Featured Startups

EmpleoListo(Siddhartha Goyal, Fellow 2010)

EmpleoListo is Latin America’s premier marketplace for jobs. The service enables companies to hire better candidates, faster for less. EmpleoListo’s disruptive platform leverages the ubiquity of mobile phones to connect employers with workers that may lack consistent access to the Internet. The management team consists of software, marketing, labor policy and start-up experts with graduate degrees from MIT and Harvard. EmpleoListo is a wholly-owned subsidiary of United States based Assured Labor, Inc.

Streetwise Media (Pinyadda & BostInnovation) (Chase Garbarino, Fellow 2010)

B saves users from news overload and makes it easy to get the information that they want. Pinyadda acts like a personal assistant for web content, constantly gathering and organizing items in real time from a user’s Personalized Information Network, their “PIN”, of sites and people they trust for different topics of information. By combining the information seeking user behavior and information delivery of a search engine with the user data and interaction of a social network, Pinyadda is positioned to be leader in providing people with a more targeted, personalized and efficient information seeking experience online.

Retroficiency (Bennett Fisher, Fellow 2010)

Over $250B is spent annually on energy for US commercial buildings — 18% of the nation’s footprint. Each year, auditors and consultants are hired to develop recommendations to reduce this expense. They are capable of evaluating only a handful of solutions at a handful of buildings, and often take weeks to do so. This leads to missed opportunities or, worse yet, poor capital decisions by building owners. Retroficiency gives owners the technology to evaluate thousands of building solutions in minutes. We identify more, and more effective, solutions to reduce energy consumption and emissions, lower operating expenses, and increase asset value. Retroficiency enables building efficiency and sustainability.

Shareaholic (Jay Meattle, Fellow 2010)

Shareaholic, Inc. is fanatical about making sharing on the web better, faster, easier, and more measurable. With over a million downloads, Shareaholic is the ultimate tool for sharing online. It is an award winning, free web browser add-on that lets users easily share, e-mail, tweet, bookmark, and blog stuff online with friends, family, and co–workers. Shareaholic is compatible with all major web browsers including Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari, and supports sharing with over 60 destination services including Twitter, Digg, Google Gmail, and Facebook.

Shareaholic was founded in 2009 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For more information, please visit http://www.shareaholic.com or join the conversation on Twitter http://twitter.com/shareaholic and Facebook http://www.facebook.com/shareaholic

Sensobi (Ajay Kulkarni, Fellow 2009) (sold to GroupMe)

Sensobi is a better address book for business professionals to help you stay on top of your important contacts. We let you know who you need to speak with, who is falling off your radar, and before you make that important call, when you last spoke and what it was about. We are revolutionizing the way you connect with your professional andpersonal networks. Download Sensobi and super charge your address book, your business, and your career.

FitnessKeeper (Michael Sheeley, Fellow 2009)

FitnessKeeper is the developer of RunKeeper, an iPhone application that enables you to use the built-in GPS in your iPhone 3G to track all of your outdoor fitness activities, including duration, distance, pace, speed, elevation, calories burned, and path traveled on a map. You can store all of your historical activities on the RunKeeper website and share them with your friends!

First Help Financial (Parker Treacy, Fellow 2009)

First Help Financial is a financial services company focused on auto lending to the new immigrant population of the US. Incorporated in 2006, First Help Financial has developed proprietary underwriting and servicing models that are able to provide safe and reliable financing to new immigrant borrowers with little to no reportable credit or income. The company is establishing a traditional financing platform for immigrants, while giving them the ability to establish a credit history.

Relay Technology Management (Dave Greenwald, Fellow 2009)

Relay Technology Management is an intellectual property brokerage that operates in the biomedical space. Relay identifies valuable IP and facilitates licensure, sale, or new company formation. Relay has begun to develop a software product that can identify early-stage biomedical technologies that will be sold as a software product to complement Relay’s core business function as an IP brokerage. Relay raised its Series A round from Nature Publishing Group in 2011.

Mass Medical Angels (Pushwaz Virk, Fellow 2008)

Mass Medical Angels is the first angel group in New England focussed entirely on the life sciences industry. This angel group brings together entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, thought leaders and corporate executives in a unique format to accelerate the pace of enterprise development.