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

Past deals in Grant

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.
PathMaker Neurosystems is a neurotechnology company that develops treatment for neuromotor disorders.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kinto.Care

Grant in 2020
Kinto.Care is an online platform designed to enhance communication and support for caregivers, particularly those caring for loved ones with dementia. The platform offers user-generated content and digital tools that facilitate care team collaboration, medication management, and tracking of health data. By providing practical advice, care planning, and group learning opportunities, Kinto.Care aims to empower family members to effectively coordinate care and manage their loved ones' medical needs through a unified interface.

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.

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.
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Transaera

Grant in 2018
Transaera specializes in the development of energy-efficient cooling systems aimed at minimizing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. The company employs an innovative desiccant material that effectively removes moisture from the air prior to the cooling process, enhancing indoor comfort. Its solutions are designed for both residential and commercial applications, providing affordable and environmentally friendly cooling options that improve indoor climate control. By reducing the energy demands typically associated with conventional air conditioning units, Transaera's technologies support greater productivity while also alleviating strain on local grid infrastructure and contributing to a more sustainable global climate.

Dynamo Micropower

Grant in 2018
Dynamo Micropower Corporation specializes in developing fuel-flexible gas turbines tailored for small distributed generation applications, primarily in the oil and gas sector. Founded in 2011 and based in Somerville, Massachusetts, the company offers innovative products such as PowerCore, designed for continuous operation in challenging environments, and Infernocore, a flameless turboheater. Dynamo's solutions are engineered to operate using local unrefined gas, significantly reducing energy costs by up to 80% while enhancing power quality by up to 25%, thereby improving the performance of equipment. The company provides a fully packaged, plug-and-play power solution that utilizes flare gas to deliver grid-quality electricity. Dynamo Micropower markets its products through a network of distributors and supports them with a network of service partners. The company has successfully deployed its turbines with notable clients, including Kinder Morgan and Caterpillar.

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.

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.

Uniqarta

Grant in 2018
Uniqarta specializes in the development of advanced technologies for manufacturing small, ultra-thin integrated circuits (ICs) that can be embedded into everyday materials like paper and plastic. By creating Smart Materials, the company eliminates the need for additional RFID labels, facilitating the advancement of the Internet of Things (IoT). Uniqarta's innovative approach employs laser-enabled assembly techniques, which replace traditional pick-and-place methods with a faster, more efficient massively parallel laser process. This technology addresses integration challenges associated with ultra-thin ICs, allowing electronics manufacturers to produce next-generation products effectively.

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.

Ascend Elements

Grant in 2018
Ascend Elements specializes in the production of advanced battery materials by reclaiming valuable elements from spent lithium-ion batteries. The company employs hydroprocess recycling and direct recycling methods, which deconstruct old cathode materials at the atomic level to generate new cathode materials. This innovative approach not only enhances the efficiency of recycling processes but also enables clients to maximize their returns on assets, ultimately supporting the production of economically viable and low-cost battery materials.

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.

Medley Thermal

Grant in 2018
Medley Thermal specializes in the development of software and systems designed to optimize the management of energy sources for steam supply. The company focuses on creating thermal electric systems that incorporate an electric boiler alongside existing boiler systems. By utilizing advanced dispatching software, Medley Thermal's solutions enable seamless fuel switching between boilers, ensuring an uninterrupted supply of steam. This approach not only helps industries reduce reliance on more expensive and emissions-intensive fuels but also facilitates a transition to cleaner steam energy, contributing to lower operational costs and enhanced environmental sustainability.

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.

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.
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.

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.

