Techstars

Techstars Central LLC, founded in 2006 and based in Boulder, Colorado, operates as a startup accelerator and venture capital firm focused on supporting early-stage technology-oriented companies. It specializes in a mentorship-driven accelerator program, selecting ten startups each summer to participate in a three-month incubation period, offering funding of $120,000 in exchange for equity. Techstars invests primarily in sectors such as fintech, artificial intelligence, blockchain, augmented reality, and IoT, while avoiding investments in medical devices, healthcare technology, and local service-oriented businesses. In addition to its primary accelerator, Techstars has various specialized programs, including those focused on music, retail, mobility, and social impact, with global reach extending to regions such as Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The firm prefers taking minority stakes, typically between six and ten percent, without seeking board representation or investor rights. Techstars has built a robust network of entrepreneurs, mentors, and corporate partners to foster innovation and growth within its portfolio, which includes over 1,000 companies with a significant collective market capitalization.

Ethan Austin

MD of the Techstars Western Union Accelerator

Max Kelly

Managing Director of Techstars London

Lesa Mitchell

Managing Director

Vijay Tirathrai

Managing Director

Mark Tortorella

Advisor

Nathanial Zola

MD

Past deals in US East Coast

Protico

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Protico is a universal community layer across all websites and apps. We tackles the challenges for brands and users by developing a Social x Data Layer that empowers brands to build fully native, Reddit-like community hubs directly embedded within their websites and mobile apps. These branded communities enable genuine social interactions like discussions, content sharing, and engagement - all seamlessly integrated into the brand's core digital properties.

Poplin

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Direct-to-consumer bedding brand

Savvy

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Savvy™ is a high-performance video product paving the way to successful social advertising. It's the leading video creation solution for businesses that drives performance and growth. It's the better way to video. #SavvyWorks

Mainstack

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Mainstack Inc. specializes in developing software tailored for martial arts schools. Based in Austin, Texas, the company offers a comprehensive platform that enables studio owners to efficiently manage various aspects of their operations. Its software facilitates the tracking of student attendance, automates tuition payment collections, and manages belt testing and promotions. Additionally, Mainstack provides tools for designing and sharing Belt Promotion Certificates and Character Development Awards, which help enhance brand visibility within local communities. Founded in 2012 by Thomas Kim, Mainstack operates as a subsidiary of Zen Planner, LLC, and has established itself as a valuable resource for martial arts instructors and school administrators.

Protico

Non Equity Assistance in 2023
Protico is a universal community layer across all websites and apps. We tackles the challenges for brands and users by developing a Social x Data Layer that empowers brands to build fully native, Reddit-like community hubs directly embedded within their websites and mobile apps. These branded communities enable genuine social interactions like discussions, content sharing, and engagement - all seamlessly integrated into the brand's core digital properties.

Loadzpro

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Loadzpro is an AI-powered digital freight company that facilitates the transportation of vehicles and cargo for private individuals and commercial shippers. The company operates an on-demand trucking application that connects users to delivery professionals and transportation companies, offering services for moving goods locally, nationally, and internationally. Loadzpro provides various transportation options, including full truckload, less than truckload, and refrigerated transportation, utilizing advanced technology and insurtech solutions to enhance the shipping experience.

Movez

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Movez is a social event platform that addresses the challenges faced by millennials in attending and organizing social gatherings. The platform offers a user-friendly map interface that highlights various events occurring in the city, enhancing navigation and participation. It also introduces features that improve user experience, such as gender ratio quadrics, which cater to social dynamics. For event hosts, Movez provides tools to streamline the organization of events, ensuring they are enjoyable and well-coordinated. By focusing on the key aspects of social connectivity, transportation, and organization, Movez aims to transform how people engage with social events and nightlife, making the process more efficient and enjoyable for all participants.

Column

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Column is a social network application. In Column They offer monetary rewards by contributing positively to discussions and moderating content on the platform. Column is the social network for topic-specific content.

Nix

Series A in 2022
Nix, Inc. is a consumer diagnostic company based in Boston, Massachusetts, that specializes in the manufacture of single-use biosensing wearable technologies designed to monitor hydration levels. The company has developed a sweat-based biometric sensor that provides real-time insights into hydration status and electrolyte loss, catering primarily to athletes, soldiers, and laborers. This innovative sensor enables users to optimize their performance by accurately assessing their fluid needs during training and competition. Founded in 2015, Nix aims to empower individuals to make informed decisions about their hydration.

