MassChallenge

MassChallenge is a non-equity startup accelerator headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with additional locations in Israel, Mexico, Switzerland, Texas, and the UK. Founded in 2009, it focuses on fostering innovation and entrepreneurship by supporting high-potential startups across various industries globally. MassChallenge provides expert mentorship, a tailored curriculum, and access to corporate partners without taking any equity from the startups. Its programs, including specialized initiatives like MassChallenge FinTech and MassChallenge HealthTech, aim to facilitate partnerships between startups and established companies to drive innovation and growth. To date, MassChallenge has helped over 1,200 alumni raise more than $2 billion in funding and create over 65,000 jobs, demonstrating its significant impact on the global innovation ecosystem.

Cait Brumme

Acting CEO

Cait Brumme

Managing Partner

Siobhan Dullea

CEO

Matt Lashmar

Managing Director

Camila Lecaros

Managing Director

Yonit Serkin

Managing Director

Devon Sherman

Founding Director, Head of MassChallenge FinTech

Michelle Williams

Vice President and Head of Texas Strategy

Past deals in Social Network

Vaivén

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Vaivén is a multidisciplinary digital platform and a meeting space, where different topics of interest to young entrepreneurs converge. It is a portal that creates and shares new content and ideas, and provides a platform for the expression of innovation. Vaivén grows and evolves from the input of its key audience – young entrepreneurs aged 20–35. Participation and feedback is essential to the growth of this network. Every month Vaivén brings new and relevant content for entrepreneurs. They generate original content on young entrepreneurs in the Spanish-speaking world (in Latin America and Europe). It reflects the diversity of its audience, their experiences and their goals. And it gives young entrepreneurs the opportunity to strengthen their network and contribute to the exchange of ideas.

Stagetime

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Stagetime Inc. is an online professional network designed for the performing arts community. Founded in 2020 and based in Bloomington, Indiana, the platform facilitates connections among artists, agents, and artistic administrators. Users can enhance their professional development by engaging with industry contacts, showcasing their work, and collaborating with peers. Stagetime aims to foster relationships and support growth within the performing arts sector.

Fanear

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Fanear is a Chilean company that offers a mobile application designed to enhance the live music experience. It functions similarly to Foursquare but is focused on music events, enabling fans to provide real-time feedback to artists and gather important metrics about their audience and performance. Users can check in at concerts, indicate which artists they are attending, and participate in a gamified system that rewards them with points for their engagement. This interaction allows fans to subscribe to their favorite artists, rate performances, and share feedback. By fostering a sense of community among attendees, Fanear positions itself as a platform that recognizes and ranks dedicated fans, ultimately enhancing loyalty for artists, brands, event producers, and record labels. The application is a pivot from SonicPollen, developed by three of its original founders, and has been noted for its potential to create an addictive experience for users.

Nibi

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Nibi operates a marketplace platform designed to enhance the social sector by connecting individuals, charities, and companies focused on social and environmental initiatives. The platform aims to facilitate impactful actions that promote sustainable habits and social responsibility. By automating corporate social responsibility efforts, Nibi enables businesses to collaborate with foundations and programs, fostering a community dedicated to social and environmental betterment. Through its initiatives, Nibi seeks to improve engagement in social action and support the development of sustainable practices within organizations.

Fanorama Social Media

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Fanoramas is a platform that generates thousands of ‘in-the-moment’ photos and sends to fans to share in real time from events. We provide every fan with hundreds of personal and action photos from the big event. The Fanoramas platform provides a new space for our sponsors and partners to activate and engage with fans!

Privoce

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Developer of a personalizable social space component intended to build personal cloud computing tools. The company's tools ensure data ownership and interoperability for netizens looking to improve participatory representation, enabling teams, communities, and site owners to build personalized community platforms.

Easeenet.com

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Organize & preserve all aspects of your online life, including: * Usernames & passwords * Documents * Memories & stories * Critical life details You decide who gets access, and when. Protect your assets and treasured memories, and save you and your family hours of stress and frustration.

Qortex

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
CatapultX is utilizing AI to integrate brands into video, anywhere.

Fabric

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Fabric helps brands deliver social and immersive augmented reality experiences to customers in real-time.

See Yourself Health

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Developer of a chronic care management health platform designed to offer diabetes treatment via the virtual world. The company's platform uses a peer network and constructivist curriculum to improve wellness, enabling professionals and chronic disease patients to face high-intensity, high-stress environments to accelerate behavior change and optimize chronic disease outcomes.

Caregather

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Developer of a communication and support facilitation platform designed to make the life surrounding a patient better by connecting patients with a close care circle and broader communities of support. The company platform specializes in connecting major surgery or navigating serious illness patients, to coordinate with their friends and family for medical care, thereby helping users keep their communities updated easily, and receive support from their network in the ways they want it.

