarily serving clients in healthcare, energy, manufacturing, transportation, and retail sectors. Founded in 2012 and transitioning into a global product-oriented startup in 2014, Ubidots provides a platform that enables users to collect, analyze, and visualize sensor or digital data through customizable dashboards and device libraries. Renowned for its affordability and reliability, Ubidots has distinguished itself in a competitive IoT ecosystem by focusing on practical, hands-on experience, which has enhanced its understanding of digital transformation. The company has gained recognition among system integrators and original equipment manufacturers for its user-friendly approach to developing custom business applications in the IoT space.

Design Museum Boston

Grant in 2012
Design Museum Boston is a non-profit organization with the goal of creating, establishing, and operating virtual and physical design exhibit spaces online, in Boston, and all over New England. These spaces will exhibit design work as well as host events and programs related to design education.

Ministry of Supply

Seed Round in 2012
Founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 2012, Ministry of Supply designs and manufactures performance professional clothing. It combines innovative materials and purposeful design to create comfortable, functional business apparel, focusing on dress shirts and pants.

Global Research Innovation & Technology

Grant in 2012
GRIT is a social enterprise startup based in Boston, Massachusetts. We believe in a stakeholder driven design process, where the people who use a technology help to design it. We started as the MIT Mobility Lab where we invented the Leveraged Freedom Chair (LFC), a lever-powered all-terrain wheelchair. After four years of testing the LFC in the field, we founded GRIT in 2012 to bring the LFC to market. We help people with disabilities get off-road and on with their lives.

Spoonfuls

Grant in 2012
Lovin' Spoonfuls is a non-profit organization based in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 2010. The organization focuses on rescuing and distributing perishable, prepared, and unserved food that would otherwise be wasted. By delivering this food to local crisis centers, soup kitchens, and social assistance entities, Lovin' Spoonfuls plays a crucial role in addressing hunger within the community. The organization is dedicated to ensuring that wholesome, ready-to-eat meals reach those in need, demonstrating its commitment to eradicating hunger in Massachusetts. Through its efforts, Lovin' Spoonfuls aims to make a meaningful impact on food waste and food insecurity, emphasizing that sufficient food exists to feed everyone.

Artaic

Grant in 2011
Founded in 2007, Artaic specializes in designing and fabricating custom tile work for commercial and residential markets. Utilizing computer-aided design software and robotic assembly systems, the company creates innovative mosaics for various industries such as hospitality, retail, and public art.

Relay Technology Management

Grant in 2010
Relay Technology Management is a Boston-based software analytics company dedicated to the life sciences sector, founded by David Greenwald, Ph.D., and Brigham Hyde, Ph.D. The company develops a proprietary platform known as The Relay Innovation Engine, which aggregates real-time scientific and market data to deliver competitive business intelligence to biotechnology and pharmaceutical firms, as well as university technology transfer offices. This analytics platform enables users to identify scientific and market trends in drug development in innovative ways, enhancing decision support and data interaction for both business and research professionals. Relay Technology Management has gained recognition for its contributions to the industry, having been an award-winning finalist in the MassChallenge global competition.

Privo Technologies

Grant in 2010
Privo Technologies develops targeted treatments using its proprietary nano-engineered platform, initially focusing on oral cancer. Based in the greater Boston area, they aim to create robust therapies with reduced side effects for various indications.

Ginkgo Bioworks

Grant in 2010
Founded in 2008, Ginkgo Bioworks designs, engineers, and licenses organisms for various applications. It discovers molecules for flavors, sweeteners, cosmetics, crops, pharmaceuticals, and generates probiotic bacteria for health benefits. The company serves markets such as cultured ingredients, carbon mitigation, probiotics, and natural product discovery.

Flywire

Grant in 2010
Flywire facilitates global payments for educational institutions and their students worldwide. It offers a secure platform supporting diverse payment methods in over 140 currencies across 240 countries.

Rentabilities

Seed Round in 2010
Rentabilities, Inc. is a rental company based in Boston, Massachusetts, established in 2006. The company operates a website that allows users to search for a wide range of items available for rent. In addition to facilitating the discovery of rental options, Rentabilities provides online payment and reservation services, streamlining the rental process for its users.

Symmetric Computing

Grant in 2010
Symmetric Computing specializes in affordable supercomputing solutions. They create large shared-memory, multi-core high-performance computers using off-the-shelf server hardware and their patent-pending Distributed Symmetric Multi-Processing extension to the Linux kernel. Their Departmental Supercomputers are designed for bioinformatics, engineering simulations, financial analysis, and earth science applications.
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