CommonAngels Ventures

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

oneforty

Basecamp for Social Media + directory/community of social media tools
SocialBase is social media productivity software. It's used to organize social media programs and manage all collaborators, whether they're expert or novice at social. It makes it simple to coordinate tools, tasks and team. It ships with expert tactical workflows ...

Rifiniti

Business intelligence for workplace optimization to help companies reduce costs by 50%
Most offices around the world are 50% empty at all times, which costs US companies $180B/yr.Rifiniti provides business intelligence for workplace optimization to help companies reduce real estate costs by up to 50% while increasing occupant productivity. Our software-as-a ...

SapientNitro

Shoobx

Operating System for Corporate Processes
Shoobx is a legal process engine built to simplify standard corporate workflows so entrepreneurs can focus on what they care about most: their company. Managing a business should be done through one login, with the ease of use we have come to expect from the web, ...

Apperian

The Mobile Application Management (MAM®) company.
Apperian’s enterprise app store is a critical part of getting apps that matter into the hands of 100% of your mobile workers including users with BYOD, contracted workers, agencies, part time workers, etc. The Apperian App Store displays beautifully on any iOS, ...

Maxwell Health

The future of benefits, now
Maxwell is an end-to-end operating system for employee benefits that includes: - A marketplace to help employees understand and shop for their benefits. This includes all lines of insurance and financial products HSA/FSA/HRA, and an arsenal of innovative subscription-based ...

Sapient

Yesware

Sell Smarter
Yesware helps companies and salespeople make more money. We've started with email - adding features that companies like OpenDNS, Trump Hotels, Acquia, Marin Software, Mimeo, Wildfire, Brightcove, Motorola, Yammer, LivingSocial and many more have adopted throughout ...

Bit9 + Carbon Black

Arm your endpoints
The Bit9 + Carbon Black Security Solution is the industry’s first and only integrated Endpoint Threat Prevention, Detection and Response solution. Our solution consists of two industry-leading products: the Bit9 Platform for prevention and Carbon Black. The Bit9 ...

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 ...

Robin

Really simple room booking.
Robin is a room booking tool for offices that runs on mobile, web, and tablets. You can book from the apps directly, but there’s also a twist for mobile users —it runs in the background and uses iBeacons to detect when you’re in a room, booking calendars automatically. ...

CoPatient

We find errors in medical bills to save money for patients.
Individuals have few tools or trusted resources to know if the medical bills they receive from doctors and hospitals are accurate and fair. We provide a free upfront medical bill investigation identifying potential savings opportunities. The consumer can then opt ...

Social Fulcrum

Data-Driven Customer Acquisition for Startups
We optimize online advertising through our scientific testing process and our proprietary analytics package. We typically achieve a 75% reduction in the cost of customer acquisition within 3 months. Although we use tools to help us do our work, at the end of ...

Foxtrot Systems

Data Driven Deliveries
Foxtrot helps distributors execute better last-mile deliveries. We use traffic & weather information, in-house route-optimization algorithms and machine learning to boost our customers' fleet's efficiency & delivery success. The company was launched after two years ...

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 ...

Tamr

Broadly integrate and curate many existing and future data sources efficiently at scale
Tamr was founded in the Fall of 2012 by Dr. Mike Stonebraker and Andy Palmer. Tamr is headquartered in Cambridge, MA, and is based on research conducted at M.I.T., Brandeis, and Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI). Tamr enables organizations to broadly ...

MachineShop

APIs for the Internet of Everything
MachineShop offers an API-centric middleware service that bridges IT (Information Technology) with OT (Operations Technology). Connected systems, devices, assets and data within the realm of OT are often silos that are inaccessible by important enterprise applications ...

docTrackr

Document Control Everywhere
Each time you share a digital document, the minute you've sent it, you are no longer in control. docTrackr helps businesses keep their documents safe and under control, wherever they're stored, whomever they're shared with - i.e. you can remotely destroy them, ...

Tracelytics

Web application performance management
Tracelytics provides visibility into complex, distributed web applications by collecting information about the performance and behavior of requests across software layers and machines. We're a SaaS-based APM solution that understands and is built for scalable architectures.

