E14 Fund

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.

63 past transactions

Chunk Foods

Seed Round in 2022
Chunk Foods makes clean-label, plant-based whole-cut products. Chunk Foods uses cutting-edge technology to create delicious and nutritious food while also protecting the environment. Chunk Foods' products are minimally processed and contain only a few healthy, identifiable ingredients.

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.

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.

BRELYON

Venture Round in 2022
Brelyon is a deep tech startup realizing headset-less solutions for immersion in enterprise and metaverse applications. Breylon is introducing the world's first headset free virtual monitor. The experience is like looking through a window at a large IMAX screen on your desk. This allows replacing multi-monitor setups and having to wear headsets in a variety of enterprise and consumer applications.

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.

Delfina

Seed Round in 2022
Delfina provides a personalized prenatal care system that uses the power of data to keep moms and babies safe during pregnancy. Their data-driven approach is uncovering unique insights in prenatal care to pave the way for clinical innovation.

Volta Labs

Series A in 2022
Volta Labs is a biotechnology company that develops scalable automation for genetic engineering.

Source.ag

Seed Round in 2022
Source.ag is accelerating access to fresh fruit and vegetables with A.I.-powered glasshouses. The company's team of experienced engineers and plant scientists has partnered with the growers to build the sector’s advanced artificial intelligence. Its proprietary algorithms simulate plant behavior to define and execute optimal cultivation strategies, taking into account millions of data points on climate, biology, and resources. By enabling more growers to operate more facilities more efficiently through pioneering technology, Source is making glasshouse agriculture accessible, profitable, and globally scalable. Together, they are on a mission to provide nutritious food to more people while using fewer resources.

OPT Industries

Series A in 2022
At OPT Industries, we invent material systems to design and manufacture products at the micron-scale. Using vertically integrated machinery, software, and design expertise, we provide our customers precision-engineered products at high volumes and with shortened lead times. OPT Industries was established in 2019 by Jifei Ou in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Sourcemap

Series A in 2022
Sourcemap develops enterprise software for end-to-end supply chain visibility. It provides a full-suite solution for supply chain transparency and traceability. It includes end-to-end supply chain due diligence, customs compliance, environmental and social sustainability, business continuity, and operations planning.

Overjet

Series B in 2021
Overjet is the world leader in dental AI. Founded by experts from MIT and Harvard University, Overjet builds artificial intelligence that helps dental organizations give patients the highest quality of care. Our FDA-cleared technology is the first objective standard for making oral health decisions — so that dentists can detect pathologies with precision and educate patients with confidence. To learn more, visit Overjet.com.

Culture Biosciences

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.

Overjet

Series A in 2021
Overjet is the world leader in dental AI. Founded by experts from MIT and Harvard University, Overjet builds artificial intelligence that helps dental organizations give patients the highest quality of care. Our FDA-cleared technology is the first objective standard for making oral health decisions — so that dentists can detect pathologies with precision and educate patients with confidence. To learn more, visit Overjet.com.

FIGUR8

Series A in 2021
FIGUR8 is an MIT spin-off company, creating the most advanced wearable musculoskeletal (MSK) technology on the market. The solution combines Smart Biosensors, Intuitive Software and AI to analyze and advance musculoskeletal health. Our solution accurately pinpoints the source of MSK pathology and provides essential data to enhance patient-centric recovery. Value is recorded across the entire episode of care, from injury through full recovery. FIGUR8 technology aids in significantly reducing the cost of care, improving access, and empowering patients to take control of their personal MSK health.

Butlr

Seed Round in 2021
Butlr is an AI people-sensing platform using body heat to detect occupancy, headcount, body posture, and activity, and generate accurate, real-time, and historical spatial insights for healthcare and sustainable buildings. Their sensor technology detects human presence anonymously using low-resolution thermal data and advanced AI and machine learning.

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. It helps the farmers own the ability to apply from the air with the only automated, electric, aerial crop protection systems designed specifically for agriculture.