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.
Remote Sensing Solutions provides hardware, firmware, software reconfigurable solution to digital subsystem applications.
Quantum Diamond Technologies develops ultrasensitive biomaterial detection and diagnostics platform.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Corporation specializes in developing nanotechnology-based components for energy storage, conservation, and generation markets. The company offers a range of products, including NanoPore, a separator made from nano porous ceramic membranes, and NPORE lithium-ion battery separators. Additionally, it provides infrared coated films and laminates for covert and forensic security applications, along with window films. Optodot is focused on advancing technologies for lithium-ion batteries and organic solar cells, as well as optical communications, which involve optical switches, buffers, modulators, and photo detectors. The company also offers intellectual property, product development, and contract services related to coatings, and actively pursues strategic partnerships and licensing opportunities to commercialize its innovations. Its clientele includes start-ups, major corporations, and government entities such as the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy. Founded in 2000 and based in Woburn, Massachusetts, Optodot is committed to continual innovation in the field of 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.

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.

Xilectric

Grant in 2017
Xilectric specializes in the development of energy and environmental technologies, particularly in the field of lithium-ion battery innovation. The company manufactures rechargeable batteries designed to enhance abuse tolerance, enabling them to withstand high voltage, elevated temperatures, and rapid charging. Xilectric also offers a novel class of low-cost rechargeable batteries based on nickel-iron technology, which minimizes electrolyte degradation and ensures reliable performance in extreme weather conditions. This advancement provides electric vehicle manufacturers with durable and dependable battery solutions, addressing the growing demand for efficient energy storage in the automotive sector.

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 specializes in developing advanced text-to-speech technology that creates custom digital voices for individuals who rely on assistive devices for communication. By utilizing cutting-edge machine learning techniques and proprietary voice blending algorithms, VocaliD can generate high-quality, natural-sounding voices in a matter of hours. The company's innovative approach incorporates a crowdsourced Voicebank, allowing for the creation of unique vocal identities that reflect the personal essence of users. This technology not only enhances the communication experience for disabled individuals but also transforms the interaction with intelligent devices, enabling a more human-like connection in digital communication.

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.

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 Technologies, Inc. specializes in digital manufacturing solutions tailored for the biotechnology, aerospace, and electronics industries. Established in 2015 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, the company leverages advanced 3D printing technology to create innovative products. Poly6 develops stimuli-responsive material systems that integrate hardware, software, and materials into established production processes, enhancing engineering design capabilities and system efficiency. Originating from MIT's Langer Lab, the company addresses gaps between theoretical design and practical manufacturing, allowing for the production of complex components with improved tolerance control. In certain industry verticals, Poly6's digitization approach can reduce manufacturing costs by as much as 30%, while also simplifying regulatory compliance and material specifications. Additionally, Poly6 is engaged in creating environmentally friendly bioplastics derived from citrus waste, aimed at minimizing environmental pollution and providing sustainable manufacturing solutions for various sectors, including aviation and energy.

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.

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.
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.

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.

Wright Electric

Grant in 2016
Wright Electric's unique propulsion technology and forthcoming airplanes eliminate emissions without the need for offsets, lowering the cost of zero-emissions flight to the same level as running a fossil-fueled fleet and ushering in the next age of aviation through the electrification of the aerospace sector.

Cambrian Innovation

Grant in 2016
Cambrian Innovation is developing a portfolio of environmental solutions that help industrial, agricultural, and government customers save money while better managing and re-using their resources. Fueled initially by a 2006 NASA grant to explore how recent advances in bioelectricity can enhance water management in space, Cambrian has developed, scaled, and validated a pipeline of solutions that can recover resources from wastewater, eliminate energy input for wastewater treatment, radically reduce the cost of nitrate nitrogen treatment, and help agricultural operations monitoring their inputs more easily and efficiently.

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.

Modular Genetics

Grant in 2016
Modular Genetics designs and develops engineered microorganisms that synthesize chemicals using cheap renewable raw materials, like sugar. The company focuses on sustainable chemistry. The company uses their proprietary automated gene engineering system to create new products.

SimulConsult

Grant in 2016
SimulConsult seeks to end diagnostic odysseys and errors, by empowering clinicians to reliably and quickly arrive at accurate differential diagnoses, order the right tests, and reach a confirmed diagnosis, and thus provide the best care for their patients.

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.

Metamagnetics

Grant in 2015
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.

