Benchling is building a verticalized software platform for biotechnology research. Founded by Sajith Wickramasekara after he dropped out of MIT in 2012, he was soon joined by Ashu Singhal to help unlock the power of biotechnology and accelerate the pace of life science R&D to build the “GitHub of biotech”. Admittedly, Benchling is San Francisco headquartered but they have a significant Boston base and founding story so…we’re gonna allow it!
PredictionStrike is a simulated stock market that allows users to invest in “stock” of their favorite professional athletes. Founded in 2018 by childhood friends Brad Chabra & Deven Hurt, they had an idea, got to work, and the rest is history right? Well, not exactly.
Scroobious is a software platform building tools to help more underrepresented founders get funded. In 2022, only ~2% of the $241B raised in venture capital investment went to female founded startups (Pitchbook). In MA, that number was 0.9%.. The numbers for underrepresented founders overall aren’t much better.
UptimeHealth is a software platform that predicts and simplifies medical device repair, purchase, and service events. Founded in 2018 by Bill Olsen & Jinesh Patel, this team is on a mission to become the trusted source for automating care of the equipment that takes care of us.
Klaviyo is a marketing automation platform that helps companies drive revenue through e-mail, SMS, Mobile push, and more. Klaviyo founders Andrew Bialecki & Ed Hallen met at Applied Predictive Technologies outside of D.C. Next, Andrew moved back to Boston where he joined Performable, David Cancel’s startup that was later acquired by HubSpot.
Propify is “Plaid for commercial real estate”, building unified API software for property managers and property technology companies. Founded in 2022 by Ben Keller, Nickolas Johnson & Remen Okoruwa, this early stage team graduated from Y Combinator’s Winter 2023 class on a mission to create the easiest way to integrate in Proptech.
Posh AI is a “conversational AI software company” focused on financial services companies, bringing better digital banking experiences to every financial institution. Founded in 2018 by Karan Kashyap & Matt McEachern out of MIT’s AI lab, Posh is transforming how financial services companies connect with their customers and automate contact center workflow.
Akooda is the world’s first Operations Intelligence software, leveraging AI, to help large organizations figure out what the heck is going on internally with their operations. Yuval (Goncho) Gonczarowski was a former Apple Prototype Engineer and McKinsey consultant who saw the struggles large scale organizations encounter up close.
Notable Systems is applying AI to a universal data extraction platform on a mission to liberate human potential with automated document processing. Created by industry veterans Steve Johnson (CEO), John Huggins (President), and David Lippke (CTO) this is a story about getting the band back together.
Neural Magic helps organizations deliver AI through software rather than expensive and inefficient hardware like GPUs. MIT Professor Nir Shavit and his PHD student Alex Matveev were doing deep learning research at an MIT Lab in 2016 but didn’t have access to the same high powered hardware resources their corporate counterparts had to do traditional neural network computer science research.
