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Ideaflow
Ideaflow is a Palo Alto-based AI company building an 'intelligence amplification' layer for knowledge work. Its flagship product is a notebook that augments your thinking as you type, letting people capture and stitch together fragments of information. The company has since expanded into team knowledge tools - Base, which surfaces context from Slack, meetings, and documents, and meeting intelligence - aiming to become an organization's collective memory. Founded around 2015 by MIT Media Lab designer Jacob Cole and Etherpad/Meteor veteran David Greenspan, it has raised roughly $11M in seed funding from First Round Capital, 8VC, StartX, Naval Ravikant, and Tim Draper.
Soofa
Soofa builds solar-powered, network-connected digital signs that turn ordinary street corners into two-way community bulletin boards. Spun out of the MIT Media Lab in 2014, the women-founded company started with a phone-charging park bench and grew into a network of zero-carbon kiosks that broadcast hyperlocal news, transit updates, and events while giving advertisers and cities measurable pedestrian data - smart, social, and sustainable street furniture for the modern city.
Tesseract
Tesseract (Jio Tesseract) is an MIT Media Lab spin-off and Jio Platforms/Reliance Industries subsidiary building India's mixed reality stack: consumer devices like the JioDive VR headset (Rs 1,299), JioGlass smart glasses, and JioFrames AI glasses, plus enterprise XR platforms for training and remote assistance. Founded in 2015 by Kshitij Marwah, acquired 92.7% by Reliance in May 2019, it calls itself India's biggest XR and AI company, reaching 50+ million consumers and 50+ enterprise clients.
Wise Systems, Inc.
Wise Systems is a Cambridge, Massachusetts software company that uses machine learning to plan, dispatch, and continuously re-optimize last-mile delivery routes in real time. Spun out of the MIT Media Lab in 2014, its AI-driven platform helps fleets run more efficient, more predictable deliveries for enterprises including Anheuser-Busch and Lyft. The company raised $50M in Series C funding in 2021, bringing total funding to roughly $73M.
Sourcemap: the Supply Chain Mapping Company
Sourcemap is a New York-based enterprise SaaS company that maps global supply chains down to the raw-material origin. Born as a research project at the MIT Media Lab, it gives compliance and sourcing teams end-to-end, verified visibility across multi-tier supplier networks - helping Global 1000 brands meet forced-labor, deforestation, tariff and ESG regulations while reducing disruption risk.