SkillHound

dead simple recruiting for technical teams
SkillHound is sourcing for technical teams made easy. We use big data methods to analyze sites like Github, StackOverflow and even Twitter to reveal the very best engineers on the web. We get right down to the code level to provide rich assessment of code quality ...

Weft

The single source of truth for global logistics.
Weft tracks shipping containers using low-cost hardware to make sure that shipments get to where they're supposed to be on time and intact, saving billions in lost value due to cargo shrink and disrupted supply chains. There are 20 million shipping containers ...

Tesora

Database as a Service for OpenStack
ParElastic is the only solution that brings the flexibility of cloud architectures to all dimensions of your database. Leveraging your existing MySQL servers ParElastic enables unprecedented adaptability to ever changing workloads and information consumption patterns. The ...

DapperJobs

eHarmony meets Monster
We're taking lessons learned from online dating and applying it to the job search process. Current culture fit solutions and tools are downstream from the interview process - beginning at the interview process and beyond - DapperJobs is the first to take all ...

LinkCycle

Data-driven Energy Reduction for Manufacturers
LinkCycle is an enterprise SaaS that allows plant managers and controllers to save manufacturing costs. Manufacturers currently spend millions on meters and audits to monitor resource consumption and assess costs. Without even stepping foot into the plant, our ...

HighFive

Advertising based on real-life activity.
HighFive is a mobile ad platform based on real life activity. Our first product connects developers and brands to reward users inside apps. We tie relevant advertising to in-app and real life activity with our SDK & algorithms. Our big bet is that mobile ad targeting ...

Backupify

Backup and search of your cloud data
Backupify is an all-in-one archiving, search and restore solution for the most popular online services including Google Apps, Facebook, Twitter, Picasa and more.

Dispatch

Powering the on-demand economy
The Dispatch platform brings businesses into the on-demand economy by providing enterprises with a mobile extension for their legacy systems and offering a self-serve set of products and APIs for marketplaces and developers. Businesses rely on Dispatch to enable ...

Coherent Path

GPS for the customer journey
CoherentPath uses multi-stream data to accurately predict the evolving tastes of online consumers.

AppBlade

Manage devices and deploy apps to employees and beta testers
AppBlade is a tool for indie developers, development shops, and large enterprises dealing with mobile application distribution and device management. We provide an app-store like experience that can side-load applications onto your mobile phone (OSX/iOS/Android) ...

International Data Group

Plexxi

Rethinking the network.
Like most good ideas, it began with a frustration over the status quo. Networks were too complex, too costly and too inefficient. Dave’s eureka moment came when reading Microsoft’s paper on traffic patterns, understanding that network congestion was a result of ...

RapidMiner

Redefining how business analysts use Big Data to predict the future
RapidMiner provides software, solutions, and services in the fields of predictive analytics, data mining, and text mining. We automatically and intelligently analyze data – including databases and text – on a large scale.

BlueConic

Guide the customer journey.
BlueConic helps brands optimize cross-channel marketing opportunities through improved customer engagement. It offers a SaaS-based online customer engagement platform that leverages a Big Data profile interaction store and machine learning to help marketers synchronize ...

Price Intelligently

Scientific SaaS Pricing
Price Intelligently lets you determine who's your highest value persona (positioning), what they want in a product (packaging), and how much they are willing to pay (pricing). While our algorithms do work with retail goods, we focus primarily on SaaS and subscription ...

Mendix

The app platform company for the enterprise: build, integrate and deploy fast.
Mendix is the app platform company for the enterprise. We enable companies to build, integrate and deploy web and mobile applications faster and with better results, effectively driving ROI in days not months. We've seen firsthand how painful, frustrating, and ...

CampusTap

Private social platforms for colleges
CampusTap provides private social platforms for colleges creating a connected campus and community. The platform supports student engagement and career success throughout their entire college experience by getting students acclimated to campus and preparing them ...

