MassChallenge

MassChallenge is a non-equity startup accelerator headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with additional locations in Israel, Mexico, Switzerland, Texas, and the UK. Founded in 2009, it focuses on fostering innovation and entrepreneurship by supporting high-potential startups across various industries globally. MassChallenge provides expert mentorship, a tailored curriculum, and access to corporate partners without taking any equity from the startups. Its programs, including specialized initiatives like MassChallenge FinTech and MassChallenge HealthTech, aim to facilitate partnerships between startups and established companies to drive innovation and growth. To date, MassChallenge has helped over 1,200 alumni raise more than $2 billion in funding and create over 65,000 jobs, demonstrating its significant impact on the global innovation ecosystem.

Cait Brumme

Acting CEO

Cait Brumme

Managing Partner

Siobhan Dullea

CEO

Matt 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 Crowdsourcing

Procurance

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Procurance is a solution that helps manage the sustainability of brands, retailers, and other value-chain partners' supply chains. It combines intelligent web and mobile-based tools, developed using globally-aligned metrics and methodology for risk detection, advanced analytics that combine micro-data with satellite data (e.g. deforestation maps) to provide actionable insights to procurement, marketing, and sustainability managers.

Matidor

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Matidor is a geospatial collaboration platform that helps you organize projects on a live-updating map with easy visualization, team collaboration, and management. More consultancies, project managers, and field workers now choose to use Matidor to manage their projects over spreadsheets because it leads to higher productivity and client satisfaction. Our key features to help companies stay on top of their daily workflow include a centralized dashboard showing budgets, cost reports, files & historical details. In addition, our detailed site maps & user-friendly GIS tools help eliminate collaboration hurdles between departments, improve operational efficiency, and business development effectiveness. Matidor’s map-based interface uniquely meets the needs of field companies: tasks and information relating to a physical location can be readily seen understood by both technical and business audiences due to this interface. Matidor doesn’t require the long training cycle of other industry-specific systems, and an unlimited user model opens the door to viral growth. Stickiness is built-in through historical data storage and the aforementioned network effect. Matidor’s founders also have the right mix of technical and domain expertise to support customers in their journey. Matidor is the only software product that combines mapping and project management with controlled, two-way sharing.

Aiki Planning for Emergencies

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Aiki offers a SaaS platform that shares first responder's knowledge, providing first responders with data necessary to solve emergencies.

Scoutlier

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Scoutlier is the place to practice 21st century learning. Teachers can increase their impact with a platform for students to Create, think Critically, Collaborate and Communicate. Web app and mobile apps for iOS and Android allow for access to engaging assignments incorporating writing, data capture, and multimedia in the classroom and beyond -- online and offline.

Fanorama Social Media

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Fanoramas is a platform that generates thousands of ‘in-the-moment’ photos and sends to fans to share in real time from events. We provide every fan with hundreds of personal and action photos from the big event. The Fanoramas platform provides a new space for our sponsors and partners to activate and engage with fans!

Freshspire

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Freshspire is a mission-driven company based in Raleigh, NC dedicated to using strong technology to empower food communities.

Scrible

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Scrible, Inc. is a technology company based in San Mateo, California, that offers a cloud-based platform for online reading and research. Founded in 2009, Scrible allows users to bookmark, highlight, and annotate web pages directly in their browsers, facilitating the organization, sharing, and collaboration of Internet-based research. This service addresses the outdated methods traditionally used for research, such as printing and handwritten notes, by providing efficient tools that streamline the research process. Scrible's platform is particularly beneficial for individuals in environments where the effective management and analysis of information are crucial, helping users catalog, search, and filter web content seamlessly. The company aims to transform how people conduct research online, making it easier and more efficient to gather and manage information in the digital age.

OpenField

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
OpenField is a canvassing application for more complex conversations that push richer qualitative context back into a repository of insights

JobStep

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Developer of a job search platform designed to get the right candidate to the right employer. The company's platform matches job seekers to employers based on where similar individuals are getting offers across the job market, enabling jobseekers to get interviews in weeks by finding and applying to jobs that will be suitable for them.

Jaxon.AI

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Jaxon.AI specializes in leveraging artificial intelligence to create custom training sets for document classifiers, adapting to specific domain requirements. The platform enhances sparsely-labeled training sets through several innovative features, including autonomous labeling for large-scale data, intelligent aggregation of various labeling methods, and meticulous data grooming that organizes information into optimized learning batches. Additionally, it facilitates human-machine collaboration by integrating subject matter expert knowledge into the data processing. By streamlining these processes, Jaxon.AI significantly reduces the time and cost associated with traditional human-powered data labeling, delivering high-quality training sets in minutes instead of months. The company's technology also supports data science teams in navigating the research-design-build cycle, utilizing advanced methods to address complex, use case-specific challenges effectively.

excelHERate

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
excelHERate enables organizations to hire based on their transferable skills and potential, not pedigree.

SunDo

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
SunDo is an agriculture community platform that connects farmers and volunteers for a substantial collaborative working and creates a social impact. SunDo was founded in 2010 by Yaron Waxman.

Ayambe

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Ayambe is a talent matching platform that connects skilled workforce in the informal sector to people in need of their skills.

