Yieldbot

Real-time intent for advertisers and publishers
Yieldbot is a trusted first-party partner with many of the world’s largest media companies and is delivering measured marketing for prestigious consumer brands. We are the living embodiment of a disruptive technology. Yieldbot’s ability to capture, organize and ...

Playrific

Customized digital world for children 12 years old and under
Playrific provides young children with constantly refreshed, age-appropriate videos, games, books & more that reflect their likes and interests, through a variety of different channels. The company offers its web and mobile apps direct-to-consumers, its curation ...

ViralGains

The Most Powerful Platform for Driving Viral Video Success
Our product is inspired by an evolution in media consumption. Television is a staple of global culture and it is evolving toward online video. The product we are building is a global platform for viral video. The product addresses massive scale on the demand side ...

Experiment Fund

Gloss48

Gloss48 is the online paradise for beauty junkies. Daily curation of indie beauty brands.
Gloss48 invites the beauty-obsessed to a daily dose of highly curated cutting edge brands, presented with personalized, exciting, educational content. Offered initially at a promotional value, followed by ongoing marketplace model. 1) Targets the 50M online beauty ...

Streetwise Media

The next News Corp.
Streetwise Media operates a city news platform that harnesses the collective power of a local community to produce content and advance the public dialogue on important local issues. Streetwise Media's platform fills the void left by the broken traditional city ...

Brass Monkey

Smart devices controlling browser-based games
Brass Monkey® is video game console that uses smartphones as controllers and any screen with a web browser as the main display. Brass Monkey provides a free SDK (software development kit) that lets developers create games with similar features to traditional consoles ...

Firecracker

Digital Tutor
Firecracker is rapidly growing ed-tech company that is building the learning platform of the future. We are led by entrepreneurs and engineers with a track record of building revolutionary companies. The first application of our platform serves medical students ...

Abroad101

TripAdvisor and SurveyMonkey for Study Abroad
Our industry-leading evaluation tool helps universities collect feedback from students, report on that data, and compare it to other institutions. The feedback is published on our industry-leading review website, which attracts students and allows us to to sell ...

Libboo

Libboo's mission is to solve the timeless problem of talent getting lost in crowded spaces and aims to help all talented authors - published traditionally or independently - be discovered by the audiences they deserve. Like any company, Libboo has gone through ...

SimpleTuition

Making Higher Education Affordable Again
At SimpleTuition, our goal is to make it easier for students and their families to afford a higher education. We offer tips, advice, interactive tools, and deals to ensure students plan better for the cost of college, pay less for college-related expenses, and ...

Bluetrain.io

Cloud CMS for Developers
The future of consumer marketing is mobile and multi-screen. In order to compete, marketers need a new generation of websites that adapt to the unique behaviors and capabilities of each screen including smartphones, tablets and desktops. Responsive design enables ...

Boost3

A cloud marketing and fan engagement platform utilizing in-depth data to increase revenue
Boost3's customer solution is based on three pillars of value: 1) leading edge, SaaS marketing software product suite; 2) digital brand marketing know-how delivered as consulting services; and 3) unique, transaction-based business model. The Fan Social Hub, a data ...

CommonAngels Ventures

Boston's Angel Fund
Boston's leading angel fund. Love software, internet and stuff with electrons.

SmartRM

Control who uses your files, and how.
With SmartRM you control who uses your files and how. When you protect a file with SmartRM you define explicitly the people who can read your file and under what conditions: - not until tomorrow - not after tomorow - only 3 times You can track exactly who opened ...

Cannonball

Fall in love with email again
Cannonball Corporation offers an app that is a fast and beautiful way to reclaim control of your inbox. Cannonball has set out on a mission to inspire users to fall in love with email again by organizing their inboxes in a highly visual way, separating important ...

Dunwello

Trustworthy recommendations of individual professionals.
No angry rants. No glorified resumes. Just trustworthy reviews from real customers that showcase the skills and strengths of talented professionals.  The Dunwello community contributes reviews based on real experiences. Positive reviews post directly to an individual’s ...

healthetreatment

WebMD meets TripAdvisor
Healthetreatment is a place to share what you know about a chronic disease or illness, and learn from others who are living with the same condition. Healthetreatment helps people around the world find new ways to feel better; to have a more productive conversation ...