Metrobi

Venture Round in 2022
Metrobi Inc. is a company specializing in pre-scheduled delivery services designed for business-to-business transactions. Founded in 2016 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, Metrobi utilizes a mobile platform that incorporates artificial intelligence to optimize local deliveries for businesses. The company's technology enables efficient routing and pairing of deliveries, allowing for bulk product pickups from stores or warehouses and subsequent delivery to various destinations. This innovative approach increases driver productivity by 23% and reduces mileage by up to 50%. By facilitating a shared delivery service and providing an on-demand fleet, Metrobi aims to lower delivery costs for businesses while ensuring fair compensation for drivers.

Pointz

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Pointz is a mobile mapping app that helps navigate bike and scooter riders through safe routes in cities. Its routing algorithm favors roads on a unique ‘quiet network’ of residential side streets, protected bike lanes, and other 'bike-friendly' streets.

SQOR Technologies Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2022
At SQOR.ai, we’ve created a game-changing platform for senior leadership to monitor the health of execution across their entire organization. SQOR.ai is an AI-driven, no-code solution that seamlessly integrates all your SaaS tools through simple authentication. This enables SQOR.ai to extract vital insights from everyday company data, which is often scattered across multiple tools, making it easily accessible, digestible, and actionable for company leadership. Our advanced algorithms eliminate the need for expensive data scientists, analysts, or engineers, providing trustworthy situational awareness for teams. The unique “Execution Score” offers a comprehensive view of company performance, allowing all stakeholders to effortlessly monitor the health of the company. With SQOR.ai, KPIs are monitored, validated, analyzed, and delivered in real-time, ensuring that everyone from senior leaders to external partners can see, know, and act with confidence. Our ecosystem ensures that critical performance insights are always at your fingertips, empowering all stakeholders to make informed decisions and drive the company forward. SQOR.ai transforms SaaS data into actionable business intelligence, delivering on the promise of efficiency through AI and creating unparalleled value for investors.

Lynq

Series A in 2022
Lynq, established in 2014 and based in Brooklyn, New York, specializes in the manufacturing of handheld personal location devices. The company focuses on providing a decentralized and secure method for transmitting location data, allowing users to communicate over long distances without relying on traditional infrastructure. Lynq's innovative approach incorporates unique frequency-hopping techniques, enabling the transmission of location information in a manner that minimizes the risk of detection and interception. This commitment to privacy and security distinguishes Lynq's offerings in the personal location device market.

Naborforce

Series A in 2022
Naborforce connects older adults to a network of “Nabors” for social engagement and on-demand support for errands, transportation, and help around the home. The company aims to promote productive, connected and joyous aging and living. It is inspired by JOY to promote engaged, productive and connected aging and living. Naborforce was founded in 2018.

Rainwalk Technology

Venture Round in 2022
Rainwalk Technology is a SaaS cloud-native platform providing pet insurance. It offers pet rating, policy, and claims services through the Rainwalk Integration Framework, which is a set of API and utilities built to make connecting to legacy systems or modern insurance tech stacks easy. In addition to these three core services, it also provides full rate, rule, and form filing services, loss ratio commitments to protect their insurer partners' combined ratio, and sales and content design support delivered to agents and marketing teams. The company is headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina in 2018 by Tong Wu.

Rainwalk Technology

Seed Round in 2022
Rainwalk Technology is a SaaS cloud-native platform providing pet insurance. It offers pet rating, policy, and claims services through the Rainwalk Integration Framework, which is a set of API and utilities built to make connecting to legacy systems or modern insurance tech stacks easy. In addition to these three core services, it also provides full rate, rule, and form filing services, loss ratio commitments to protect their insurer partners' combined ratio, and sales and content design support delivered to agents and marketing teams. The company is headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina in 2018 by Tong Wu.

PopPD

Pre Seed Round in 2022
PopPD is interactive online professional development training for educators. They also acknowledge that professional development in isolation is not the solution to the systemic change needed in education. They connect with educators from different races, generations, geographical locations, gender minorities, the community, and individuals with disabilities.