TREND Community

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Developer of a healthcare networking community platform designed to improve the quality of life for those living with rare and chronic diseases. The company's platform specializes in using an analytics engine that extracts meaningful information from patient and caregiver stories, journals, discussions, polls, and surveys to create health initiatives using those insights gained from participant-contributed real-world data to collectively evaluate the effectiveness of specific therapies, diets, enabling patients suffering from chronic diseases to share their stories and received medical advice.

WEVO

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Wevo, Inc. is a Boston-based company that offers a marketing technology platform designed to enhance digital experiences prior to their launch. Founded in 2016, Wevo utilizes artificial intelligence and crowdsourced insights to help digital marketers optimize website conversion rates. The platform identifies reasons why visitors may not be converting, compares potential page performances, and provides actionable recommendations to improve conversion outcomes. By analyzing webpages before they go live, Wevo enables businesses to make data-driven decisions that can lead to more effective online strategies.

Aroma Insights

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Aroma Insights is a Givaudan spin-off free-standing kiosk that digitally delivers aromas guided by AI to create crowd-sourced flavors and fragrances, marketing, collecting data. It can collect dynamic consumer insights data, engage and educate consumers, creates crowd-sourced products, offer personalized recommendations, and more.

Seekewa

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Seekewa SAS is a crowdfunding platform based in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, dedicated to supporting smallholder farmers in Africa. It facilitates participatory financing by allowing individuals and organizations worldwide to make in-kind contributions to agricultural projects through a unique voucher system. This system enables investors to fund specific projects, providing farmers with the necessary financial, marketing, and technical assistance to enhance their agribusiness activities. By connecting global supporters with local agricultural initiatives, Seekewa aims to empower farmers and promote sustainable development across the continent.

OpenStaff

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Developer of an on-demand hiring platform intended to resolve temporary and permanent employment demands. The company's platform connects businesses with the right talent in a quick, friendly, and inexpensive way and also makes low-middle skilled jobs available, enabling clients to fill temporary or permanent openings.

Hauoli LLC

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Revolutionize how users interact with the world.

Savvy

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Savvy is a patient engagement platform focused on enhancing healthcare by enabling patients to share their health experiences directly with innovators in the field. The platform facilitates the co-creation of healthcare solutions, allowing patients to contribute their insights to the development of new products and services. By advocating for fair compensation, Savvy empowers patients to play a significant role in research and product development while also providing them with opportunities to earn money. Through various methods such as surveys, interviews, and focus groups, Savvy connects healthcare industries with valuable patient insights, enhancing clinical outcomes and user experience.

Momlancers

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Momlancers is a company that focuses on connecting talented mothers with organizations seeking project-based talent. It operates a software platform that facilitates hiring solutions in various fields, including consultancy, human resources, marketing, coaching, and freelance work. The platform allows companies to find suitable candidates for specific projects in areas such as landing pages, drafting, design, web applications, and production. By targeting professional moms, Momlancers aims to promote both professional and personal satisfaction for its users while helping organizations fulfill their staffing needs.

BrandMe

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Nuestra empresa crea herramientas y tecnología innovadora para marcas líderes a nivel global con Creadores de Contenido influyente ayudando a una correcta colaboración recompensada por generar y distribuir contenido patrocinado. Desde el 2013 hemos completado más de 2 millones de transacciones para nuestros clientes que van desde pequeñas empresas y startups hasta organizaciones Fortune 500. Democratizamos los medios La manera de crear, consumir y compartir contenido ha cambiado, por ello logramos que cualquier persona como estudiantes universitarios y amas de casa o celebridades, periodistas y bloggers tengan la oportunidad de monetizar sus redes sociales vía piezas de contenido creativas e influyentes.

GiveTide

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Round up electronic spare change from your everyday purchases, team up with friends, and donate to any nonprofit with a single tap.

TeamLift

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Developer of cloud software designed to help managers capture values and solve problems through managing collaborations. The company's software aids in diagnosing collaborative breakdowns, pinpointing spots with uncaptured collective value, and provides recommendations to build effective and productive teams, enabling managers to understand the unique contribution each individual makes and the collaboration flow that determines how a team functions.

Savvy

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Savvy is a patient engagement platform focused on enhancing healthcare by enabling patients to share their health experiences directly with innovators in the field. The platform facilitates the co-creation of healthcare solutions, allowing patients to contribute their insights to the development of new products and services. By advocating for fair compensation, Savvy empowers patients to play a significant role in research and product development while also providing them with opportunities to earn money. Through various methods such as surveys, interviews, and focus groups, Savvy connects healthcare industries with valuable patient insights, enhancing clinical outcomes and user experience.

SortSpoke

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
SortSpoke's artificial intelligence does the complex data extraction work that people do today. SortSpoke helps companies automate manual document processing. SortSpoke is a cloud service that learns how you classify your documents, what data you extract from them and then it does it for you.

Legably

Grant in 2019
Legably provides flexible, on-demand staffing for attorneys looking for short-term help with legal projects and client needs. Legably allows solo practitioner lawyers and small law firms to handle larger client and specialty projects by posting projects on the platform and soliciting assistance from other attorneys. Legably provides vetted attorneys who fit the profile being requested, formally hires the attorneys, and handles payroll and other administrative tasks so that they lawyers don't have to.