TREND Community

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Developer of a healthcare networking community platform designed to improve the quality of life for those living with rare and chronic diseases. The company's platform specializes in using an analytics engine that extracts meaningful information from patient and caregiver stories, journals, discussions, polls, and surveys to create health initiatives using those insights gained from participant-contributed real-world data to collectively evaluate the effectiveness of specific therapies, diets, enabling patients suffering from chronic diseases to share their stories and received medical advice.

Hauoli LLC

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Revolutionize how users interact with the world.

Sign Accessible Technologies

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Signamy is a mobile app that improves communication between Deaf and hearing people using a virtual character to learn and communicate in Sign Language.

Node

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Node is a private platform that allows brands to have their products sampled and promoted by hundreds of verified micro-influencers. Node supports over 100 brands across North America in generating UGC content through campaigns that are streamlined and data-driven.

BrandMe

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Nuestra empresa crea herramientas y tecnología innovadora para marcas líderes a nivel global con Creadores de Contenido influyente ayudando a una correcta colaboración recompensada por generar y distribuir contenido patrocinado. Desde el 2013 hemos completado más de 2 millones de transacciones para nuestros clientes que van desde pequeñas empresas y startups hasta organizaciones Fortune 500. Democratizamos los medios La manera de crear, consumir y compartir contenido ha cambiado, por ello logramos que cualquier persona como estudiantes universitarios y amas de casa o celebridades, periodistas y bloggers tengan la oportunidad de monetizar sus redes sociales vía piezas de contenido creativas e influyentes.

Marigold Health

Grant in 2020
Marigold Health operates a social network community platform designed to provide text-based group therapies for individuals facing mental health and substance use challenges. The platform facilitates anonymous chat support groups, allowing patients to connect with peers and receive assistance from coaches who have personal recovery experience. This approach not only fosters a stigma-free environment for recovery but also enhances patient engagement in community-based treatment. By partnering with treatment providers and managed care organizations within the Medicaid market, Marigold Health effectively augments traditional care models, enabling care teams to increase their capacity while delivering personalized support to patients.

Snaptivity

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Snaptivity is a technology company revolutionizing fan engagement at live sporting and music events through its innovative photo-sharing platform. Utilizing robotic cameras and advanced AI and IoT sensors, Snaptivity automatically captures candid moments of excitement among fans, such as high-fives and celebrations, delivering these images directly to their smartphones in real-time. This unique approach not only enhances the overall experience for attendees but also provides teams and clubs with a new media stream to increase sponsorship revenue. By facilitating targeted and personalized interactions with fans, Snaptivity enables brands to engage at scale, creating meaningful connections that benefit both sponsorship initiatives and e-commerce opportunities.

Nextburb

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Neighborhood discovery platform to help home buyers figure out best town based on commute, lifestyle, affordability and schools. Free forever. Data-driven recommendations. Trusted advisor for you to help you plan your next move. Used by locals as well as relocating families all over the US. Try us now nextburb.com

Class2Class

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Developer of collaborative learning platform designed to connect, create, and manage project-based courses. The company's platform features centralized communication, a document sharing, and storage tool, a video calling system, webinars, and other related features that aid instructors in managing collaborative programs and activities in one place, enabling university instructors and administrators to connect with students in different countries as well as create shared lessons and activities.

Marigold Health

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Marigold Health operates a social network community platform designed to provide text-based group therapies for individuals facing mental health and substance use challenges. The platform facilitates anonymous chat support groups, allowing patients to connect with peers and receive assistance from coaches who have personal recovery experience. This approach not only fosters a stigma-free environment for recovery but also enhances patient engagement in community-based treatment. By partnering with treatment providers and managed care organizations within the Medicaid market, Marigold Health effectively augments traditional care models, enabling care teams to increase their capacity while delivering personalized support to patients.

Swoovy

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Swoovy is a platform designed to address the challenges of volunteering by connecting individuals with daily volunteer opportunities while fostering companionship among participants. Recognizing that many Americans express a desire to volunteer but face barriers such as time constraints and lack of information, Swoovy simplifies the process through an easy-to-use interface that allows users to sign up for events with a single click and find partners to attend with. The platform caters to singles, couples, and eventually groups, promoting the concept of accountability partners to enhance participation. Swoovy generates revenue from both users and non-profits, offering a unique business model that encourages non-profits to promote the platform for volunteer engagement. Non-profits benefit from a dedicated dashboard to manage and promote their opportunities, along with marketing support to enhance visibility. Through these features, Swoovy aims to make volunteering accessible and integrate it into the daily lives of more individuals.

Cambas

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Empowers connects and rewards thousands of talented minds to solve creative challenges using leading-edge technologies.

Sophya

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Sophya is a learning platform developed at Harvard University that students around the world love.

