MassVentures

MassVentures meets critical capital needs in the Massachusetts innovation economy, providing seed and early-stage venture funding to high growth startups as they move from concept to commercialization. The Boston-based venture firm was formed in 1978 as a quasi-public corporation by the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, governed by an independent Board of Directors, and managed by experienced venture capitalists. Leveraging the entrepreneurial spirit, educated workforce, and centers of innovation in Massachusetts, MassVentures has a track record of success with early-stage ventures.

Charlie Hipwood

President and CEO

Hipwood, Charles C.

Founder President and CEO

Lawrence, John

Controller

Nijhawan, Vinit

Managing Director

Stacy Swider

Vice President, Investments

Priya Yadav

Vice President, Investments

286 past transactions

The University of Massachusetts Amherst is a public research and land-grant university that offers undergraduate, master's, and doctoral programs. It serves as the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system. The university has multiple academic departments and research facilities that support a range of disciplines.

Cyvl.ai

Venture Round in 2022
Cyvl.ai enables civil engineers and governments to manage the world's physical infrastructure assets more effectively and affordably. Civil engineers and governments can gather data on their roads, sidewalks, signs, trees, and more using the company's cutting-edge 3D mapping technology, proprietary algorithms powered by machine learning, and a strong, user-friendly web-based SaaS platform, which allows for direct integration into other asset management tools.
PathMaker Neurosystems is a neurotechnology company that develops treatment for neuromotor disorders.

Seaspire Skincare

Seed Round in 2022
Seaspire Skincare is into manufacturing multifunctional colorants and actives influenced by the biodiversity of the ocean.

Aclarity

Seed Round in 2022
Aclarity is a VC-backed cleantech startup developing and selling water treatment systems to clean the world's water and wastewater.

Concerto Biosciences

Venture Round in 2022
Concerto Biosciences rebuilds microbial communities in, on, and around us to heal our bodies and our planet. Products that rebuild microbial communities do not yet exist because no one can map the vast inter-species interaction networks responsible for community behavior. Concerto’s cofounders therefore invented the first-ever ultra-high-throughput platform to experimentally measure millions of microbial interactions. Concerto maps interaction networks that reveal a new class of products called “ensembles”—combinations of microbes that work in concert to shepherd damaged microbial communities to health. The opportunities are enormous: Concerto will become the premier inventor of ensembles across medicine and agriculture, reinventing humanity’s relationship with microbes.

Paerpay

Seed Round in 2022
Paerpay helps merchants nationwide accept contactless payments without the hassle of changing point-of-sales systems, processors or requiring guests to download an app. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Kytopen

Series A in 2021
Kytopen is a developer of a cell therapy platform designed for non-viral delivery of molecules into hard-to-transfect immune cells. The company's technology combines microfluidics and automation to make non-viral delivery of molecules easier, faster and cheaper through an automated cell engineering platform, enabling researchers to find new discoveries in biology that will lead to cost effective cell and gene therapies.

Inkbit

Series B in 2021
Inkbit creats a next-generation additive manufacturing platform that combines 3D printing with machine vision. MIT-trained scientists and engineers combines expertise in industrial systems, design software, and material science to identify and seize opportunities for mass-market additive manufacturing.

Kytopen

Grant in 2021
Kytopen is a developer of a cell therapy platform designed for non-viral delivery of molecules into hard-to-transfect immune cells. The company's technology combines microfluidics and automation to make non-viral delivery of molecules easier, faster and cheaper through an automated cell engineering platform, enabling researchers to find new discoveries in biology that will lead to cost effective cell and gene therapies.

JETCOOL Technologies

Venture Round in 2021
JETCOOL Technologies develops microjet cooling modules for advanced electronics, publishing the results in several papers. The technology behind JETCOOL was developed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, by a team led by Bernie Malouin. It was founded in 2019 and is based in Littleton, Massachusetts.

Ascend Elements

Series B in 2021
Ascend Elements manufactures advanced battery materials using valuable elements reclaimed from spent lithium-ion batteries. It uses hydroprocess recycling and direct recycling, which take old cathode material down to the atomic level to create new cathode materials. It also helps clients have the maximum return on assets to economically drive recycling and low-cost battery materials.

Kenmei

Series A in 2021
Kenmei Technologies SL provides services, such as, data intelligence with machine based decisioning; network automation; and applied science. It also provides professional services, such as, network management, technology consulting, and data science and analytics. It also offers autonomous decisions and learning, a network intelligence solution to provide automation in classification, segmentation, and resolution of network issues at different operational levels. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Paterna, Spain.

Pison

Series A in 2021
Pison is a human performance company that optimizes cognitive and physiological capability through gesture control. The company offers innovative, non-invasive electroneurography (ENG) algorithms, along with a newly developed sensor array, enabling transformative applications in cognitive enhancement, disease diagnosis and management, and overall quality of life.

