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E14 Fund are an investment fund focused on taking the biggest ideas hatched at MIT, deploying them to the real world, and scaling them for greatest impact. At the E14 Fund, they help bring technologies out of the lab and into the world. Their network of advisors—investors, industry experts, and entrepreneurs—help their companies take prototypes to scale and raise further investment. The E14 Fund supports companies across diverse fields—from biotechnology and smart cities to consumer electronics and manufacturing. They are a bridge that builds entrepreneurs from MIT and creates the paths to connect them with investors and industry experts who can help them scale. They believe diversity and inclusion are the seeds of innovation. Half of their companies have a female founder, and more than half have founders are from outside the United States.
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65 past transactions

MitoLab

Venture Round in 2020
MitoLab is a biotechnology company building a scalable platform for mitochondrial genome engineering. It creates and sells products for use in non-clinical scientific research scenarios. The company’s products are designed to be used in non-clinical research projects assessing the utility of chemical compounds for mitochondrial medicine. Their customers range from multinational companies to individuals specializing in mitochondrial, metabolic, and anti-aging research. Founded by Fahim Farzadfard and Louis J. Kang in 2020 and is headquartered in Allston, Massachusetts, USA.

Homestead

Seed Round in 2020
Homestead finances and manages the conversion of garages into rental apartments. Homestead covers the operations in converting a garage into a rental property, from financing, through design, construction and management, giving homeowners a clear path to financial stability and empowering them to help California's housing crisis.

Figur8, Inc.

Series A in 2021
FIGUR8 is formed by a group of engineers, researchers and designers with expertise in wearable computing, digital health and sports science. We share the same passion in creating the most intuitive and effective way to understanding human movement and to bring what’s only available to the elite few today to the hands of the everyday user.

Diligent Robotics

Series A in 2020
Diligent Robotics develops technically advanced robots with mobile manipulation, social intelligence, and human-guided learning capabilities to collaborate with and adapt to humans in everyday environments. Diligent Robotics' service robots are designed to participate and work together with teams of humans. The company's first product, Moxi, is a hospital robot assistant that helps clinical staff with logistical tasks, allowing them to have more time on direct patient care, improving patient satisfaction, quality of service, and safety.

Formlabs

Seed Round in 2011
Formlabs Inc. designs and manufactures 3D printing systems for engineers, designers, and artists. It also offers standard, castable, flexible, tough, and dental SG materials; and PreForm software, a software that prepares models for printing on Formlabs printer The company’s products are used in engineering, manufacturing, education, entertainment, dental, jewelry, healthcare, and audiology. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Somerville, Massachusetts with additional offices in Germany, Japan, China, Singapore, Hungary, and North Carolina.

Butlr Technologies Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Butlr Technologies Inc. operates a wireless-sensor device that collects and transmits information in real-time. The company also enables the optimization of a retail space layout by translating location and duration data into shopping preference and consumer behavior through analysis. It serves customers in retail and hospitality industries. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Burlingame, California.

Move38.com

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Move38.com manufactures board games. It includes get blinks, get troxes, and get mootone. Move38.com was founded in 2016 and is based in Long Island City, New York.

Pienso

Seed Round in 2017
Pienso is a machine learning platform for non-programmers. Pienso’s end to end Intelligent Development Environment allows non-programming experts to create and train their own machine learning models without the need for external support. Founded in 2016 by Birago Jones, CEO and Karthik Dinakar PH.D, CTO. Pienso is headquartered in the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s New Lab in Brooklyn, New York. For more information visit: http://pienso.com/ and follow @Pienso_ML.

Diligent Robotics

Series B in 2022
Diligent Robotics develops technically advanced robots with mobile manipulation, social intelligence, and human-guided learning capabilities to collaborate with and adapt to humans in everyday environments. Diligent Robotics' service robots are designed to participate and work together with teams of humans. The company's first product, Moxi, is a hospital robot assistant that helps clinical staff with logistical tasks, allowing them to have more time on direct patient care, improving patient satisfaction, quality of service, and safety.