GoalsCorp Media

The premiere business-to-media features service
Through its consumer- and business-facing platforms and high-yield, low-cost supplementary media tools, GoalsCorp is producing a scalable global ecosystem of niche web communities based on deep social engagement, collaboration and innovation. GoalsCorp’s virtual ...

STREAMROOT

Real Peer-to-Peer Video Delivery
Streamroot is a peer-to-peer video streaming solution! Streamroot offers broadcasters a key competitive advantage, enabling them to reduce up to 70% of bandwidth costs, improve streams and lighten the burden on saturated network infrastructures. With exponential ...

Jebbit

Leader in Post-Click Engagement
Jebbit is the leading digital marketing platform to customize, measure, and optimize Post-Click Engagement™. Rather than focusing just on clicks and impressions, Jebbit focuses on the interaction between the consumer and brand after the user clicks through an ad. ...

Butaca

A mix of Netflix and Hulu for the worldwide Spanish Language audience
Butaca (Spanish for “theater seat”) fills a void left by the major Spanish Language networks and general market video/movie sites by delivering popular Spanish language films and longform television programs to connected TV’s and other portable devices, with a ...

HapYak

The Interactive Video Platform
HapYak is the world-leading interactive video platform. Enterprises, Universities and large Organizations of all types use HapYak to make their video strategy effective. The platform has three core components: Easy tools, Useful analytics and Powerful APIs. Built ...

Ubersense

Ubersense is a mobile app that helps people improve at sports through video coaching.
Ubersense empowers people to become better athletes. Sports lead to healthier, happier and active lives; to learn a sport and reach your maximum potential we believe in the need for quality feedback on technique and the right motivational levers. Furthermore, the ...

Mimoco

consumer electronics infused with pop-culture
Boston-based design house Mimoco fuses the art of contemporary characters with the functionality of memory storage devices. It is well known in the pop-culture driven Art Toy underground and throughout the tech gadget world. With a mission to bring style and soul ...

Trefis

Interactive map of US Economy
Led by MIT engineers and Wall Street analysts, Trefis helps you understand how a company's products, that you touch, read, or hear about everyday, impact its stock price. On Trefis you get answers to questions like: * What % of Apple's stock price is iPhones? ...

DataXu

Enabling the world’s most valuable brands to achieve true marketing ROI
DataXu is a petabyte scale marketing cloud that enables marketers to better understand and engage their customers. Powered by Active Analytics™, our patented approach to Programmatic Marketing, the DataXu Marketing Cloud is a suite of applications that transform ...

GHouse

Music Collective
We digitally distribute music worldwide and book festivals/shows to promote the musicians we work with.

HSTRY

Interactive & collaborative timelines
HSTRY is a digital learning tool that enables teachers, students and historians to create and explore interactive timelines. Using a platform designed to mimic social media, HSTRY presents content in a format that is easily understood, engaging, and familiar to ...

Tap 'n Tap

Monetizing mobile devices & helping retailers connect with users daily
Tap 'n Tap helps mobile device manufacturers and retailers to monetize their tablets and smartphones, like Amazon does their Kindle Fire tablets. Lockscreen Offers displays full-screen mobile ads on the lockscreen of Android tablets and smartphones. Users can ...

Prismplay

A platform that lets advertisers create videos that adapt and change realtime.
Prismplay is an online video platform that allows artists and advertisers to create videos that adapt and change according to the viewer.

whatsupnetworks

Digital Media for Affluent Young Tastemakers
The US young affluent market is a $15 Billion marketplace and underserved by current digital media outlets who think they capture this discerning audience. We have captured the all-american/preppy users seeking curated travel and destinations content, proper ...

Avalanche

Avalanche is a multi-disciplinary SWAT team that drops in to help founders rapid-prototype
Avalanche is rapid-prototyping SWAT team that works with early-stage founders as drop-in cofounders-for-hire. Avalanche is not a dev shop; we are "investors of sweat" who help early-stage startups on the ground level with our design, development, and product strategy ...