Blipic

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Blipic is a social and discovery app created to grow and connect the active outdoor community. Blipic encourages users to stay active and healthy. It help them uncover exciting destinations, outdoor events and group activities right in their own backyard. Discover cycling tours, group runs, snowboarding trips, and premium hikes. Share your experiences with the community, and bring people together who have a similar affinity for the great outdoors. Discover Blipic. Adventure. Mapped.

SipScene

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
SipScene is a social community that allows users to create their own events and sell tickets through a platform. SipScene offers an instant community to have real conversations in an inviting space where everyone is owning the purpose of finding their people. It makes it easy and fun to meet new people with similar interests and make amazing memories. SipScene was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

ForagerOne

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Developer of an education technology intended to provide software to academic institutions to create networks and tools that promote and accelerate research. The company's platform is a marketplace that connects students and faculty at institutions for research collaboration and mentorship and has another platform to host engaging virtual and hybrid academic events with a wide range of capabilities for showcasing content and facilitating meaningful interactions, enabling administrators with actionable analytics for institutional assessment and improvement.

Day Dreamer

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Day Dreamer is a cross-platform mobile application that helps creatives connect and collaborate with local artists both in and outside of their medium.

HINTS

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
HINTS Providing a solution for social media companies to instantaneously detect the spread of fake news of any medium: text, audio, or video.

Roog

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Developer of a social marketing and e-commerce platform intended to connect consumers to small businesses in diverse communities. The company's platform addresses primary small business needs such as target marketing, promotions, reviews, analytics, and community building through incentives and hyperlocal deliveries and also allows customers to locate businesses within their communities to upscale sales opportunities through mobile orders and purchases, enabling minority business owners to amplify their brand and shoppers of all affinity groups to shop safely among small businesses in minority communities.

Skip the Small Talk

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Skip the Small Talk use insights from psychology research to design events and products that help people get closer, faster.

Nexcv

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Nexcv operates a recruitment marketing platform that focuses on automating talent acquisition through social media. The platform modernizes the hiring process by transforming job descriptions into engaging video campaigns, allowing employers to effectively target and connect with their ideal candidates. By managing recruitment campaigns across multiple social networks, Nexcv streamlines the sourcing process, saving time and enhancing the overall efficiency of recruitment efforts.

The Mighty

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
The Mighty is a digital health community designed to empower and connect individuals facing health challenges and disabilities. It provides a platform for users to share their personal experiences through stories and videos related to disability, disease, and mental illness. By fostering connections among users with similar experiences, The Mighty aims to create a supportive environment that encourages positivity and resilience in the face of adversity.

Konnecto

Grant in 2018
Konnecto is a software as a service (SaaS) company that specializes in artificial intelligence-based consumer journey analytics. Founded in 2015 and based in New York, the platform helps brands engage with customers across various social media channels by providing valuable insights into consumer preferences, attitudes, and behaviors. Konnecto's technology enables brands to gain visibility into the early stages of the consumer journey, allowing them to identify and disrupt competitors' market share. By analyzing data from multiple platforms while ensuring user privacy, Konnecto builds detailed customer profiles that assist brands in crafting targeted marketing strategies and making informed decisions. The company's unique approach to consumer intelligence empowers brands to enhance customer engagement and optimize their marketing efforts.

Clerk

Grant in 2018
Popspots, LLC is a digital advertising network that focuses on enhancing the retail experience for grocers and brands through innovative technology. Founded in 2016 and based in Austin, Texas, the company provides a range of digital advertising services aimed at local businesses and media buyers across various U.S. markets, including major cities like Los Angeles, Houston, and Birmingham. By leveraging digital solutions, Popspots addresses challenges such as out-of-stocks and planogram compliance, thereby improving product awareness and driving sales in grocery environments. Since its inception, the company has expanded its presence in grocery stores nationwide, collaborating with well-known brands to ensure effective consumer engagement and measurable advertising impact.

Socialyte

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
SOCIALYTE is an agency that connects brands to 500 hand-selected tastemakers, representing branded media on over 60% of the world's most followed personal style blogs, as well as digital properties for Vanity Fair, Glamour, Details, Lucky, and Teen Vogue. In the past year, we've launched 500+ native advertising campaigns for Fortune 500 companies such as Coca Cola, Intel, 3M, NBC Universal, and fashion and beauty brands such as Coach, Olay, Nivea, IWC, Gap, Nordstrom, Diesel, Guess, and H&M.