Primitives

Seed Round in 2019
Primitives is a public benefit company that solves plastic pollution. The company creates materials and tools to alleviate petroleum plastics. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Biorealize

Seed Round in 2016
Biorealize, Inc. designs and develops a reactor that heats, cools, agitates, and tracks microorganism growth in programmable media and culturing settings. Its product offers culturing and analytics solutions for fermentation, anaerobic and aerobic microbial culturing, animal cell culturing, and biofilm manufacturing. The company’s product is used in various applications, including fermented food and beverages, fashion and materials, cosmetics and personal care, and more. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

SiTration

Pre Seed Round in 2022
SiTration improves ultra-durable filtration membranes intended for efficient separations in the harshest environments. Brendan Smith established the company in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2020.

Graviky Labs

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
At Graviky Labs you’ll find us fusing science with industrial design while developing prototypes and writing Python code at any given moment. They. Make. Magic.

Augmental Technologies, Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Augmental Technologies, Inc. develops application, that integrates with the human body to enable access to information and assistance. The company offers augmented reality, assistive technology, and situational impairment. Augmental Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

DeepCure

Seed Round in 2020
DeepCure Inc. offers drugs discovery services using artificial intelligence technology. Its products include De-novo Lead Discovery, Artificial Intelligence-driven Lead Optimization, and MoIDB. De-novo Lead Discovery uses artificial intelligence algorithms to analyze drug candidates from virtual library. Artificial Intelligence-driven Lead Optimization identifies optimization steps to improve the development of drugs. MolDB is designed to maximize scale, diversity, and synthesizability of chemical search space. DeepCure Inc. develops new drug through molecular feature extraction, MoIDB, artificial intelligence predictive modeling and feedback loop. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Secure AI Labs

Seed Round in 2020
Secure AI Labs develops and offers a secure analytics platform that allows companies to share sensitive, valuable, and regulated data without exposing secrets or sacrificing ownership. It provides an encrypted analytics platform that protects data so that the users can access siloed data and use proprietary algorithms. The company was formerly known as GeneTank and changed its name to Secure AI Labs in 2018. Secure AI Labs was founded in 2017 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Volta Labs, Inc.

Series A in 2022
Volta Labs, Inc., a biotechnology company, engineers and develops tools for biological automation. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Waylens, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Waylens is a Boston based company developing camera technologies for automotive applications. The Waylens camera captures behind-the-wheel adventures so they can easily be saved or shared with the world. It does this by fusing data from multiple sensors to create a hyper-realistic video of your four wheeled experience.

Dalang Health

Seed Round in 2020
Dalang Health is a patient experience company that focuses on scalability bridging the gaps between care teams and patients for increased compliance and access to support chronic disease management.

BuildBuddy

Seed Round in 2020
BuildBuddy provides enterprise features for Bazel, an open-source build system that allows users to build and test software. It captures build logs, invocation details, target information, and artifacts so users get a complete picture of each build. The company was founded by Siggi Simonarson and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Overjet, Inc.

Series B in 2021
Overjet is a software company that develops a platform designed to reduce costs and improve the quality of dental care. It uses artificial intelligence and analyzes dental data to determine what treatments are necessary for the patient, enabling patients to get improved dental care. Its computer vision and machine learning algorithms empower dental providers and payers to deliver patient care. In 2018, Wardah Inam founded the company in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Brelyon, Inc.

Venture Round in 2022
Brelyon, Inc. manufactures and supplies virtual display screens that provides an alternative to personal computer multi-monitor setups and stationary applications of virtual reality. It offers immersive displays, development kits, and field evolving depth modulators. The company’s products are used in office, gaming, and tele operations. Brelyon, Inc. was founded in 2019 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Ori

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
Ori is a smart space company that empowers people to get the most out of their living areas through the design of multi-functional, robotic-powered interior solutions. We partner with real estate developers, builders, property managers, and architects to optimize the square footage of the built environments they shape in order to create urban housing and spaces that are flexible, intelligent, sustainable and affordable. We believe we should expect more from our spaces.