Boston Engineering

Grant in 2015
Boston Engineering delivers innovative and timely solutions by utilizing its Total System Responsibility™ (TSR) philosophy to meet demanding market needs. Through interdisciplinary teams, best practice strategies and seamless integration with client processes, Boston Engineering offers a complete solution that is both flexible and focused.

Sandymount

Grant in 2015
Sandymount is a process technology company that specializes in innovative liquid filtration solutions for beverage manufacturers. The company has developed a hyperfiltration technology that effectively reduces the water content in beverages, capable of removing up to three-quarters of water from products like beer while maintaining their sensory characteristics. This advancement allows beverage makers to implement a concentrated supply chain, resulting in lower shipping costs and enhanced convenience for consumers, whether in stores, bars, or at home. Sandymount prioritizes safety, quality, and responsiveness in its operations, aiming to deliver effective solutions that meet the evolving needs of the beverage industry.

Evaptainers

Grant in 2015
Evaptainers started at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in a class that challenged its students to create something that would help improve the lives of 1 billion people. Since then they have developed a Mission and a Team to deliver on this challenge by creating modular and completely mobile refrigeration units that preserve produce along the supply chain. They utilize the phenomenon of evaporative cooling, rather than more energy-intensive vapor compression refrigeration, allowing for low-cost, electricity-free cooling. Rudimentary Evaporative cooling devices has proven to be effective for agricultural use, tripling or quadrupling the shelf-life of most produce. Their company has taken these inventions and upgraded them for modern and commercial use. Using state-of-the-art materials and improved design, They have created more effective, more durable, easier to use, mass-producible units. Their discoveries are patent pending and there are currently no other devices similar to their in the market.

Kuva Systems

Grant in 2015
Kuva Systems, founded in 2015 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has created an industrial IoT solution focused on monitoring and quantifying methane and volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions. The company's infrared imaging system automatically detects and measures these emissions, providing operators with annotated video clips of leaks. It captures emission events in both day-only and day-night modes, and transfers the quantified visuals to the cloud in real-time. This technology enables oil and gas companies to efficiently monitor their assets and manage environmental compliance.

Barrett Technology

Grant in 2015
Barrett Technology has pioneered core technology underlying new levels of flexibility in articulated arms and hands. Today, Barrett is the leader in advanced robotic manipulators, earning a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for its advanced manipulator technology. Barrett provides an unmatched degree of versatility to support the broadest array of applications.

AddiLat

Grant in 2015
AddiLat is an electronics process technology based company.

Erbi Biosystems

Grant in 2015
Erbi Biosystems is a transformative microfluidic bioprocess instrumentation company.

Dynamo Micropower

Grant in 2015
Dynamo Micropower Corporation specializes in developing fuel-flexible gas turbines tailored for small distributed generation applications, primarily in the oil and gas sector. Founded in 2011 and based in Somerville, Massachusetts, the company offers innovative products such as PowerCore, designed for continuous operation in challenging environments, and Infernocore, a flameless turboheater. Dynamo's solutions are engineered to operate using local unrefined gas, significantly reducing energy costs by up to 80% while enhancing power quality by up to 25%, thereby improving the performance of equipment. The company provides a fully packaged, plug-and-play power solution that utilizes flare gas to deliver grid-quality electricity. Dynamo Micropower markets its products through a network of distributors and supports them with a network of service partners. The company has successfully deployed its turbines with notable clients, including Kinder Morgan and Caterpillar.

Tank Utility

Grant in 2015
Tank Utility, Inc. specializes in developing software solutions for the fuel and energy sector, focusing on enhancing operational efficiency for fuel distribution companies. Founded in 2014 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, the company offers smart meters and cloud-based software that integrates wireless sensors to monitor propane levels in real time. By utilizing IoT technology and business intelligence software, Tank Utility enables fuel providers to reduce unnecessary delivery miles, thereby minimizing waste and improving customer engagement. Their products include easy-to-install wireless tank monitors and web applications that deliver real-time data on tank levels, usage, and pricing, ultimately enhancing service efficiency and customer retention. Additionally, Tank Utility provides installation and support services to ensure optimal utilization of its solutions.