Noteworthy AI

Seed Round in 2022
Climate change creates new risks for electric utilities. From more frequent and intense storms to droughts that create wildfire-friendly conditions, it’s now more critical than ever for these companies to enact mitigation measures that account for these risks. One mitigation is the proactive inspection and inventory of grid assets at-scale, usually by piloting aerial drone missions to collect imagery and video on each asset. While these methods have proven to increase both grid safety and resiliency, most are employed on the transmission grid but not on the distribution grid. This is because, compared to transmission grid assets, distribution grid assets are too numerous, too geographically dispersed, are often located in densely populated areas, and the aerial view is often obscured by vegetation for much of the year. This makes piloting drone inspection missions over distribution grid assets extremely difficult. Yet, 90% of power outages occur on the distribution grid and there are cases of faulty distribution grid equipment sparking wildfires, such as the recent Silverado Fire in Southern California. Noteworthy AI solves this problem by ensuring that distribution grid assets are adequately inspected and monitored. Our solution combines hardware at the Edge and software in the Cloud to help electric utilities inspect and inventory distribution grid assets at scale. Our Edge hardware mounts directly on electric utility fleet vehicles (e.g. repair trucks) and uses proprietary computer vision to inspect and inventory distribution poles and their components with no impact on crew duties. Results are sent to our Cloud software in real-time. This converts non-productive fleet vehicle travel time into active inspection and monitoring at a low cost, enabling electric utilities to reap grid resiliency and safety benefits on the distribution grid as well.

Varkn

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Varkn is a mobile app that connects travelers of all kinds to a fleet of independent on-demand valet drivers across airports, train stations, and bus stations for the purpose of easy, time-saving, and affordable parking via a smartphone.

Indistinguishable From Magic

Pre Seed Round in 2022
The platform that makes designing and creating interactive hardware fast, easy, and accessible by removing the need for programming and engineering.

Illoominus

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Illoominus is a data analytics platform designed to empower leaders to activate and manage their organization's DE+I strategy.

My Panda

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
My Panda is a mobile application that facilitates connections between local personal assistants and individuals who require assistance in managing their tasks. By leveraging a hyper-local community approach, the platform addresses the challenges of time constraints and support shortages faced by busy individuals. Users can find trusted assistants in their vicinity, making it easier to complete their to-do lists and improve overall productivity. Through this service, My Panda aims to enhance the accessibility of personal assistance while fostering community engagement.

Cookonnect

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Cookonnect connects busy families with early career, personal cooks to create greater access to in-home meal preparation services.

Metric Mate

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Metric Mate is the patented platform that allows turning any strength training equipment into smart hardware with games and competitions to make workouts more fun.

Payvmnt

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Payvmnt is an end-to-end online marketplace offering same-day delivery. We operate, manage, and own our delivery vehicles, warehouses and inventory. The mission is to be a one stop shop for all your same-day delivery needs. We set out with a goal of making the customer's experience simple and easy during the uncertain times of today. From trash bags to candles, online shopping has never been this easy. We are paving the way for same-day delivery across the United States and are starting in the most challenging city NYC!

Pilotbird

Seed Round in 2022
Pilotbird is a SaaS platform for insurance companies that uses social data points to deliver value in key parts of the insurance value chain. Pilotbird empowers Life & Health insurance teams to better score risk, engage customers and detect claims fraud by analyzing social data points.

Satisfi Labs

Series A in 2022
Satisfi Labs Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in conversational AI, offering a software-as-a-service application designed to enhance real-time customer engagement through mobile devices. Its platform, known as the Answer Engine, serves various sectors including retail, sports venues, attractions, and live events by powering chatbots, voice experiences, messaging applications, and website forums. This technology facilitates effective communication by automatically directing customer inquiries to the most appropriate responders within an organization, while also providing tools for performance assessment and opportunities to improve the customer experience. Founded in 2016, Satisfi Labs aims to create unique and interactive experiences for customers across diverse industries.