InstantEye Robotics

Grant in 2021
InstantEye Robotics is a division of Physical Sciences Inc., both located in Andover Massachusetts, approximately a half-hour north of Boston. InstantEye Robotics’ tactical, unmanned aerial systems (UAS) are the systems of choice by the military, law enforcement, first responder, and commercial users around the world. Our products are characterized by their affordability, ruggedness, and ease of use. We provide full-spectrum solutions, from initial concepts through to products manufactured in our state-of-the-art production facility.

ClearGov

Seed Round in 2020
ClearGov® is the leading provider of Budget Cycle Management software, focused on helping local governments and their department heads streamline the budget process by automating workflow, increasing collaboration, and centralizing data. ClearGov solutions are powerful enough to support local governments of every size, yet affordable enough for even the smallest towns and villages. Hundreds of communities across the country rely on our cloud-based Budget Cycle Management solutions to modernize their budget process. Both company and culture have been well-received within the market and communities they serve. ClearGov has been named to the “GovTech 100” for four years running, and recently recognized as one of Boston’s most innovative young companies by being named to BostInno’s 2019 “50 On Fire.” The company has also been named a “best place to work” by USA Today. ClearGov was founded by Chris Bullock in 2015 and is headquartered in Maynard, Massachusetts.

Unstack

Series A in 2020
Unstack is a no-code commerce platform that allows marketers and entrepreneurs to build and expand their businesses. Unstack is intended to provide a unified framework for company growth for the next generation of entrepreneurs and marketing teams. They focus on driving growth for eCommerce brands.

Concerto Biosciences

Seed Round in 2020
Concerto Biosciences rebuilds microbial communities in, on, and around us to heal our bodies and our planet. Products that rebuild microbial communities do not yet exist because no one can map the vast inter-species interaction networks responsible for community behavior. Concerto’s cofounders therefore invented the first-ever ultra-high-throughput platform to experimentally measure millions of microbial interactions. Concerto maps interaction networks that reveal a new class of products called “ensembles”—combinations of microbes that work in concert to shepherd damaged microbial communities to health. The opportunities are enormous: Concerto will become the premier inventor of ensembles across medicine and agriculture, reinventing humanity’s relationship with microbes.

Kytopen

Seed Round in 2020
Kytopen is a developer of a cell therapy platform designed for non-viral delivery of molecules into hard-to-transfect immune cells. The company's technology combines microfluidics and automation to make non-viral delivery of molecules easier, faster and cheaper through an automated cell engineering platform, enabling researchers to find new discoveries in biology that will lead to cost effective cell and gene therapies.

Harvard College

Grant in 2020
Harvard College, established in 1636 and located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a prestigious educational institution that offers a comprehensive array of academic programs across disciplines such as arts and humanities, sciences, social sciences, and engineering. It emphasizes excellence in teaching, learning, and research, fostering the development of leaders who impact the global community. The college supports its students with access to advanced technological resources for research and a significant financial aid program, which allocates over $160 million to assist more than 60% of undergraduates. Harvard University, of which Harvard College is a part, is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States and serves over 20,000 degree candidates across its twelve schools and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Harvard Management Company, founded in 1974, manages the university’s endowment and financial assets, investing in various markets while employing external managers for its portfolio.
WPI has a lot to offer - extraordinary students, world-renowned faculty members at the top of their fields, state-of-the-art research facilities, and a community teeming with activity. You have a lot to offer too - you're ambitious, you want to be challenged, you want to succeed, and you want to make a difference in the world. You know where you want to go; WPI can help you get there.

Cala Systems

Grant in 2020
Cala Systems designs, manufactures, and sells the world's first intelligent heat pump water heater.

Castalune

Grant in 2020
Castalune is a predictive software prototype for distributed renewable energy resource optimization.

FLxDER

Grant in 2020
FLxDER creates a prototype of its cloud-based software to optimize electric fleet vehicle charging so as to reduce electric grid impacts and costs, and coordinate operation with other distributed energy resources.

14bis Supply Tracking

Seed Round in 2020
14bis Supply Tracking helps aerospace and defense supply chain managers reduce the risk of unapproved parts and eliminate the high admin costs caused by the current paper-based documentation practice. We provide transparency and immutable lifecycle provenance tracking and can adapt to any industry ERP platform and tagging mechanism. Selected as Privacy/Security finalist for SXSW2018, winner of the Accenture Innovate Award for Websummit 2017 and featured startup at the Paris Air Show 2017.

Lambent

Seed Round in 2020
Lambent is a Boston-based software company enabling data-driven real estate decisions. The Lambent Spaces platform delivers occupancy analytics and utilization trends by leveraging existing data sources such as Wi-Fi. It delivers actionable intelligence so real estate professionals on corporate and higher education campuses can make better use of the spaces they have. For more information, visit https://lambentspaces.com

Labviva

Venture Round in 2020
Labviva is a digital marketplace for life science products that connects researchers with reagents, chemicals, and instrumentation suppliers. It leverages the scientific context as the organizing principle, connecting researchers with suppliers in an intuitive user-friendly platform while making it easy for suppliers to provide and manage the content for their products. Labviva's Inventory Management System (IMS) offers real-time inventory tracking, AI-driven purchase automation, and forecasting, enhancing operational efficiency and compliance.

