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Boston Technology Research provides innovative regulatory compliance methodology, software tools and services for Life Sciences industry.

As a managed marketplace, we leverage technology and 3rd parties to streamline service - the sweet spot between dated traditions and a modern approach. Currently, we connect vacation rental hosts with cleaners but inevitably we’ll disrupt the service industry by creating the world’s largest cleaning company.

Urban Sky is developing the first-ever reusable 'micro-sat' version of a near-space balloon, armed with sensors that collect high-value Earth observation data over entire cities, serving a multi-billion dollar imagery market and making daily and weekly aerial imagery collection a cost-effective reality. Leveraging advances in component miniaturization, first-of-its-kind balloon reusability, and the high vantage point of the stratosphere, the Microballoon drastically reduces the cost of high-resolution remote sensing and weather-related data capture over broad areas, leading to more impactful data over more areas than ever before. With a new wealth of data from the stratosphere - this completely untapped layer of Earth’s atmosphere - we can fundamentally change the collective human understanding of the surface of our planet and urban centers.

Pliant.io, Inc. develops an infrastructure automation platform that enables ITOps to plan, build, and deploy API-level automations. It offers Pliant, an orchestration, automation, and response (OAR) platform that provides endpoints, graphical representations, and uniform building blocks that enables developers to automate complex cross-domain processes. The company’s solution is used various use cases, such as virtual machine provisioning, server audit and remediation, ITSM orchestration, hybrid network configuration, and application delivery and security. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

TripScout, Inc develops a travel entertainment application for travelers. The company offers an application, TripScout, which provides a portal for visual discovery of destinations through articles, posts, blogs, photos, and videos posted by influencers and publishers. It allows users to personalize travel itinerary through mapped content. It serves the tourism sector. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

TripScout, Inc develops a travel entertainment application for travelers. The company offers an application, TripScout, which provides a portal for visual discovery of destinations through articles, posts, blogs, photos, and videos posted by influencers and publishers. It allows users to personalize travel itinerary through mapped content. It serves the tourism sector. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Covie Systems develops a platform that connects innovative businesses to insurance data. Its platform solution retrieves and validates insurance records in real-time, directly from the issuing carrier. One integration allows users to work with data from any of its constantly growing list of insurers. The company was founded by a team of software and insurance industry experts on a mission to make insurance data more accessible and easier to work with. They are empowering the next class of innovative builders to craft a better experience around insurance, eliminate inefficiencies, and effectively manage risks.

EquipiFi develops financial software designed to remove friction in the payments ecosystem. The company's software offers automatic push Notifications, SMS, and emails, online and mobile banking integration for simple user experience, and dashboard access to real-time visibility in performance and usage, enabling users to buy now and pay later.

Groundhog is the suite of tools to power the crypto subscription economy.

Urban (controlled) agriculture is on the rise! Vertical and Container farms are popping up here and there and there is increasing need to make urban agriculture more sustainable. AdaViv is a hardware-enabled, predictive agriculture company. Keeping “24/7 eyes on the plants”, our sensing and AI + computer vision uncovers hidden plant biometrics and translates data into actionable insights for growers. From disease prevention to rapid experimentation, improving yields and quality optimization, AdaViv helps producers grow smarter. Founded by an interdisciplinary team of MIT researchers and alumni, AdaViv recently emerged from MIT Delta V, the capstone entrepreneurship accelerator at MIT , and the MIT DesignX accelerator. In 2018, AdaViv was selected as one of the first grantees of Microsoft AI for Earth.

Market Wagon, Inc. operates an online platform for farmers and other food producers to sell their goods directly to consumers. Its platform offers produces, eggs, cheese, meat, snacks, soups, baked goods, and heat and eat entrées from local kitchens and restaurants. It serves Indianapolis, Lafayette, Evansville, and Kokomo, delivering to homes, businesses, and residents. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Carmel, Indiana.

Hologram is a connectivity enablement toolkit that empowers makers, engineers, and creators of all types to connect their devices with wireless data as well as manage billings as they grow. Hologram provides a flexible platform with no minimums, instant connectivity, and robust scalability to help its users grow their businesses and projects from 1 to 1000 devices. Its goal is to simplify the process of building connected hardware that works everywhere. Hologram was founded in 2013 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

XILO is a quoting and sales automation platform for insurance agencies. Their platform takes the same technology that these digital agencies and writers spent $7B to advertise and puts it in the hands of the independent agency. It eliminates data entry for insurance agencies by providing them with world-class quoting experience forms that integrate into all their Raters, AMS', and Acords. Founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Diego, California, United States.

Boston Technology Research provides innovative regulatory compliance methodology, software tools and services for Life Sciences industry.