HMSolution

Grant in 2015
HMSolution Inc. is a for-profit company generating a social impact. Our mission is to protect cities, communities and homeowners from the health effects of toxic contaminants – such as arsenic and other chemicals – by providing a cost-effective solution and easy to operate system. We provide water treatment systems to remove arsenic and 15 other chemicals to Public Water Suppliers at a significantly lower cost than competing technologies.

Energid Technologies

Grant in 2015
Energid Technologies provides software, products, and support to solve the most difficult robotics problems. Energid's robotics software simulates and controls kinematics and dynamics for all types of robotics applications, and their 3D machine vision software supports autonomy. Whether your challenge is in the field of medicine, agriculture, space-based systems, defense, or manufacturing, together they can solve it.

Hstar Technologies

Grant in 2015
Founded in 2007 by leading MIT roboticists, Hstar Technologies Corporation pursues groundbreaking robotics research and development with the support of private investors and more than $7 million in grants from the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. Hstar develops industry-leading robots to enhance automation quality in warehouse, healthcare and research settings, making improvements in the areas of automation intelligence, safety, flexibility and human productivity. Hstar's team is comprised of innovative, highly trained robotics engineers with more than thirty years of collective robotics development experience, including work with the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAIL) Laboratory, development of telerobotic surgery and artificial limb / biomimetic robot technology, and autonomous robotic systems.

Physical Sciences

Grant in 2015
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.

Primaira

Grant in 2015
Primaira offers a range of services focused on product development, engineering research, and specialized testing. The company caters to various industries, including appliances, consumer products, health and safety, and military sectors. Its service offerings include mechanical engineering, market research, engineering specifications, conceptual design, verification testing, quality planning, and pilot production prototypes, as well as energy modeling. By providing these services, Primaira enables clients to enhance their innovation processes and make informed decisions based on thorough testing and research.

EverVest

Grant in 2014
EverVest provides financial risk analysis and cash flow modeling software to renewable energy investors. The software helps banks, investors, and developers to analyze and structure financings for new assets while also providing enterprise risk management features for portfolio managers.

Artaic

Grant in 2014
Artaic, LLC is a Boston-based company that specializes in designing and fabricating custom tile work for both commercial and residential markets. Founded in 2007 by Ted Acworth, Artaic focuses on innovative mosaics that enhance the architecture and interior design sectors. Utilizing advanced technology, including computer-aided design software and a robotic mosaic assembly system, the company offers a wide range of applications, such as bathroom backsplashes, flooring, and public art installations. Artaic's approach allows for complete control over the color, material, and layout of its mosaics, enabling clients to achieve customized designs while minimizing costs. Additionally, the company provides installation services, further streamlining the process for its clientele.

Insightfil

Grant in 2014
Insightfil is dedicated to positively impacting patient outcomes by reducing medication errors, improving medication adherence (from norm of 40% to NIH goal of 75%), optimizing health professional time, and eliminating wasted drugs and packaging. They are delivering to the market with a unique “Personalized Wellness Portfolio” (PWP) that dispenses custom medication regimens. It is the first of its kind to connect the patient, clinic, and pill manufacturer in the administration of therapy.

Flodesign Sonics

Grant in 2014
FloDesign Sonics is changing the separations and filtration markets through a novel acoustic technology. By leveraging breakthroughs in the use of 3D acoustic standing waves, FloDesign Sonics is able to capture, separate and purify without using physical membranes, chemicals, or centrifugation. Our proprietary technology has numerous applications in a variety of markets including life sciences, oil and gas, food and beverage and industrial processing. The first commercial application is in bioprocess separations where FloDesign Sonics is applying acoustic technology to the manufacturing of life saving bio-pharmaceuticals. For more information, contact info@fdsonics.com

GVD Corporation

Grant in 2014
GVD is an ultra-thin coating service provider specializing in vapor-deposited polymer coatings. Their solvent-free, low-temperature manufacturing process produces chemically pure polymer coatings that enhance customer products or manufacturing processes.
Persimmon Technologies, Corporation is a technology company and provider of robotics for the Semiconductor, Data Storage, LED, OLED, Solar, and Flat Panel Display equipment markets. Persimmon Technologies is headquartered in Wakefield, Massachusetts.

