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 Photo Software

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!

Glo3d

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Developer of photography software designed to provide end-to-end solutions to capture, edit, share, and embed virtual tours. The company's platform offers various features such as interior panorama, customized backgrounds, damage reports, FTP capabilities, automatic integrations, car photography, and more, helping automotive dealers with all their media and content creation and distribution.

EarlySight

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
EarlySight SA is a Swiss company, established in 2016 and based in Lausanne, that focuses on developing innovative medical devices for the early detection and treatment of eye diseases. The company has created an advanced eye fundus camera that enhances retinal imaging through precise illumination and real-time correction of ocular aberrations. This device utilizes cellular-level imaging technology to identify subtle structural changes in the retina, allowing for effective monitoring of treatment outcomes in a quick and non-invasive manner. By facilitating the visualization of cell morphology within the retina, EarlySight aims to improve the capabilities of eye specialists in diagnosing and managing ocular conditions.

Addmin

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Developer of document management software designed to manage important administrative documents. The company's platform offers to store and manage documents, enables users to gather documents from email, online and organize them, helps to automatically classify important documents and manages them.

Pixm

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Pixm, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in New York that specializes in developing artificial intelligence technologies aimed at preventing phishing breaches. Founded in 2013, Pixm employs visual recognition to identify zero-day phishing attacks, effectively scrutinizing every webpage for brand and login impersonations without relying on traditional whitelisting methods. The company's services encompass anti-phishing, email security, computer vision, and deep learning, providing comprehensive security solutions for businesses and organizations to enhance their website, network, and computer security.

PXL Vision

Grant in 2019
PXL Vision AG is a Swiss technology company founded in 2017 and headquartered in Zurich. The company specializes in designing and developing software solutions for identity verification and customer onboarding. Its primary product, Daego, utilizes advanced document and identity verification to create trusted digital identities for users. PXL Vision employs cutting-edge computer vision and machine learning technologies, leveraging expertise from former key employees of Dacuda AG, an award-winning computer vision firm. The company also has research and development centers in Novi Sad, Serbia, and Yerevan, Armenia, enhancing its capabilities in innovative software development.

Pixm

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Pixm, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in New York that specializes in developing artificial intelligence technologies aimed at preventing phishing breaches. Founded in 2013, Pixm employs visual recognition to identify zero-day phishing attacks, effectively scrutinizing every webpage for brand and login impersonations without relying on traditional whitelisting methods. The company's services encompass anti-phishing, email security, computer vision, and deep learning, providing comprehensive security solutions for businesses and organizations to enhance their website, network, and computer security.

Dyad Medical

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Dyad Medical develops software that automatically analyzes the content of cardiac and cardiovascular images. Its software applications support both treatment decision making in the clinic and analysis in research, enabling researchers to optimize observations and conclusions. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Blipic

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Blipic is a social and discovery app created to grow and connect the active outdoor community. Blipic encourages users to stay active and healthy. It help them uncover exciting destinations, outdoor events and group activities right in their own backyard. Discover cycling tours, group runs, snowboarding trips, and premium hikes. Share your experiences with the community, and bring people together who have a similar affinity for the great outdoors. Discover Blipic. Adventure. Mapped.

Additive Flow

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Additive Flow is a computer software company that focuses on developing a software platform for 3D object printing. It features AI-enabled tools to introduce a paradigm shift in how products are conceived. Based on user-defined targets and physics-driven optimization.

Prodibi

Grant in 2018
Prodibi Sàrl is a cloud-based software company specializing in high-resolution image display technology. Founded in 2011 and based in Petit-Lancy, Switzerland, Prodibi provides a platform that allows users to showcase images without size limitations, enhancing brand visibility and user engagement. The service is designed for a diverse clientele, including casual and professional photographers, artists, watchmakers, fashion photographers, business users, and web publishers. Prodibi's solution addresses common challenges in online image management, such as quality, performance, color management, and search engine optimization, streamlining the process for developers and reducing the time spent on image cropping and adjustments. By enabling clients to easily replace images without the need for extensive redesigns, Prodibi enhances the overall visual experience while maintaining the integrity of brand presentation.

Moka Studio

Grant in 2017
Moka Studio is a developer specializing in 3D character animation software with over a decade of experience in the field. The company has partnered with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) to create a proprietary technology called NumIK, which facilitates the realistic animation of virtual characters, including humans and animals, in real-time. Moka Studio's flagship product, Mosketch Light, allows professionals and artists to animate 3D characters intuitively using sketching techniques. The software supports the FBX file format, enabling users to import 3D models, animate them, and export the results for use in other applications. Moka Studio aims to enhance the realism and interactivity of 3D characters, thereby advancing the capabilities of virtual reality and augmented reality environments.

Colorimetrix

Grant in 2017
Colorimetrix is a developer of mobile software that transforms smartphones into portable spectrophotometers, allowing for the semi-quantitative measurement of colorimetric test strips or solutions. By utilizing the smartphone's camera and a specialized mathematical algorithm, the application can automatically read and interpret results from both commercial and research colorimetric tests. This functionality enables users to diagnose concentration values of substances measured in colorimetric tests, facilitating the storage and analysis of results on the smartphone for trend evaluation or sharing via email.

