Today, MassChallenge has announced the list of 128 startups that are invited to participate in the 2015 accelerator programs. The four month program, which is open to any early-stage startup in any industry and from anywhere across the globe, provides office space, education, training, mentorship, networking opportunities and other resources to participants. In Boston, finalists will compete for over $1.5 million in non-dilutive cash awards, and throughout the accelerator (June 22 to October 28), they will all have access to other in-kind deals. All grants and other support are given with no strings or restrictions attached. In late September, finalists will pitch to a panel of judges, highlighting the progress they’ve made, with final judging of the top startups happening mid-October. Finally, at the much-anticipated MassChallenge Awards Ceremony late October, cash grants will be awarded to the startups demonstrating the highest potential for impact.
Some of the companies familiar to us in the 2015 class include Apitite, a cloud service that enables anyone to easily create and manage APIs without writing code; Cintell, a marketing tech startup that helps companies better understanding buyers' habits, preferences and behaviors; Learnlux, which creates online learning tools focused on personal finance; Pavlok, a wristband that gives off a mild electrical shock to break bad habits; Splitzee, an app that makes it easy for groups of people to split group expenses; and SuperHealos, a company that provides resources for kids dealing with hospital stays and other tough situations.
Here's the full list of startups that will take part in the 2015 MassChallenge program:
Company | Industry | HQ | Pitch |
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Ader | USA - Massachusetts | High Tech | Ader helps gaming companies by getting gamers to turn off AdBlock. |
Agora | USA - Massachusetts | Social Impact | Agora is an online town hall for the people. Our mission is to make democracies more democratic. |
Ajiri Tea Company | USA - Pennsylvania | General | Ajiri aims to create a sustainable cycle of employment and education. And, of course, a delicious cup of Kenyan Coffee and Tea! |
Alike | USA - Massachusetts | General | Not public at this time. |
AntiDark | USA - District of Columbia | Energy / Clean Tech | Not public at this time. |
Apitite | USA - Massachusetts | High Tech | Apitite: Create APIs for your data in minutes without writing a line of code. Apitite is like TurboTax for APIs. |
AquaFresco | USA - Massachusetts | Energy / Clean Tech | AquaFresco is developing the next generation close-loop laundry technology that regenerates 95% of wastewater. |
Artaic Health | USA - Massachusetts | Healthcare / Life Sciences | Not public at this time. |
AutismSees | USA - Massachusetts | Healthcare / Life Sciences | Not public at this time. |
Biorasis, Inc. | USA - Connecticut | Healthcare / Life Sciences | Not public at this time. |
BIOWATCH SA | Switzerland | General | BIOWATCH is offering a new authentication solution based on wrist vein recognition and provides an aternative solution to current methods. |
Blackburn Energy, LLC | USA - Massachusetts | Energy / Clean Tech | Blackburn Energy makes a power unit for long haul trucks that eliminates idle time saving $10K & 21 tons of CO2 per truck annually. |
Blue Therapeutics | USA - Massachusetts | Healthcare / Life Sciences | Blue Therapeutics is advancing a novel painkiller that is 50x more potent than morphine and completely non-addictive. |
BookaLokal Inc. | USA - New York | High Tech | BookaLokal is a marketplace for food & beverage experiences hosted by locals. With listings in 46 countries, we're like Airbnb for food. |
BovControl | Brazil | High Tech | Empowering livestock ranchers with reliable herd information that improves efficiency and boost profitability. |
Building Conversation | USA - Massachusetts | High Tech | View multiple architectural design options perfectly registered on site with complete AR mobility and freedom; walk around or in and out! |
Cabbige | USA - Massachusetts | High Tech | Cabbige is a business intelligence web application that helps small farms make more money. |
Camp Casco | USA - Massachusetts | General | Camp Casco provides a free weeklong summer camp for childhood cancer patients and survivors in MA! |
Canary | USA - Massachusetts | Healthcare / Life Sciences | Not public at this time. |
Cintell | USA - Massachusetts | High Tech | We want to create a customer-centric world. Cintell helps companies better understand their buyers and make more relevant decisions. |
CityTaps | France | Social Impact | Not public at this time. |
Clear Breath | USA - Massachusetts | Social Impact | Clear Breath is developing a low-cost respirator for the 2 billion people living in polluted environments worldwide. |
Clothbound | USA - Massachusetts | High Tech | Not public at this time. |
Cogentis Therapeutics | USA - Maryland | Healthcare / Life Sciences | Cogentis Therapeutics is working on a novel and potential disease-modifying peptide therapeutic for Alzheimer's, FTD, and Parkinson's. |