Ginkgo Bioworks

Grant in 2014
Ginkgo Bioworks is a biotechnology firm. It is a developer of biological engineering products and custom microbes across multiple markets. It designs, engineer, develops, tests, and licenses organisms. It discovers molecules in flavors, sweeteners, cosmetic ingredients, crop treatments, and pharmaceuticals. It also provides probiotic bacteria to protect the body from dangerous infections, and it generates libraries of molecules. It serves cultured ingredients, carbon mitigation, probiotics, and natural product discovery markets.

Visible Good

Grant in 2014
Visible Good is a Massachusetts based corporation established in 2012. Through successful efforts within the Army SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) program, Visible Good completed the development of a one of a kind innovative shelter system that can be deployed quickly and efficiently in almost any environment. Its products create a solution that is energy-efficient, sustainable, and affordable.

Xtalic

Grant in 2014
Xtalic offers unique nanostructured metal coatings that provide corrosion resistance, wear resistance and exceptional appearance across a wide range of applications, including decorative and functional metal finishing, as well as electronics. Xtalic's technology delivers premium performance through precisely and dynamically controlling metal structure at the nanometer scale through a robust electroplating process. Xtalic's coating process is free of hexavalent chromium, reducing environmental compliance costs and worker safety hazards. Xtalic was founded in August of 2005 to commercialize the work of Professor Chris Schuh and Dr. Alan Lund of MIT.
Triton provides meat processors and other related food processors with software and hardware solutions. Their solution areas include data capture and production management, project delivery, customer support, and an online store.

Loci Controls

Grant in 2013
Loci Controls develops wireless sensor and actor-network devices for optimizing the extraction of methane from landfills. The company's real-time monitoring, measurement, and control of landfill gas composition, pressure, temperature, and flow has proven to increase gas collection by 20% or more while improving safety and reducing operational costs. They combining patent-pending wellhead-mounted products, 24/7/365 monitoring, cloud-based algorithms and analytics, and field service personnel that optimizes gas collection, increases profitability, and mitigates environmental, health, and safety risks for landfill and landfill gas-to-energy operators. Loci Controls' mission is to develop wireless sensor and actor-network devices for optimizing the extraction of methane from landfills. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Fall River, Massachusetts.

Bevi

Grant in 2013
Bevi develops a smart water dispenser that provides customizable flavors made from filtered tap water and natural ingredients. Bevi aims to eliminate waste from the production, shipping, and disposing of bottled beverages. Bevi envisions a future where a smarter platform (powered by the municipal water supply) transforms how beverages are delivered.

Artaic

Grant in 2013
Artaic, LLC is a Boston-based company that specializes in designing and fabricating custom tile work for both commercial and residential markets. Founded in 2007 by Ted Acworth, Artaic focuses on innovative mosaics that enhance the architecture and interior design sectors. Utilizing advanced technology, including computer-aided design software and a robotic mosaic assembly system, the company offers a wide range of applications, such as bathroom backsplashes, flooring, and public art installations. Artaic's approach allows for complete control over the color, material, and layout of its mosaics, enabling clients to achieve customized designs while minimizing costs. Additionally, the company provides installation services, further streamlining the process for its clientele.

SachSiSolar

Grant in 2013
SachSiSolar develops technology to reduce the costs of solar panels. The company provides manufacturers with an inexpensive retrofit for their production lines to increase the efficiency of solar panels. The technology will drive down the cost of high-efficiency photovoltaics and enable high-technology manufacturing in Massachusetts.

Energid Technologies

Grant in 2013
Energid Technologies provides software, products, and support to solve the most difficult robotics problems. Energid's robotics software simulates and controls kinematics and dynamics for all types of robotics applications, and their 3D machine vision software supports autonomy. Whether your challenge is in the field of medicine, agriculture, space-based systems, defense, or manufacturing, together they can solve it.
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