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The Company That Makes Metal Without Melting It
A Cambridge startup spun out of MIT skips the furnace entirely - smashing metal powders together instead of melting them - and says the result is a molybdenum alloy three times stronger than what the market sells today.
The Surgeons Who Taught Software to Argue With Insurance Companies
Prior authorization is the paperwork chokepoint that delays surgeries and burns out staff. ClinicalBox built an AI that does the arguing - reading the chart, matching the policy, and building the case in about a minute.
The Climate Fund Built to Back What Venture Capital Leaves Behind
Azolla Ventures uses philanthropic risk tolerance and venture discipline to finance climate technologies that ordinary funds may pass over. Its wager is that the hardest science can become a large business - if someone funds the awkward first miles.
Liquid AI
Liquid AI is an MIT CSAIL spinout building Liquid Foundation Models (LFMs), a family of general-purpose AI models engineered to run fast and privately on-device - phones, laptops, wearables, and cars - instead of relying on the cloud. Rooted in the founders' 'liquid neural network' research inspired by the nervous system of a roundworm, the company pairs a first-principles model architecture with LEAP, a developer platform that deploys models into mobile apps in a few lines of code, and Apollo, a fully local AI chat app. It raised a $250M Series A led by AMD in December 2024 at a roughly $2.35B valuation.
Akkio
Akkio is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based AI company that builds an AI-native platform for media agencies and data providers. It lets non-technical teams chat with their data, build no-code predictive models, segment audiences, simulate media plans, and generate campaign reports in minutes rather than weeks. Founded in 2019, Akkio started as a no-code machine learning tool for small businesses and has since refocused on automating the full campaign workflow for the advertising and media industry, with customers including Horizon Media, Havas, and LG Ad Solutions.