Giaran

Grant in 2017
Giaran, Inc. develops software that offers virtual try-on experience of cosmetics products in store, online, and on-the-go. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Brookline, Massachusetts. As of November 7, 2017, Giaran, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Shiseido Americas Corporation.

Adhark

Grant in 2017
Adhark is an image performance software company that quantifies design to elevate brand performance. The Adhark Platform uses patented artificial intelligence and machine learning technology to understand the visual preferences of consumer audiences, guide creative decision-making, and deliver marketing success through enhanced imagery. Adhark also developed and maintains the I-Score™, which is relied on by creative and marketing professionals to evaluate the resonance of imagery. Headquartered in Boston, Adhark’s award-winning application of AI technology demystifies the impact of creative art, exposing a variety of unforeseen visual stimuli that ignite engagement. Join the Adhark Community and be a part of the movement: www.adhark.com.

Piktia

Seed Round in 2017
Piktia is a mobile app where users can choose their favorite photos from their phone or social media, to create prints and photo albums in seconds and get them delivered at their doorstep. Taking photos and sharing them with friends and family has never been easier, thanks to Smartphones, trillions of photographs are created every day, and many of them have the possibility to become printed pictures. Today’s photo printing solutions are expensive, inefficient and hard to use. Users in Latin America have to spend over 90 minutes in average to print their photos. With Piktia they can do it in just seconds and get their pictures delivered at home.

Pixm

Seed Round in 2017
Pixm, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in New York that specializes in developing artificial intelligence technologies aimed at preventing phishing breaches. Founded in 2013, Pixm employs visual recognition to identify zero-day phishing attacks, effectively scrutinizing every webpage for brand and login impersonations without relying on traditional whitelisting methods. The company's services encompass anti-phishing, email security, computer vision, and deep learning, providing comprehensive security solutions for businesses and organizations to enhance their website, network, and computer security.

Piktia

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Piktia is a mobile app where users can choose their favorite photos from their phone or social media, to create prints and photo albums in seconds and get them delivered at their doorstep. Taking photos and sharing them with friends and family has never been easier, thanks to Smartphones, trillions of photographs are created every day, and many of them have the possibility to become printed pictures. Today’s photo printing solutions are expensive, inefficient and hard to use. Users in Latin America have to spend over 90 minutes in average to print their photos. With Piktia they can do it in just seconds and get their pictures delivered at home.

Artmyn

Seed Round in 2016
ARTMYN provides a disruptive solution for highly accurate digitization of visual artworks, with interactive rendering on mobile devices and accessible via a simple web browser. A unique portable scanner captures gigabytes of data describing the artwork in its finest details, which, along with proprietary web technologies, result in a true-to-life visualisation. This complete new experience allows users to embark on an emotional journey where digital replicas can be explored just as if the originals were in their very own hands.

Smartify

Grant in 2016
SMARTIFY provides instant access to inspiring art commentary, straight to your smartphone. Their app allows you to scan, identify and save art. It also serves as a personalized, on-the-ground guide to any museum or gallery we partner with. SMARTIFY CIC is a social enterprise with a mission is to help people make meaningful connections with art and to support global visual arts organisations – public and commercial. They’re focused on protecting artist and museum intellectual property and ensure parts of its profits are channeled back to the public institutions we serve.

Suspect Technologies

Grant in 2016
Suspect Technologies, Inc. designs and develops semi automated redaction software. It offers video and audio redaction services to police agencies. The company's software allows investigative agencies to redacting people’s faces and identities in videos. It caters to airport, law agency, and field facial recognition industries. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Artmyn

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
ARTMYN provides a disruptive solution for highly accurate digitization of visual artworks, with interactive rendering on mobile devices and accessible via a simple web browser. A unique portable scanner captures gigabytes of data describing the artwork in its finest details, which, along with proprietary web technologies, result in a true-to-life visualisation. This complete new experience allows users to embark on an emotional journey where digital replicas can be explored just as if the originals were in their very own hands.

Pixtr

Grant in 2013
Pixtr Ltd. is a mobile photo editing application company based in Haifa, Israel, founded in 2012. The application is designed to enhance photographs automatically, making professional-quality results accessible to all users, regardless of their photography expertise. By focusing on key elements in images, particularly people's appearances, Pixtr helps users achieve flattering edits with minimal effort. The app offers features such as removing skin blemishes and red-eye, as well as enhancing the natural look of selfies, even in group photos. Pixtr aims to simplify the photo improvement process, making it mainstream and positioning itself as a standard tool for enhancing images taken with mobile devices.

Back in Focus

Grant in 2010
Back in Focus specializes in developing software solutions that enhance visual clarity for users of personal electronic devices, such as tablets and smartphones. The company addresses common vision issues, particularly presbyopia, which affects many individuals in their mid-forties and older. As digital displays become increasingly prevalent in daily life, Back in Focus processes texts and images on these devices to deliver content tailored to each user's specific eyesight needs. This innovative approach eliminates the necessity for glasses or contact lenses, providing a clear and focused visual experience directly on the screen.
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