EquipiFi develops financial software designed to remove friction in the payments ecosystem. The company's software offers automatic push Notifications, SMS, and emails, online and mobile banking integration for simple user experience, and dashboard access to real-time visibility in performance and usage, enabling users to buy now and pay later.

Draftbit is a new way to build cross-platform, native iOS and Android apps in minutes instead of months. Whether you're a designer or developer, with Draftbit you can design your app visually, and then export clean, well-documented code and libraries that give you full control.

Winston Privacy, Inc. develops technology which provides consumers with online privacy and data protection from spying and identity theft. It protect all connected devices, including computers, tablets, phones, and smart devices. The company features includes protects all devices, Block Ads, and faster than a VPN. Winston Privacy, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Covie Systems develops a platform that connects innovative businesses to insurance data. Its platform solution retrieves and validates insurance records in real-time, directly from the issuing carrier. One integration allows users to work with data from any of its constantly growing list of insurers. The company was founded by a team of software and insurance industry experts on a mission to make insurance data more accessible and easier to work with. They are empowering the next class of innovative builders to craft a better experience around insurance, eliminate inefficiencies, and effectively manage risks.

Fixer is headache-free home repair. Customers book a skilled, experienced Fixer for any kind of home maintenance issue - confirming the hourly rate, estimate, and date + time online in seconds. The Fixer team handles any number of tasks big or small, often in just one visit. Quick, easy, finished. Fixer is a public benefit corp committed to providing training, certification and sustainable career paths for men and women in home repair and building trades.

Shower Warm-Up Waste causes $30,000 wasted per year per hotel. Shower Stream is a smart shower head adapter that saves the waste, proves the savings via web and is completely unobtrusive to the user.

Regroup provides telemedicine solutions to eradicate mental healthcare shortages across the USA. The company's services protect the privacy of patients and the confidentiality of personal health information with the help of an end-to-end encryption thus improving access to mental health care, enabling patients to overcome geographic distances, restrictions on their mobility, transportation difficulties and the time and cost burdens associated with traveling to see a healthcare professional in person.

Draftbit is a new way to build cross-platform, native iOS and Android apps in minutes instead of months. Whether you're a designer or developer, with Draftbit you can design your app visually, and then export clean, well-documented code and libraries that give you full control.

Phood is a startup company developing a food waste prevention platform that aims to reduce food waste. The platform utilizes data analytics and artificial intelligence to capture the food that businesses, such as restaurants, are purchasing, preparing, and are stored in refrigerators or on shelves to cut food waste in half and helps food businesses build a more resilient food system and supply chain. IN 2015, Luc Dang and Nick Kruczek established the company New York, New York.

Retail Aware helps retail manufacturers and their supply chains optimize merchandising and increase sales. Retail Aware measures audience, dwell, and engagement in relation to a product or area in a physical environment.

Urban Sky is developing the first-ever reusable 'micro-sat' version of a near-space balloon, armed with sensors that collect high-value Earth observation data over entire cities, serving a multi-billion dollar imagery market and making daily and weekly aerial imagery collection a cost-effective reality. Leveraging advances in component miniaturization, first-of-its-kind balloon reusability, and the high vantage point of the stratosphere, the Microballoon drastically reduces the cost of high-resolution remote sensing and weather-related data capture over broad areas, leading to more impactful data over more areas than ever before. With a new wealth of data from the stratosphere - this completely untapped layer of Earth’s atmosphere - we can fundamentally change the collective human understanding of the surface of our planet and urban centers.

Hologram is a connectivity enablement toolkit that empowers makers, engineers, and creators of all types to connect their devices with wireless data as well as manage billings as they grow. Hologram provides a flexible platform with no minimums, instant connectivity, and robust scalability to help its users grow their businesses and projects from 1 to 1000 devices. Its goal is to simplify the process of building connected hardware that works everywhere. Hologram was founded in 2013 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

EquipiFi develops financial software designed to remove friction in the payments ecosystem. The company's software offers automatic push Notifications, SMS, and emails, online and mobile banking integration for simple user experience, and dashboard access to real-time visibility in performance and usage, enabling users to buy now and pay later.

Scope AR provides the world’s most advanced Augmented Reality Training Solutions. They are leading the way in this emerging market, using the latest in augmented glasses and software to provide an incredible real-time 3D overlay training solution. Scope AR is working with some of the world’s leading multi-national companies and government agencies to provide custom state-of-the-art training systems while continuing to innovate and create novel Augmented Reality Training Solutions.