Onarbor

A broadcasting, validation, and monetization platform for digital works.
Google uses http to index the world’s information. Onarbor uses bitcoin to index the world's valuable information. Onarbor helps anyone create, share, and verify that a work of science or art is an original, exactly as created by the scientists or artists. Onarbor ...

SmarterTravel

SmarterTravel, a TripAdvisor Company, offers travelers a portfolio of 7 different travel sites to help them find the right trip at the right price.

MarketMuse

Content marketing optimization
MarketMuse is the industry-leading analytics platform for Semantic Search Engine Optimization. According to a recent study by SearchMetrics, semantically-relevant keywords are the #1 determinant of Google PageRank. Using artificial intelligence, MarketMuse identifies ...

Kanon

Kanon is a website for discovering and discussing academic literature. It allows professors and graduate students to evaluate books and publish informal peer reviews. We like to think that we're supplementing traditional journals by providing an open space for ...

Outlet

Visualize the news.
Visualize the news. Curated feeds of photos and videos being shared in the news.

PRX

PRX is the leading distribution platform for high quality story-driven audio content.

Streak Media

Streak is Thrillist for college students
Streak controls the flow of media amongst the college demographic through curated email newsletters. We have a highly engaged student and alumni subscriber base making us a powerful marketing platform. We are currently the primary source for news, content and ...

ScooprMedia

The World's 1st Authentic Content Bank
A mobile application that allows brands to reward loyal customers while capturing genuine, licensed images using their products or at their events. The free app, available on the IOS platform, enables brands to create assignments for users through a simple interface ...

Papero

The content network
Papero is a content network. Papero transforms any URL into a private canvas where friends & colleagues can share their thoughts and create something new out of the content they care about. At Papero, our aim is to change the way that people consume content ...

Pretty Instant

Event Photographers On-demand. Photos Shared Instantly.
Pretty Instant provides event photographers on-demand. We also have technology that lets our photographers instantly send the photos to the people in them; brandable, trackable, and instantly shareable. We shoot events across the country, from small get togethers ...

SmackHigh (2015 Techstars)

Community to community mobile interaction for high school students.
A 2015 Techstars Boston company - SmackHigh is the place for teens to express themselves and be heard. Real time, high school micro-communities share instant, school specific news and happenings. We have found that intimate micro-communities actually lead to the ...

Aquto

Mobile Data For Everyone
The mission of Aquto is to change the mobile industry when it comes to how mobile internet services are bought and packaged. Ultimately, the consumer should not have to worry about the bandwidth consumption associated with the content and bear the cost of it ...

Yolo News

The Atlantic but weekly and exclusively online
Yolo News guide readers through the flurry of new media and tells you the whole story. We thrive on underreported issues, embrace transparency, and understand the social importance of journalism. Opinions are encouraged, and citizen writers are our foundation. ...

OwnerIQ

Path to purchase media
OwnerIQ is pioneering the concept of Path to Purchase Media by transforming consumers’ interactions with products and brands along the path to purchase into powerful new online advertising solutions and marketing channels. Our Ownership Targeting solution is the ...

LightLibrary

Provide discounted digital versions of your hard copy books.
LightLibrary is a highly convenient mobile solution that offers book owners discounted versions of their favorite hard copy books. Using their smartphone and a pen, hard copy book owners can prove ownership of their favorite books, process described above. This ...

Revosys

Advertising platform targeting captive riders in taxis & liveries
Revosys is building an advertising platform targeting captive riders in taxis & liveries, leveraging the need for electronic payment processing. Digital advertisers can target captive audiences with relevant content using anonymous facial recognition, riders use ...

Sookbox

Universal framework for media control and distribution
How do we get our devices to communicate with each other? How do we govern our universe of content? How do we transform our handhelds into controllers that send our chosen media to our desired output device? Sookbox has answered these questions, creating a new ...

RequestNow

RequestNow simplifies song requests for both the DJ and the partygoer.
RequestNow is an SMS-based song requesting service for DJs and bars. Our product alleviates the frustration of requesting songs at events as well as providing demographic analytics for DJs. Our product not only streamlines this entire process for DJs, but also ...