KADO

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Networking and Relationship Management Software

Openly

Series C in 2022
Openly Inc. is a technology-enabled insurance provider that specializes in homeowners insurance, catering to customers through independent agents. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with an additional office in Chicago, the company leverages technology and industry expertise to deliver comprehensive insurance coverage. Openly's offerings include protection for the structure of the building, walls, roof, and attached fixtures. The company focuses on providing a simplified quoting process, aiming to enhance the overall insurance experience for its customers.

Realworld

Seed Round in 2022
Realworld is a platform designed to help make smart, informed decisions about finances, health, and life's big moments. This empowers young people with the knowledge they need. They have interviewed thousands of college students, twenty-somethings, employers, academics, and subject-matter experts about life in the real world to ensure this wasn’t just an “us problem.” It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.

LegacyShift

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
LegacyShift is an EdTech company committed to shaping the future of online learning for the Black community. It is building the first and largest online learning platform offering targeted, culturally relevant, and cinematic quality video courses, masterclasses, and educational shows designed to help Blacks achieve personal and professional success. LegacyShift offers an opportunity to learn from the most brilliant people, experts, pioneers, and cultural icons within the global Black community.

Candle

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Candle is a mobile application designed to simplify investment for users by employing an index fund strategy. It allows individuals to invest in companies they believe in while maintaining a customizable and balanced portfolio. The app provides users with insights into their financial status and offers actionable recommendations, particularly in decentralized finance (DeFi) strategies that aim to outpace inflation. Candle connects fintech developers and influencers with banking and investing consumers, optimizing financial management through automation. Its features include creating and sharing custom portfolios, utilizing advanced algorithms for tasks such as rebalancing and tax loss harvesting. By automating various aspects of financial management, Candle reduces the complexity and stress associated with personal finance, enabling users to save both time and money.

OncoveryCare

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
OncoveryCare operates as a virtual survivorship clinic focused on enhancing the lives of cancer survivors. The clinic provides a dedicated platform that facilitates navigation through the challenges of survivorship, offering essential tools and support to promote healthier and happier living. Its mission is to ensure that every survivor in need of care has access to comprehensive resources, aiming to address and reduce disparities in survivorship outcomes. By emphasizing whole-person care, OncoveryCare fosters a sense of community among survivors, thereby improving their overall quality of life.

Whirl

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Whirl is a dating app that enables anyone to set up single friends. The app also allows the user's friend network to set a date. Friends of the user are able to edit the profile with photos and suggest matches for the user based on their preferred friend-of-a-friend relationships.

NAL Media - Brij

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Nal media provides workforce development services for media. They also provide networking space and internal workforce development tool services. Additionally, they also provide entertainment services.

Bucephalus

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Bucephalus is a supply chain ops platform that empowers e-commerce brands to move products faster, cheaper, and more sustainably using AI. The company partners with environmentally conscious brands to be the operating system for their supply chain, giving them confidence, saving them time and money, and reducing both waste and carbon emissions to grow their triple bottom line.

Rewire Fitness

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Rewire Fitness is a human performance platform that provides evidence-based solutions for tracking the athlete's readiness to perform. The company's patent-pending technology integrates protocols used by the Navy Seals, Nasa, and neuroscience, enabling athletes and other populations to reach their ultimate potential. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in New Paltz, New York.

Audyo

Seed Round in 2022
Intelligent audio for the internet. In just one line of code, Audyo makes any publication listenable.

8base

Series A in 2022
8base, Inc. is a cloud-based platform that enables developers to build and run enterprise-class web and mobile applications using GraphQL. Founded in 2017 and based in Coral Gables, Florida, the company offers a suite of tools, including an app builder, serverless backend, and a data management system. Its platform allows front-end developers to create applications in their preferred frameworks while leveraging a robust back-end-as-a-service hosted on AWS. By utilizing no-code technology and a serverless architecture, 8base aims to streamline software development and accelerate the deployment of new applications, ultimately enhancing business impact. The use of blockchain technology further supports the creation of a network effect among developers, fostering collaboration and innovation in software development.

Simbull

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Simbull operates a trading application that combines elements of sports and the stock market, allowing users to trade sports teams like stocks. This innovative platform provides an alternative to traditional sports betting by enabling users to invest in their favorite teams and earn cash payouts based on team performance. By leveraging blockchain technology, Simbull enhances the experience of sports enthusiasts, increasing engagement and excitement. Users can profit from their investments as teams succeed, creating a unique intersection of sports fandom and investment strategy.

inStryde

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
inStryde is a hybrid hard tech company using A.I. and 3d printing to make custom orthotics more accessible and affordable.

