Circle is a late stage web3 startup determined to build a new internet financial system. Their flagship product is a digital dollar stablecoin – USDC (USD Coin) and EURC (Euro Coin). They are, in their words, “one of the first digital asset-native commercial financial institutions built on public blockchain ecosystems and decentralized finance protocols”.
Duckbill is a personal assistant for everyone, combining a consumer AI driven software platform with real life expert humans in the loop, delivering a direct to consumer execution engine to help manage your daily life. This team is leveraging AI to bring personal assistants to working adults and alleviate some of the stress that comes with balancing a busy career and life.
Verve Motion is building an industrial wearables robotics & software platform for hardworking humans.
Founded out of Harvard’s Biodesign Lab in 2020 by Ignacio Galiana, Conor Walsh, Mike Rouleau, and Nathalie Degenhardt this team has been working on the research that ultimately became the commercial startup Verve Motion for over a decade. With initial funding for military use cases (via DARPA) and continued research grants from organizations like the National Institute of Health and National Science Foundation, research has been commercialized for an industrial use case to help make humans stronger & less fatigued.
Centaur Labs is the leading healthcare data annotation platform — helping AI developers build, monitor, and validate their models at scale. Centaur leverages a community of 58K+ healthcare experts and performance-based incentives, to drive fast and accurate annotations across multiple data types (text, 2D/3D imaging, video, audio, waveform, etc.).
Vizit is the world’s leading content effectiveness platform, enabling digital leaders, designers, and marketers around the world to view and optimize their digital content through their audience’s eyes in real time. Powered by patented intuitive AI technology, Vizit provides an easy to use software platform that helps teams deliver breakthrough digital content that stands out, delights customers, and sells more products, delivering the essential infrastructure to achieve content excellence at scale. Vizit is relied upon by the world’s most iconic brands, retailers, and agencies in over 15 countries, including Mars, L’Oreal, Unilever, Colgate Palmolive, and Harley-Davidson.
Tomorrow.io is a “weather intelligence and climate adaptation” software platform for enterprises and governments. This team is on a mission to build the world’s first commercial weather radar satellite constellation to bring real time weather forecasting to the entire globe. A weather service, in a box.
Boswell is building software at the intersection of healthcare & social services to drive better outcomes for the healthcare system and our most at-risk patient population. This is a story about a relay race and flipping the script to get to the heart of some of America’s biggest systemic inefficiencies.
Osmo is building a first-of-its-kind technology to digitize smell. If you could capture scent in the same type of way that you might take a photograph, what would you do? Would you capture the smell of your pet? Significant other? Your favorite hike? The time of autumn when all the leaves start to fall and they crumple under your footsteps for just an instant? Osmo is tackling a solution to a challenging question: if you could capture and define smell, then play it back, what are the applications?
BlueTrace is building software to empower seafood distributors and producers, helping these underserved businesses simplify their operations and comply with increasingly complex regulations while growing their bottom line. If they do that well, the outcome is fresher, better, and safer seafood on consumer’s plates. This Seed stage startup works closely with local shellfish farmers and seafood distributors (of all kinds) to bring them technology solutions & supply chain transparency in order to meet rising regulations and increased consumer demands. They do it all through a mobile, easy to use, automated traceability system.
Merlin is building an integrated hardware and software solution, the Merlin Pilot, to create an advanced automation system for aircraft. They are the leading developer of certified autonomy for aircraft, with technical capabilities that allow it to assist and augment existing pilots in flight. Merlin is not only primed for takeoff, the Merlin Pilot is already flying with 500+ systems-on missions completed to date.