Swoovy

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Swoovy is a platform designed to address the challenges of volunteering by connecting individuals with daily volunteer opportunities while fostering companionship among participants. Recognizing that many Americans express a desire to volunteer but face barriers such as time constraints and lack of information, Swoovy simplifies the process through an easy-to-use interface that allows users to sign up for events with a single click and find partners to attend with. The platform caters to singles, couples, and eventually groups, promoting the concept of accountability partners to enhance participation. Swoovy generates revenue from both users and non-profits, offering a unique business model that encourages non-profits to promote the platform for volunteer engagement. Non-profits benefit from a dedicated dashboard to manage and promote their opportunities, along with marketing support to enhance visibility. Through these features, Swoovy aims to make volunteering accessible and integrate it into the daily lives of more individuals.

OpenBlender

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
OpenBlender is the simplest way for data scientists and engineers to improve machine learning results by enriching their models with useful external variables (from news and social media, market data, weather information, demographic and geographic data, etc.) in an ML-ready format through proprietary game-changing time and location blends (via an API and open-sourced libraries for Python and R).

Cambas

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Empowers connects and rewards thousands of talented minds to solve creative challenges using leading-edge technologies.

CrowdPlay

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
CrowdPlay, Inc. operates a Platform-as-a-Service fan engagement platform for live sporting events. It offers CrowdPlay, a platform that broadcasts games and contests during public events and sporting events. The company’s platform also provides competitions, rewards, and prizes for attendees and fans over wireless, cloud, and global networks. CrowdPlay, Inc. was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Simplesense

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
SimpleSense speeds up emergency response by sharing key information between building owners and first responders, including automated 911 alerts when an emergency begins.

HINTS

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
HINTS Providing a solution for social media companies to instantaneously detect the spread of fake news of any medium: text, audio, or video.

Considdr

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Considdr Inc. operates a search engine designed to help users save, organize, and analyze data insights. The company's platform, known as Considdr, effectively crawls various sources to deliver relevant insights while filtering out irrelevant information and validating key findings from multiple documents. It provides users with access to a wealth of data, including statistics, research findings, predictions, projections, and expert quotes. Established in 2017 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Considdr Inc. positions itself as a pioneering platform in the realm of social reasoning.

Sixpence

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Sixpence Crowdfunding, Inc. operates a crowdfunding platform and mobile application designed to simplify fundraising for schools, churches, and community organizations. Founded in 2018 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, the platform allows donors to contribute to various campaigns by rounding up their daily purchases to the nearest dollar. This approach enables supporters to engage in philanthropy seamlessly as part of their everyday transactions, making it easier to contribute to causes that matter to them. Sixpence aims to transform the fundraising landscape by fostering community connections and encouraging generous giving without requiring significant financial commitment from donors.

seniors@work

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Developer of an online job marketplace platform designed to find freelancing senior talents. The company's platform seniors to register on the platform and clients to share requirements, browse profiles and employ senior people for part-time or project work with the employment contract, enabling private individuals, companies, associations, or start-ups to get in touch with senior citizens and use their specialist skills and experience for smaller and larger assignments.

Nexcv

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Nexcv operates a recruitment marketing platform that focuses on automating talent acquisition through social media. The platform modernizes the hiring process by transforming job descriptions into engaging video campaigns, allowing employers to effectively target and connect with their ideal candidates. By managing recruitment campaigns across multiple social networks, Nexcv streamlines the sourcing process, saving time and enhancing the overall efficiency of recruitment efforts.

FanFund

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
FanFund makes culture accessible to communities everywhere by de-risking live shows for artists and venues. It integrates fan engagement, crowdfunding technologies with advanced data analysis to provide artists and venues with vertical and geographic-specific predictive models for de-risking live performances. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Gala

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Gala is a corporate social responsibility platform that engages employees in corporate giving. The company aims to engage everyone, everywhere, in giving that turns their values into reality; to increase the resources for those dedicated to change the world, and offer businesses and individuals an experience of joy and impact - no matter how big or small the contribution.

Catapult HQ, Inc.

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Catapult is a comprehensive Request for Proposal (RFP) management platform designed to enhance the efficiency of procurement departments. The platform enables users to create and respond to RFPs, evaluate and score submissions, and collaborate on contract terms, all while facilitating teamwork through a shared content library. By automating workflows, Catapult significantly reduces the time required for RFP responses, allowing clients to respond more quickly and effectively while maintaining the same workforce. This results in improved output and greater confidence in the quality of responses. Overall, Catapult aims to streamline the RFP process, optimize workflows, and maximize outcomes for its users.

Innpactia

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Developer of a web application intended to connect high-impact projects with funds and training. The company's application exhibits large sums of money in opportunities such as grants, tenders, scholarships, courses, and research, all translated into Spanish, enabling businesses to quickly and efficiently find information about the resources available for sustainable development.

