More than 100 early-stage startups have been accepted into the 2019 MassChallenge Boston accelerator, now in its 10th year. This year, one-third of them are in healthcare and life sciences, more than any other category. Just under one-third are "high tech;" other categories include social impact, cleantech and energy, and general, retail and consumer goods.
The startups also have a diverse set of founders. Nearly half of the enterprises have at least one female founder and one-fifth have a founder of color. Sixty-one startups are in Massachusetts.
"As we celebrate our 10th year, we remain laser focused on supporting these pioneers achieve success and are grateful for our renowned community that makes our unique model so effective," managing director Cait Reimers Brumme said in a press release.
Read about the Massachusetts-based startups in each category here:
Health Care and Life Sciences
Axonis (Massachusetts): Translating breakthrough regeneration research to groundbreaking paralysis therapy, to transform lives of spinal cord injury patients.
CareZoom (Massachusetts)
Checkpoint AI (Massachusetts)
EMet NanoTech (Massachusetts): Replacing conventional cryo-EM sample preparation to reduce cost and time in structure-based drug discovery.
EnVision Endoscopy, Inc. (Massachusetts)
Fluent BioSciences Inc (Massachusetts)
g.Root Biomedical Services, Inc. (Massachusetts)
Knot (Massachusetts)
Koldchain (Massachusetts)
Legacy (Massachusetts):Legacy Solving the 50% decline in male fertility w/ consumer experience-focused, at-home solution for men to have sperm tested & frozen.
MyA Health (Massachusetts): Developing a platform to manage all aspects of financial health planning.
Nextiles (Massachusetts)
OLGS, Inc. (Massachusetts)
Reboot Medical (Massachusetts)
Strand Therapeutics (Massachusetts)
High Tech
Aerospec Technologies (Massachusetts)
Awayr (Massachusetts)
Aisling Organics (Massachusetts): Developing a revolutionary line of high-performance and organic makeup.
CrowdPlay (Massachusetts): Developing an in-stadium app where fans compete by answering live questions about the game they are attending, playing for prizes.
CoCode (Massachusetts): Developing an A.I.-powered assistant which supercharges a software developers productivity.
Considdr (Massachusetts, USA)
Dyad Medical Inc. (Massachusetts): Providing an automated, intelligent medical image analysis cloud platform that makes medical image analysis data driven and more accurate.
Emerging Response (Massachusetts)
InstaKin (Massachusetts)
JobGet (Massachusetts)
Lab Grown Source (Massachusetts): directly connecting buyers and sellers of lab grown diamonds.
Let Us Calculate (Massachusetts):
LoanFuel (Massachusetts): Helping banks and lending institutions close the gap between today’s mortgage technology and borrowers’ expectations to use smartphones in the home buying process.
LOU (Massachusetts): Upgrading lengthy help centers with interactive tutorials that reduce training time, boost adoption, and simplify customer success.
Nimble Network Inc. (Massachusetts): Unleashing the potential of applications to make them scalable, distributed, and programmable.
Oort (Massachusetts): Delivering Network-Security-as-a-Service from a federation of globally-distributed data centers at the Edge of the Internet.
PerkZilla (Massachusetts): Creating a network of micro-influencers through goal-oriented campaigns that virally increase brand awareness and grow your audience.
Pison (Massachusetts)
Protolith (Massachusetts)
Qwally (Massachusetts)
Sixpence App (Massachusetts): Disrupting crowdfunding. Through Sixpence, users can support causes through roundups on their daily purchases.
Sophya (Massachusetts)
Swipe Inc (Massachusetts): Streamlining MFA for any online/offline cashless payment by pushing real-time authentication requests to your phone to pre-empt fraud.
General, Retail, and Consumer Goods
All Yoga Pants (Massachusetts): Making athleisure fashion accessible to multi-cultural women (non-plus and plus).
GleTech (Massachusetts): Developing a mobile first platform, to help farmers access market, request on-demand transportation, including warehouse space.
HINTS (Massachusetts): Providing a solution for social media companies to instantaneously detect the spread of fake news of any medium: text, audio, or video.
Jamber (Massachusetts)
Multiscale Systems, Inc. (Massachusetts)
Project Daredevil (Massachusetts): Developing virtual reality for the blind: 3D radio-dramas with motion simulation and smell.
Radian (Massachusetts): Making women's jeans with deep yet subtle pockets, performance stretch, temperature regulation & much more.
SheChef (Massachusetts): Networking & development organization for women chefs of color and our allies.
smoodi (Massachusetts): Building fully automated smoothie-machine for offices allowing employees to create their own, customized and fresh smoothie every day.
Waku (Massachusetts): Making a refreshing gut-health herbal drink infused with 20 herbs and flowers from the Andes Mountains.
Zappeal (Massachusetts): Allowing homeowners to appeal to their property taxes quickly and inexpensively by automating the process using data analytics.
Social Impact
EatWell (Massachusetts): Removing high cost and inconvenience barriers to make healthy eating accessible for low-income, urban families.
HERA App (Massachusetts): Using reminders and financial incentives to improve the health of Syrian refugee women and children in Turkey.
PraeSpero Farms (Massachusetts): Offering a path to recovery to persons experiencing homelessness and substance use disorder.
Proud Pour (Massachusetts): Creating Exceptional wines, beers, and spirits that support local environmental restoration.
PUP Reading (Massachusetts): Helping parents make it easy and fun to support their children’s developing reading skills.
QuantAQ (Massachusetts): Combining machine learning with atmospheric chemistry expertise to deliver local, actionable insights about your air.
Skip the Small Talk (Massachusetts): Hosting events and are in the process of producing materials to help reduce loneliness and improve quality and quantity of social connection.
Cleantech and Energy
AeroShield (Massachusetts)
Anuel Energy Inc (Massachusetts)
Camberline Technologies (Massachusetts): Developing a low-cost, fast, scalable, flexible platform to enable time of use electricity rates without smart meters.
Gencores (Massachusetts)
Petrichor (Massachusetts)