Chunk Foods

Seed Round in 2021
Chunk Foods makes clean-label, plant-based whole-cut products. Chunk Foods uses cutting-edge technology to create delicious and nutritious food while also protecting the environment. Chunk Foods' products are minimally processed and contain only a few healthy, identifiable ingredients.

Chunk Foods

Seed Round in 2021
Chunk Foods makes clean-label, plant-based whole-cut products. Chunk Foods uses cutting-edge technology to create delicious and nutritious food while also protecting the environment. Chunk Foods' products are minimally processed and contain only a few healthy, identifiable ingredients.

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.

Array Insights

Seed Round in 2020
Secure AI Labs helps businesses access proprietary data by protecting it during analysis. It protects data by digitally enforcing data-use policies and enable data owners control who, how, and where the data is used, even after sharing. The company's encrypted analytics platform keeps data and algorithms secure at every step. It provides bioinformatics and machine learning to develop AI models which users can access from a diverse library. Businesses can access data easily without the liability of working with personal or proprietary information. Secure AI Labs was founded on 2017 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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!

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.

Augmental

Seed Round in 2020
Augmental Tech develops technology that integrates with the human body that enables to access information without the use of hands. The company actively developing discreet hands-free interfaces for people with both situational and severe motor impairment. They want to help others to overcome the physical and sensory limitations of the body and see the mouth as unexplored real-estate for human-computer interaction. Augmental Tech enabling access to computers and increased autonomy for those living with paralysis of the upper extremities. They allowing interaction with a mobile device when constraints imposed by context prevent the use of hands. Augmental Tech was founded in 2019 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

BRELYON

Seed Round in 2020
Brelyon is a deep tech startup realizing headset-less solutions for immersion in enterprise and metaverse applications. Breylon is introducing the world's first headset free virtual monitor. The experience is like looking through a window at a large IMAX screen on your desk. This allows replacing multi-monitor setups and having to wear headsets in a variety of enterprise and consumer applications.

Butlr

Seed Round in 2020
Butlr is an AI people-sensing platform using body heat to detect occupancy, headcount, body posture, and activity, and generate accurate, real-time, and historical spatial insights for healthcare and sustainable buildings. Their sensor technology detects human presence anonymously using low-resolution thermal data and advanced AI and machine learning.

Wise Systems

Series B in 2020
Wise Systems builds autonomous dispatch and routing software that uses machine learning to continuously improve fleet efficiency and customer service across last-mile operations in food, beverage, courier, energy, field service, and other markets. Used by some of the world’s largest brands, Wise Systems customers typically see 10-15% mileage reductions, significant increases in fleet utilization, and up to 80% decreases in late deliveries. The Wise Systems platform applies software-based logic to all orders and makes intelligent, data-driven decisions to optimize both fleet performance and customer service — processing millions of data points and making thousands of real-time decisions that would be impossible for even the most experienced human dispatcher. The system automatically schedules routes, monitors routes in progress, and intelligently adjusts to day-of delays on the ground. The company was founded out of the MIT Media Lab and Center for Transportation Logistics in 2014 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Overjet

Seed Round in 2020
Overjet is the world leader in dental AI. Founded by experts from MIT and Harvard University, Overjet builds artificial intelligence that helps dental organizations give patients the highest quality of care. Our FDA-cleared technology is the first objective standard for making oral health decisions — so that dentists can detect pathologies with precision and educate patients with confidence. To learn more, visit Overjet.com.

Subskribe

Seed Round in 2020
Subskribe is the adaptive quoting, billing, and revenue platform for modern SaaS companies. Totally unified. No silos. Zero reconciliation, from quote to revenue. Designed in collaboration with some of the world’s leading SaaS companies, Subskribe helps businesses maximize revenue with innovative deal structures like ramp-up engagements, mid-term upsells, and flexible discounts. The result is faster time-to-market, increased top-line growth, and massive operational savings. Subskribe was founded by quoting and billing software industry veterans.

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.