MachineMetrics

Convertible Note in 2020
MachineMetrics is an Industrial IoT analytics and machine monitoring platform that empowers customers through real-time data.Our fully automated manufacturing analytics solution provides visualizations of real-time manufacturing production data, predictive notifications, as well as historical analytics, allowing factory workers to make faster, smarter, more confident decisions based on real-time data. We've simplified IoT for the shop floor and are empowering manufacturers with the easiest to use and simplest to integrate software on the market. MachineMetrics is driving manufacturing efficiency by more than 20% on average for our customers.

Pison

Grant in 2020
Pison is a human performance company that optimizes cognitive and physiological capability through gesture control. The company offers innovative, non-invasive electroneurography (ENG) algorithms, along with a newly developed sensor array, enabling transformative applications in cognitive enhancement, disease diagnosis and management, and overall quality of life.

Textician

Grant in 2020
Textician is commercializing a patented breakthrough in machine learning on unstructured text. Called NoNLP(tm) technology, it outperforms both Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Deep Learning in some common use cases. Initial applications are in healthcare IT, specifically ICD-10 coding as a part of RCM applications, delivered either on-premises or via the cloud. In the latter case, no raw PHI is sent to or processed in the cloud, creating a uniquely secure service.

Blue Therapeutics

Grant in 2020
Blue Therapeutics was founded in 2015 by Ajay Yekkirala, David Roberson, Michio Painter and academic founder Phil Portoghese. Blue was born out of the desire to take decades of knowledge and technology from academic research and transform that work into therapeutic solutions that can have positive and lasting impacts for patients in the clinic. Working in New England where the opioid epidemic has struck particularly hard, this meant asking theirselves why better therapeutic options for pain don't exist.

SICDRONE

Grant in 2020
SICDRONE is a producer of aircraft products. They provide products that include drones, UAVs, UAS, and SUAS, emergency response, border patrol, security, infrastructure inspection, tower inspection, and wind turbine inspection. An online inquiry form is available on the company's website.

Nanoview Biosciences

Grant in 2020
nanoView Diagnostics Inc. (dba NanoView Biosciences), is developing proprietary products that support research, translation and delivery of precision medicine. The Company was founded on a novel technology platform that uniquely identifies and characterizes exosomes. Our high-throughput, cost-effective analysis solutions enable life science researchers to better understand the biological role of exosomes and how to utilize them as biomarkers to provide improved insight for how diseases are diagnosed, treated and monitored.

Realtime Robotics

Grant in 2020
Realtime Robotics is a developer of a specialized processor for generating safe robot motion plans in micro-seconds. They are transforming automation in its broadest sense by enabling machines to recognize, respond and decide how and where to move in milliseconds, even in variable environments. Their RapidPlan processor harnesses cutting-edge computer processing and software to end the trade-off between speed and safety that’s holding automation back today. Realtime Robotics is resolving these limitations with specialized hardware enabling fast, collision-free motion in unstructured environments, enabling vastly broader applications of robotics in industry, and autonomous vehicles that drive naturally, enabling more rapid adoption and proliferation.

PlenOptika

Grant in 2020
PlenOptika is a company that spun out from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Madrid–MIT M+Visión Consortium. The founders were research fellows in a biomedical technology innovation initiative who felt compelled to solve the problem of low vision suffered by more than 1 billion people worldwide. Their mission is to make eye care easy for anyone who needs it in the United States, and accessible to underserved and low-resource communities worldwide. PlenOptika has been recognized by international social innovation foundations and business plan competitions. They have collaborated with research centers in the United States, Spain, and India to develop their groundbreaking technology, QuickSee.

Kinto.Care

Grant in 2020
Kinto.Care is a provider of an online platform to improve communication. The company's platform features user-generated content and digital tools to improve care team collaboration, medication management, and check-in data tracking, enabling the family members of a patient to coordinate care and manage medicines through a single platform.

MSW Power

Grant in 2020
MSW Power engages in the collection and disposal of refuse systems. Its mission is to provide customers with environmentally beneficial and economically attractive solutions to their energy and environmental needs

Physical Sciences

Grant in 2020
Physical Sciences provides contract research and development services in a wide diversity of technical areas to both government and commercial users. It offers adaptive infrared imaging spectroradiometers, compact adaptive optics retinal imagers, CR-doped ZNSE crystals, GASSCAN miniature diode laser-based ambient gas sensors, hand-held line scanning laser ophthalmoscopes, hybrid LSLO/spectral domain OCT imagers, lyoflux mass flux monitors, orientation-patterned gallium arsenide frequency converter devices, pharmaceutical process analytical technology sensors, quantum cascade laser sensors, RMLD portable standoff hazardous gas detectors, sideview microplates, tracking scanning laser ophthalmoscopes, tracking optical coherence tomography imagers, multi-wavelength gas sensors, tunable diode laser gas sensors, water vapor dials, and more. Physical Sciences Inc. was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts.

