At a pre-coronavirus MassChallenge event.
Courtesy of MassChallenge
MassChallenge, the 11-year-old nonprofit, no-equity accelerator, has welcomed 30 startups into its 2021 FinTech program and another 30 into its 2021 HealthTech program. Both cohorts will be formally introduced at a virtual MassChallenge Verticals Opening Nights on Jan. 13.
Five of this year’s MassChallenge FinTech startups are local to Massachusetts, as are five of the MassChallenge HealthTech startups. Although it was founded in Boston, MassChallenge has programs in Mexico and Israel as well as across the U.S.
The managing directors of both programs noted that the applicant pools this year were the most diverse and competitive to date. For the HealthTech program, the 30 startups were chosen from more than 380 applicants across over 35 countries — less than an 8 percent acceptance rate.
“We’re excited by the range of solutions and perspectives this year’s cohort brings,” Devon Sherman, managing director of MassChallenge Fintech, said in a statement. “In our experience, this diversity of backgrounds and ideas is what drives true innovation.”
Meet the startups in each program below, with descriptions provided by MassChallenge.
MassChallenge FinTech 2021 cohort:
- Accern (New York) - Accern accelerates AI workflows for enterprises with a no-code development platform.
- And Financial (New Hampshire) - And Financial helps individuals transform student debt into retirement assets.
- Beekin (New York) - Beekin is an asset management platform for commercial real estate investors, powered by big data and machine learning.
- Bellwethr (Kansas) - Bellwethr helps businesses maximize each of their customer's lifetime values with predictive and prescriptive analytics.
- Bodeswell (Massachusetts) - BodesWell partners with the largest financial services companies to move people toward their financial goals.
- Compliance.ai (California) - Compliance.ai is a modernized regulatory change management solution.
- eCredable (Georgia) - eCredable helps consumers and small business owners build stronger credit profiles to access better financial products and services.
- EmpowerYu (California) - EmPowerYu is tackling the eldercare crisis by giving medically vulnerable people and their caregivers continuous risk assessment from home.
- Farther Finance (California) - A family office used to be for billionaires. Farther Finances replaces legacy tech and archaic processes to pull that experience forward.
- Finaeo (Ontario) - Finaeo is streamlining insurance distribution by connecting insurance carriers, advisors, and clients through an integrated experience.
- Flourish Savings (California) - Flourish provides financial institutions with a tailored engagement platform to drive deposits and deeper relationships.
- Gig Wage (Texas) - Financial infrastructure for the future of work. Gig Wage helps companies and platforms pay independent workers, aka gig workers & freelancers.
- Goalsetter (New York) - Goalsetter is the smartest money app for the whole family - from cradle to graduation, including parents, too.
- gravityAI (New York) - gravityAI is a platform for Enterprise business teams to explore, test, and intergrade AI algorithms without needing to know how to code.
- Habu (Massachusetts) - Habu is the leading Data Clean Room application, enabling safe data sharing between companies with privacy and security at its core.
- HomeZada (California) - HomeZada is a personal finance/fintech platform for consumers to manage their largest financial asset and largest expense, their home.
- Knoema Corporation (New York) - Knoema is a data technology platform that helps make global, alternative, subscription and internal data discoverable and useful.
- Manetu (New Jersey) - Manetu's Consumer Privacy Management platform offers seamless, dynamic and intelligent end to end management of consumer consent and data access.
- Monit (Massachusetts) - Monit is a predictive cashflow and financial optimization platform designed for business owners as an intelligent, always-on advisor.
- myGini (California) - Magic in your cards. Rewards and shopping offers to make spending and saving money easier. White labeled for your brand.
- Optalitix (London) - Optalitix offers an innovative AI and technology software platform offering products to rapidly enable financial services companies to use AI.
- Owlin (Amsterdam) - Owlin is a news analytics tool that helps finance professionals monitor their portfolio proactively, continuously, and in real-time.
- Qoins Technologies (Georgia) - Qoins is a financial wellness app that helps consumers pay off their debt faster by combining financial education and automation.
- Retail MarketPoint (Rhode Island) - Every retail real estate transaction in the U.S. – every property sale, lease, loan, or investment – can be measured by a Retail MarketPoint BrandScore™.
- Retirable (New York) - Retirable helps pre-retirees plan for a better future with free access to professional retirement guidance and planning services.
- Rialto Markets (New York) - Rialto democratizes and expands private markets for both issuers and investors.
- TCARE (Missouri) - TCARE reduces the risk of Medicaid & LTC insurance claims via an evidence-based family caregiver support program.