Be My Eyes

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Be My Eyes is a free mobile application aimed at enhancing the independence of blind and visually impaired individuals by connecting them with sighted volunteers for visual assistance. Through a simple button press, users initiate a live video call that allows volunteers to assist with various tasks and challenges. The platform has garnered a community of over 1.9 million users across 150 countries, making it the largest online support network for the blind and visually impaired. By leveraging technology and human connection, Be My Eyes facilitates a unique avenue for generosity, helping to improve the everyday lives of those with visual impairments.

Reason8

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Reason8 is a service that turns conversations into summaries. We use multiple smartphones and AI patent pending approach to boost quality of speaker separation and drafting meeting summaries. We are actively working on advanced summarization, collaboration features for teamwork, and integrations with project management services and communication tools.

TREND Community

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Developer of a healthcare networking community platform designed to improve the quality of life for those living with rare and chronic diseases. The company's platform specializes in using an analytics engine that extracts meaningful information from patient and caregiver stories, journals, discussions, polls, and surveys to create health initiatives using those insights gained from participant-contributed real-world data to collectively evaluate the effectiveness of specific therapies, diets, enabling patients suffering from chronic diseases to share their stories and received medical advice.

Reason8

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Reason8 is a service that turns conversations into summaries. We use multiple smartphones and AI patent pending approach to boost quality of speaker separation and drafting meeting summaries. We are actively working on advanced summarization, collaboration features for teamwork, and integrations with project management services and communication tools.

Abridge News

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Developer of a news application designed to provide quick facts and arguments from both sides. The company's application tackles news echo chambers by providing quick facts, an opinion spectrum and reader reactions to trending stories, enabling users to develop an informed, balanced perspective by showing the most compelling opinions on all sides of a debate.

Echome

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
EchoMe takes advantage of social media and smartphones to make the relationship between small businesses and customers ubiquitous. Their app helps customers and users share rich reviews with their friends, discover new experiences and stay in touch with the local businesses they love.

Walkli

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Walkli is a platform that consolidates the experiences of locals, travel professionals, and fellow travelers to assist users in planning their activities and destinations during travel. By offering guided walking routes and sharing sightseeing maps, Walkli aims to modernize urban exploration and provide a social approach to travel planning. This service enables users to discover what to do and where to go upon their arrival at various travel locations, enhancing their overall travel experience.

Crowdacure

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Crowdacure is a donation-based crowdfunding platform dedicated to funding critical yet underfunded medical research. The platform facilitates collaboration between researchers and the public, allowing them to work together to advance medical progress. By focusing on peer-reviewed research, Crowdacure aims to transform the traditional funding landscape, which has historically hindered advancements in medicine. The company seeks to address the slow pace of medical innovation by empowering the crowd to participate in the funding process, thereby enabling researchers to secure financial support for essential studies that might otherwise remain overlooked.

Komeeda

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Komeeda is a culinary platform designed to connect food enthusiasts with local restaurants through a variety of services, including delivery, catering, cooking classes, and pop-up feasts. The platform facilitates an online marketplace that promotes ethical consumerism by allowing users to support local businesses. Komeeda emphasizes community engagement and offers a significant revenue share to restaurants, ensuring that they retain ownership of their consumer data and benefit from online transactions. In addition to restaurant services, Komeeda provides culinary competitions, food recipes, and cooking methods, fostering direct interaction between chefs and food lovers. This approach not only enriches the dining experience but also enhances the visibility and profitability of local culinary talents.

FactiCo

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Factico creates geolocation and data collection technologies for journalists, news outlets and citizen journalists. They specialize in mobile apps for iOS and Android devices. They have worked with news organizations, NGOs, Universities and influencers creating innovative technology that helps them reach new audiences and creating new story narratives using audio, video maps, and GPS tracking.

FONDIFY

Grant in 2017
FONDIFY is a creative Crowdfunding Company designed to reach the highest ratio in successful entrepreneurial and social fundraised projects.

Alaya

Grant in 2017
The platform empowers companies to build a purpose-driven culture and engage employees to make an impact, one act at a time. We enable experiences that bring out the human side of work, so that companies and their employees can do good and measure their actions every day. By volunteering, giving, or taking simple actions such as biking to work, saving energy, or committing to a healthier lifestyle, your employees are able to participate in your organisation’s efforts to activate your purpose.

Trubadour

Grant in 2017
Trūbadour is a platform for writing and finding poems by contemporary poets. It's the poetry network.

Mindool

Grant in 2017
Humans pick each other's brain in a chaotic and unstructured way. Putting human communication on-line does not help much, as communicating via emails, social media, and forums scales badly and stays unstructured. They propose Mindools (Doodle for ideas): a new way for a group to collect and rate contributions in a structured way. Their customers use Mindools for strategic reviews and virtual workshops but also polling and finding a common date. Their biggest Mindool have 100+ users.

CauseMatch

Grant in 2017
CauseMatch is a peer-to-peer fundraising platform designed to assist nonprofits in expanding their donor bases and increasing donation amounts. The platform utilizes matching grants to motivate donors by enhancing the emotional connection to their contributions, allowing them to see their impact magnified. CauseMatch employs an algorithm-based approach to offer a range of fundraising solutions, which include innovative digital storytelling tools and personalized coaching. This combination of technology and mentorship equips nonprofits with diverse strategies to effectively mobilize support and execute successful fundraising campaigns.

