MassChallenge

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.

Diffeo is an AI-powered advanced discovery platform that enhances productivity by streamlining the search for information across various sources, including email, desktop, and cloud-based accounts. The platform learns from users' writing and interests, allowing it to build a dynamic graph of relevant people, places, things, and events. By employing probabilistic inference algorithms, Diffeo analyzes in-progress documents and web-based notes, making it easier for users to uncover valuable insights and locate contact information quickly. As users engage with the platform, it continuously recommends new sources and connections, ensuring that the workflow remains seamless and that the insights gained are increasingly refined.

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.

SeeVoov is the first and only end-to-end video based travel planning platform, offering a unique visual-based approach to digital travel. The company aims to change the way people all around the world address their trip experiences, from planning, through executing, to post-trip sharing. SeeVoov offers a social, interactive, video based trip planner, enabling people with the opportunity to start enjoying their trip experience right from the planning process. Our offering encompasses both a user facing end-to-end interface (B2C), as well as unique B2B cooperation with airlines, cruise-lines, OTA's, and TV broadcast networks, integrating the platform (white labeled) into their own business offering (website, apps, on-board screes, smart TV's). This enables such partners to expand their product & service offering, enhancing customer engagement & loyalty, providing valuable user data and additional revenue streams. SeeVoov is changing the entire perception of the planning cycle from a lonely, tedious task, into a fun, exciting and time effective activity one can do together with family and friends!

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.

Jobgator is a resume improvement and job search improvement web-application searching for seed funding.

SyncThink Inc. is a neuro-technology company based in Palo Alto, California, specializing in eye-tracking technology for brain health assessment. Founded in 2009 by Dr. Jamshid Ghajar, the company has developed the EYE-SYNC device, a rapid, non-invasive tool designed to evaluate ocular motor impairments and vestibular dysfunction, key indicators of concussion. The EYE-SYNC assessment takes just 60 seconds and is used by various institutions, including university athletic departments and medical clinics like Stanford University and Massachusetts General Hospital. SyncThink has established partnerships with prominent research organizations, securing over $36 million in funding from the US Department of Defense for its development and research initiatives. The technology is FDA approved and supported by a robust intellectual property portfolio, including eleven issued patents. SyncThink's offerings extend beyond concussions, with potential applications in attention development, brain performance enhancement, and fatigue evaluation.

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.

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.

New View Surgical, Inc. is a Boston-based medical device company that specializes in the development and commercialization of the VisionPort technology, a novel surgical imaging and access system designed for minimally invasive surgery. Founded in 2009, the company has created a proprietary system that integrates four essential devices—a laparoscope, camera, light source, and access port—into a single, easy-to-use, and disposable unit. This innovation aims to provide surgeons with enhanced control over visualization and instrumentation during procedures, addressing various unmet needs within the surgical market. The leadership team comprises experienced professionals in medical device innovation and commercialization, dedicated to delivering impactful solutions that offer both clinical and economic benefits to operating rooms worldwide.

AutismSees was founded to bring a tech solution for young adults who fear eye contact while speaking or fear making presentations. They have learned that people do better in job interviews when they understand how they appear in front of others. You know what they say, “58% of communication is body language. 38% is tone of voice.” Kinesics is the immediate connection between strangers and theirselves during first encounters. They help young adults create positive first impressions by showing them how they look in real time during prep for a job or college interview.

Talent Rocket is a job search engine that enables its users to find jobs with a suitable work environment for them. Job seekers can select their preferred company culture, follow their favorite companies, and start career conversations with employers. Talent Rocket was founded in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Visualwise Ltd. is a London-based company founded in 2014 that specializes in providing virtual reality solutions for architects. The company develops a virtual reality engine that enables users to convert sketches, 3D models, and textures into immersive three-dimensional images. By offering stereoscopic goggles that transform smartphones into virtual reality devices, Visualwise enhances the architectural design process, allowing for seamless communication and visualization of designs. The company operates on a subscription model, charging a monthly license fee per user, in addition to offering various services and graphical assets through its CAD plugin.

GiveVision specializes in developing software for smart glasses designed to assist blind and partially sighted individuals. Their technology functions as an intelligent companion, capable of recognizing text, people, places, and objects. By providing real-time information to users, it enhances their mobility and independence, significantly improving their quality of life.

RetailSights generate actionable insights to brands through computer vision to help them understand shoppers behavior in their stores. RetailSights aim to increase sales & reduce unnecessary cost for brands by delivering a dashboard with real actionable insights of in-store customers behavior. They place cameras and with their artificial intelligence technology extract information like gender, age group, interaction with the shelf, path in the store, among others. With powerful Big Data and A.I. tools they automatically synthetize this information with business rules and behavioral economics models to deliver recommendations

SkillHound, Inc. operates an online recruitment platform that simplifies the hiring process by leveraging developers' connections on GitHub. Founded in 2013 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, SkillHound enables users to search for job candidates while examining the skills and coding contributions of prospective hires. The platform allows employers to explore connections between developers and their team members, facilitating more personalized introductions. SkillHound provides detailed summaries of developers, including their proficiency in various programming languages, contributions to past projects, and activity on platforms like StackOverflow. Additionally, the service can conduct comprehensive analyses of GitHub repositories, generating scorecards that assess developers' abilities and highlight specific code sections for further review. This approach aims to enhance recruitment efficiency by focusing on the actual skills and experiences of candidates.