Nineteen of Boston’s most promising early-stage startups won a total of $1.65 million at Wednesday night’s MassChallenge awards ceremony.
The startup accelerator’s top four winners — EBT Medical, Infinite Cooling, Mobile Pixels and WatchTower Robotics — each won $100,000, while two more startups received $75,000 each and nine other companies brought home $50,000 each.
Also, additional $500,000 were awarded to two startups in partnership with CASIS & Boeing to fund research projects on the International Space Station. In a first, PepsiCo also awarded $150,000 to two startups that are developing innovative solutions in the business services and food and beverage spaces.
The nineteen startups were chosen out of MassChallenge’s 26 finalists, which came from a pool of 128 startups that MassChallenge admitted to its Boston’s acceleration program in May.
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