Discover innovators & be discovered in Boston's startup guide
Coming of age used to be paired with buying assets like cars and condos. Modern consumers are delaying those purchases but are still exposed to risk while they build lives and careers. Our MVP is a subscription starter pack of insurance disrupting the $700B property & casualty insurance industry.
GreenChoice is developing software that empowers consumers to make well-informed food choices that support their personal dietary needs, health goals, and values. Our data-driven platform creates a highly-personalized and incentivized omnichannel shopping experience for consumers that provides local businesses, food brands, and retailers with customer engagement and data unobtainable via traditional channels.
smoodi makes people happier and healthier through its proprietary automated smoothie machine and smoothie delivery service. Imagine a Keurig for smoothies! We're making high-quality nutrition convenient and affordable. Our machine leverages the power of technology, self-cleans, and compact. It can be placed in offices, schools, gyms and stores, giving users access to fresh, customized smoothies without the high price of a smoothie bar.
Nonspec offers affordable, adjustable prosthetic limbs that meet world standards and fit within current prosthetist workflow. We sell to clinics and NGO’s to meet the need of over 45 million amputees without access to a prosthetic limb due to cost and time. Basic limbs can cost over $5,000, while we sell at $250 and keep our gross margin over 90%. We are in sales in 4 countries across Asia and Africa, and have engaged over 600 clinics globally.
OffGridBox is an all-in-one sustainable solution providing clean water and solar power to people in remote areas. After working on several projects in South Africa that took more than 3 weeks to install, they became inspired to create a turnkey solution that can be set up in only 3 hours. Since then, more than 36 boxes have been deployed in 12 countries, serving thousands of people in difficult circumstances.
We drink it every day, but do we know where it comes from it? Over 2M children in the coffeelands of Latin America can’t get to school and their best options become migration or joining the drug trade or gangs. Project Alianza changes that by building schools and providing educational programs for children in remote farm communities. We've served over 2500 children in Nicaragua and aim to improve access to school and literacy for thousands more.
Nutrition deficiencies affect billions of people and lead to health problems like anemia and brittle bones, yet nutrition testing is slow, expensive, and infeasible for many applications. VitaScan tests for nutrition biomarkers from a finger prick of blood in a fast, mobile, and quantitative diagnostic platform. Part of a $100B personalized diagnostics market, it is the only platform dedicated to testing nutrition deficiencies.
Boston Materials has developed a cost effective and patented platform for constructing three dimensionally reinforced carbon fiber composites at industrial scale. These materials promise exceptional increases in performance and durability to address the needs of the aerospace and wind turbine industries, as well as the rest of the 25 billion dollar a year carbon fiber market.
We help people get confident they can afford to protect their family and we help them make it happen. An online insurance concierge service, powered by a proprietary advice engine that delivers unbiased and personalized advice based on financial planning leading practices. Our unique business model is thoughtfully designed to build trust and positions us to help our clients across a range of financial planning needs.
"Why can't someone just tell me what I need to file, by regulator and due date? Maybe let me enter data once and reuse it for all regulatory filings instead of copying and pasting data?" The founders have spent over 20 years finding, managing, completing, and submitting documents to regulators and built a cloud-based software platform to transform the tedious, manual, ever-changing, filing processes into an efficient, effective operation.
Providing the speed and convenience of a single, correct dose, using FDA approved over-the-counter medication.
Caravann is a mobile platform that allows parents to easily organize ride-shares with people they know and trust, while rewarding drivers.
For physicians addressing skin conditions affecting billions, LuminDx is building an AI to elevate these doctors into expert dermatologists.
Take back your life with Ease. Headache and Migraine relief on your smartphone
Self-funded employers are paying $600 bn on employee healthcare costs. 10% can be contained. We help them lower this spend and manage pop health risk
CollegeAI is a personalized, AI-assisted college recommendation and resource platform for high-school students.
Say goodbye to teaching as a solo activity. Uniquely positioned to solve the $2.2bn problem of teacher turnover.
Self-funded employers are paying $600 bn on employee healthcare costs. 10% can be contained. We help them lower this spend and manage pop health risk
Wynk is a platform that allows users of all ages to enter into a virtual makeup dressing room, try on and purchase makeup using virtual reality.
Certus is a smartphone-based user authentication platform that eliminates the frustration and pitfalls of password-based log-in