Hourwork

Venture Round in 2020
Hourwork develops a recruitment and retention platform that connects employers with hourly workers. The company is driven by a mission to build an hourly workspace that works for everyone. Its platform is used by more than 5,000 quick-service restaurant franchises across the United States. Founded in 2018, the company is formerly known as Syrg.

Spiro.AI

Seed Round in 2019
Spiro is a proactive relationship management platform that creates contacts, organizes, and prioritizes opportunities. It provides managers with intelligent sales reports that help turn their sales team into a sales machine. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
Eutropics Pharmaceuticals is a team of skilled scientists and project managers that drive LDT and IVD testing from inception through clinical trials. Eutropics investigates apoptosis and immunological signaling networks to find functional biomarkers. The capacity of Eutropics to build unique biomarker assays that profile peripheral blood or bone marrow biopsies has been shown to be useful in AML, CLL, MM, ALL, DLBCL, MDS, and other heme-malignancies.

14bis Supply Tracking

Seed Round in 2019
14bis Supply Tracking helps aerospace and defense supply chain managers reduce the risk of unapproved parts and eliminate the high admin costs caused by the current paper-based documentation practice. We provide transparency and immutable lifecycle provenance tracking and can adapt to any industry ERP platform and tagging mechanism. Selected as Privacy/Security finalist for SXSW2018, winner of the Accenture Innovate Award for Websummit 2017 and featured startup at the Paris Air Show 2017.

Lumme Health

Grant in 2019
Lumme Health, Inc. develops smartwatch-based behavior change software for smoking cessation and weight management. For such high-frequency behaviors, Lumme's machine learning apps, which run continuously in the background of a smartwatch, eliminate the burden of tedious self-monitoring by passively tracking real-time, objective consumption metrics and behavioral patterns from the motions of the hand. This dramatically increases self-awareness and understanding over traditional, manual reporting methods, and uncovers insights and triggers that lead to problematic habit loops. Lumme further combines decades of clinically-validated research in behavioral psychology with predictive analytics to identify exactly when and how users should focus their efforts to achieve the greatest possible success.

C-2 Innovations

Grant in 2019
C-2 Innovations designs and builds all-weather amphibious robots for monitoring, sampling, and mapping various sea-floor terrains. It specializes in areas including; product development, low volume production, business development consulting, contract R&D, and 3-D Animation. C-2 Innovation was founded in 2007 and is based in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, USA.

Labviva

Seed Round in 2019
Labviva is a digital marketplace for life science products that connects researchers with reagents, chemicals, and instrumentation suppliers. It leverages the scientific context as the organizing principle, connecting researchers with suppliers in an intuitive user-friendly platform while making it easy for suppliers to provide and manage the content for their products. Labviva's Inventory Management System (IMS) offers real-time inventory tracking, AI-driven purchase automation, and forecasting, enhancing operational efficiency and compliance.

Giner Labs

Grant in 2019
Giner Electrochemical Systems, LLC (GES) is a subsidiary of Giner, Inc., established May 2000, as an arms-length alliance between Giner, Inc. and General Motors Corporation (GM). GES is an independent business, majority-owned, controlled and operated by Giner, Inc. The alliance with GM allows us to help develop commercially-viable fuel cells for the next generation of transportation and stationary power systems. GES is also focused on the development and commercialization of related electrochemical technologies, including electrolyzers, sensors and capacitors for a range of applications.

ePaint Company

Grant in 2019
ePaint Company develops specialty antifouling coatings for the United States Coast Guard, The United States Navy, NOAA, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, and the U.S Geological Survey. The ongoing research has resulted in three patents.

Inkbit

Series A in 2019
Inkbit creats a next-generation additive manufacturing platform that combines 3D printing with machine vision. MIT-trained scientists and engineers combines expertise in industrial systems, design software, and material science to identify and seize opportunities for mass-market additive manufacturing.

Pendar Technologies

Grant in 2019
Pendar is a privately held company that specializes in advancing intelligent chemistry systems. It fuses innovative hardware with machine learning algorithms guided by expert knowledge of molecular spectroscopy.

MicroContinuum

Grant in 2019
MicroContinuum offers precision micro-and nano-imprinting and patterning using patented roll-to-roll and batch manufacturing technologies. It y serves a range of clients, including Fortune 100 corporations, startups, and government labs, helping test and develop new nanostructured surfaces for the electronics, lighting, solar, energy harvesting, and health industries.