TBJ Investments

Early Stage Investment Firm

Allena

Simplified enterprise reporting that works like Google Search
Allena is a business intelligence product that makes enterprise reporting as simple as a Google Search. Our search interface and computational technology allows users to view their data through simple questions like 'What are my sales'

Twyxter

your corporate neighborhood™
Twyxter communities - your corporate neighborhood™ When employees connect as people, great things happen. Twyxter’s private, online communities help companies onboard, engage and retain the best talent by making work a little more personal. When employees make ...

Joust

We make customer service not suck.
Joust is building responsive web platforms that solve existing business problems by promoting collaboration among customers, departments, and companies. Joust's debut product, Conquer, harnesses the power of a knowledge base and combines it with the convenience ...

BitSight

We transform how companies manage technology risk.

RAMP

We make video valuable

Attivio

Unified information access
Attivio believes that if every query, every dashboard and every report has the benefit of correlating all data and all content, we can provide insight that tells you the real story, enables you to mobilize the right resources and make the best decisions. We believe ...

Nutonian

Uncover the hidden relationships in big data
Based on over seven years of research, Nutonian enables anyone to unravel and explain complex patterns in data. Founded in 2011 by two of the world's best data scientists, Nutonian has developed a breakthrough technology that enables anyone to uncover and explain ...

Datasight

Big Data for Big Pharma
At Datasight, we're building a web-based SaaS modeling and simulation solution for clinical operations that helps pharmaceuticals project the duration of a given trial, optimize trials, and helps select sites (clinics, hospitals, etc.) at which a given trial should ...

ownCloud

File sync for enterprises concerned about sensitive data leakage
An enterprise file sharing solution for online collaboration. ownCloud provides the best secure enterprise cloud storage solution to sync and share large files on any device, in a secure, private and on premise environment.

Rejjee

Targeted mobile ad placement for users in immediate need.
Rejjee is a home inventory mobile app that makes registering personal property simple and easy. It’s the only app to send discount replacement ads when property is reported lost or stolen, giving it more value and reason to use by end-users. Through that capability ...

Kindoo

YouTube for Salespeople
Kindoo is a customer-branded YouTube for salespeople and channel partners. 1. Make bite-sized videos of customer stories, objection handlers, win reports and more. 2. Watch and share on phones, tablets and laptops. 3. See who's learning what. Kindoo customers ...

ThinkingPhones

Intelligent Communications in the Cloud
Our mission is to make your communication systems work for you and provide apps that both you and your staff will love. We seamlessly unify all of your business voice, text, and conferencing services on a single award-winning cloud platform, connect them to your ...

QPID

An intelligence system for EHRs
With patent pending technologies, QPID™ (Queriable Patient Inference Dossier) is an intelligence system for the EHR—it permits creation of clinician-directed queries, analytics and reporting abilities in real time and at the point of care. The consequence is improved ...

Operating Analytics

Forecasting SaaS to help hospitals do more surgeries
Hospitals most profitable asset - surgical operating rooms - are idle 35% of the time during business hours due to scheduling constraints and complexities. Hospitals traditionally address this problem with manual, reactive, and high friction tactics. Operating ...

CloudBees

The Java PaaS company.
Our vision is to free developers from infrastructure maintenance duties so they can focus 100% on developing great applications. The CloudBees Platform as a Service (PaaS) enables that vision.

Vectigal

Provides Immediate Tax Refunds On Dividend & Interest Tax Reclaim Assets Worldwide
Vectigal provides immediate tax refunds to global investors (individuals, multinational corporations, financial intermediaries, etc.) on their dividend withholding taxes and dividend equivalent withholdings from foreign government tax authorities. Our product ...

Donebox

making you more productive
Donebox is working on tools that will make everyone more productive and efficient.

NuoDB

Fundamental to our founders’ vision was the idea of developing a database system that builds on the power of SQL to move relational technology beyond traditional monolithic databases. That old approach was designed 30 years ago and no longer serves a market that ...

Visioneer

Make apps out of the web.
Visioneer is a basic framework for building and deploying Android apps without coding or tons of technical know how. