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The Patch That Learned to Leave the Arm
A runner’s frustration with humid training became a sweat sensor for athletes and teams. Now Nix Biosensors is betting that the knowledge gathered by its patch can travel farther than the patch itself.
The Bose Engineers Who Refused to Let Sleepbuds Die
Bose discontinued its beloved Sleepbuds in 2020. Three of the engineers who built them bought the idea back, raised roughly $28M, and rebuilt it as a sleep-data company hiding inside a pair of earbuds.
DemandScience
The Boston company turns 247 million professional profiles and a web of intent signals into something B2B marketers pay for by the qualified lead - and largely pay only when the lead fits the spec.
Gravyty
The Boston company teaching universities and nonprofits how to raise more money with less busywork - by handing fundraisers an AI that writes the first draft.
Appcues
The no-code platform that turned software onboarding into a discipline - and gave 'product-led growth' its name.
apiphani
apiphani is a Boston-based, AI-native managed services company that keeps mission-critical enterprise applications - especially complex SAP and Oracle environments - running without downtime. Instead of the labor-arbitrage model used by large global systems integrators, apiphani pairs small teams of senior engineers with its proprietary observability platform, luumen, and its Deep Automation technology to detect and resolve issues before users notice them. Founded in 2018 and led by CEO Justin Folkers, the company reports 100% production uptime across its clients for more than two years and raised a $25M Series A led by Insight Partners in October 2025.
7AI
7AI is a Boston-based cybersecurity company building an agentic security platform that deploys autonomous, reasoning-based AI agents to take over the repetitive investigation work that overwhelms security operations centers. Founded in 2024 by Cybereason co-founders Lior Div and Yonatan Striem-Amit, the company ingests alerts from a customer's existing security tools, triages and investigates them at machine speed, and surfaces only real threats with full context and recommended actions - cutting mean time to respond from hours to minutes and eliminating the bulk of false positives. In December 2025 it raised a $130M Series A, described as the largest cybersecurity Series A on record.
AcuityMD
AcuityMD is a Boston-based commercial intelligence platform built specifically for the medical device (MedTech) industry. It translates large volumes of healthcare claims and procedure data into intuitive workflows, AI-powered insights, and recommendations that help medical device sales and marketing teams find high-value physicians and care sites, size and segment markets, manage territories, and accelerate product adoption. Founded in 2019 by former MedTech and consulting operators, the company serves hundreds of device makers - including a majority of the largest MedTech firms - and raised an $80M Series C in 2026 at a near-$1B valuation.
Apptopia
Apptopia is a Boston-based mobile app intelligence company that turns billions of app performance signals into investor-grade data. Using machine learning and a real-user device panel of 15M+ devices, it estimates downloads, revenue, usage and engagement across thousands of public and private apps, then packages those signals for institutional investors, brands and publishers. More than 200 financial firms use Apptopia to read consumer behavior ahead of earnings, and its metrics are distributed through the Bloomberg Terminal.
Bento
Bento is a Boston-based dental benefits technology company that replaces traditional dental insurance with a transparent, self-funded model. Its patented, AI-powered platform connects employers, associations, dentists and DSOs with real-time claims adjudication, customizable plan design and in-office membership plans. The only dental benefits solution endorsed by the American Dental Association, Bento says it can cut employer dental costs by 20-40% while giving members access to hundreds of thousands of provider access points nationwide.
BondLink
BondLink is a Boston-based financial technology company that builds cloud software for issuers in the roughly $4 trillion U.S. municipal bond market. Founded in 2015 by former Massachusetts debt manager Colin MacNaught and tech entrepreneur Carl Query, BondLink gives state and local governments, universities, hospitals and public utilities tools for investor relations websites, disclosure and compliance filing, deal marketing, investor outreach and debt-portfolio management - modernizing a historically opaque, paper-heavy corner of finance. Its platform has supported issuers in raising more than $70 billion in bonds, counts the State of California, City of Chicago and University of Texas among its clients, and is backed by Franklin Templeton and Intercontinental Exchange (parent of the NYSE).
Canvas Envision
Canvas Envision (Canvas GFX) is a Boston-based enterprise software company that turns 3D CAD data, documents and video into interactive, model-based digital work instructions for frontline manufacturing workers. Its cloud platform serves as the visual execution layer of the digital thread, connecting engineering systems (PLM, MES) to the factory floor so assembly, maintenance and repair teams get accurate, up-to-date guidance instead of outdated PDFs and tribal knowledge. Building on 40 years of Canvas graphics heritage, the company serves aerospace, defense, automotive, medical device and industrial machinery manufacturers.
Catena Labs
Catena Labs is a Boston-based fintech building what it calls the first AI-native financial institution - a regulated bank and governance platform designed for AI agents that autonomously send and receive money. Founded in 2025 by Circle co-founder and USDC co-creator Sean Neville, Catena pairs agent identity, deterministic spending policies, and audit trails with account management and stablecoin, card, ACH and wire payment rails. It also open-sourced the Agent Commerce Kit (ACK), a set of protocols for agent identity and payments built on W3C web standards.
Compt
Compt is a Boston-based HR software company that runs flexible employee stipends and Lifestyle Spending Accounts (LSAs) for employers. Instead of one-size-fits-all perks, employees choose how to spend an allowance across categories like wellness, professional development, childcare, home office and pet care; they submit a receipt and get reimbursed through payroll with the correct tax treatment applied automatically. Founded in 2018 by Amy Spurling, the reimbursement-based platform emphasizes IRS-compliant tax handling, high participation, and low administrative overhead, and operates across all 50 U.S. states and 75+ countries.
Dalia
Dalia is a Boston-based candidate conversion platform that helps employers turn lost career-site traffic into qualified applicants and hires. Its automated software captures job seekers who visit but don't apply, then re-engages them through personalized SMS and email job remarketing. Founded in 2019 by Sam Fitzroy and Jason Whitman, Dalia is used by mid-market and enterprise employers including Compass Group, Ryder, Baptist Health South Florida, and Cleveland Clinic to increase applicant conversion and lower cost-per-hire.
Eyebot
Eyebot builds contactless, self-serve AI vision-testing kiosks that deliver a doctor-verified eyeglass prescription in about 90 seconds - no appointment, insurance, or optometrist visit required. Placed in malls, pharmacies, and retail vision centers, the roughly five-foot kiosks measure refraction with touch-free infrared technology while licensed tele-doctors review and approve each prescription. Founded in Boston in 2021 by optics engineer Matthias Hofmann, the company aims to make vision care as easy as buying shoes, and has raised roughly $29.6M including a $20M Series A led by General Catalyst.
HelloTeam
HelloTeam is a Boston-based HR technology company that builds an all-in-one employee engagement and performance management platform aimed at improving employee retention. Founded in 2016 by Tanya Bakalov, the software combines performance reviews, goals and OKRs, recognition and rewards, surveys, learning, a dynamic org chart, and people analytics into a single system so managers and HR teams can keep employees connected, engaged, and productive.
Hi Marley
Hi Marley is a Boston-based insurtech that builds an intelligent conversational platform for property and casualty insurance, powered by SMS text messaging. It lets carriers, policyholders, agents and service providers communicate over a single, familiar text thread during claims and service moments, layering in AI features such as sentiment analysis, real-time translation, coaching insights and workflow automation. Founded in 2017 by insurance-industry veterans, the company works with 130-plus carriers, including several of the largest US insurers, aiming to make insurance communication simpler and to reduce call volume and claims cycle times.
HqO
HqO is a Boston-based property-technology company that builds a real estate experience (REX) software platform for commercial landlords and their tenants. Its platform combines a tenant app, an analytics and intelligence suite, a partner marketplace, and building-operations tools so office owners can measure and improve how people experience their buildings. Founded in 2018, HqO powers hundreds of properties and hundreds of millions of square feet across dozens of countries, and works with major landlords including Hines, Vornado, JLL, JP Morgan and Alexandria Real Estate Equities.
Lambent
Lambent is a Boston-based B2B software company that turns existing Wi-Fi and sensor data into anonymous, predictive occupancy and space-utilization analytics. Its SaaS platform, Lambent Spaces, helps space planners at colleges, universities and corporate campuses understand how buildings are actually used - without installing new hardware or tracking individuals - so they can make data-driven decisions about renovations, capacity, energy use and real estate. Founded in 2017 as Armored Things and rebranded to Lambent in 2022, the company works with customers including the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and partners such as Siemens, Planon and HPE Aruba Networks.
LineVision
LineVision is a Boston-based grid intelligence company that helps electric utilities get more capacity, reliability, and safety out of existing transmission lines. Its patented non-contact sensors mount on transmission towers - not the live wires - and pair LiDAR-based measurements of conductor position with AI-driven, hyperlocal wind forecasting and computational fluid dynamics to calculate a line's real-time thermal capacity. Through its Dynamic Line Rating, situational awareness, and asset-health products, LineVision typically unlocks 30%+ additional capacity on monitored lines at a fraction of the cost and time of building new transmission, supporting faster renewable integration and a more resilient grid.
Maven AGI
Maven AGI is a Boston-based enterprise AI company building autonomous AI agents for customer experience. Founded in 2023 by former HubSpot, Google and Stripe leaders, its platform resolves up to 93% of customer support queries across chat, email, voice and web by understanding intent, reasoning through complex scenarios and taking secure, multi-step actions across a company's existing systems. Maven positions itself as an intelligence layer that unifies enterprise data, AI models and human teams, and counts Tripadvisor, ClickUp, Rho and HubSpot among its 50+ enterprise customers.
MediaGlobe
MediaGlobe is a Boston-based paid media company that gives online businesses access to enterprise-grade, whitelisted agency ad accounts on TikTok, Facebook and Meta - alongside media-buying tools, consulting and dedicated account management. Founded in 2020 by CEO Jake Vadeboncoeur, the company positions itself as a strategic partner that helps eCommerce, affiliate, lead-gen and info-education brands scale ad spend without the bans, spend caps and throttling common to standard consumer ad accounts.
Monitaur
Monitaur is a Boston-based B2B software company that builds an AI governance platform for highly regulated industries, most notably insurance and financial services. Its 'policy-to-proof' approach helps enterprises define AI policies, inventory and manage models, and automatically generate the evidence, monitoring, and audit trails that businesses, regulators, and consumers need to trust high-impact AI. Founded in 2019 by Anthony Habayeb, Andrew Clark, and Michael Herman, the company raised a $6M Series A in 2024 and has been recognized by Forrester as a Customer Favorite in AI governance.
Neurable
Neurable is a Boston-based neurotechnology company building non-invasive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that fit inside everyday consumer hardware. Its AI cleans and interprets EEG brain signals captured by soft sensors embedded in products like the MW75 Neuro headphones, translating brain activity into real-time measures of focus, mental fatigue and cognitive recovery. Spun out of University of Michigan research, Neurable aims to make understanding your own brain as natural as checking your step count - starting with headphones and expanding into gaming and enterprise wearables.
NewStore
NewStore is a Boston-based retail technology company that gives brands a mobile-first, cloud platform to run their physical stores. Its modular Omnichannel-as-a-Service bundles an order management system, iPhone-based point of sale, inventory, store fulfillment, clienteling, and native consumer apps into one system, letting store associates check out shoppers, look up inventory, and fulfill online orders from a single device. Founded in 2015 by e-commerce pioneer Stephan Schambach, NewStore serves brands such as Burton, Marine Layer, Vince, Clarks, and G-Star Raw across more than 40 countries.
OnRamp
OnRamp is a Boston-based B2B software company that builds a customer onboarding and engagement platform. Founded in 2020 by Paul Holder and Ross Lerner, it uses agentic AI, guided workflows, and a self-serve customer portal to help post-sales teams automate onboarding, accelerate time-to-value, and turn onboarding into a revenue driver. Customers including Qualia, AGS Health, and three Fortune 15 companies have reported onboarding-time reductions of up to 70%.
Placester
Placester is a Boston-based real estate technology company that gives agents, teams and brokerages a no-code way to build IDX-ready websites and run their marketing. Founded in 2011 by former agent Matt Barba and technologist Frederick Townes, it pairs drag-and-drop website building with MLS/IDX listing search, a built-in CRM, and email automation. After raising roughly $100M-plus in venture funding and acquiring RealSatisfied, Barba and a group of investors bought the company back from its VCs in 2020 to refocus on its core product and customers. Placester says its tools have served on the order of 400,000 real estate professionals.
Proof Authentication
Proof Authentication is a Boston-based technology company that builds anti-counterfeiting and brand-protection solutions for large consumer brands. Its patented approach pairs a non-duplicatable printed mark with a custom smartphone app, letting consumers verify a product's authenticity in seconds while giving brands real-time data to enforce against counterfeits. Formed in 2021 to acquire the DSS Digital division of Document Security Systems, the company is led by CEO Dan McKinnon, former Head of Global Brand Protection at New Balance, and serves Fortune 500 companies.
Realtime Robotics, Inc.
Realtime Robotics is a Boston-based deep-tech company that gives industrial and collaborative robots the ability to plan collision-free motion in real time. Spun out of DARPA-funded research at Duke University in 2016, its RapidPlan software and RapidSense perception system let robots generate and adjust their own paths in microseconds, cutting the time and cost of programming, deploying, and coordinating multiple robots in a shared workspace. Its technology is used by manufacturers including the BMW Group, and the company is backed by strategic investors such as Mitsubishi Electric, HAHN Automation, and SAIC Capital.