- WEVO (Massachusetts) - WEVO is the only tool that pinpoints why visitors aren’t converting and generates recommendations to improve conversion, before going live.
- Workscope (London) - Workscope uses data analytics & business intelligence to understand, govern and manage risk for spreadsheet driven operations.
- Worthright (Massachusetts) - Worthright is a FinTech company that takes the ambiguity out of planning and paying for long-term care.
2021 MassChallenge HealthTech cohort:
- 4Blind (Moscow) - 4Blind company conducts research, create and produce innovative devices for improvement of quality of life of blind and deaf-blind people.
- Agamon (Tel Aviv) - Agamon extracts meaningful, actionable data from the unstructured text of medical reports--improving care & automating workflows.
- Augment Therapy (Chagrin Falls, Ohio) - Augment Therapy is an interactive software that uses augmented reality and telehealth to solve problems of pediatric physical therapy.
- BetterYou (Saint Paul, Minn.) - BetterYou is a digital coach that helps people make better health and wellness decisions every day.
- Butterflly Health (Los Angeles) - The first-of-its kind mental health digital platform designed and developed for underserved populations.
- Caregather (New York City) - Caregather helps friends, family, & coworkers come together to better support patients and their caregivers during difficult medical moments
- Digbi Health (Mountain View, Calif.) - First digital care company that harnesses gut biome, genetic, and lifestyle risk signals to demonstrably deliver health outcomes and savings.
- Ejenta (San Francisco) - An intelligent agent that uses NASA-licensed AI technology to provide personalized remote care
- HealthyHealth (London) - HealthyHealth uses digital health data from smartphone and wearables to predict the risk of thousands of medical conditions along with extra-mortality and extra-morbidity risk.
- HUED (Washington, D.C.) - HUED is a technology-enabled platform that connects Black and Latino patients with culturally-competent health care providers.
- Julota (Colorado Springs, Colo.) - Julota enables a cross-sector care team to address any issue enabling collaboration among private, public, healthcare & charitable entities.
- Kinto (Cambridge, Mass.) - Kinto is a tech-enabled care coaching service supporting families caring for older adults with dementia.
- KnowRX (Austin, Texas) - Our machine learning platform, Maestro ML™ sources patients for clinical trial engagement and more, this empowers patients for better health outcomes.
- Litesprite (Bellevue, Washington) - We build games to help people manage chronic health conditions. Our data delivers insights to clinicians and players.
- Lyfegen (Basel, Switzerland) - Helping patients to access innovative therapies by driving value-based healthcare.
- MindMics (Cambridge, Mass.) - MindMics has made clinical-grade vital signs monitoring as easy as listening to music by analyzing sound waves produced by the body.
- Mosaic (Eden Prairie, Minn.) - Mosaic provides a complete picture of a patient's health across the continuum of care.
- Ōmcare (Burnsville, Minn.) - Ōmcare is a digital health company pioneering products that enable remote care in the home.
- Quick'r Care (Orlando, Fla.) - Quick'rCare helps guide sick patients to the best form of immediate care.
- SafeDose (Southbourough, Mass.) - SafeDose Family helps parents safeguard and document the practice of giving medications to their children at home by leveraging our safety and education platform trusted by doctors, pharmacists, and nurses in hundreds of rural ED's in the U.S.
- See Yourself Health (Beverly, Mass.) - Backed by 10+ years of NIH funded research, See Yourself Health uses immersive simulation technology to improve health and reduce costs.
- Semantic Health (Toronto) - Automating medical coding with ML and NLP to build an actionable data layer for hospitals.
- Soshe (Needham, Mass.) - Soshe is a digital health & wellness program for new and expecting moms that complements the care of physicians.
- Strados Lab (Philadelphia) - We are developing an AI-enabled remote respiratory monitoring system for managing pulmonary health.
- TellUs You Care (San Francisco) - At Tellus we are building the future of eldercare technology and improving eldercare with dignity and privacy.
- TREND Community (Philadelphia) - TREND Community turns anecdotes into evidence on a platform for those living with rare disease who can engage in community powered science
- UpLift Health (Atlanta) - UpLift is a digital self-help program for depression and anxiety - like Duolingo but for learning skills typically taught via psychotherapy.
- WearWorks (New York City) - WearWorks is a Haptic Design company. We build products and experiences that communicate information through touch.
- Wolomi (Washington, D.C.) - Wolomi is the only digital community and app that offers support to women of color to improve maternal health outcomes.
- Zibrio (Houston) - ZIBRIO provides the complete solution for fall prevention, from precision measurement of balance and fall risk to personalized solutions through software products.