The Sync Project

Seed Round in 2015
We are creating a platform to scientifically measure and harness music to improve health.

Amino Labs

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
Amino Labs is a biotechnology company that aims to make genetic engineering accessible to everyone. It works to enable the next industrial revolution of personalized manufacturing using biology and help solve the world's biggest problem from fuel to food to medicine. Driven by ground-breaking technology and UX, Amino Labs' easy-to-use kits are giving rise to the next 99 million bioengineers, from the ages of 8 and up. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Lethbridge, Canada.

Lumii

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Fathom specializes in delivering hologram-like 3D experiences using readily-available printers, inks, and media. It allows users to print the patterns duplex on standard clear film and the 3D object reappears, extending 30x beyond the film thickness. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Overjet, Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Overjet is a software company that develops a platform designed to reduce costs and improve the quality of dental care. It uses artificial intelligence and analyzes dental data to determine what treatments are necessary for the patient, enabling patients to get improved dental care. Its computer vision and machine learning algorithms empower dental providers and payers to deliver patient care. In 2018, Wardah Inam founded the company in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Culture Robotics

Series A in 2020
Culture Biosciences develops automated bio-reactor that helps biotech companies optimize their manufacturing processes and brings products to market faster. The company also builds automated tools for fermentation. It has a digital bio-manufacturing platform to enable scientists to run, monitor, and analyze bio-reactors faster than traditional approaches by robotic sample handling and cloud data monitoring and analysis. Culture Biosciences was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Sourcemap Inc.

Series A in 2022
Sourcemap helps companies map their supply chains, evaluate the social / environmental / financial risks, and put systems in place for ongoing monitoring and optimization. In 2009 we introduced the first software-as-a-service for supply chain mapping. Today Sourcemap SaaS is being used by dozens of major brands including Mars, Ikea and Stonyfield.

Capra Biosciences

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Capra Biosciences is a biotechnology company harnessing biology for efficient and low-carbon production of everyday chemicals. It develops bioreactor technology designed to make the production of chemical products more efficient. The company developed a biofilm bioreactor which has the potential to significantly reduce the downstream processing requirements and costs inherent in the bio-manufacturing of products such as fuels. Capra Biosciences was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Alexandria, VA.

Enigma

Convertible Note in 2016
Enigma provides cloud SDK solutions for protecting data-in-use. The company automates and streamlines business operations; and helps financial institutions to identify anti-money laundering compliance, credit-card fraud detection, and insurance premium pricing. It is used to secure data sharing, access control, and secure data processing. The company is based in San Francisco, California.

Homestead

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Homestead finances and manages the conversion of garages into rental apartments. Homestead covers the operations in converting a garage into a rental property, from financing, through design, construction and management, giving homeowners a clear path to financial stability and empowering them to help California's housing crisis.

Secure AI Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Secure AI Labs develops and offers a secure analytics platform that allows companies to share sensitive, valuable, and regulated data without exposing secrets or sacrificing ownership. It provides an encrypted analytics platform that protects data so that the users can access siloed data and use proprietary algorithms. The company was formerly known as GeneTank and changed its name to Secure AI Labs in 2018. Secure AI Labs was founded in 2017 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Sourcemap Inc.

Non Equity Assistance in 2011
Sourcemap helps companies map their supply chains, evaluate the social / environmental / financial risks, and put systems in place for ongoing monitoring and optimization. In 2009 we introduced the first software-as-a-service for supply chain mapping. Today Sourcemap SaaS is being used by dozens of major brands including Mars, Ikea and Stonyfield.