Reactor Media

simple content distribution and anlytics at scale
Reactor Media offers simple content distribution for brand marketers at scale.

Reactive Studios

Audible Interactive With A Spotify Business Model
Reactive Studios is here to reinvent digital audio entertainment with a platform for the creation and distribution of voice-operated interactive story experiences. Use your voice to interact with characters, participate in a story that listens to your responses, ...

Vocalyze Media

Vocalyze does for Web content what Pandora did for music.
“Vocalyze,” our primary product, converts online content into audio (in real-time) and streams it to mobile devices such as iPhones, Androids, laptops and other Internet-enabled devices. At its core, Vocalyze’s services benefit both content producers and users ...

Excelling Media

Advancing Trends for Internet Publishing
We build unique content for the Internet with a focus on popular keywords and phrases for Google. Formats include blog magazines, wiki's, content galleries, social news communities, and other high traffic/conversion platforms. The Excelling Media product is a ...

Plain English

Rethink Storytelling.
We're hell bent on designing and building brand experiences of all kinds that truly connect with people in a way that’s simple and meaningful — through better storytelling. When told skillfully, creatively, and with passion, the right story has the power to connect ...

dropmat.com

digital objects to link life with screens
Mobile collaboration apps and service. Provide 'digital objects' approach for keep and share things to talk and collaborate about.

UpRing

Telephone leads for SMB's - Mobile click-to-call
Local advertisers are fed up with buying "clicks'. A 'click' is miles form a conversion. UpRing powers a performance-based click to call advertising platform that enables local media companies (and other B2B companies that sell digital marketing services to SMB's) ...

Gameface Media

We provide amateur athletes with professional photographs — for FREE. Get your Gameface on!

Beantown Media Ventures

Young Broadcasters of America

We teach "Generation Text" to talk!
In an era where young people are more comfortable communicating through technology than face to face, YBA communications and the home of Young Broadcasters of America, use TV broadcasters' skills to improve interpersonal oral communication among our youth and business ...

ReputNation

Empowering the base of the pyramid with digital reputation
Incubated at the Harvard Innovation Lab, ReputNation empowers the base of the pyramid with access to smart mobile devices and wearables, rewarding digital reputation with tangible benefits such as credit, insurance, jobs, etc. Building upon the latest privacy-enhancing ...

IndianRaga

LinkedIn for Indian musicians
IndianRaga identifies promising artists across diverse genres and connects them with talent agents and professional opportunities. Talent discovery in India is broken today with reality shows failing to provide meaningful value to either artists or to the entertainment ...

Game Show Network (GSN)

gsn
GSN is a multimedia entertainment company that offers original and classic game programming and competitive entertainment via its 80-million subscriber television network and online game sites. GSN’s cross-platform content gives game lovers the opportunity to win ...

Barstool Sports

Largest men's sports and lifestyle blog in the country.
Barstool Sports' is the largest sports and lifestyle online magazine in the country. From modest roots in Boston, MA - Barstool has expanded across the country with millions of monthly unique visitors. Other than it's flagship blog, Barstool manages multiple ...

Urbane Sophisticate

Frictionless Systematic Polygon Layering Digital Advertising Technology
Urbane Sophisticate believes that integrated media, featuring exclusive content married to proprietary advertising technology, has huge growth potential, due to the secular shift in advertising expenditures from print and broadcast media to the Internet. Huge demand ...

Tributes

The resource for obituary news and lasting tributes celebrating the lives of loved ones.

X-Factor Films

NastyGal for badass movies. A Hollywood 2.0 studio.
X-Factor Films is a Hollywood 2.0 studio/platform building communities around movies by and about badass ladies. Movies containing strong female characters make billions more than movies without, but just 12% of Hollywood protagonists are female. We partner with ...

Fantome Media

Crowd sourced Media Production
Fantome Media is a new type of experience. By the Fans. For the Fans. Fantome meaningfully and deeply involves fans and artists in the development, production, marketing and consumption of its products through the development and use of a crowd sourced content ...

