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 Gift

Goalsetter

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Goalsetter is a goal-based savings and gifting platform designed specifically for children, allowing families to contribute to their kids' future aspirations instead of purchasing additional consumer goods. The platform integrates features from both savings tools and gift registries, aiming to engage millennial parents. It encourages healthy financial habits by providing a first savings vehicle for kids, allowing automatic deposits on a weekly or monthly basis. Additionally, Goalsetter offers debit cards with parental controls and incorporates financial literacy quizzes to help young users make informed financial decisions. The platform is centered around making saving engaging through games, memes, and elements of pop culture, fostering a culture of saving among the younger generation.

Tellinga

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Tellinga (like telling a story) is a Houston, TX-based start-up that creates personalized hand-drawn greeting cards that tell your story through snail mail. Story recipients receive illustrated stories about themselves based on unique preferences. It can be fun, dramatic, thoughtful... anything! Here's how it works: 1. Select your story length (options-one day, one week, two weeks, or one month) 2. Upload a photo and add a description of your desired story (you can reminisce a memory from your past or create a brand new story 3. Our team of talented illustrators and artists will start working on your story 4. A few days later, the designated recipient of the story will start receiving unique hand-drawn greeting card-sized illustrations every other day in their mailbox until the package ends

PACK ELEPHANT

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Developer of B2B platform intended to measure social impact. The company application offers corporate gifts and aligns rewards and recognition programs with the company's ESG and supplier diversity goals and connects conscientious gifters with gift merchants, enabling gifters to track their resulting social impact.

GuestBox

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
GuestBox is a welcome box service providing hosts high-end, quality essentials needed for their guests' stay.

Donii

Grant in 2016
Donii lets you donate your gently used clothes, household items, and kids' stuff directly to the people who need them most. Our platform connects donors with individuals and families in need, via the nonprofits, charities, and social workers that serve them. Each donation earns points which donors can use to shop a catalog of exclusive rewards. Give better with Donii.

Donative

Grant in 2015
Donative is a new way to give money to charity that critically enables you to see the difference your donation makes. Their platform allows you to see concise updates about the inspirational work being done by the charities of your choice, and to follow progress around the causes you care about. It also puts control into your hands, enabling you to manage your regular giving in one place and to control how charities you support are able to contact you. We're building a vibrant community of compassionate and caring people who are determined to make the world a better place.

Delightfully

Grant in 2012
Delightfully helps its users create meaningful gift experiences for people they care about. It allows them to deliver their digital gifts through personalized, unwrapping experiences instead of through email. Delightfully was launched in January 2012 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Gramify

Grant in 2010
Gramify is personalized audio greetings that feature the voice of celebrities and fictional characters. These are emotionally-engaging alternatives to print cards and ecards. They are bought online and delivered either through a phone call or through Facebook. They started signing licenses and are negotiating with major brands. The best part is the team which include licensing heavyweights who have done hundreds of deals.
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