Brelyon, Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Brelyon, Inc. manufactures and supplies virtual display screens that provides an alternative to personal computer multi-monitor setups and stationary applications of virtual reality. It offers immersive displays, development kits, and field evolving depth modulators. The company’s products are used in office, gaming, and tele operations. Brelyon, Inc. was founded in 2019 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Guardian Agriculture

Seed Round in 2021
Guardian Agriculture has developed an integrated eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) system for precision application, extending growers’ reach, reducing environmental impact, and minimizing product resistance. Offered as a service, the company’s autonomous, eVTOL, agricultural systems collect and act intelligently on data generated throughout the crop protection process. When deployed at scale the systems are capable of eliminating hundreds of millions of pounds of unnecessary pesticide use annually while helping farmers grow healthier, better-protected crops.

Tulip Interfaces, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Tulip Interfaces, Inc. designs and develops shop floor applications for the manufacturing industry. The company offers applications that combine the data streams from sensors; create digital work instructions; visualize relevant information in real-time; and connect the existing shop floor equipment and operator inputs in real-time. It serves consumer electronics, pharmaceuticals, apparel, and medical devices industries. Tulip Interfaces, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Soofa

Non Equity Assistance in 2014
Soofa is a female founded company, launched out of MIT and Harvard in 2014. We makes cities smart, social, and sustainable by responsibly introducing technology into the public right of way to improve the citizen experience, because we believe that technology can benefit everyone in any neighborhood. The Soofa Sign displays relevant content from the community, local advertisers, and national brands, connecting viewers to their neighborhood and city. In addition, Soofa Signs display real-time transit updates and local events calendars that are local and relevant to passerby. Soofa provides a platform for everyone in the community to have a voice and post to their Soofa Signs with Soofa Talk.

Culture Robotics

Series B in 2021
Culture Biosciences develops automated bio-reactor that helps biotech companies optimize their manufacturing processes and brings products to market faster. The company also builds automated tools for fermentation. It has a digital bio-manufacturing platform to enable scientists to run, monitor, and analyze bio-reactors faster than traditional approaches by robotic sample handling and cloud data monitoring and analysis. Culture Biosciences was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Canopy

Seed Round in 2018
Canopy uses on-device machine learning to discover sights, sounds, and stories to inspire your life. The company is taking a new approach to personalized discovery. One that doesn’t require knowing every action you take or every preference you have. Your personal data stays on your phone, in your hands. Canopy doesn’t see your personal information or track your behavior. The company's app looks at things you like—songs you’ve played, places you’ve explored, articles you’ve read and loved—and makes a summary of your tastes. This vector can’t be reverse engineered to identify you or your personal preferences. Most importantly, nothing but this unidentifiable summary leaves your phone. Canopy uses this anonymized summary, along with other anonymized summaries, as a roadmap to find content you’ll enjoy. We then share these picks back to you in your app each day.

Overjet, Inc.

Series A in 2021
Overjet is a software company that develops a platform designed to reduce costs and improve the quality of dental care. It uses artificial intelligence and analyzes dental data to determine what treatments are necessary for the patient, enabling patients to get improved dental care. Its computer vision and machine learning algorithms empower dental providers and payers to deliver patient care. In 2018, Wardah Inam founded the company in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Butlr Technologies Inc.

Seed Round in 2021
Butlr Technologies Inc. operates a wireless-sensor device that collects and transmits information in real-time. The company also enables the optimization of a retail space layout by translating location and duration data into shopping preference and consumer behavior through analysis. It serves customers in retail and hospitality industries. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Burlingame, California.

Rune AI Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
Rune AI Inc. provides an application that connects mobile gamers on voice chat and finds them teammates using artificial intelligence. It offers Rune, a platform that matches and finds players with similar trophies and who speak the same language as the user, as well as allows players to use voice chat, track stats, and earn the brawl boxes. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Diligent Robotics

Series A in 2020
Diligent Robotics develops technically advanced robots with mobile manipulation, social intelligence, and human-guided learning capabilities to collaborate with and adapt to humans in everyday environments. Diligent Robotics' service robots are designed to participate and work together with teams of humans. The company's first product, Moxi, is a hospital robot assistant that helps clinical staff with logistical tasks, allowing them to have more time on direct patient care, improving patient satisfaction, quality of service, and safety.