Sightlines

Empowering curators. Captivating visitors.
We live in a world of constant stimulation, from buzzing smartphones in our pockets to the stream of unending media we consume on ubiquitous monitors both personal and public. This high degree of fast paced media saturation has conditioned our minds, altering the ...

Sorry For Partying

Text From Last Night meets Instagram
Sorry For Partying started in 2008 as a simple t-shirt company and since has grown into a lifestyle brand with a community of highly engaged fans who love to party. We are building our brand through merchandise, digital content, and events. Our mobile app for ...

semiURBAN

semiURBAN lifestyle website/newsletter
semiURBAN.com is your online resource and newsletter for the latest in eating, drinking, shopping and playing both outside and inside the city. We cover both because you're in both a lot. You are semiURBAN! semiURBAN is a lifestyle that encompasses the best of ...

Layer3 TV

Next generation cable provider
We are a next generation cable provider spearheading a new era of home media, combining the best of television, social, and digital life. Founded in 2013 by cable veterans Dave Fellows and Jeff Binder, the company is located in Boston, Mass. Layer3 TV is backed ...

Upstatement

A design firm that specializes in new products for publishers and media organizations
We build beautiful digital products for some of the best clients in the world. Our small team of multidisciplinary designs and developers works on big projects and delivers groundbreaking work. From our redesign of the BostonGlobe.com to a massive editorial system ...

Edvisors

Edvisors is about creating great sites for students.
We are a leading student marketing company operating a portfolio of interactive sites that provide information, tools and resources to help students further their education. This year Edvisors' portfolio of 25+ websites, blogs and forums will be visited 30,000,000 ...

Densefog Group

Very small angel fund; media & medical
Very small angel fund.

Excogit8

Thinking outside the box in academic medicine
TBD

FUSINGS

Your quantified, professional self // 'fitbit' for the ideas that shape you
FUSINGS is a social media platform for your professional life, built around the question - what are you reading today? By simply tracking and socializing your learning history, we are able to capture your professional interest graph. The professional interest ...

Lariat

Recall your digital footprint on the web instantly through keyword search.
Thus far, the internet has gone from discovery to search discovery, and then social discovery, but with little focus on recall. Remembering your digital footprint is difficult. We aim to solve that problem. Lariat is a cloud-based search engine to securely recall ...

TourMatters

Simplifying research for experiential travel
TourMatters is a resource for travelers to find tour companies and itineraries based on their vacation preferences. We created technology to discover itineraries without engaging operators, which allows us to focus on having the best information, not just the ...

ShopperWiser Media

We guide you toward healthy decisions
ShopperWiser is an innovative mobile & media platform that connects brands with consumers via proximity-triggered communication. We install interactive displays in supermarkets that show shoppers a nutritional health score with products, deliver mobile coupons ...

Ditto Labs

Allston Pudding

Boston music publication
Allston Pudding, is an online source for music both in Boston and beyond. Allston Pudding is operated and written by fans and musicians to highlight new music and live music from all over. We are working on some exciting enhancements to the site, to make a better ...

MediaObjects

More effective campaign planning trough better RFP management
At MediaObjects we are building a next generation ad campaign management solution for Advertising and Media Agencies. Customers of our product would be ad campaign planners, buyers,billing specialists, publishers. Currently the agency market is dominated by the ...

Ninja Outreach

Influencer Outreach Software and CRM
NinjaOutreach is a blogger outreach software for digital marketers and small businesses interested in growing their presence online. It is a complete CRM, allowing for prospecting, relationship management, and analytics and reporting. With a simple keyword search ...

Superdigital

Digital Agency for Pro Athletes

TheBostonTV

Aggregated Tech, Sports, Education and Food Videos about Boston and New England
Building the one stop destination for videos about Boston and New England featuring Technology, Business, Education, Food and Sports.

EDGE Media Network

Gay news network
EDGE is the world's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender news and entertainment network.

Proper Channel

Eliminating the pain of bureaucracy, everywhere.
Proper Channel's mission is to eliminate the pain of bureaucracy. We developed a social flowcharting tool that describes every step, in the right order, to complete a bureaucratic task. Whether applying for a visa to China, registering a new car, or applying ...