Urban Sky is developing the first-ever reusable 'micro-sat' version of a near-space balloon, armed with sensors that collect high-value Earth observation data over entire cities, serving a multi-billion dollar imagery market and making daily and weekly aerial imagery collection a cost-effective reality. Leveraging advances in component miniaturization, first-of-its-kind balloon reusability, and the high vantage point of the stratosphere, the Microballoon drastically reduces the cost of high-resolution remote sensing and weather-related data capture over broad areas, leading to more impactful data over more areas than ever before. With a new wealth of data from the stratosphere - this completely untapped layer of Earth’s atmosphere - we can fundamentally change the collective human understanding of the surface of our planet and urban centers.

TripScout, Inc develops a travel entertainment application for travelers. The company offers an application, TripScout, which provides a portal for visual discovery of destinations through articles, posts, blogs, photos, and videos posted by influencers and publishers. It allows users to personalize travel itinerary through mapped content. It serves the tourism sector. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Maestro Food Co., doing business as Tovala, manufactures and supplies a domestic cooking appliance that cooks food using M-pots technology. The company provides Smart Oven, a steam-based oven, and markets them with meal kit subscription services. The company also supplies raw food to the appliance owners for cooking purposes. It also provides an application for recipes. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Shotcall, Inc. operates an online platform that allows streamers, content creators, and organizations to offer paid engagement opportunities to fans. The platform allows players and fans to connect over the chosen social media platform while paying the player for the time through its mobile application. It enables streamers to offer private competitions, coaching sessions, and charity tournaments with the option to charge money for those events if desired. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Pliant.io, Inc. develops an infrastructure automation platform that enables ITOps to plan, build, and deploy API-level automations. It offers Pliant, an orchestration, automation, and response (OAR) platform that provides endpoints, graphical representations, and uniform building blocks that enables developers to automate complex cross-domain processes. The company’s solution is used various use cases, such as virtual machine provisioning, server audit and remediation, ITSM orchestration, hybrid network configuration, and application delivery and security. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Scope AR provides the world’s most advanced Augmented Reality Training Solutions. They are leading the way in this emerging market, using the latest in augmented glasses and software to provide an incredible real-time 3D overlay training solution. Scope AR is working with some of the world’s leading multi-national companies and government agencies to provide custom state-of-the-art training systems while continuing to innovate and create novel Augmented Reality Training Solutions.

PrintWithMe is printing made simple. PrintWithMe is the first network of wireless printer kiosks in the United States, with printers in convenient locations like multifamily apartments, coffee shops, co-working spaces and more. Operating in 47 states, PrintWithMe makes it simple for anyone to print securely and reliably from any digital device, in just a few clicks. Predictive analytics also makes the printer amenity simple for businesses, as all paper and toner management is automated. Since 2014, over 5 million pages have been printed on eco-sustainable PrintWithMe paper. By encouraging shared community resources, every community with a PrintWithMe printer saves an average of 550 lbs of individual electronic waste per year.

Jiobit is the world's smallest and longest lasting tracking solution. With a Jiobit device and smartphone app, parents (and pet parents) can find their loved ones anywhere: Indoors, outdoors, in over 120 countries and even in multi-level buildings. With weeks of battery life and a durable and discreet design, Jiobit is the world's smallest real-time location tracking product. The mobile app (run through a wireless subscription service) offers the most comprehensive set of monitoring and notification features available on the market. Overall, Jiobit gives parents peace of mind while allowing kids to be kids. The Jiobit team is comprised of seasoned engineers, designers, and marketers with a history of building innovative and disruptive consumer products and businesses. The team has logged a combined 150 patents from previous endeavors and developed and shipped products selling in the millions worldwide. We are proudly headquartered in Chicago, with a development center in Silicon Valley.

At Mechasys, a team of engineers and contractors developed together an innovative laser projector that displays construction plans in real scale directly on construction sites. Using laser positioning technologies, we project construction drawings on floors with an accuracy of 3 mm. With our system, workers no longer need to draw plans on construction sites. They can lay down their materials 40% faster. This, speeds up the productivity rate on construction sites, reduces the human risk and optimizes the entrepreneur's profits.

Fairmarkit is an intelligent sourcing platform that empowers organizations to more efficiently purchase the goods and services they need. By equipping procurement and supply-chain teams with automation and data, Fairmarkit promotes competitive bidding while reducing manual work within existing processes. Leveraged by innovative procurement departments across a number of industries, such as Univision, ServiceNow, and the MBTA, Fairmarkit aims to revolutionize the way organizations make purchases.