Labby

Seed Round in 2020
Labby is an on-the-go food+beverage testing device focusing on the beer and wine production industry. Our technology can be used for a range of applications like counterfeit detection, quality control and even as a virtual brewmate for homebrewers. Our product comprises of a portable testing device and an analytics service that will be tailored for the entire spectrum of users- craft and large breweries, sommeliers, hobbyists and enthusiasts!

Affectiva

Series B in 2019
Affectiva, Inc. develops an emotion-sensing artificial intelligence software solution for use in the commercial market to understand how consumers engage with digital content and understand advertising and communication messages. The company offers a software development kit and cloud-based API; a cloud-based solution that allows brands, advertisers, and market researchers to understand the consumer emotional engagement with digital content; an emotion-as-a-service to analyze human expressions; and an in lab biometric solution. It serves industries ranging from advertising and automotive to social robotic and healthcare markets. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with an additional office in Cairo, Egypt.

Elroy Air

Seed Round in 2019
Elroy Air, Inc., an aerospace and logistics company, operates a fleet of autonomous aircraft systems to deliver goods. It operates an aerial cargo delivery system to deliver heavy cargo over long distances. The company serves commercial, humanitarian aid, and military applications. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Wise Systems Inc.

Series A in 2018
Wise Systems Inc. develops autonomous dispatch and routing software for companies to deliver goods and services to customers when they are needed most. It offers Scheduler to dynamically build and dispatch optimized route plans; Dispatcher that allows managers to monitor routes, including delivery progress, ETAs for each delivery, and driver performance; and Customer Portal that enables delivery recipients to track their orders throughout the day with accurate real-time ETAs. The company also provides Smart Reservation Management that enable to customers choose the delivery date and time that works for them. The company serves food and beverage, parcel and courier, retail, auto parts, less than truckload, third-party logistics, field service and technicians, business services, and other industries. Wise Systems Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

ThruWave

Seed Round in 2020
ThruWave produces millimeter wave imaging technology designed for markets including robotics, construction, and quality control. The company's low-cost sensors for commercial and industrial applications use patent-pending radar signal processing innovations and GPU accelerated image reconstruction techniques. Its technology lowers risk by imaging the internal structure of walls, ceilings, and floors that enable construction professionals to work faster. ThruWave was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Pathr.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2019
AI-powered Spatial Intelligence platform using anonymous location data to derive actionable real time insights for operations and marketing.

Spatial Systems, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Spatial Systems, Inc. provides a augmented workplace platform. The company’s platform lets users to held meetings with spatial audio and 3D telepresence, as well as helps user to share and organize 3D models, videos, docs, images, and websites. It also virtualizes various contents on their phone or computer into digital workspace. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in New York, New York.

Wise Systems Inc.

Series B in 2020
Wise Systems Inc. develops autonomous dispatch and routing software for companies to deliver goods and services to customers when they are needed most. It offers Scheduler to dynamically build and dispatch optimized route plans; Dispatcher that allows managers to monitor routes, including delivery progress, ETAs for each delivery, and driver performance; and Customer Portal that enables delivery recipients to track their orders throughout the day with accurate real-time ETAs. The company also provides Smart Reservation Management that enable to customers choose the delivery date and time that works for them. The company serves food and beverage, parcel and courier, retail, auto parts, less than truckload, third-party logistics, field service and technicians, business services, and other industries. Wise Systems Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Figur8, Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
FIGUR8 is formed by a group of engineers, researchers and designers with expertise in wearable computing, digital health and sports science. We share the same passion in creating the most intuitive and effective way to understanding human movement and to bring what’s only available to the elite few today to the hands of the everyday user.

Pi Inc.

Series A in 2017
Pi Inc. develops a wireless charging technology that allows Pi to change the angle of a magnetic field to match the angle of user's device. The company was formerly known as Pi Charging Inc. Pi Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Bruno, California.