In just under two months the city's hottest influencers, innovators and game-changers will convene for the fourth annual 50 on Fire, an awards event like no other.
Today, we have your first look at the hot 200 finalists!
Curating the list wasn't easy; over the past few weeks we've received thousands of nominations highlighting companies and individuals who are disrupting their industries and making an impact in Boston and beyond.
These 200 finalists truly embody what it means to be "on fire". Join us in celebrating them at 50 on Fire on December 3rd. Early bird tickets are on sale now while they last!
Here are your 200 finalists heating things up in 2015:
Civic (Smart City) Finalists:
ArtWeek Boston
ArtLifting
Bigbelly
Boston Public Market
Bridj
Brittany McDonough, Massachusetts Office of International Trade and Investment
Federal Realty, Assembly Row
Green City Growers
Jascha Franklin-Hodge, City of Boston
Kara O'Connor Miller, City of Boston's Women Entrepreneurs Boston
National Development, Ink Block
Next Step Living
OpportunitySpace
Sam Hammar, MassIT, Office of the Commonwealth
Scott Bailey, MassChallenge
SPOT
TUGG
Design Finalists:
Arrowstreet
Blank Label
Converse
CBT Architects
Crayon
Descience
Formlabs
Fresh Tilled Soil
LovePop Cards
Mark Reed and Stephanie Goldberg, Lab / Life. Science. Architecture, Inc.
Marquis
MCGARRY&sons
Merge Architects
Onshape
Pilot
Raizlabs
Rose Kennedy Greenway
Utile
Dining & Retail Finalists:
Adam Wimes
BevSpot
Downeast Cider
Drizly
DRINKmaple
ezCater
Food Truck Festivals of America
Freight Farms
Greycork
Jeff Gabel, Kitchen Kibitz
LeanBox
M.Gemi
MiniLux
Paint Nite
Project Repat
Swirl
Toast
Tracksmith
Education Finalists:
Accelerate, Wentworth Institute of Technology
Boundless (a Valore company)
Cengage Learning
CampusTap
EverTrue
Flywire
Harvard Business Review
The Harvard iLab
Heidi Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kerry Healey, Babson College
Ned Sahin, Brain Power
Panorama
Society of Grownups
Startup Institute
TetraScience
Thought Industries
Tracey Dodenhoff, Center for Research Innovation, Northeastern University
Youth Venture, United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley
Healthcare & Medicine Finalists:
ACT.md
Admetsys
Akili Interactive Labs
American Well
Blueprint Medicines
Cris De Luca, Johnson & Johnson Innovation
Convergent Dental
Intarcia
Jim Dougherty, Madaket
Julie Yoo, Kyruus
Kevin Hrusovsky, Quanterix
Maxwell Health
MC10
Medisafe
meQuilibrium
Moderna Therapeutics
Myomo
Ovuline
PillPack
Seniorlink
Investment Finalists:
Accomplice
Atlas Venture
Bain Capital Ventures
Ben Einstein, Bolt
Charles River Ventures
David Chang
Diane Hessan
Founder Collective
G20 Ventures
General Catalyst Partners
Hub Angels
Jason Robins
Matrix Partners
NextView Ventures
OpenView Venture Partners
Pat Kinsel, Polaris Partners
Peter Blacklow, Boston Seed Capital
Ryan Moore, Accomplice
Shereen Shermak, Good Growth Capital
TJ Mahony, BOSS Syndicates
Wayne Chang
Marketing & Advertising Finalists:
AdAgility
Almighty
Ann Raider, InStream
Breakaway
Brand Networks
ChoiceStream
clypd
DataXu
Grapevine
Jay Acunzo, NextView
Jessica Meher, HubSpot
Justin Cook, C-4 Analytics
Khari Streeter, Hill Holliday
Klaviyo
MAVRCK
MedTouch
Nancy Harhut, Wilde Agency
Nanigans
Nara Logics
Seismic
SessionM
Pixability
Verndale
Wistia
Professional Services Finalists:
Al Browne, Cooley LLP
Buildium
Christine Perkett, SeeDepth Inc.
EverQuote
Founders Workbench
Gradifi
Help Scout
HourlyNerd
Jeremy Grossman, CBRE/Grossman Retail Advisors
KLR Accounting
Megan Driscoll, PharmaLogics Recruiting
Nancy Cremins & Lynne Zagami Riquelme, Gesmer
Needham & Company, LLC
Sandy Kreis, Drafted
Steve Snyder, Gesmer
Treeline, Inc.
Workable
Sports & Fitness Finalists:
Ben Rawitz, Tom Brady's business manager
Chad Flahive, Public Body
CoachUp
DraftKings
Dustin Martin, Barry's Bootcamp
Eliza Shirazi, Kick it by Eliza
Fancred
Gameface Media
InnerCity Weightlifting
Joe De Sena, Spartan Race
Julian Edelman, Superdigital
Michael McCann
Pavlok
Reebok
Wellcoin
WHOOP
WOO Sports
Zagster
Technology Finalists:
Acquia
Apperian
AppNeta
Bit9 + Carbon Black
CarGurus
CloudHealth
Corey Thomas, Rapid7
CyberArk
Cybereason
DataGravity
Helen Greiner, CyPhy Works
Deep Information Sciences
Ecovent Systems
Fred Shilmover, InsightSquared
Harmonix Music Systems
Infinidat
Jana
Jibo
Kevin Flynn, Franco Ludiciani and Giuseppe Stuto, Smack High
Localytics
LogMeIn
Placester
Rethink Robotics
Salsify
Semyon Dukach and Ty Danco, TechStars Boston
SimpliVity
ThinkingPhones
VMTurbo