Collectable | USA - Massachusetts | General | Collectable is a social marketplace connecting collectors and online auction houses and retailers. |
danger!awesome | USA - Massachusetts | Social Impact | Not public at this time. |
Dash Electric | USA - Massachusetts | General | Dash is an affordable and lightweight electric longboard kit that can easily be mounted to any longboard. |
DealerScience | USA - Massachusetts | High Tech | DealerScience improves the dealership business process through intuitive, automated software that drives sales and increases productivity. |
Dock Technologies Inc | USA - Wisconsin | Healthcare / Life Sciences | Not public at this time. |
Dramatize | USA - California | General | Not public at this time. |
earlybird.io | USA - Massachusetts | Healthcare / Life Sciences | earlybird.io exploits finger interactions with personal electronics to generate a novel biometric signal to identify subtle motor decline. |
Easy Pairings | USA - New York | High Tech | Easy Pairings is changing the way restaurants find staff by making it faster and cheaper. |
Ecoflora Cares | Colombia | General | We developed the most stable natural blue color in the world, creating a new family of healthy natural colors for food industry. |
Encore Alert | USA - Virginia | High Tech | The right opportunities at just the right time to help marketers focus on what matters most. |
Energy Harvesters LLC | USA - New York | Energy / Clean Tech | Charge your mobile device batteries anytime anywhere from your own walking. EnergyHarvesters.com. Power generation from walking! |
eRated | Israel | High Tech | Not public at this time. |
Estrenon | Mexico | Social Impact | Estrenon enhances families' lives with a reuse clothing movement that breaks down barriers among social classes through used clothing stores. |
feelter | Israel | High Tech | Social content search, analysis & monetization widget for eCommerce websites, beta proven impact on conversion rates, user engagement & UX. |
Flying SpArk | Israel | General | Flying spark' is a Food-Tech company based in Israel, focused on finding new ways of utilizing insect protein in food products. |
Free Time Academy | Israel | Social Impact | Free Time Academy has developed a platform that enables the fast development of scalable DIY courses. |
Freight Frog | USA - Massachusetts | General | Freight Frog is tipping the moving industry on it's head, and moving it's clients to the 21st Century! |
Fuel Drop | USA - Massachusetts | General | Tired of wasting your time filling up your gas tank? Let Fuel Drop deliver gas straight to your car. |
Fuzzy Compass | USA - Massachusetts | High Tech | Not public at this time. |
Genesis Technologies | USA - Massachusetts | High Tech | Genesis Technologies is developing a next-generation device for gene synthesis, the process of turning digital text into physical DNA. |
Gesto | Portugal | High Tech | Gesto a startup company that sells world's first open-source kits for gesture recognition, motion patterns and muscle analysis. |
Goodwall | Switzerland | High Tech | Goodwall, the new social network for high-school students. The one place where you stand out, network, and present yourself to Universities. |
GradTrain | Israel | High Tech | Not public at this time. |
Healthy Roots | USA - Rhode Island | Social Impact | Healthy Roots is a toy company that creates dolls and storybooks that combat internalized racism and colorism among young black girls. |
HIVE Biosystems | USA - Massachusetts | Healthcare / Life Sciences | Not public at this time. |
Honeycomb Homes | USA - Massachusetts | Social Impact | Young adults aging-out of foster care are high-risk. Honeycomb Homes provides them agricultural apprenticeships leading to sustainable lives. |
Humanure Power | USA - Louisiana | Social Impact | Not public at this time. |
Hydroswarms | USA - Massachusetts | High Tech | Teams of small, autonomous, underwater robots + cheap sensors + modern mesh networks = a revolution in maritime commerce and security. |
Hyliion | USA - Massachusetts | Energy / Clean Tech | Hyliion is creating an add-on hybrid module for tractor trailers that will reduce fuel consumption upwards of 30%. |
Increment | USA - Rhode Island | Social Impact | At Increment, we develop playthings that encourage independence and exploration among all kids, regardless of age, ability, or gender. |
iRecover App | USA - Massachusetts | Social Impact | iRecoverApp is a mobile App for smartphone's that connects people in recovery from drugs & alcohol and their familes and friends. |
Irhal | United Arab Emirates | General | Irhal Arabic/English mobile app for Muslim travelers. Includes Halal restaurants, mosque locations, prayer timings for 90+ cities. |
Iron Goat | USA - Virginia | Energy / Clean Tech | Iron Goat - A better way to make hay. |
Ivory | USA - Massachusetts | General | Ivory is a music education app which listens to you play, providing real-time analytics, targeted lessons, and gamified elements. |
Kwiksulate | USA - Massachusetts | Energy / Clean Tech | Not public at this time. |
LaunchPad Medical | USA - Massachusetts | Healthcare / Life Sciences | Not public at this time. |