Teaching Garage

Curriculum for Elementary STEM Teachers
Teaching Garage is the creator of Design SySTEM, the first and only digital STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) curriculum for elementary school teachers. The curriculum covers ten fields of engineering that are aligned with state science, Common ...

PlaybackID

DIgital Sports Social Media
PlaybackID is a website, a social network that unites the athletic community. Much like LinkedIn is the venue for “Business Professionals”, PlaybackID is the venue for “Athletes”

INVIDIAD

Product placement platform for UGC
PRODUCT PLACEMENT PLATFORM - We're making it easy for everyone with a video camera on their phone to monetize their video's with product placement and get great deals on products they love. We're basically building match.com for videographers and brands and advertisers ...

The Candidate

American Idol meets Youtube meets Kickstarter meets politics.
The Candidate is a multimedia project (online platform and an accompanying TV show) that will create a “digital soapbox” for the 21st century. Our goal is to lower the barriers of entry to politics and revitalize citizen engagement with democratic institutions ...

Avidest

Short-term Paid Projects for Students
For students, most part-time positions – baristas, waiters, office assistants – are rarely rooted in true passion or know-how. Instead, they are a means to an end, default jobs that offer acceptable wages and flexible hours. But what if there were a better way ...

JoMI (Journal of Medical Insight)

A Clinical Video Journal
The Journal of Medical Insight (JoMI) is the first peer-reviewed video journal of surgical and medical procedures with extensive video production capabilities to assist authors with publishing video-articles. JoMI’s goal is to impact quality of patient care by ...

OpedSpace

Digital Media and Online Community
We are building international media company and a community of the most talented young people across the globe. We are building the go-to international media company for our generation so we can empower, engage and inform young people across the globe with quality ...

GreyMatter

The Yelp for music
Grey Matter is a platform that allows users to share their unique perspectives on music. Traditional music media outlets, intentionally or otherwise, bias the subjective experience of music listening and hinder music discovery. We are disrupting the current critic-centric ...

4vision

Software to manage your digital lifestyle...media, wellness, fitness anytime, anywhere.
We have developed a SaaS based Digital Lifestyle Management Platform that seamlessly integrates digital lifestyle services that include multimedia, social, wireless sensors (body, environment) remote data monitoring, collaboration as well as health and wellness ...

Hughie

Action Sports Apparel
Apparel line focusing on high adrenaline action sports with influences through media and sponsorship. Hi quality clothing with attention to detail in every aspect of the end product. Details in packaging, labels, and presentation will set this product apart form ...

votetrends

online tool to create polls, vote on others' polls, and track trends.
votetrends is a free and easy tool to create polls, vote on others' polls, and track trends. Whether you are interested in politics, fashion, sports, world news, or any other topics, you can create polls to share with everyone, a small group, or just your friends. From ...

Meanwhile Media

The Mean.to Exchange; a stock market for digital media.
Meanwhile Media has created a new platform to connect artists, and art collectors. The Mean.to Exchange; a stock market for digital media. 1. Collectors purchase “stock” in an artist’s content, and publish it on their own Mean.to portfolio. 2. As more collectors ...

AppOsk

We advertise mobile apps
We advertise mobile apps through malls, universities, airports, theaters, and shopping centers. Customers selected app cards from organized categories on our app boards. We have agreements with Simon Malls and the Westfield Group that will secure mall lease space ...

Maple Farm Media

activating & analyzing local marketing for franchise & dealer systems
We enable local store level digital marketing for franchise companies seeking to extend their field marketing efforts. Out AdMission Control product is a SaaS reporting dashboard that brings big data analysis to local marketing spending - showing cross-channel ...

Insiders Abroad

TripAdvisor for expats
Insiders Abroad is an online platform providing English-speaking expatriates and tourists the opportunity to share information about the country they are living in or traveling to. This platform provides a community experience and "inside" information for those ...

Eucalypt Media Content Marketing

Scalable content marketing for startups

THE PROCESS

Web-based sports media
THE PROCESS will be directly involved in sports media and technology, globally. We are launching a revolutionary recruiting service for high school athletes that will transform the way that players find, evaluate, and receive college scholarships. It will also ...