MachineMetrics

Series A in 2018
MachineMetrics is an Industrial IoT analytics and machine monitoring platform that empowers customers through real-time data.Our fully automated manufacturing analytics solution provides visualizations of real-time manufacturing production data, predictive notifications, as well as historical analytics, allowing factory workers to make faster, smarter, more confident decisions based on real-time data. We've simplified IoT for the shop floor and are empowering manufacturers with the easiest to use and simplest to integrate software on the market. MachineMetrics is driving manufacturing efficiency by more than 20% on average for our customers.

Transaera

Grant in 2018
Transaera creates advanced air conditioning solutions that reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. The company utilizes a novel desiccant material to enhance comfort by removing moisture from the air before cooling.

Lambent

Seed Round in 2018
Lambent is a Boston-based software company enabling data-driven real estate decisions. The Lambent Spaces platform delivers occupancy analytics and utilization trends by leveraging existing data sources such as Wi-Fi. It delivers actionable intelligence so real estate professionals on corporate and higher education campuses can make better use of the spaces they have. For more information, visit https://lambentspaces.com

Spiro.AI

Seed Round in 2018
Spiro is a proactive relationship management platform that creates contacts, organizes, and prioritizes opportunities. It provides managers with intelligent sales reports that help turn their sales team into a sales machine. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Dynamo Micropower

Grant in 2018
Dynamo develops a turbine-based power solution (50HP) for the oilfield that provides grid-like power quality while saving money. The company also specializes in the development of power solutions based on advanced fuel-flexible gas turbine technology tailored to the needs of the oil and gas industry. It also provides a solution to address this challenge in the fully packaged power plug-and-play solution for the oil and gas industry which operates on flare gas and delivers grid quality power. Dynamo equipment operates on local unrefined gas, reducing the cost of energy by up to 80%, while superior power quality improves the performance of driven equipment by up to 25%. It has fielded six turbines with marquee customers such as Kinder Morgan & Caterpillar and has booked 18 units for 2018. Dynamo was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Horsepower Technologies

Series A in 2018
Horsepower Technologies is an animal healthcare and technology company that develops orthotics for horses. Its technology enables horses to move safely and more quickly resume moderate exercise without exacerbating the injury. It is also known as HOSSO. Horsepower Technologies was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Massachusetts, United States.

Spero Devices

Grant in 2018
Spero Devices is an artificial intelligence company specializing in computation in real-time and at the mobile power budget. They are developing an accelerator hardware platform for edge applications requiring real-time operation at the mobile power budget. They make this possible with their innovative CMOS and software technology. Now, the possibilities are limitless. Spero Devices was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Acton, Massachusetts, United States.

Kytopen

Grant in 2018
Kytopen is a developer of a cell therapy platform designed for non-viral delivery of molecules into hard-to-transfect immune cells. The company's technology combines microfluidics and automation to make non-viral delivery of molecules easier, faster and cheaper through an automated cell engineering platform, enabling researchers to find new discoveries in biology that will lead to cost effective cell and gene therapies.

Inq-ITS

Grant in 2018
Inq-ITS (www.inqits.com) are standards-aligned virtual labs for grades 5-10 science. They improve students' competency at science inquiry practices, and cut teachers' grading time by automatically scoring themselves. They want to help EVERY student learn science inquiry practices and critical thinking, and help empower EVERY educator to exceed new science standards. To be successful in the 21st Century, students need their education to go beyond rote memorization.The virtual science labs we create aim to help students to master the inquiry and critical thinking skills that will help them succeed in the classroom and beyond.

Uniqarta

Grant in 2018
Uniqarta manufactures technologies that accommodate small, ultra-thin ICs and their inclusion within common materials such as paper or plastic. The result is a class of Smart Materials that eliminate the need for RFID label add-ons and accelerate the IoT evolution.

Ascend Elements

Grant in 2018
Ascend Elements manufactures advanced battery materials using valuable elements reclaimed from spent lithium-ion batteries. It uses hydroprocess recycling and direct recycling, which take old cathode material down to the atomic level to create new cathode materials. It also helps clients have the maximum return on assets to economically drive recycling and low-cost battery materials.

Fairmarkit

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Fairmarkit is the only tail spend management solution that automates the sourcing process to help procurement teams be more efficient and save money. By equipping procurement and supply-chain teams with automation and data, Fairmarkit promotes competitive bidding while reducing manual work within existing processes. Leveraged across a number of industries by innovative procurement departments, such as Snowflake, BT, Cabot Corporation, and Refinitiv, Fairmarkit aims to revolutionize the way organizations make purchases.

ClearGov

Venture Round in 2018
ClearGov® is the leading provider of Budget Cycle Management software, focused on helping local governments and their department heads streamline the budget process by automating workflow, increasing collaboration, and centralizing data. ClearGov solutions are powerful enough to support local governments of every size, yet affordable enough for even the smallest towns and villages. Hundreds of communities across the country rely on our cloud-based Budget Cycle Management solutions to modernize their budget process. Both company and culture have been well-received within the market and communities they serve. ClearGov has been named to the “GovTech 100” for four years running, and recently recognized as one of Boston’s most innovative young companies by being named to BostInno’s 2019 “50 On Fire.” The company has also been named a “best place to work” by USA Today. ClearGov was founded by Chris Bullock in 2015 and is headquartered in Maynard, Massachusetts.