Ecolectro

Seed Round in 2022
Ecolectro makes materials that make clean fuels and chemicals. The company is commercializing a proprietary platform of novel polymers that are best in class, allowing its customers to produce devices that last longer and cost less. Ecolectro has defensible IP, state-of-the-art facilities, experienced personnel, and strong customer traction.

Ome

Funding Round in 2022
Inirv Labs, Inc. is a consumer electronics company based in Durham, North Carolina, focused on enhancing kitchen safety and automation through innovative smart technology. Founded in 2016, Inirv develops smart stove knobs that replace traditional knobs, allowing users to monitor and control their stove remotely via a connected application. The product includes features such as automatic burner adjustments, cooking time settings, and reminders for cooking tasks. Additionally, it integrates with other smart home systems to improve cooking efficiency and safety, with built-in technology designed to turn off the stove in unsafe conditions. Inirv's solutions aim to revolutionize kitchen interactions, promoting a safer cooking environment while addressing common household challenges.

MindStand Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Fostering a healthy online community, one post at a time!

Linq

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Wecover Platforms builds artificially intelligent robots for businesses, including legal firms, financial sectors, insurance companies, and research and marketing sectors.

FLUIX

Pre Seed Round in 2022
FLUIX AI specializes in advanced cooling solutions and energy optimization for data centers, workstations, and gaming PCs. The company offers a unique Turbulent Liquid Cooling system that addresses the challenges of heat management, enhancing thermal efficiency and allowing for higher sustained processing speeds. By integrating and optimizing various facility systems, including HVAC and IT, FLUIX enables significant energy savings, reportedly up to 40% for critical infrastructure. Their innovative cooling system monitoring software further enhances operational efficiency by connecting industrial and information technology systems, ultimately reducing wasted cooling energy and improving overall performance for manufacturers and server providers.

Spiky.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Spiky.ai is the first AI-based modular integrated advanced analytics platform that leads the Edutech 5.0 revolution. Spiky.ai is a one-stop-shop solution, gathering all essential AI-based analytics products under one platform.

Augurisk

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Augurisk provides risk assessments for 12 disaster and societal risk factors, including Crime, Storms, Floods, Wildfires, Earthquakes and more. For more information, please visit our website.

Armada IQ

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Deploying Trust in Autonomy

Mini City

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Mini City Inc. develops, owns, and operates a platform that provides identification and employment opportunities to the homeless citizens. The company’s platform helps in legal identification, vital records, and employment forms; and assists workers, program directors, clinicians, and others that are working with the homeless and at risk for homelessness. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

elo audio

Pre Seed Round in 2022
elocance is the first app that lets you save your web articles, emails, newsletters and work documents, so you can listen to them later. You can listen to everything you would normally need to read and actually do it on the go! In the metro, during your commute, or while you're running. Gain time while catching up and learning more.

Namic Group Inc.

Series A in 2022
Technology Consulting

Connected

Seed Round in 2021
StudyFree Inc. operates an online education platform. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Delaware City, Delaware.

PeduL

Seed Round in 2021
PeduL Inc. is a crowdfunding platform based in Newark, New Jersey, founded in 2016. The platform is designed to help students raise funds for their higher education, addressing the financial challenges many face when pursuing college degrees. By providing a dedicated space for education crowdfunding, PeduL enables students to connect with potential donors who can assist in alleviating the costs associated with higher education. This innovative approach aims to change the traditional methods of funding college expenses, offering an alternative solution for students in need of financial support.

Femly

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Femly LLC, founded in 2016 and based in Baltimore, Maryland, manufactures and distributes feminine hygiene care products. The company offers a variety of plant-based and environmentally friendly items, including organic cotton tampons, day and night pads, menstrual cups, and body care products. Femly caters to women directly through its online platform and provides monthly subscriptions, online ordering, and home delivery services. Additionally, its products are available in restrooms at various organizations such as hotels, co-working spaces, and colleges. By focusing on sustainable and health-conscious options, Femly aims to meet the needs of modern consumers in the feminine care market.