AuCoDe

Grant in 2017
AuCoDe aims to be the Google Alerts of controversies and crisis situations. By automatically analyzing social media and digital news streams using sophisticated machine learning techniques, they provide early detection of controversies and crisis situations. Their cutting-edge technology rapidly detects or predicts crisis situations, so their quantities trading customers can use these insights directly for complex trading strategies and beat their competition to the best trades.

Vox Pop Labs

Grant in 2017
vox pop is a technique used by journalists which consists of interviewing people at random about their views on a given topic, the idea being to represent opinions from a generic cross section of the population. Of course, the number of people interviewed is too small to be a true representation of public opinion. Their technologies now allow us to survey hundreds of thousands of people in the time it takes a journalist to conduct a single interview. And their statistical models allow us to transform these survey data from anecdotal insights into representative statements about the public.

NeedsList

Grant in 2017
NeedsList PBC operates a digital platform designed to connect individual and corporate donors with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to facilitate humanitarian aid. Established in 2016 and based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the platform focuses on assisting refugees, supporting local economies, and promoting grassroots innovations. It partners with local aid organizations to identify urgent needs and utilizes local suppliers for quick and sustainable delivery of food, transportation, and essential supplies. Users can engage with the platform by donating cash, purchasing products, or volunteering. NeedsList emphasizes transparency and efficiency in its operations, providing real-time impact metrics to help partner organizations monitor their activities and outcomes. The company generates revenue through commissions from affiliate suppliers and enterprise users of its platform.

ScholarJet

Grant in 2017
ScholarJet is a web-based platform that connects employers with diverse, entry-level talent through online, skills-based competitions. These competitions enable applicants to demonstrate their abilities in areas such as coding, sales, customer service, and graphic design, rather than relying on traditional essay submissions. By doing so, ScholarJet helps employers screen candidates effectively while also offering scholarship prizes to participants, assisting them in funding their education or paying off student loans. The platform has partnered with various companies, including Akamai and Wayfair, to create over 30 competitions aimed at enriching their talent pipelines and promoting inclusivity in the hiring process. ScholarJet's mission focuses on empowering overlooked individuals to contribute to innovation and address significant challenges in the workforce.

Hive Scientific

Grant in 2017
Hive is a crowdsourcing platform for biomedical PhDs that gives them the opportunity to monetize some of their hard-earned skills. ​ They match experts to specific annotation projects based on their level and type of expertise. An annotation project requires the accurate entry of experimental findings found in figures and tables. They will contact you for a brief onboarding process once you match on a project.

WorkAround

Grant in 2017
WorkAround is the accurate, scalable solution for adding human input to your data using an untapped workforce of domain experts. WorkAround's platform enables simple, quick annotation of data. Anything from classifying expenses into tax codes, annotating breast tissue to identify regions of interest, to identifying drug combinations from clinical trial reports. We have the domain experts and a platform to facilitate a simple, secure processing of customer data and annotations. Companies that using WorkAround services not only save time and get quality service, but are also contributing to a more socially just and productive world where talent knows no boundaries, opportunity doesn’t ask for status, and work is rewarded with fair pay.

nDash

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
nDash provides content creation software & services backed by the world's top freelance writers.

Knoq

Seed Round in 2017
Knoq, formerly known as Polis, is a technology company that focuses on facilitating conversations between neighbors. It provides a platform that recruits, trains, and guides local representatives, referred to as Knoqers, to engage with residents in their communities about various products and services aimed at improving their lives. The company's technology includes a canvassing application that streamlines door-to-door sales and lead generation, enabling efficient data collection and route management. Knoq's platform has been utilized by several notable brands, including Google Fiber and Inspire Energy. The company has experienced significant growth, achieving a 500% increase year-over-year and plans to expand its workforce by hiring over 200 new employees. Knoq is supported by various venture capital firms, including Haystack VC and Initialized.

ScienceMatters

Seed Round in 2016
ScienceMatters allows scientists to share their observations. ScienceMatters offers a platform with rich text editing and a modern interface to submit, edit, review, and publish observations.

Parachute Teachers

Grant in 2016
Parachute Teachers operates an online marketplace that connects local community members with schools in need of substitute teachers. The company recruits, screens, and trains individuals from diverse backgrounds, including yoga instructors, dancers, photographers, chefs, scientists, and engineers, allowing them to bring their unique skills into the classroom. Rather than merely supervising students, these substitute teachers create engaging lesson plans tailored to their areas of expertise, enhancing the educational experience. This innovative approach not only redefines the role of substitutes but also provides individuals with the opportunity to earn supplemental income while sharing their passions with students.

RedGirasol

Grant in 2016
Red Girasol S.A.P.I de C.V. operates a crowdfunding platform in Monterrey, Mexico, designed to facilitate the acquisition of solar energy systems for residential users. Established in 2016, the platform connects homeowners seeking solar installations with investors willing to finance these projects in exchange for potential returns. Users begin by sharing information about their solar exposure, which allows the platform to generate customized quotes from various approved installers. Once a resident selects an installer and contributes a minimum of 10% of the total cost, a funding campaign is launched to gather the remaining amount. Upon reaching the funding goal, the installation proceeds, and users repay investors through monthly payments, typically at lower interest rates than those offered by traditional lenders. Red Girasol generates revenue by charging commissions to residents, investors, and solar system suppliers, thereby facilitating a mutually beneficial arrangement among all parties involved.