Dig

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Dig has developed a dating app that connects dog people based on what is important to them: their need for their future significant other to be compatible with their four-legged companion and the lifestyle of being a dog owner or lover. Dig is a novel app at the intersection of the booming pet tech and online dating industries. Dig has created a community of the most dedicated and emotional dog-lovers and dog owners. Dig leverages the demand for pet-forward relationships, experiences, and data by connecting the dog-loving community online as well as through localized events. In the US alone, there are 20 million single dog owners age 25 and over. Dig connects pet companies with this growing market with some of the lowest costs of user acquisition in the dating industry. Dig users range from 18-75+. The majority of Dig users are 25-35 year old single dog-owners and dog-lovers in US metro areas. Dig’s users are strongly attached pet parents and those who see themselves as future pet parents. Small/medium dog businesses are customers for the daily deal and event sponsorships, and larger pet companies and businesses that want to be known as dog-friendly are partners and customers for larger sponsorships and co-promotional campaigns, and monthly Dig deals advertisement placements. Companies pay Dig through vendors and sponsorships for Dig events, to be featured on the Dig custom-built in-app advertising platform "daily deals," and for co-promotional creative and content for the Dig Unleashed blog and newsletter. Dig app users will pay for in-app purchases and monthly subscription tiers. Dig offers a variety of free features to enhance the dating-with-dogs experience, and additional paid feature options are being developed. Global Dating Insights says Dig "has been a viral hit over the past 12 months, landing features in Forbes, Bloomberg, Cosmopolitan, Cheddar and more," and "CEO Leigh Isaacson is building a highly engaged community of pet lovers and creating one of the sector’s strongest niche offerings." See all Dig press at DigDates.com/press.

findSisterhood

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
findSisterhood Inc develops an anonymous social networking application specifically for women, enabling them to ask and answer questions on topics such as motherhood, fertility, sexuality, and self-worth. Founded in 2018 and based in Santa Monica, California, the application employs one-way cryptography to ensure the anonymity of self-verified female users, fostering a safe and judgment-free environment for open conversation. Since its launch, findSisterhood has gathered tens of thousands of stories from women worldwide and utilizes machine learning to analyze content and enhance user support.

Echome

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
EchoMe takes advantage of social media and smartphones to make the relationship between small businesses and customers ubiquitous. Their app helps customers and users share rich reviews with their friends, discover new experiences and stay in touch with the local businesses they love.

TREND Community

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Developer of a healthcare networking community platform designed to improve the quality of life for those living with rare and chronic diseases. The company's platform specializes in using an analytics engine that extracts meaningful information from patient and caregiver stories, journals, discussions, polls, and surveys to create health initiatives using those insights gained from participant-contributed real-world data to collectively evaluate the effectiveness of specific therapies, diets, enabling patients suffering from chronic diseases to share their stories and received medical advice.

2Gether Music

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
2Gether is a community app-based service that uses music to reduce loneliness. 2Gether is helping Alzheimer's caregivers take care of their loved ones.

ReachMore

Grant in 2017
ReachMore application that treats anxiety created by trauma events.

Trubadour

Grant in 2017
Trūbadour is a platform for writing and finding poems by contemporary poets. It's the poetry network.

Social Fabric

Grant in 2017
Social Fabric operates as a sustainable textile center with a focus on promoting ecological and socially responsible practices in the textile industry. The organization emphasizes a circular economy, innovative technologies, and decentralized manufacturing to provide customers with meaningful and customized garments. Additionally, Social Fabric is committed to work integration for refugees in Switzerland, creating opportunities for individuals while ensuring that the production of textiles remains sustainable. Through its community-based approach, the organization aims to foster greater awareness and usage of textiles and clothing that have a minimal ecological and social footprint.

HARDAH

Grant in 2017
HARDAH has made 5 years of research at EPFL Innovation Park first, and then at Masschallenge on new graphical user interfaces for the web, and on the impact of Social Networks on the society. One of our laboratory tools was a favorite manager with thematic circles: sport, media, holidays, … Each bubble around a Circle was a link to a website related to the Circles topic. We tested it in many universities and cities and had more than 20'000 feedbacks from Boston, Milan, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Athene, London, Barcelona, Lausanne, Yverdon, Fribourg, Lyon, Lisbon, Paris, Hanoi, and Geneva. We then worked with journalists, scientists, hackers, blockchain experts, philosophers, politicians, thinkers, economists, writers, historians, doctors, and social networks’ users. We made some research on the use of Blockchain for Social Networks in order to find other business models than traditional advertising. We developed as well HARDAH Business, a cloud based B2B collaboration tool for digital packaging. Our founder has financed all the R&D to keep our independence and focus.

Mindool

Grant in 2017
Humans pick each other's brain in a chaotic and unstructured way. Putting human communication on-line does not help much, as communicating via emails, social media, and forums scales badly and stays unstructured. They propose Mindools (Doodle for ideas): a new way for a group to collect and rate contributions in a structured way. Their customers use Mindools for strategic reviews and virtual workshops but also polling and finding a common date. Their biggest Mindool have 100+ users.