Launchpad Technologies Inc. | USA - New York | High Tech | Launchpad is a platform that enables people to live in a flexible month-to-month sublet room they can leave at any time. |
LearnLux | USA - Massachusetts | Social Impact | LearnLux helps Millennials learn personal finance skills through online learning tools while connecting them with financial institutions. |
Legatus | USA - Massachusetts | Social Impact | Not public at this time. |
Lodestone Biomedical | USA - Utah | Healthcare / Life Sciences | Lodestone Biomedical is developing the safest, easiest, most effective way to protect your child from the harmful effects of iron deficiency. |
Lumii | USA - Massachusetts | High Tech | Glasses-free 3D that works. Lumii light field displays: intuitive depth in the native format of your brain. |
LuminOva Inc. | USA - Massachusetts | Healthcare / Life Sciences | LuminOva is developing an optical fertility device to assess egg and embryo quality to improve success rates of in vitro fertilization. |
MagnebotiX | Switzerland | High Tech | DELICATE OBJECTS - GENTLE METHODS: MagnebotiX microrobotic systems for next generation crystallography with automated crystal harvesting. |
Makers Empire | Australia | Social Impact | Not public at this time. |
Meetcaregivers | USA - Massachusetts | Social Impact | Meetcaregivers enables more seniors to age at home by using online and video technology to connect them to qualified caregivers. |
MIFCOR Inc | USA - Connecticut | Healthcare / Life Sciences | MIFCOR is saving your heart when you have a heart attack. |
My Exit Strategy | USA - Massachusetts | High Tech | My Exit Strategy is an online tool that makes it easy to record and share all your end-of-life wishes. |
Navitome LLC | USA - Massachusetts | High Tech | Navitome lets your organization create interactive walk-through guides that make policies and procedures actionable no matter how complex they are. |
Nix | USA - Massachusetts | General | Nix is pioneering consumer diagnostics through its disposable biosensor platform. First solution: a real-time wearable hydration sensor. |
Obz Design | USA - Massachusetts | Healthcare / Life Sciences | Not public at this time. |
Onnuri DMC | Korea South | High Tech | We provide a marketing tool for advertisers to retarget mobile users who leave a website without purchasing. |
OpenLab | USA - Massachusetts | High Tech | OpenLab is building social tools and machine intelligence to accelerate scientific discovery within research groups. |
Orange Photonics | USA - New Hampshire | General | The Orange Photonics LightLab: An affordable marijuana potency analyzer. An essential tool for the $10 billion legal marijuana industry. |
OrderLynk | USA - Massachusetts | High Tech | Not public at this time. |
Pavlok - Wear Your Willpower | USA - Massachusetts | High Tech | Current fitness bands track the steps you take---but they don't change your behavior. Pavlok CHANGES behavior-and measurably forms habits. |
PB&B | Switzerland | Healthcare / Life Sciences | We make your own cells cover wrinkles and signs of aging. |
PianoArc | USA - Massachusetts | General | PianoArc is reshaping the musical keyboard for a new era of performance tools - starting with a circular piano. |
PMS Bites | USA - Massachusetts | General | A boston-based, woman-led food startup conquered kickstarter: PMS Bites vegan glutenfree paleo #hocolate desserts for women! |
Poly6 Biotechnologies | USA - Massachusetts | Healthcare / Life Sciences | Poly6 Biotechnologies develops synthetic, bioresorbable polymers for drug delivery, anti-adhesions and tissue regeneration. |
PopUp Childcare | USA - Massachusetts | General | PopUp Childcare provides professional drop-in child care onsite at movie theaters, restaurants, sporting events and more. |
PracticeGigs | USA - Massachusetts | High Tech | A mobile peer-to-peer learning marketplace that allows anyone to reach his full potential by connecting him with awesome practice sessions. |
Prattle Analytics | USA - Missouri | High Tech | Prattle Analytics - Provider of the first unbiased, comprehensive, quantitative data of central bank sentiment. |
PSM Energy | USA - Massachusetts | Energy / Clean Tech | PSM Energy: The full service online investment platform. Now you can invest in #solar energy projects that are both simple and profitable. |
Quickhelp | USA - Massachusetts | Social Impact | Not public at this time. |
Quiro | Venezuela | Healthcare / Life Sciences | Quiro is a minimally-invasive surgery simulation mobile game that replaces prohibitively expensive hardware in med schools worldwide. |
Quitbit | USA - Rhode Island | High Tech | Not public at this time. |
Reactive Studios | USA - Massachusetts | General | Audio games you play with your voice. Eyes free. Hands free. EarPlay. |
Real Food Solutions | USA - Massachusetts | General | Feeling queasy? Anchor yourself w/Anchor Bar - the safe non-drug nutrition bar to prevent & ease nausea from motion sickness & other causes. |
Recon Therapeutics | USA - Massachusetts | Healthcare / Life Sciences | Not public at this time. |
Resilient Coders | USA - Massachusetts | Social Impact | Not public at this time. |