Yonward

Grant in 2016
Yonward is a new mobile app for sharing beautiful, location aware guides that tell stories, share knowledge, and create unique experiences. Much of their content is created by their users, not curated, because they believe no one knows a place better than those who experience it every day.

CareHood

Grant in 2016
CareHood is an online platform designed to assist caregivers and their loved ones in discovering effective ways to provide support during challenging times, such as serious health conditions or life transitions. The platform simplifies the process by offering recommendations based on extensive research and consultations with medical professionals, ensuring that caregivers receive practical guidance. It also facilitates community involvement, allowing friends and family to contribute meaningfully by creating CarePackages tailored to the needs of those they wish to support. By fostering collaboration and informed support, CareHood aims to make a significant impact on the lives of individuals navigating difficult circumstances.

Firesouls

Grant in 2016
Demographics, population growth and changes to government spending mean they need better ways of funding, designing and delivering services for local people. omm Cunity based organisations can support and grow local communities: they know where the need is, are plugged into the networks and understand the local histories. All vital in terms of building healthy and happy communities.

Royal Road Legends

Grant in 2016
Royal Road Legends is a growing community where new and rising authors post their works, and where their readers can directly interact with to provide feedback and suggestions. For them, the most important aspects of web publishing is publicity and interactions. Hence, they do their best to ensure that every reader can find the works they are looking for; that every author - old or new - can be discovered; and that readers can provide their invaluable feedback.

Share A Dream

Grant in 2016
Share A Dream is an interactive communication platform that connects NGOs with experts, volunteers and donors/sponsors: in short, a humanitarian marketplace. The innovation lies in answering all problems with one single web solution. While offering sponsors the opportunity to finance local projects to show their social responsibility, our business model seeks to solve the pain points of all our customers, rather than generating profit.

Jaspr

Grant in 2016
Jaspr is a digital platform lets people trade their talents and unneeded valuables, cash-free, with the people around them.

Panda Chocolate

Grant in 2016
They have developed a chocolate bar the wins every blind tasting test - and this is what they offer. They have launched with a crowd funding campaign in Israel that broke records, and now officially opening their factory.

Useum

Grant in 2016
USEUM (useum.org) is The World's Art Museum that brings together art museums & galleries, artists and art lovers in a meritocratic spectacle. As we are not far from the day that a million followers and a billion likes will be as powerful as an art critique, the vision and the constitutional aim of USEUM is to boldly blend the authoritative awesome with the socially fabulous; empowering the art lovers and acclaiming the art professionals in a born-digital art fair where everybody celebrates art, redefining intuitively the values of the Art Market to emerge.

Searchin

Grant in 2016
Searchin is an AI-powered talent sourcing platform that specializes in collecting and analyzing web data to identify open positions and potential candidates. By engaging with both individuals and companies, Searchin effectively matches talent with opportunities without requiring human intervention. The platform excels in accessing the passive candidate market, where a significant percentage of currently employed high-tech workers are receptive to new job prospects. With a focus on assessing candidates based on skills, personality, and company culture, Searchin streamlines the recruitment process, enabling sourcing teams to operate more efficiently and effectively.

LawyerFair

Grant in 2016
LawyerFair is an online platform designed to facilitate a reverse-auction process for businesses seeking legal services. It connects clients with a pre-approved panel of commercial lawyers and legal experts who compete for their business, ensuring a competitive tender process that emphasizes fair pricing, primarily through fixed fees. The platform provides businesses with detailed quotes quickly, often within hours or even minutes, allowing for clear comparisons of services and costs. By streamlining the process of finding and hiring legal professionals, LawyerFair enhances accessibility to quality legal expertise for businesses.

Query

Grant in 2016
Query is an online marketplace that connects companies with skilled programmers and developers. Founded on the principle of evaluating talent based on their abilities rather than traditional resumes, Query prioritizes online testing as a key component of its selection process. This innovative approach addresses the challenges many organizations face in hiring qualified developers by allowing companies to specify their requirements. Query then recommends candidates who align closely with these needs, facilitating a more efficient and accurate hiring process. By streamlining the connection between employers and talented software engineers, Query aims to transform how companies acquire the technical skills necessary for their projects.

Powr of You

Grant in 2016
Powr of You is a consumer intelligence platform that facilitates a connection between brands and consumers, enabling both parties to benefit from the insights derived from digital behaviors. The platform allows brands to gain a comprehensive understanding of consumer behavior across various devices and platforms, which enhances marketing effectiveness. Meanwhile, consumers are empowered to manage their digital presence in one centralized location and receive financial rewards based on their data contributions. This innovative approach shifts the dynamics of data ownership from traditional providers to the consumers themselves, fostering a mutually beneficial relationship.