Veritas Genetics

Venture Round in 2018
Veritas Genetics is a provider of a genetic testing platform intended to empower people to live healthier and longer. The company's genetic technology can detect a wider range of variations in a gene than are typically found in next-generation sequencing and offers a screening test for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer risk, enabling clinical researchers and physicians in order to make informed decisions.

change:WATER Labs

Convertible Note in 2018
change:WATER Labs is developing disruptive technologies to expand safe and dignified sanitation to the poor and vulnerable non-sewered households and communities.

Onboard

Grant in 2018
Businesses of all sizes, from startups to the Fortune 500, use Onboard's AI software and APIs to extract, transform and stream real-time data from buildings. We give everyone the opportunity to shape the future of our world's buildings with data.

ZwitterCo

Grant in 2018
ZwitterCo provides membrane solutions for the treatment of highly-impaired wastewater. The company's membranes make it possible to treat historically unfilterable streams. It allows customers to manage and recover value from water, transforming waste from a cost to a benefit. ZwitterCo provides water treatment and separation solutions that cut chemical demands, maintain steady performance, and last.

Watchtower Robotics

Grant in 2018
Developer of a leakage detecting technology designed to reduce water break and infrastructure damage loss. The company's technology is used to detect leaks early and accurately in water distribution pipes without interrupting the water service, enabling users to take precautionary steps before water leakage.

Metalmark Innovations

Grant in 2018
Metalmark creates nanostructured materials that destroy submicron scale airborne pollutants and toxins to support healthy indoor air quality. It aims to address the challenges associated with air pollution and climate change. The company's air cleaning technology utilizes catalytic materials to filter the air with nanoscale precision. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
Titan Advanced Energy Solutions (Titan) develops advanced battery management systems for lithium-ion batteries (LiB).Their patented ultrasound technology provides over 99% SoH/SoC accuracy over the life of the battery. The benefits of this dramatically improved accuracy are significant: at least 20% increase in charge capacity and 125% increase in battery life. The technology also provides unprecedented safety monitoring and control, real-time cell level monitoring and balancing. Suitable for automotive, ESS and consumer markets, Titan’s ultrasound ionView™ technology is priced comparably to traditional solutions, while adding significant benefits to manufacturers, integrators, producers and consumers.

Medley Thermal

Grant in 2018
Medley Thermal develops software for switching management between the energy sources optimally without disruption to the supply of steam.
Quantum Diamond Technologies develops ultrasensitive biomaterial detection and diagnostics platform.

TelAztec

Grant in 2018
TelAztec provides AR and optical filter microstructures designed for applications such as liquid crystal displays, infrared sensors, high power lasers, advanced lithography systems, and passive optical filters.

Physical Sciences

Grant in 2018
Physical Sciences provides contract research and development services in a wide diversity of technical areas to both government and commercial users. It offers adaptive infrared imaging spectroradiometers, compact adaptive optics retinal imagers, CR-doped ZNSE crystals, GASSCAN miniature diode laser-based ambient gas sensors, hand-held line scanning laser ophthalmoscopes, hybrid LSLO/spectral domain OCT imagers, lyoflux mass flux monitors, orientation-patterned gallium arsenide frequency converter devices, pharmaceutical process analytical technology sensors, quantum cascade laser sensors, RMLD portable standoff hazardous gas detectors, sideview microplates, tracking scanning laser ophthalmoscopes, tracking optical coherence tomography imagers, multi-wavelength gas sensors, tunable diode laser gas sensors, water vapor dials, and more. Physical Sciences Inc. was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts.

Solchroma

Grant in 2018
Solchroma Technologies is a venture-back company that builds full color, reflective digital displays for the smart cities of the future. They have developed a proprietary system of electroactive polymer actuators, configured as hydraulic pumps, that move colored ink from reservoirs behind a pixel surface into separate, viewable color filter chambers. Ambient light is selectively absorbed through layered CMY color filters and reflected back to the viewer, where greyscale is achieved by varying the amount of CMY ink in view.
Remote Sensing Solutions provides hardware, firmware, software reconfigurable solution to digital subsystem applications.

Manus Bio

Grant in 2018
Manus Bio Inc. recreates plant processes in microorganisms to produce natural ingredients through fermentation. The company’s microbial platform converts sugar sources into ingredients with applications, such as flavors, fragrances, food ingredients, cosmetics, vitamins, pharmaceuticals, and agricultural chemicals. It merges metabolic engineering, protein engineering, and systems biology technologies to generate microbes that produce various plant-based ingredients. The company has a strategic partnership with BBGI Public Company Limited. Manus Bio Inc. was formerly known as Manus Biosynthesis, Inc. and changed its name to Manus Bio Inc. in June 2018. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It has manufacturing facilities in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Augusta, Georgia.