Maestro Food Co., doing business as Tovala, manufactures and supplies a domestic cooking appliance that cooks food using M-pots technology. The company provides Smart Oven, a steam-based oven, and markets them with meal kit subscription services. The company also supplies raw food to the appliance owners for cooking purposes. It also provides an application for recipes. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Maestro Food Co., doing business as Tovala, manufactures and supplies a domestic cooking appliance that cooks food using M-pots technology. The company provides Smart Oven, a steam-based oven, and markets them with meal kit subscription services. The company also supplies raw food to the appliance owners for cooking purposes. It also provides an application for recipes. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Hologram is a connectivity enablement toolkit that empowers makers, engineers, and creators of all types to connect their devices with wireless data as well as manage billings as they grow. Hologram provides a flexible platform with no minimums, instant connectivity, and robust scalability to help its users grow their businesses and projects from 1 to 1000 devices. Its goal is to simplify the process of building connected hardware that works everywhere. Hologram was founded in 2013 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Fairmarkit is an intelligent sourcing platform that empowers organizations to more efficiently purchase the goods and services they need. By equipping procurement and supply-chain teams with automation and data, Fairmarkit promotes competitive bidding while reducing manual work within existing processes. Leveraged by innovative procurement departments across a number of industries, such as Univision, ServiceNow, and the MBTA, Fairmarkit aims to revolutionize the way organizations make purchases.

Scope AR provides the world’s most advanced Augmented Reality Training Solutions. They are leading the way in this emerging market, using the latest in augmented glasses and software to provide an incredible real-time 3D overlay training solution. Scope AR is working with some of the world’s leading multi-national companies and government agencies to provide custom state-of-the-art training systems while continuing to innovate and create novel Augmented Reality Training Solutions.

Cybrary is the fastest growing, fastest-moving catalog in the industry. By working with an elite community of instructors, experts, and thought leaders, as well as cutting edge hands-on learning providers, we deliver relevant and high-quality content that is accessible anytime, anywhere. Cyber security and IT companies on Cybrary can play a role in the learning by contributing courses and content. Companies can also use their presence to recruit talent. Finally, companies looking to train their employees can use Cybrary's "Teams" product, to manage the training that their employees are taking on the platform. The product also provides hands-on CTF style challenges, practical labs and skill assessments.

Curv is a platform of AI-powered tools for building and tracking athletic talent. Curv has taken this hardware problem and solved it with software by transforming the camera on any mobile device into an accurate & versatile tool to measure human movement. Curv is a web and mobile platform that allows anyone to extract simple and informative physical health & performance metrics though the video taken on their mobile device. Over the next 12 months, Curv’s products will impact 70% of NBA teams and over 700 Universities and colleges as they aim to qualify injury risk, and millions of recreational runners around the world as they strive to healthy running form.

Valt protects the digital identity of every individual and avoids the pain of forgotten passwords. They realized that they had the key to solving the password problem, so they build a tool that they can stand behind and that makes digital security simple and easy. It was co-founded by Brent Heeringa and Kaylee Prior in 2017 and is based in Massachusetts.

Market Wagon, Inc. operates an online platform for farmers and other food producers to sell their goods directly to consumers. Its platform offers produces, eggs, cheese, meat, snacks, soups, baked goods, and heat and eat entrées from local kitchens and restaurants. It serves Indianapolis, Lafayette, Evansville, and Kokomo, delivering to homes, businesses, and residents. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Carmel, Indiana.

Maestro Food Co., doing business as Tovala, manufactures and supplies a domestic cooking appliance that cooks food using M-pots technology. The company provides Smart Oven, a steam-based oven, and markets them with meal kit subscription services. The company also supplies raw food to the appliance owners for cooking purposes. It also provides an application for recipes. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Gather Voices makes video simple with a set of intuitive software solutions that enable organizations to produce, manage, edit and publish video at scale. We're in the Video Age, and companies that want to get and keep attention need to replace a large amount of text on web pages, emails and social media with video. They need nimble solutions that don't require special skills, high budgets or long timelines. Gather Voices makes video simple. Learn more and get a demo at https://gathervoices.co

Regroup provides telemedicine solutions to eradicate mental healthcare shortages across the USA. The company's services protect the privacy of patients and the confidentiality of personal health information with the help of an end-to-end encryption thus improving access to mental health care, enabling patients to overcome geographic distances, restrictions on their mobility, transportation difficulties and the time and cost burdens associated with traveling to see a healthcare professional in person.

Winston Privacy, Inc. develops technology which provides consumers with online privacy and data protection from spying and identity theft. It protect all connected devices, including computers, tablets, phones, and smart devices. The company features includes protects all devices, Block Ads, and faster than a VPN. Winston Privacy, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Aspinity offers neuromorphic all-analog integrated circuit technology that can replicate the functionality of digital signal processors. It reduces the system power requirements for always-on sensing applications. Their vision is that battery life does not have to stand in the way. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Clora, LLC through its platform provides executive search services for life sciences companies. The platform allows companies to search, screen, and engage with life science consultants. Clora, LLC was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Woburn, Massachusetts.