Zero Hour

Grant in 2016
Zero Hour is helps restaurant owners find workforce in less than 5 seconds.

konoz

Grant in 2016
Konoz has 300+ teachers who create amazing (and free!) video courses, sharing their passions in subjects from Aerospace & History to Yoga & Zumba. With new teachers daily, this network will go beyond Khan Academy to #teach1billion. Teachers and students connect in a social learning platform with custom profiles, crowdfunding, messaging, and notifications. Explore their curated educational content & advanced recommendation systems which will evolve into a machine-learning driven personalized Digital Aristotle.

Describli

Grant in 2016
Describli is an online platform designed to support independent authors in managing their writing and marketing efforts. By leveraging data and analytics, it offers authors insights into their readership and sales trends, enabling them to refine their marketing strategies and connect with potential readers more effectively. The platform also fosters a writing community, allowing authors and readers to engage through writing prompts and interactive games, enhancing the overall experience of both creating and consuming literature. Through these features, Describli empowers self-publishing authors to take control of their work and achieve greater success in the competitive publishing landscape.

Spots

Grant in 2016
Spots is an experiential search platform that connects businesses and customers in real-time. Users want real-time info from businesses (wait time, food special, private party etc). Businesses want to share but lack a dedicated channel to do so. Spots lets business share promotions, specials, events, and alerts to users in real-time. Users get access to the real-time info they want, and businesses can engage with new and returning customers and drive more people through the door. Spots helps users to find what they're looking for and gives business a dedicated channel to engage.

Amondo

Seed Round in 2016
Amondo is a developer of a content curation tool designed to capture and showcase content generated around live events and campaigns. Its platform allows users to create curated feeds, known as Imprints, which compile photos, videos, and social media content related to specific events. These Imprints can be easily shared and embedded across various online platforms, including social media and venue screens. Additionally, the platform offers functionalities for monetization through brand messaging, data capture, and e-commerce, enabling users to derive new value from their content.

ScienceMatters

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
ScienceMatters allows scientists to share their observations. ScienceMatters offers a platform with rich text editing and a modern interface to submit, edit, review, and publish observations.

Lobster

Seed Round in 2016
Lobster IT Limited operates a social content marketplace that facilitates the buying and selling of photo licenses. The platform connects users from social media platforms such as Instagram, Flickr, Facebook, YouTube, and Vimeo, enabling brands, agencies, and media outlets to license visual content directly from everyday users. Leveraging advanced artificial intelligence technology, Lobster efficiently searches through vast amounts of online content, utilizing image recognition and metadata to identify high-quality, authentic visual materials. This innovative approach allows semi-professional photographers and videographers to monetize their work while offering clients a diverse range of genuine and relatable images and videos, often more compelling than traditional stock photography. Founded in 2013 and based in London, Lobster aims to simplify the search for relevant content, making it accessible for various media campaigns and storytelling needs.

UpEffect

Grant in 2015
UpEffect is a crowdfunding platform for companies dedicated to improving lives and the planet. We've launched products such as solar cookstoves, ethical fashion brands, clean drinking water systems, and eco-friendly bags. To date, our platform has a 100% success rate at securing funding for our campaigns, raising over £100,000 to launch products across ten countries. We offer our campaigns hands-on support to ensure that our social good companies are optimised for success. We believe that entrepreneurs with the potential to have a profound impact on the world should have the opportunity to turn ideas into real ventures. The planet’s future may be shaped by these products that may not otherwise be brought to market. Through vetting of campaigns and offering incubator-like support, UpEffect harnesses the power of crowdfunding by providing entrepreneurs with dedicated advising and the expertise needed to effectively launch a business. We give individuals worldwide the ability to start a business through access to capital, sales, and customers.

Highskillpro

Grant in 2015
HighSkillPro is an online marketplace that helps businesses find & hire top quality service providers.An online marketplace where businesses can find & hire vetted and reference-checked quality service providers for complex one-off projects. Flexibly. Globally.

Choosic

Grant in 2015
Choosic is a music discovery app which brings users personalised music recommendations and fast playlist building in a simple and intuitive user interface. They deliver fresh and trending music from around the web straight to the people who will most likely appreciate it. They learn user preferences by serving one recommendation at a time. Fast and effortless music discovery at the swipe of a finger.

SpotLight Parking

Grant in 2015
Spotlight is a mobile application that allows users to request valet service at the push of a button. When you simply want to just get where you need to be without a hassle, drop a "pin" to request valet service, and if in range of a Spotlight ‘Hotspot’, a Spotlight Parker will arrive and pick up your car within minutes. When you want your car returned, simply tap ‘pick up’ and your car will be delivered to the nearest ‘Hotspot’. Spotlight will revolutionize the way we think about parking.

Agora

Grant in 2015
Agora is a real-time engagement platform designed to enhance workflow and facilitate meaningful human connections. Established in 2014 and based in New York, the platform integrates with popular file-sharing services like Dropbox, Google Drive, and Box, allowing users to edit, create, share, and collaborate on documents seamlessly. Utilizing natural language processing and machine learning, Agora builds intelligent moderation tools that improve online conversation quality by filtering out noise, thus enabling businesses to scale their ideas and create engaging user experiences. The platform also offers functionalities to predict customer urgency and churn likelihood, detect trending issues, and suggest responses to frequently asked questions, further streamlining collaboration and communication for its users.