Aleria

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Aleria helps companies improve recruitment strategies, increase employee satisfaction and loyalty, achieve diversity goals and drive business performance. To get started, our Inclusion Assessment can identify the unique opportunities that exist within your organization.

Breakthru

Seed Round in 2021
SportsHi connects student-athletes to colleges and amazing opportunities like scholarships. Our mission is to encourage high school students to play sports by creating a community where all student-athletes can grow. We know the positive impact high school sports can have in the classroom and in your day-to-day life. By creating SportsHi, we want to send more of our youth to higher education.

BRIGHT

Seed Round in 2021
A health-tech company that created BEACON40™, a noninvasive device stimulating the brain's activity and rejuvenating healthy brain function with 40Hz light.

Kinumi

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Ilera is a digital health and lifestyle company focused on connecting aging adults and their loved ones with the resources and services they need to live full, healthy lives. Our model provides a goal-oriented approach empowering aging adults to remain active, independent and healthy with the support of a CareConcierge™. Our model is comprehensive and goes beyond the physical health of our clients and also addresses social and emotional health, with the goal of supporting clients live their best life. Ilera has the added benefit of supporting women in the workforce balance disparate demands, as they represent over 75% of all family caregivers for seniors. Ilera provides a personal CareConcierge™ and a digital platform that allows our clients to make service requests and view upcoming appointments and activities all in one place without the hassle of having to ask their loved ones for help, while still giving their designated family caregiver visibility for peace of mind. Ilera was founded in 2019 by Chekesha Kidd and is headquartered in New York, NY, USA.

BeAKid

Pre Seed Round in 2021
BeAKid is a cloud-based classroom management software designed to help community centers, childcare organizations.

Health Haven Rx

Seed Round in 2021
Healthy Quit Inc. is a digital health company and a pharmacy that provides vaping and smoking cessation by utilizing an artificial intelligent (AI) treatment algorithm and medications to help patients quit.

ABBY by GOGOTECH

Pre Seed Round in 2021
In an incusive society; safe, advanced, affordable, personal electric vehicles are not a privilege reserved for the wealthy and the well-insured!

OneScreen.AI

Seed Round in 2021
We make it easy for the right people to spend the right money and get the right content on the right screen at the right time.

NotedSource

Pre Seed Round in 2021
NotedSource connects firms with active professors, scientists, and other academic subject matter experts in real time for on-demand projects. Through an expert network of thousands of PhDs, NotedSource works with clients on a variety of business needs including data science, editing and translation, experiment design, secondary research, literature search and artificial intelligence.

Trova

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Trova is a mobile app designed to bring people together in the communities where we live, work, and play. We provide a platform that truly enables people to convert online connections to meaningful friendships. Trova is an organization led social network.

Vivo

Seed Round in 2021
Vivo offers an online and interactive fitness program designed specifically for seniors. Seniors can do it all from home on their laptop or mobile device with a live certified trainer.

Rivet

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Rivet is a platform helping artists and creators identify, retain, and nurture their most engaged fans. We help our users analyze and optimize their fan engagement and empower them with new avenues for monetizing their audiences, all in one platform.

Vincere Health

Seed Round in 2021
Vincere Health Inc. is a health technology company based in Allston, Massachusetts, founded in 2019 at the Harvard Innovation Labs and backed by Techstars. The company has developed an application designed to assist users in quitting smoking and making healthier lifestyle choices. This application utilizes a combination of incentives, behavioral nudges, and evidence-based interventions, allowing users to set personal goals and monitor their progress. Users engage with the application by using an attachable breathalyzer device to verify their adherence to smoking cessation goals. Additionally, they can receive financial rewards for reducing their smoking habits and achieving cessation. Through these methods, Vincere Health aims to address significant healthcare challenges by promoting positive behavior change.

WePlayed

Seed Round in 2021
WePlayed is an intelligent college sports video platform that enriches and activates post-game content to help schools drive sponsorships and amplify community engagement. WePlayed works with athletes, coaches, fans, teams, clubs, leagues, conferences, colleges, rights holders, brands, and other sports sponsors. The company is poised to transform the sports experience for millions of people worldwide by allowing them to discover, personalize and share their favorite moments from one of the richest video repositories across all sports. They consolidate, catalog, and activate previously unpublished and post-live broadcast sports video content that becomes idle after the competition ends. they extract viewable moments from games using machine learning-assisted crowdsourcing and advanced recognition technology. They continually enrich the content with sports contextual and player metadata to drive precision search, better recommendation engine performance, and increased viewing.

