Architexa (Vineet Sinha, Fellow 2010)

Architexa is an MIT spinoff that is building a suite of tools to help developers understand, document, and collaborate about important aspects of their code. Formed in the summer of 2007, Architexa uses a highly-interactive interface to allow developers to easily see views of their code in familiar diagrams such as Class Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, or even Layered Diagrams. While allowing developers to work in their code environments, the tooling focuses on minimizing the effort to get relevant diagrams and to easily use them for documenting important aspects of the code so that they can be used as a form of communications among team members.

Dragonfly Product Company (Mangesh Wadegaonkar, Fellow 2010)

Dragonfly builds precision audio hardware for broadcasters and music artists who use this unique content distribution vector to create a new revenue stream and to establish a VIP platform between themselves and their most ardent fans. The company’s patent pending end-to-end (e2e) platforms have almost unfair advantages towards earning money for its customers and for asserting their brand identity in a world overrun with competing content.

The old business models for media and music artists have collapsed.  For example, radio industry revenues dropped by 17% from late 1990s to 2008 and music sales have plummeted over 24% in just one year.  Therefore, media companies, artists, and broadcasters are desperate for new revenue sources. Dragonfly solves this problem by renewing a sense of importance to the audio program itself, the media company who is using this new platform, and to the avid fan holding a Dragonfly in their hand, all while providing a new way for content owners to monetize their content.  All boats rise.  Moreover, Dragonfly’s patent pending gps technology allows the company’s customers to track user behavior and do location based targeted advertising in exact ways that are far more accurate than the existing methods.

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.

Pinyadda (Chase Garbarino, Fellow 2010)

Pinyadda 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.

Rentbuywhatever (Michael Mullins, Fellow 2010)

Rentbuywhatever.com is a next-generation ecommerce marketplace that allows users to buy, sell, and manage their real, non-financial assets. With RBW users can value their goods, build portfolios, and trade their assets at unparalleled low cost. The site employs a trading system modeled after electronic stock exchanges that accurately values portfolios using proprietary algorithms and real-time transaction data. RBW’s technology platform introduces innovations in portfolio management, trading, catalog management, and shipping that drastically reduce the cost of online transactions for any commodity item.

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

Wishclipper (Ariel Assaf, Fellow 2010)

Wishclipper acts as a personal shopper, aggregating information relevant to online shoppers and monitoring products so shoppers don’t have to. Best of all, wishclipper also lets users donate a percentage of every purchase to their favorite cause.

Sensobi (Ajay Kulkarni, Fellow 2009)

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.

The Trickle Up Effect (Parker Treacy, Fellow 2009)

The Trickle Up Effect is a nonprofit that sells deeply discounted goods to disadvantaged individuals enabling them to start micro-enterprises as street vendors. The program is a tiered system of products, coaching, and standards of performance that provide disadvantaged entrepreneurs with a way to generate income, improve their lives and move along a pathway to full-time employment and a self-sustainable life.

Fanzanimal (Craig Lund, Fellow 2009)

FanZanimal designs, manufactures, and distributes sports-themed stuffed animals.

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.

SolSolution (Soren Harrison, Fellow 2009)

SolSolution is a nonprofit corporation whose mission is to simultaneously generate clean, renewable electricity and increase the quality of education in underprivileged schools. We're taking the proven for-profit solar Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) model and transforming it to make SolSolution a high impact, self sustaining nonprofit. Instead of distributing profit to individual shareholders, SolSolution transfers these funds back to schools to pay for tangible educational resources. Schools realize reduced electricity costs and receive additional educational funding from SolSolution, and the environment benefits from the addition of carbon-free electricity generation. SolSolution is currently planning a pilot installation at an underprivileged California school to demonstrate its business model. Our vision is to install 1GW of solar generating capacity by 2020, and shift >$200M to educational budgets in low-income schools.

Arriba Solar (Soren Harrison, Fellow 2009)

ARRIBA Solar is a process control and metrology company that seeks to develop an innovative solution that will reduce the cost per watt of thin-film solar photovoltaics by providing real-time measurement of thin-film composition and thickness in the manufacturing environment. The ARRIBA Solar solution is based on core technology used for research at MIT, where it has been used to characterize thin films. The technology is PV material agnostic, and a platform solution which could be applied in a variety of vacuum-based applications. ARRIBA Solar foresees future applications in the manufacturing of light emitting diodes (LEDs) for lighting and organic LED displays, thin-film batteries, and other energy-related industrial manufacturing processes.

ReachEverywhere (Adam Smith, Fellow 2009)

ReachEverywhere is a consulting product development company founded in 2003 with an emphasis on mobile products for enterprises, start-ups and content providers. From these roots we have grown into a premier product engineering organization delivering across today's social and mobile technologies to VC-funded start-ups in media and gaming, financial firms on Wall Street, retailers and a variety of other industries. With offices in NYC and Novi Sad, Serbia, we can now support dozens of sprint and traditional product development projects alongside our own R&D in retail mobile and security applications.

IT Shore (Rama Nandiwada, Fellow 2008)

IT Shore provides global sourcing services to clients across many industries, including but not limited to finance, telecom, mobile marketing, manufacturing, and retail. Our employees assist with crucial work in application development, quality assurance testing, software engineering, human resources consulting, data storage, security, and more.

Authors Globe (Antonio Faillace, Fellow 2008)

AuthorsGlobe, an MIT100K Runner-Up start-up, connects thought leading authors with targeted audiences by hosting LiveCasts on a web-based knowledge exchange platform. The platform empowers book authors & their publishers by enabling a virtual global reach of audiences from one location breaking their geography, time, budget, travel costs, human resource, networking and marketing expertise limitations. Unlike any other solution in the market AuthorsGlobe integrates LiveCasting, marketing, event management, collaboration, social networking & e-commerce technologies into a one-stop solution designed specifically for book authors & publishers to succeed by generating additional value to their professions and to the global targeted audiences they can now reach.

Fitness Forward (Rishi Shukla, Fellow 2008)

Fitness Forward is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to lead children to live well. The organization aims to reverse the dangerous rise in childhood obesity, diabetes, and mental illness and envisions a day when all children, regardless of background or circumstance, will grow up with the knowledge, motivation, and tools to live healthier, happier lives. Fitness Forward’s signature program, Drive 2 Fitness (D2F), motivates and empowers children and families to lead healthier lifestyles through health education, personalized tracking tools, social marketing, and rewards. The organization reaches more than 10,000 children nationwide and is a member of the America Forward advisory board.

PickupZone (Hooman Hodjat, Fellow 2008)

PickupZone is developing a network of local neighborhood pickup points to get packages delivered safely and securely to you. We partner with local convenient stores, hardware stores, dry cleaners, etc. that offer safe and secure storage of your packages and convenient hours of operation. We've developed our own system to track every package from the shipping carriers' hands to yours - so every package is always in sight.

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.