Bird.i

Grant in 2015
Bird.i collates and disseminates the best of the world’s satellite, airborne and drone imagery in real time, in order to provide insights and data to businesses globally. The high quality, frequency and accuracy of Bird.i’s images are superior even to the likes of Google Maps, meaning that clients can efficiently monitor changes and trends on the ground, helping companies solve problems, make important decisions, gain competitive advantage and plan for the future.

OpenLab

Grant in 2015
OpenLab is a data-sharing platform designed to enhance collaboration among scientists by facilitating the sharing of research progress. It transforms the traditional solitary scientific method into a more social and machine-assisted approach, allowing researchers to efficiently access relevant information and insights. The platform offers tools for easy data sharing and exploration, alongside a tagging and machine learning system that generates a searchable Research Graph. This system captures various strategies employed in problem-solving, thereby promoting cross-group collaboration within academic institutions and industry labs. By enabling scientists to better share and learn from each other, OpenLab aims to improve the overall research process.

Quickhelp

Grant in 2015
Quickhelp is an innovative platform designed to connect undergraduate students with tutors on demand, facilitating a more flexible and empowering educational experience. By allowing students to submit requests for help based on their course needs, Quickhelp enables them to receive responses from multiple tutors within a specified area, giving them the freedom to choose the tutor that best fits their requirements. The platform offers low-cost, high-quality tutoring services, available both virtually and in person, at rates approximately half of the market price. With a user base of 15,000 active participants across over 16 major universities, Quickhelp is poised for continued growth. The company has gained recognition by winning the Harvard Innovation Challenge and being a finalist in prestigious competitions such as MassChallenge and the MIT 100K. Backed by investments from entities like Draft Ventures and Dorm Room Fund, Quickhelp aims to further enhance its services and reach within the tutoring market.

Stickyworld

Grant in 2015
Stickyworld helps you engage stakeholders and drive actionable results. Interactive content and flexible configuration settings enable countless use cases, in public or private, involving multiple stakeholders in different kinds of engagement processes.

Compare and Share

Grant in 2015
Compare and Share aims to open up the Sharing Economy via a one-stop shop for a growing global market who want to access goods on-demand rather than own them. With over £3.5 tn idle assets worldwide and 7,700 sharing sites there was no way to access or compare them. Users had to trawl each site, to find what they needed. 40% of the population say they would trade shared assets, if it were easy. Compare and Share helps these users access a world of Sharing Economy goods and services in one place. The Sharing Economy is valued at $15 bn globally, with 28% of adults participating. 40% say they would if it were easy. The market is driven by 25-34 year olds ‘Gen Share’ an addressable market of 2.68 billion. We have 32 paying car sharing and accommodation affiliates including 90% of the UK car sharing market and an inventory of over 1.4 million properties worldwide. Our Sharing Economy Directory lists 7,700 sharing sites. With minimal marketing spend, we already have 12,000 users per month.

Babelverse

Grant in 2015
Babelverse operates an online platform that specializes in providing real-time speech translation services. Founded in 2010 and based in San Francisco, the company offers a unique solution for on-demand interpretation, allowing users to communicate in any language through remote bilinguals or professional linguists. The platform caters to various scenarios, including mobile interactions, conference participation, and video content, enabling seamless communication across linguistic barriers. Babelverse's innovative application leverages online technology and mobile capabilities, positioning it as a pioneer in the field of human-powered translation services.

Cahootsy

Grant in 2015
Cahootsy is an innovative platform that facilitates a crowd-powered marketplace, focusing on personalized shopping experiences through peer-driven recommendations. By connecting shoppers, experts, and brands, it allows users to share opinions and discover must-have products and offers in a single location. This approach aims to transform traditional retail marketing by emphasizing "pull not push" strategies, enabling consumers to receive tailored recommendations at the right moment. Cahootsy partners with leading UK brands such as M&S, House of Fraser, and John Lewis, along with an influential community of bloggers, to enhance its offerings. The founding team boasts extensive experience in mobile technology and eCommerce, supported by a robust advisory group from notable companies in the industry. This strategic foundation underscores Cahootsy's commitment to redefining the shopping experience while driving sales for brands through relevant offers.

Encore Alert

Seed Round in 2015
Encore Alert is a social media analytics platform designed to assist marketers by providing timely alerts and actionable recommendations based on social data opportunities. The tool enables digital marketers to respond effectively to relevant social media activities, enhancing their engagement strategies. It is utilized daily by mid-market brands, including NASA, WeddingWire, Georgetown University, and the Consumer Electronics Association. Encore Alert focuses on helping enterprise brands and advertisers collect, curate, and amplify customer-generated marketing content. The company is currently in the process of raising a seed round of funding from notable investors in the tech and marketing sectors.

Encore Alert

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
Encore Alert is a social media analytics platform designed to assist marketers by providing timely alerts and actionable recommendations based on social data opportunities. The tool enables digital marketers to respond effectively to relevant social media activities, enhancing their engagement strategies. It is utilized daily by mid-market brands, including NASA, WeddingWire, Georgetown University, and the Consumer Electronics Association. Encore Alert focuses on helping enterprise brands and advertisers collect, curate, and amplify customer-generated marketing content. The company is currently in the process of raising a seed round of funding from notable investors in the tech and marketing sectors.
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