Dash

Venture Round in 2021
Spektra is building APIs and tools that make it possible for businesses to accept and disburse Mobile Money payments from and to multiple providers and currencies within minutes, NOT months, without dealing with Mobile Network operators at all. With a few lines of code, a single tap or click, your customers can pay you with our seamless and easy to use products on the web, mobile, and in-app.

Noteworthy AI

Seed Round in 2021
Climate change creates new risks for electric utilities. From more frequent and intense storms to droughts that create wildfire-friendly conditions, it’s now more critical than ever for these companies to enact mitigation measures that account for these risks. One mitigation is the proactive inspection and inventory of grid assets at-scale, usually by piloting aerial drone missions to collect imagery and video on each asset. While these methods have proven to increase both grid safety and resiliency, most are employed on the transmission grid but not on the distribution grid. This is because, compared to transmission grid assets, distribution grid assets are too numerous, too geographically dispersed, are often located in densely populated areas, and the aerial view is often obscured by vegetation for much of the year. This makes piloting drone inspection missions over distribution grid assets extremely difficult. Yet, 90% of power outages occur on the distribution grid and there are cases of faulty distribution grid equipment sparking wildfires, such as the recent Silverado Fire in Southern California. Noteworthy AI solves this problem by ensuring that distribution grid assets are adequately inspected and monitored. Our solution combines hardware at the Edge and software in the Cloud to help electric utilities inspect and inventory distribution grid assets at scale. Our Edge hardware mounts directly on electric utility fleet vehicles (e.g. repair trucks) and uses proprietary computer vision to inspect and inventory distribution poles and their components with no impact on crew duties. Results are sent to our Cloud software in real-time. This converts non-productive fleet vehicle travel time into active inspection and monitoring at a low cost, enabling electric utilities to reap grid resiliency and safety benefits on the distribution grid as well.

Nixtla

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Nixtla is a time series research and deployment company founded in 2021 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. The company specializes in developing artificial intelligence solutions that facilitate the understanding, classification, and prediction of time series data. Nixtla offers a software development platform that allows developers and data scientists to create open-source forecasting software easily. Users can set up cloud-based time series processing services and utilize continuous integration and deployment to manage APIs on the company's infrastructure. This enables clients to develop features at both the time series and temporal levels, streamlining the production-ready forecasting process.

Eskuad

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Traditional industries have some of their processes operating in places where the internet service is unreliable, implying that it's not easy for managers and workforce to get data, so managers can make the best decisions, save time & money, and improve their KPI. Eskuad helps you to keep control of your process, even when your team operates where the internet service is unreliable, with a fast and customizable UI, specially designed for the distributed workforce, automated reports and system integrations.

Finch

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Finch is a tool that decodes products' environmental and social impacts to incentivize consumers and brands to make better decisions. It operates a browser extension software to offer insights on a multitude of consumer products. Its software assesses what products are made of, how they are created, and how long they last, besides pinning expert scores on products' environmental and social impacts with functional reviews from real people. Using machine learning capabilities, it scores products based on a series of attributes and equips consumers with the right information at the point of purchase.

Carbon Limit

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Carbon Limit transforms CO2 pollution into carbon negative sustainable resources and products. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.

Attenex

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Panel-as-a-Service Marketing Insights for Challenger Brands

Sunairio

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Sunairio is a developer of a weather intelligence platform for renewable energy prediction. Its platform offers simulations that account for correlations between multiple locations and weather features and leverages the complete NOAA sub-hourly historical archive.

Reactiv

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Reactiv is a virtual occupational therapy clinic, where we use computer vision and gaming to increase engagement and improve outcome. Just using a regular mobile app, no extra hardware needed.