Atomic Machines

Seed Round in 2020
Atomic Machines are into MEMS micro- and nano-fabrication.

DeepCure

Seed Round in 2020
DeepCure builds an AI engine for small-molecule drug discovery. The company is utilizing AI-driven drug discovery to expedite the advancement of groundbreaking, first-in-class precision therapeutics targeting areas with unmet medical needs.

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.

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.

Homestead

Seed Round in 2020
Homestead is powering the transition to a new type of homeownership. It is opening up new opportunities for affordable housing throughout California, effectively turning every homeowner into a developer. In exchange for the use of their backyard, its products provide existing homeowners with $250k-$1.5M in income to build new homes that sell for 25% less than the market average.

Culture Biosciences

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.

Chunk Foods

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Chunk Foods makes clean-label, plant-based whole-cut products. Chunk Foods uses cutting-edge technology to create delicious and nutritious food while also protecting the environment. Chunk Foods' products are minimally processed and contain only a few healthy, identifiable ingredients.

Primitives

Seed Round in 2019
Primitives is a public benefit company headquartered in San Francisco, California that engineers advanced biomaterials to reduce food waste and plastics pollution.

Rune

Seed Round in 2019
Dusk is the best place to talk and play multiplayer games with your friends. Users hang out on Dusk’s mobile app, sharing laughs on our voice chat as they play indie multiplayer games together! Developers use the Dusk SDK to build multiplayer games without needing a single line of backend code.

FIGUR8

Seed Round in 2019
FIGUR8 is an MIT spin-off company, creating the most advanced wearable musculoskeletal (MSK) technology on the market. The solution combines Smart Biosensors, Intuitive Software and AI to analyze and advance musculoskeletal health. Our solution accurately pinpoints the source of MSK pathology and provides essential data to enhance patient-centric recovery. Value is recorded across the entire episode of care, from injury through full recovery. FIGUR8 technology aids in significantly reducing the cost of care, improving access, and empowering patients to take control of their personal MSK health.

Fathom

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.

Affectiva

Series B in 2019
Affectiva is on a mission to humanize technology. An MIT Media Lab spin-off, Affectiva created and defined the Emotion AI category. Built on deep learning, computer vision, speech science and massive amounts of real-world data (over 9 million face videos analyzed in 90 countries), Affectiva’s technology can detect nuanced human emotions, complex cognitive states, activities, interactions, and objects people use. In automotive, Affectiva’s in-cabin sensing AI is enabling leading car manufacturers, fleet managers and ridesharing companies to build next-generation mobility that adapts to complex human states for enhanced safety and personalized transportation experiences. Affectiva’s technology is also used by 25 percent of the Fortune Global 500 companies to test consumer engagement with ads, videos, and TV programming.

OPT Industries

Seed Round in 2019
At OPT Industries, we invent material systems to design and manufacture products at the micron-scale. Using vertically integrated machinery, software, and design expertise, we provide our customers precision-engineered products at high volumes and with shortened lead times. OPT Industries was established in 2019 by Jifei Ou in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Unit of Work

Seed Round in 2019
Unit is a digital labor advisor for unionizing, consisting of an organizing app, educational materials, and professional staff guidance. It also provides workers with the knowledge and skills they need to form their own labor unions and create more equitable workplaces.

Elroy Air

Seed Round in 2019
Elroy Air is a logistics company that specializes in the fields of logistics, robotics, and air transportation. Its air cargo system features rotor-based vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) and transitions to wing-based cruise flight for long-range. It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Pathr.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Pathr.ai is using the potential of spatial intelligence to alter how businesses comprehend their physical locations. Using existing infrastructure, the company's platform provides real-time information into people's activities inside physical venues.

