Discover innovators & be discovered in Boston's startup guide
To date, the biggest infrastructure projects have involved highways and the internet. But science has been left behind because the focus has been wrongly on bigger instruments. They have made the computer without the internet. Our vision is to make all of the world's scientific equipment accessible.
Prolific Works was created with a mission to accelerate great stories and big ideas. As the book world’s leading platform for access to sneak peeks, advance previews, and special giveaways, we live our mission every day and give readers a chance to see it first. For our author community, seeing it first means having an instant connection to engaged fans. And our readers have the freedom to explore and discover authors they’ll love.
You can get paid for changing when you use electricity. But until now, only factories and other big electricity users could take access these rewards. Our technology makes demand response and time of use pricing accessible to households and small-to-medium businesses. We aggregate demand from communities for wholesale electricity markets, sharing payments for capacity and energy response with our customers.
UptimeHealth helps healthcare facilities with equipment management by providing operators with simple to use software, actionable data, and access to the largest network of qualified technicians. We keep an accurate inventory of our user's equipment, reduce the cost of equipment ownership by connecting them to a marketplace of affordable independent service technicians, and use analytics to predict their next big equipment purchases.
Raptor Maps is the world's leading provider of software and services for aerial inspection of solar farms to increase investor return and reduce operating costs. To date, the company manages 10 GW of PV system analytics for paying customers across 25 countries. Raptor Maps provides software and turnkey solutions for solar farm (PV system) pre-construction, construction, and operations and maintenance (O&M).
For 236M small farmers in West Africa, the ecosystem is broken, limiting their access to markets, efficient logistics, and financing. Gletech provides a secure mobile platform enabling real-time transactions, transportation, warehousing and financial support for farmers, procurement managers, and distributors. With universal access, traceability, security, and data-driven decision making, we are automating the farm to market supply chain.
Pangissimo was founded by a group of Boston University engineering students passionate about product design and innovation. We have revolutionized sound and aim to provide our consumers access to a superior listening experience with our portable, magnetic, modular surround-sound speaker system. SIMO has revolutionized the speaker market as we strive to raise the bar for accessibility to surround sound audio, at an unbeatable price.
Teams suffer from a loss of revenue due to a lack of fan engagement at their sporting events. Venues have limited ad space and their traditional routes have become less effective. CrowdPlay is a free in-stadium app where fans answer live questions about the game, competing against other in-venue fans for prizes. We provide ad space proven to be more effective with metrics that are currently unattainable for in-stadium sponsors and teams.
Strand was started by biological engineers working together at MIT. Building on the idea of creating smart therapeutics that are capable of making autonomous decisions, they sought to apply the world's first synthetic biology platform for mRNA therapeutics. This area was untapped by traditional synthetic biology, which led them to build their own mRNA “programming language,” creating the world’s first platform for mRNA smart immunotherapies.
Waku is a wellness tea made with 20 herbs and flowers from the Andes Mountains of Ecuador . It's not only tasty, but it also brings balance to the body because is great for the digestive health.
Sixpence is filling a gap in crowdfunding for ongoing, day-to-day causes (e.g. schools). With its signature "roundup giving" feature, sustainable fundraising is easy. Cost-perception is removed, and giving is made into a simple part of supporters' lifestyles. Sixpence is the first platform focused on removing barriers of affordability from giving, maximizing resulting social bonds, and minimizing the difficulty of follow-up and engagement.
Career services for the next generation of higher education
We help municipalities to build a safer, healthier and smarter pet community by increasing pet license compliance.
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QuadWrangle automatically personalizes engagement and giving between schools and their graduates
Bonzer is an one way car sharing service with a focus on last mile trips using cool mini electric cars.
Sleepbox is a new type of micro-hotel for millennial travelers.
on-the-go beauty care packaging platform
Fast, portable, and convenient nutrition deficiency testing
GCG is an established mission-driven company facilitating the transformation of unused spaces into thriving urban farms by delivering unique products + services