Response Technologies, LLC | USA - Rhode Island | General | Response Technologies Breakthrough Proprietary Technololgy for $50B Flexible Vessel Market. |
ReThink Pharmaceuticals | Israel | Healthcare / Life Sciences | Not public at this time. |
Revision Ventures | USA - New York | Social Impact | Revision Ventures harnesses the digital talents of low-income youth to drive small business growth online. Creating resilient communities. |
RubyRide | USA - Arizona | General | RubyRide Subscription car service. Save time, save money, reduce stress, save the planet. Pay per month, not per trip. Simple Freedom. |
Savanna | USA - Massachusetts | General | Savanna connects customers to barbers for in-home & in-office haircuts saving customers time and hassle, while freeing barbers from shops. |
Scheduling AD | USA - Massachusetts | High Tech | Not public at this time. |
Sevamob | USA - Georgia | Healthcare / Life Sciences | Fundamentally transforming primary healthcare via mobile clinics and a tele-health marketplace. |
SidelineSwap | USA - New York | High Tech | SidelineSwap is a marketplace where people connect to buy, sell, and trade sporting goods. |
Six Foods | USA - Massachusetts | Social Impact | Six Foods is normalizing insects as a sustainable food. Try Chirps, a cricket chip that has more protein per serving than an egg! |
SolarRoute | Nicaragua | Social Impact | Why is energy poverty still a problem that plagues 2.5bn? The distribution gap. SolarRoute provides affordable tech to households in need. |
Sourcewater | USA - Massachusetts | Energy / Clean Tech | Sourcewater.com is the water exchange for the energy ecosystem. |
Splitzee | USA - Massachusetts | High Tech | Splitzee is painless team money management. Teammates chip in with credit cards, we track & remind so you get paid back faster. |
Spoiler Alert | USA - Massachusetts | Social Impact | Spoiler Alert is a B2B foodtech solution to help businesses manage surplus food & organic waste, improve margins, and fight food insecurity. |
SpotLight Parking | USA - Massachusetts | General | SpotLight Parking is the consumer-facing mobile application for valet parking across the nation. Simply #FindReserveRelax. |
StreetScan | USA - Massachusetts | General | Inspect all your urban roads more frequently with StreetScan's fast and affordable multi-sensor scanning technology. |
SuperHealos | USA - Massachusetts | Social Impact | SuperHealos is a social enterprise dedicated to empowering kids facing life's toughest challenges. |
SybilSecurity | USA - Massachusetts | High Tech | SybilSecurity. Share more. More widely. More privately. With algorithmic assurance. |
TeachersConnect | USA - Massachusetts | Social Impact | TeachersConnect is a support network that creates an enduring relationship between teacher prep programs and their new-teacher alumni. |
The Red Button | Israel | Social Impact | Not public at this time. |
Think Board | USA - Massachusetts | General | Like to think differently? Keep your thoughts organized here! @thethinkboard is a clear film that turns any surface into a dry erase board! |
ToneTree, Inc. | USA - New York | High Tech | Music is our passion. We want to inspire creativity in our customers with a fresh new take on what an instrument can be. |
Traumedex | USA - Georgia | Healthcare / Life Sciences | We create wearable hemorrhage control systems that save lives. |
Tuten | Chile | High Tech | Tuten is the leading on-demand web and mobile platform for household services in LATAM. Guaranteed best-in-class service and execution |
TVision Insights | USA - Massachusetts | General | At TVision Insights, we leverage state of art computer vision technology to redefine TV rating for new generation TV. |
Union Capital Boston | USA - Massachusetts | Social Impact | Union Capital Boston is a rewards program that incentivizes involvement in low-income communities. Participants get a leg-up by giving back! |
Unshrinkit | USA - Massachusetts | General | Finally, the emergency sweater saver is here. Unshrinkit helps unshrink wool clothing that accidentally shrunk in the washer or dryer. |
uSound | Argentina | Healthcare / Life Sciences | uSound enables low-cost social integration for the hearing impaired by turning a smartphone into an advanced, augmented, digital hearing aid. |
Vendedy | USA - New York | Social Impact | Vendedy is the "Etsy meets Ebay" for street vendors.Consumers can now bid on items uploaded onto mobile networks from remote street markets. |
Virtudent | USA - Massachusetts | Healthcare / Life Sciences | Not public at this time. |
Water Hero | USA - Massachusetts | High Tech | Plumbing catastrophe avoidance for everyone. Stops pipe bursts & small costly plumbing leaks. SmartPhone controlled & easy to install. |
wecourses | Mexico | Social Impact | Innovative learning environment with multimedia content and activities in an online platform, created to improve the quality of education. |
World Tech Makers | Colombia | Social Impact | Not public at this time. |
XactSense | USA - Rhode Island | General | XactSense builds LIDAR scanning UAVs for the $270B geospatial industry our scanning robots make the next generation of 3D maps in minutes. |