Horsepower Technologies

Venture Round in 2017
Horsepower Technologies is an animal healthcare and technology company that develops orthotics for horses. Its technology enables horses to move safely and more quickly resume moderate exercise without exacerbating the injury. It is also known as HOSSO. Horsepower Technologies was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Massachusetts, United States.

Spiro.AI

Seed Round in 2017
Spiro is a proactive relationship management platform that creates contacts, organizes, and prioritizes opportunities. It provides managers with intelligent sales reports that help turn their sales team into a sales machine. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Radial Analytics

Venture Round in 2017
Radial Analytics is a venture-backed startup with a unique technology and approach. Every day, patients across America face “crossroads moments” in their healthcare journey. Clinicians often describe these moments as “inflection points,” windows of time when focused intervention by doctors, nurses, and health plans is most impactful. Our proprietary decision support platform helps clinicians and health insurers improve decision-making at these crossroads moments. Radial Analytics received research innovation funding from the National Science Foundation and is backed by Initialized Capital. Our flagship products Smart Placement and Smart Placement Hospice are used by hospital systems, health insurance plans, and accountable care organizations. Our technology delivers real-time insights that “nudge” nurses and caregivers in the right direction, enabling higher-quality and more cost-effective decisions for the patients they serve.

Radial Analytics

Grant in 2017
Radial Analytics is a venture-backed startup with a unique technology and approach. Every day, patients across America face “crossroads moments” in their healthcare journey. Clinicians often describe these moments as “inflection points,” windows of time when focused intervention by doctors, nurses, and health plans is most impactful. Our proprietary decision support platform helps clinicians and health insurers improve decision-making at these crossroads moments. Radial Analytics received research innovation funding from the National Science Foundation and is backed by Initialized Capital. Our flagship products Smart Placement and Smart Placement Hospice are used by hospital systems, health insurance plans, and accountable care organizations. Our technology delivers real-time insights that “nudge” nurses and caregivers in the right direction, enabling higher-quality and more cost-effective decisions for the patients they serve.

ClearGov

Seed Round in 2017
ClearGov® is the leading provider of Budget Cycle Management software, focused on helping local governments and their department heads streamline the budget process by automating workflow, increasing collaboration, and centralizing data. ClearGov solutions are powerful enough to support local governments of every size, yet affordable enough for even the smallest towns and villages. Hundreds of communities across the country rely on our cloud-based Budget Cycle Management solutions to modernize their budget process. Both company and culture have been well-received within the market and communities they serve. ClearGov has been named to the “GovTech 100” for four years running, and recently recognized as one of Boston’s most innovative young companies by being named to BostInno’s 2019 “50 On Fire.” The company has also been named a “best place to work” by USA Today. ClearGov was founded by Chris Bullock in 2015 and is headquartered in Maynard, Massachusetts.

Infinite Cooling

Grant in 2017
Infinite Cooling is a renewable and environmental company that specializes in wastewater management and recycling. It uses high-voltage electric fields to recapture and recycle massive amounts of water that would otherwise be wasted at industrial-scale facilities such as power plants, data centers, and factories. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Spectral Sciences

Grant in 2017
Spectral Sciences designs, builds, and deciphers prototype sensors and algorithms that enable customers to turn a wide variety of light spectra into usable data. Their services include sensor system specification and calibration, surface and subsurface characterization, furnace or turbine monitoring control diagnostics, spectral, and temporal imaging.

Tactai

Grant in 2017
TACTAI is pioneering the world's first wearable device that enables users to touch and feel virtual objects with life-like realism. The company's patent-pending Dynamic Tactile Wave™ technology creates multi-modal experiences by fully engaging the user's senses and bringing touch, sound, and light together. The company's products help create compelling immersive experiences in Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality applications for gaming, e-commerce, training, film, architecture and education.
Massachusetts Materials Technologies is an MIT spin-off dedicated to providing the support and resources required to develop innovative ideas into commercial products and technologies relating to the fields of materials, mechanics, and manufacturing. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Optodot

Grant in 2017
Optodot scientists continually seek to innovate in the commercialization of products based on nanoporous membranes.

Spero Devices

Grant in 2017
Spero Devices is an artificial intelligence company specializing in computation in real-time and at the mobile power budget. They are developing an accelerator hardware platform for edge applications requiring real-time operation at the mobile power budget. They make this possible with their innovative CMOS and software technology. Now, the possibilities are limitless. Spero Devices was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Acton, Massachusetts, United States.

Metamagnetics

Grant in 2017
Metamagnetics develops RF and microwave products to enhance the performance of radar, communication, and power supply systems. The products of Metamagnetics are intended to improve the performance and effectiveness of mission-critical radar, communication, and power supply systems. Metamagnetics assists clients in achieving the required efficiency and performance while also achieving the size, weight, and power, as well as the total cost (SWaP-C) of their current and future security, surveillance, and communication systems.