Wise Systems

Series A in 2018
Wise Systems builds autonomous dispatch and routing software that uses machine learning to continuously improve fleet efficiency and customer service across last-mile operations in food, beverage, courier, energy, field service, and other markets. Used by some of the world’s largest brands, Wise Systems customers typically see 10-15% mileage reductions, significant increases in fleet utilization, and up to 80% decreases in late deliveries. The Wise Systems platform applies software-based logic to all orders and makes intelligent, data-driven decisions to optimize both fleet performance and customer service — processing millions of data points and making thousands of real-time decisions that would be impossible for even the most experienced human dispatcher. The system automatically schedules routes, monitors routes in progress, and intelligently adjusts to day-of delays on the ground. The company was founded out of the MIT Media Lab and Center for Transportation Logistics in 2014 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

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.

Spatial

Seed Round in 2018
Spatial is a gaming platform where millions of creators build and share fun and inspiring experiences that bring people together across web, mobile, and VR. Our goal is to change the way we share fun experiences, tell stories, and make friends. Today, videos are the most common way to talk and share things online, but often people end up just watching and not interacting. We want the internet to be a more playful and social place. This change is already happening in the world of gaming. We want to accelerate this by making it easier for everyone to create, share, and play fun games with their friends. Just like YouTube did for videos. To turn this vision into reality, we are currently focused on the following three pillars: - Creator Toolkit: a dynamic extension of Unity, the most widely adopted game engine globally. We provide you with easy tools and useful templates so you can focus on what matters most - creating fun games that bring people together. - Virtual Economy (beta): enabling the sale of digital items, avatar enhancements, and power-ups. We’re proud to provide a creator-friendly revenue share that outperforms our competitors, putting more money in your pocket. - Multi-Platform: the only platform where your games are published across web, mobile, and VR, ensuring you reach every player on every device.

Ramona

Seed Round in 2018
At Ramona, we’re creating a high-throughput microscopy toolset to unlock a new perspective on cellular-level research. With a wider field of view and the capacity to capture data synchronously, we see more — and we see it in motion. By providing a new point of view, our technology enables researchers to make more informed decisions, faster.

Spansive

Series A in 2017
Pi is a company that delivers a wireless charger for consumers. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

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 machine-learning models without the need for external support.

Enigma

Convertible Note in 2016
Enigma is using groundbreaking privacy technologies to build the first platform for scalable, end-to-end decentralized applications. Enigma introduces secret contracts - smart contracts that let you use private and sensitive data in decentralized applications and services.

Graviky Labs

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
We capture carbon from the atmosphere · We process those emissions into usable carbon · We fuel a greener future.

Move38

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Move38 offers smart games designed to challenge minds and inspire curiosity. They provide design, games, interactivity, systems, custom software, creative coding, creative platforms, hands-on play, and making.

Tulip Interfaces

Seed Round in 2016
Tulip, a leader in frontline operations, is empowering companies to improve the productivity of their teams, the quality of their output, and the efficiency of their operations. With Tulip’s no-code platform, companies can empower those closest to operations to digitally transform their operations, guide operators, and gain real-time visibility into the people, tools, machines, and processes involved — all in a matter of days. Companies of all sizes, across industries including consumer electronics, pharma, aerospace and defense, contract manufacturing, automotive, apparel, medical devices and more, have implemented Tulip’s intuitive software and hardware platform to solve some of the most pressing challenges in frontline operations. Tulip’s Frontline Operations Platform helps companies future-proof their operations by combining research in intelligent hardware sensors, computer vision, assistive user interfaces and applying machine learning on vast amounts of collected data.

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.

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.

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.

Sync Project

Seed Round in 2015
Sync Project specializes in developing a platform that leverages music to enhance health and well-being. The company offers a music delivery bot that personalizes playlists based on users' individual preferences and current moods. This innovative approach aims to scientifically measure the effects of music on health, providing tailored musical experiences that promote emotional and mental wellness. Sync Project was acquired in February 2018.

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.

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.

Sourcemap

Non Equity Assistance in 2011
Sourcemap develops enterprise software for end-to-end supply chain visibility. It provides a full-suite solution for supply chain transparency and traceability. It includes end-to-end supply chain due diligence, customs compliance, environmental and social sustainability, business continuity, and operations planning.
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