Satisfi Labs

Series A in 2021
Satisfi Labs Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in conversational AI, offering a software-as-a-service application designed to enhance real-time customer engagement through mobile devices. Its platform, known as the Answer Engine, serves various sectors including retail, sports venues, attractions, and live events by powering chatbots, voice experiences, messaging applications, and website forums. This technology facilitates effective communication by automatically directing customer inquiries to the most appropriate responders within an organization, while also providing tools for performance assessment and opportunities to improve the customer experience. Founded in 2016, Satisfi Labs aims to create unique and interactive experiences for customers across diverse industries.

Paco

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Paco is a new Slack productivity app that sniffs out important asks hidden beneath heaps of Slack conversations and reminds you about them at an appropriate time. It tracks and follows up on important messages with your colleagues automatically, freeing you up to tackle things that need your undivided attention. Paco was recently the #3 Product of the Day on ProductHunt, and is featured as a 'New & Noteworthy' app on Slack! Designed for Developers, Designers, Data Scientists, Managers, Product Managers, Founders/CEOs or WFH remote workers who need to step away from the Slack chaos and still not miss out on important stuff.

Metrobi

Seed Round in 2021
Metrobi Inc. is a company specializing in pre-scheduled delivery services designed for business-to-business transactions. Founded in 2016 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, Metrobi utilizes a mobile platform that incorporates artificial intelligence to optimize local deliveries for businesses. The company's technology enables efficient routing and pairing of deliveries, allowing for bulk product pickups from stores or warehouses and subsequent delivery to various destinations. This innovative approach increases driver productivity by 23% and reduces mileage by up to 50%. By facilitating a shared delivery service and providing an on-demand fleet, Metrobi aims to lower delivery costs for businesses while ensuring fair compensation for drivers.

Toucan

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Toucan is a virtual platform specifically designed for social events. Guests move smoothly from conversation to conversation while keeping track of their friends and people they want to meet. This allows groups to connect in natural and authentic ways and makes virtual events approachable, engaging, and frictionless.

Swipe Credit

Funding Round in 2021
Swipe Credit operates as an automated digital lending platform designed to connect financial institutions with cardholders seeking loans. By offering a white-label solution, Swipe enables lenders to reach a broader customer base beyond traditional banked consumers, thereby facilitating the growth of their lending operations. The platform harnesses artificial intelligence to enhance risk management and compliance, ultimately transforming the borrowing experience. Swipe's flexibility allows lenders to customize pricing and terms for tailored loan offers, contributing to financial inclusion and equitable services for small businesses. This innovative approach positions Swipe as a competitive player in the evolving landscape of digital lending.

ServeScape

Pre Seed Round in 2021
ServeScape connects under-marketed horticultural growers with commercial and residential consumers in metro Atlanta utilizing proprietary tools and processes to collect data and drive sales through direct product delivery.

Cheres

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Cheres is a New York-based company that offers a digital platform designed to enhance investment transparency among users by allowing them to view their friends' investment activities. The platform seamlessly integrates with users' existing accounts on various investing platforms. Additionally, Cheres operates a cross-functional collaboration tool that aims to eliminate silos between departments within organizations. By consolidating data from various operational sources, the platform provides an assistant that helps clients analyze crucial business metrics related to revenue, customers, expenses, products, marketing, and financial performance.

Small Packages

Funding Round in 2021
Help one progress on their relationship journey through physical expertly curates gifts as well as techonology tools.

Parkday

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Parkday is a mobile app and data platform providing custom food programs by using recommendation algorithms and data science to generate personalized ready-to-eat meals from our food partners based on dietary preferences, geography, and lifestyle.

Nectar

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Nectar is a marketplace for real estate cash flow used to generate passive income streams managed by professionals. Its platform creates economic units, or pods in the co-living, short-term rental, self-storage, and covered parking spaces that enable businesses to manage cash flow, upgrade properties, and expand portfolios.

ReRent

Pre Seed Round in 2021
ReRent is a developer of a property management platform that enables students to avoid debt and recoup thousands in rent wasted. Its platform creates the listing, prepares the space, welcomes the guests, and cleans up that helps students to monetize their apartment space while they're away.

The Folklore Group

Pre Seed Round in 2021
The Folklore is an NYC-based multi-brand e-commerce site and wholesale agency that delivers high-end contemporary African designer fashion and lifestyle products to customers around the world. The Folklore's primary mission is to streamline the process of delivering Africa's most in-demand brands to global customers through the use of sales technology and new production channels.