Socialease

Grant in 2017
Socialease Ltd is a company based in Lausanne, Switzerland, that provides an AI-driven software platform designed for the hospitality industry, including hotels and restaurants. Founded in 2015, Socialease offers a comprehensive assistant that streamlines digital communication across multiple social media channels. The platform enables businesses to manage their online presence by suggesting ready-to-use communication topics and facilitating the creation of tailored content using text, images, and videos. Additionally, it helps track and schedule media communications, allowing users to effectively control their e-reputation and enhance visibility in a competitive market. By centralizing digital interactions, Socialease transforms the communication challenges faced by small and medium-sized enterprises into efficient marketing opportunities.

Oomf

Grant in 2017
Oomf, Inc. is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company established in 2015, specializing in the design and development of a cloud-based software platform that facilitates the sharing economy. The platform allows users to locate and temporarily use shareable devices, primarily focusing on portable chargers for smartphones and laptops. Oomf partners with manufacturers to integrate their products into its system, making them accessible for short-term use at low or no cost to consumers. The company primarily operates on collegiate campuses but plans to expand into other markets and explore additional shareable product integrations. Their application offers features such as theft prevention, managed support, and usage statistics, ensuring that users remain charged and connected. Oomf envisions a future where any shareable item can be accessed through its platform.

Wheels Social

Grant in 2017
Wheels is the social network of Sustainable Mobility that allows you to share trips in private vehicles, taxi services or bicycle plans, to go to the university, work, home or wherever you want.

Marigold Health

Grant in 2017
Marigold Health operates a social network community platform designed to provide text-based group therapies for individuals facing mental health and substance use challenges. The platform facilitates anonymous chat support groups, allowing patients to connect with peers and receive assistance from coaches who have personal recovery experience. This approach not only fosters a stigma-free environment for recovery but also enhances patient engagement in community-based treatment. By partnering with treatment providers and managed care organizations within the Medicaid market, Marigold Health effectively augments traditional care models, enabling care teams to increase their capacity while delivering personalized support to patients.

Nesterly

Grant in 2017
Nesterly is a trusted service for intergenerational homesharing that makes it easy for households to share an extra room. Nesterly is a digital marketplace that helps older homeowners rent their spare rooms to young people in exchange for help around the house. Housemates can exchange basic help like grocery shopping, dog walking, and tech support for lower rent.

Rendever

Grant in 2017
Rendever is a company focused on addressing social isolation among seniors through virtual reality experiences. Its platform is utilized in senior living communities and healthcare settings to alleviate feelings of depression and loneliness by promoting personal connections. Participants can engage in group sessions to fulfill bucket list items, revisit significant locations, and share stories, thereby enhancing their emotional well-being. Rendever collaborates with notable senior living operators and healthcare systems, and its initiatives are supported by research from organizations such as the NIH and NIA. The company also has commercial partnerships with prominent entities, including AARP and Verizon, to expand its reach and impact.

Still Active

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
A digital platform aimed at organizing and discovering local events and activities for like-minded people aged 55+ in Sweden. Still Active’s main goal is to reduce loneliness among the aging population through encouraging new friendships and more frequent social interaction. The users list their interests in the app, allowing it to give recommendations on hand-picked, local activities from users, by users.. We encourage our users to organize their own events, where they can share their knowledge and interests with like-minded people. Still Active become the leading lifestyle platform for 55+ in the industrialized world. We are 55+ reinvented.

Tornado

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Nvstr is a smarter, simpler, social online platform that empowers investors of all skill levels to enhance their profitability by 1) learning from other users' and experts' investment ideas and 2) improving how their ideas are translated into an intelligent portfolio. Their platform streamlines a common conversation topic - "What stocks do you like these days?" - by enabling users to browse friends' and experts' top ideas while preserving the privacy of their own portfolios and positions. Once a user finds investment ideas they like, an effortless, institutional-quality process assists in allocating the portfolio pursuant to their own specific investment objectives. The result is an investing experience that is simpler, more engaging, yet also substantially more sophisticated than that of traditional online brokerages.

Snapp Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
Snapp Inc. is a mobile business platform based in New York that enables users to create and manage mobile applications and websites without requiring prior technical knowledge. The platform provides a range of tools for business owners to establish their online presence and facilitate user engagement through various solutions, products, and services. Snapp's offerings include Snapp Builder for building applications, Snapp Wave for user interaction and transactions, and Snapp Bridge for third-party developers to integrate into the Snapp ecosystem. The company's services are accessible through its website and mobile applications available on popular app stores.

Rendever

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Rendever is a company focused on addressing social isolation among seniors through virtual reality experiences. Its platform is utilized in senior living communities and healthcare settings to alleviate feelings of depression and loneliness by promoting personal connections. Participants can engage in group sessions to fulfill bucket list items, revisit significant locations, and share stories, thereby enhancing their emotional well-being. Rendever collaborates with notable senior living operators and healthcare systems, and its initiatives are supported by research from organizations such as the NIH and NIA. The company also has commercial partnerships with prominent entities, including AARP and Verizon, to expand its reach and impact.