Xilectric

Grant in 2017
Xilectric develops energy and environmental technologies with a focus on Li-ion technology.

Silverside Detectors

Grant in 2017
Silverside Detectors is a technology company that develops nuclear radiation detection technologies to protect cities and citizens from nuclear terrorism. It designs and develops adaptable radiation detectors. These detectors can be installed in urban and transit infrastructure for nuclear detection. The company develops inexpensive thermal neutron detectors that can be a building block for large-area networked scanning and other future solutions for nuclear threat reduction.

VocaliD

Grant in 2017
VocaliD's award-winning technology generates high-quality, natural sounding voices within hours rather than months using cutting-edge machine learning techniques, proprietary voice blending algorithms, and a crowdsourced Voicebank.

MachineMetrics

Seed Round in 2016
MachineMetrics is an Industrial IoT analytics and machine monitoring platform that empowers customers through real-time data.Our fully automated manufacturing analytics solution provides visualizations of real-time manufacturing production data, predictive notifications, as well as historical analytics, allowing factory workers to make faster, smarter, more confident decisions based on real-time data. We've simplified IoT for the shop floor and are empowering manufacturers with the easiest to use and simplest to integrate software on the market. MachineMetrics is driving manufacturing efficiency by more than 20% on average for our customers.

Applause

Series F in 2016
Applause is a crowd-sourced digital quality testing enabling companies to deliver digital experiences to their customers. Software is at the heart of how all brands engage users, and digital experiences must work flawlessly everywhere. With 300,000+ testers available on-demand around the globe, Applause provides brands with a full suite of testing and feedback capabilities. This approach drastically improves testing coverage, eliminates the limitations of offshoring and traditional QA labs, and speeds time-to-market for websites, mobile apps, IoT, and in-store experiences. Thousands of leading companies — including Ford, Fox, Google, and Dow Jones — rely on Applause as a best practice to deliver high-quality digital experiences that customers love. It was founded in 2007 and is based in Framingham, Massachusetts, United States/

Via Separations

Grant in 2016
Via Separations is enabling industrial decarbonization with its novel chemistries that allow manufacturing facilities to slash their energy consumption while making more product. Targeting the 12% of US energy consumption that is wasted each year separating chemicals, Via reduces the load of the process by 90%, electrifies the most energy-intensive step in chemical production, and generates additional revenue for the customer. Today, Via is deploying its technology in pilot trials at pulp & paper facilities to eliminate 100 million metric tons of CO2 by 2050. Via’s innovation is a highly selective and robust membrane filter that replaces the energy-inefficient heat-based separations in industrial processes. Spun out of MIT’s Department of Material Science & Engineering, Via has scaled up the technology by more than 10 million times and demonstrated working prototypes at a commercial scale.

Poly6 Technologies

Grant in 2016
Poly6's intelligent materials digitize scaled manufacturing to advance engineering design capabilities and system efficiency for established production processes. Coming out of MIT's Langer Lab, Poly6 bridges gaps between theoretical design and practical manufacturing, enabling the production of more complex components, improved tolerance control and overall higher efficiency of end-user systems. In certain verticals, this digitization reduces costs in established manufacturing sectors by as much as 30% while avoiding both regulatory and new material specification complications. Poly6 was established in 2016.

Upstream Tech

Grant in 2016
Upstream Tech is a mission-driven organization comprising of expertise in software and machine learning, remote monitoring and GIS, hydrology, and earth sciences. The company's software products make cutting-edge remote sensing and machine learning technologies accessible and simple to use, accelerating the pace, size, and impact of environmental work worldwide.

Heila Technologies

Grant in 2016
Heila Technologies is an MIT-born startup dedicated to simplifying the integration and operation of individual Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) and microgrids. It is focused on the commercialization of the Heila IQ Platform, a decentralized optimization system that reduces system complexity and cost. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Somerville, Massachusetts.

MTPV

Grant in 2016
MTPV Power Corporation is a clean energy company that focuses on innovations in Micron-gap ThermalPhotoVoltaics technology (MTPV). MTPV technology began development at MIT and Draper Laboratory before moving to the labs of MTPV Power Corporation. It was founded in 2003 and headquartered in Austin, Texas.

NewGrid

Grant in 2016
NewGrid is a software firm in the utilities industry, focused on the development and commercialization of topology optimization technologies. NewGrid’s software supports power operations and operations planning decision making including outage scheduling and coordination, seasonal contingency planning, remedial action plan and operating guide (Op. Guide) development, and congestion management. Our team is made of engineers, researchers, software developers and economists with years of experience in power systems and markets analysis and design. NewGrid’s founders are thought-leaders in the applications of topology optimization technology to power system operations. With DOE ARPA-E support, they led the first team to ever produce security-constrained topology re-configurations on large-scale RTO systems automatically, with short calculation times acceptable to system operators.
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