CareHood

Grant in 2016
CareHood is an online platform designed to assist caregivers and their loved ones in discovering effective ways to provide support during challenging times, such as serious health conditions or life transitions. The platform simplifies the process by offering recommendations based on extensive research and consultations with medical professionals, ensuring that caregivers receive practical guidance. It also facilitates community involvement, allowing friends and family to contribute meaningfully by creating CarePackages tailored to the needs of those they wish to support. By fostering collaboration and informed support, CareHood aims to make a significant impact on the lives of individuals navigating difficult circumstances.

Share A Dream

Grant in 2016
Share A Dream is an interactive communication platform that connects NGOs with experts, volunteers and donors/sponsors: in short, a humanitarian marketplace. The innovation lies in answering all problems with one single web solution. While offering sponsors the opportunity to finance local projects to show their social responsibility, our business model seeks to solve the pain points of all our customers, rather than generating profit.

Spots

Grant in 2016
Spots is an experiential search platform that connects businesses and customers in real-time. Users want real-time info from businesses (wait time, food special, private party etc). Businesses want to share but lack a dedicated channel to do so. Spots lets business share promotions, specials, events, and alerts to users in real-time. Users get access to the real-time info they want, and businesses can engage with new and returning customers and drive more people through the door. Spots helps users to find what they're looking for and gives business a dedicated channel to engage.

SmarterQueue

Grant in 2016
The smartest way to schedule your social media marketing. - Automate your content calendar, and get the perfect ratio of content types, by using categorised queues. - Get 3x more engagement, by automatically repeating your posts for increased visibility. - Recycle your evergreen content for new audiences - Easily customise your posts for each different social network SmarterQueue is currently the only application that lets you follow best practices for social media (i.e. balanced-out content types, repeating posts to reach new audiences) without any effort.

konoz

Grant in 2016
Konoz has 300+ teachers who create amazing (and free!) video courses, sharing their passions in subjects from Aerospace & History to Yoga & Zumba. With new teachers daily, this network will go beyond Khan Academy to #teach1billion. Teachers and students connect in a social learning platform with custom profiles, crowdfunding, messaging, and notifications. Explore their curated educational content & advanced recommendation systems which will evolve into a machine-learning driven personalized Digital Aristotle.

Cnature

Grant in 2016
Cnature designs and develops a mobile application, which identifies plants and animals in real time. It allows users to snap a photo of the plant or animal and provides information on them. Additionally, it connects users to nature lovers by building a community. The mobile application is available across the iOS and Android formats. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Cypher App

Grant in 2016
Cypher App is a peer-to-peer social network platform designed for young people aged 11 to 19, allowing users to share thoughts, secrets, and experiences anonymously. The application emphasizes community support and connection, enabling users to build networks and access resources from support organizations. It features in-app support pathways, including counseling and mentoring options, along with a comprehensive advice and information section. This approach creates a safe space for users to express themselves and seek guidance, fostering a supportive environment for youth engagement and connection.

Useum

Grant in 2016
USEUM (useum.org) is The World's Art Museum that brings together art museums & galleries, artists and art lovers in a meritocratic spectacle. As we are not far from the day that a million followers and a billion likes will be as powerful as an art critique, the vision and the constitutional aim of USEUM is to boldly blend the authoritative awesome with the socially fabulous; empowering the art lovers and acclaiming the art professionals in a born-digital art fair where everybody celebrates art, redefining intuitively the values of the Art Market to emerge.
Courageous Parents Network is an early-stage non-profit that harnesses Web and Mobile platforms and digital media.

UBConnect

Grant in 2016
UBConnect gives accessibility a greater meaning by empowering businesses to step forward into different communities agendas by leveraging a well-organized & digital network of professionals and businesses throughout a phone based platform. Its vision is to solve the waste of time of an ineffective and conventional method of doing business and cultivating network. UBConnect will serve conferences & conventions by providing: 1. A conferences’ registration tool. 2. An IoT App turns mobile number into a business card & converts paper cards into digital form using OCR. 3. Access to conventions’ registration database. 4. An easy to use & affordable CRM system.

Keepers

Grant in 2016
Keepers is an application that detects all incoming and outgoing messages on the child's device on all social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and more....) and reports abusive content back to the parent's device in real time. The idea behind the Keepers application is to help parents monitor and detect possible cyber-bullying, pedophilia, sexual exploitation, and other problems concerning children in cyberspace.

Jaspr

Grant in 2016
Jaspr is a digital platform lets people trade their talents and unneeded valuables, cash-free, with the people around them.

Kiubo Mexico

Grant in 2016
Kiubo Mexico is the social network that empowers you to talk with your politicians. Kiubo is the free App that links 80 million citizens with smartphones with Mexican politicians, so they can all serve as eyes and judges of their daily work, influence their political agenda, and help them build a better Mexico with their guidance, opinions and needs registered in one single place.

Snapp Inc.

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Snapp Inc. is a mobile business platform based in New York that enables users to create and manage mobile applications and websites without requiring prior technical knowledge. The platform provides a range of tools for business owners to establish their online presence and facilitate user engagement through various solutions, products, and services. Snapp's offerings include Snapp Builder for building applications, Snapp Wave for user interaction and transactions, and Snapp Bridge for third-party developers to integrate into the Snapp ecosystem. The company's services are accessible through its website and mobile applications available on popular app stores.

Konnecto

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Konnecto is a software as a service (SaaS) company that specializes in artificial intelligence-based consumer journey analytics. Founded in 2015 and based in New York, the platform helps brands engage with customers across various social media channels by providing valuable insights into consumer preferences, attitudes, and behaviors. Konnecto's technology enables brands to gain visibility into the early stages of the consumer journey, allowing them to identify and disrupt competitors' market share. By analyzing data from multiple platforms while ensuring user privacy, Konnecto builds detailed customer profiles that assist brands in crafting targeted marketing strategies and making informed decisions. The company's unique approach to consumer intelligence empowers brands to enhance customer engagement and optimize their marketing efforts.

FilmDoo

Seed Round in 2016
FilmDoo Ltd owns and operates a new film platform for people to discover, share, and watch independent and international films. Its online film categories include arthouse, Asian, African, black cinema, comedy, coming of age, crime, debut film, documentary, drama, European, female directors, gays, horror, lesbians, road movies, romance, shorts, Southeast Asian, thriller, and US Indie. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

TeachersConnect

Grant in 2015
Teachers Connect nurture new teachers into the profession the right way so that they can continue to be the reason why students learn. With dependable support from experienced mentors, their teachers transform what it means to stay connected with their peers and their profession.

Stickyworld

Grant in 2015
Stickyworld helps you engage stakeholders and drive actionable results. Interactive content and flexible configuration settings enable countless use cases, in public or private, involving multiple stakeholders in different kinds of engagement processes.

Alik

Grant in 2015
Alike is a company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, focused on creating innovative solutions for social networking and travel. It has developed a wearable device designed to enhance face-to-face interactions by enabling users to discover and connect with new friends who share common interests, eliminating the distractions of digital screens. Additionally, Alike.io serves as a platform that empowers independent content creators to design and monetize travel itineraries. Launched in collaboration with Dubai Tourism, this creator economy-based platform simplifies the process of sharing and booking travel experiences. It provides users with a no-code interface to publish their travel stories, allowing them to incorporate various content formats such as photos and videos. With partnerships spanning over 12,000 suppliers across 200 destinations, Alike.io facilitates access to a wide array of bookable travel services, enabling creators to generate recurring revenue by publishing trip plans that can be monetized.

Feelter

Grant in 2015
Feelter Sales Tools Ltd. operates an innovative online platform that connects businesses with valuable social information about their products across various industries, including tourism, electronics, home appliances, automotive, health and beauty, and sports. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, with an office in New York, Feelter offers a smart widget designed for online stores that enhances customer engagement, fosters brand loyalty, and ultimately drives sales. The platform continuously analyzes and curates social content in real time, featuring customer mentions, photos, videos, and behavioral insights. By effectively filtering out spam and irrelevant content, Feelter helps customers make informed purchasing decisions, thereby maximizing the potential of e-commerce traffic and improving overall conversion rates.

A R T C U B E

Grant in 2015
A R T C U B E redefines how we see, experience and buy art. An exclusive online & offline experience for individuals in the art world to share and connect. Expand your network of like-minded people on a social and professional level. From artists to collectors, galleries and everyone who is enthusiastic about art - A R T C U B E will unite the art world. They match buyers directly with galleries, simplifying the purchasing process, while enhancing sales and publicity for the gallery. Combining both a social network with an online marketplace, A R T C U B E provides users with a unique way to fully immerse themselves in all aspects of the art world. Using new technology, including live streaming, AR & VR, we recreate the OFFLINE experience ONLINE. With an expertly curated selection of contemporary fine art in a range of prices, we provide customers with an unparalleled selection to discover, love and buy. Get ready for the launch in Spring 2016.

Cahootsy

Grant in 2015
Cahootsy is an innovative platform that facilitates a crowd-powered marketplace, focusing on personalized shopping experiences through peer-driven recommendations. By connecting shoppers, experts, and brands, it allows users to share opinions and discover must-have products and offers in a single location. This approach aims to transform traditional retail marketing by emphasizing "pull not push" strategies, enabling consumers to receive tailored recommendations at the right moment. Cahootsy partners with leading UK brands such as M&S, House of Fraser, and John Lewis, along with an influential community of bloggers, to enhance its offerings. The founding team boasts extensive experience in mobile technology and eCommerce, supported by a robust advisory group from notable companies in the industry. This strategic foundation underscores Cahootsy's commitment to redefining the shopping experience while driving sales for brands through relevant offers.

OpenLab

Grant in 2015
OpenLab is a data-sharing platform designed to enhance collaboration among scientists by facilitating the sharing of research progress. It transforms the traditional solitary scientific method into a more social and machine-assisted approach, allowing researchers to efficiently access relevant information and insights. The platform offers tools for easy data sharing and exploration, alongside a tagging and machine learning system that generates a searchable Research Graph. This system captures various strategies employed in problem-solving, thereby promoting cross-group collaboration within academic institutions and industry labs. By enabling scientists to better share and learn from each other, OpenLab aims to improve the overall research process.

The Red Button

Grant in 2015
The Red Button is a non-profit organization that fights cyberbullying, using innovative tools and a broad professional education system. In recent years, the Red Button Association has been exposed to the reality of the Internet through thousands of violent reports sent to us by surfers - the power of the masses. These reports enabled us to see the virtual reality as it is, without filters and censorship. In light of this reality and the extensive experience they have acquired, they have built the training system, which aims to prevent the next incident by raising awareness of the phenomenon, its severity and its implications, and above all, providing tools for students, parents and teachers to deal with the phenomenon. The training system includes interactive interactive tutorials, delivered in schools, private homes and workplaces throughout the country by the founders of the association and professional guides with vast experience and knowledge in the network world.

iRecover App

Grant in 2015
iRecover App will connect people, based on their location to others in recovery, meetings & services to help them combat their addiction. iRecoverapp is a mobile App for smartphone's that connects people in recovery from drugs & alcohol and their familes and friends.

SAY Wearables

Seed Round in 2015
SAY transforms jewelry and fashion accessories into a social experience. SAY is a revolutionary concept that combines Technology, Fashion and Social to bring social networks into the physical world. SAY is built of wearable device with a color display that fashion companies embed into their jewelry and fashion accessories. SAY connects via Bluetooth to the SAY App that controls the device’s functionality and display, and serves as a gateway to the SAY Community and to other social networks.

Encore Alert

Seed Round in 2015
Encore Alert is a social media analytics platform designed to assist marketers by providing timely alerts and actionable recommendations based on social data opportunities. The tool enables digital marketers to respond effectively to relevant social media activities, enhancing their engagement strategies. It is utilized daily by mid-market brands, including NASA, WeddingWire, Georgetown University, and the Consumer Electronics Association. Encore Alert focuses on helping enterprise brands and advertisers collect, curate, and amplify customer-generated marketing content. The company is currently in the process of raising a seed round of funding from notable investors in the tech and marketing sectors.

Goodwall

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
Goodwall SA is a social development platform designed for students and young professionals, facilitating connections over shared interests while providing access to various opportunities. Founded in 2014 and based in Geneva, Switzerland, Goodwall allows users to create profiles that highlight their academic achievements, skills, and ideas, making them visible to universities and employers. The platform boasts a database of over 5 million job and internship opportunities, along with more than $1 million in scholarships and awards, as well as numerous volunteer events. Goodwall specifically caters to the needs of Gen Z and millennials, positioning itself as a leading community for personal and professional development.

FilmDoo

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
FilmDoo Ltd owns and operates a new film platform for people to discover, share, and watch independent and international films. Its online film categories include arthouse, Asian, African, black cinema, comedy, coming of age, crime, debut film, documentary, drama, European, female directors, gays, horror, lesbians, road movies, romance, shorts, Southeast Asian, thriller, and US Indie. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Encore Alert

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
Encore Alert is a social media analytics platform designed to assist marketers by providing timely alerts and actionable recommendations based on social data opportunities. The tool enables digital marketers to respond effectively to relevant social media activities, enhancing their engagement strategies. It is utilized daily by mid-market brands, including NASA, WeddingWire, Georgetown University, and the Consumer Electronics Association. Encore Alert focuses on helping enterprise brands and advertisers collect, curate, and amplify customer-generated marketing content. The company is currently in the process of raising a seed round of funding from notable investors in the tech and marketing sectors.

CampusTap

Seed Round in 2015
CampusTap is an online platform that facilitates private career networking and mentoring communities for students and alumni. The service is designed to assist students and recent graduates in launching successful careers by connecting them with alumni who can provide guidance and support. Users can engage in meaningful mentorship opportunities, discover groups, jobs, and companies that align with their academic and professional interests. Additionally, CampusTap allows for the recruitment of alumni for diverse mentoring opportunities and offers tools to match them with students who share similar professional goals, while also enabling measurement of engagement within the community.
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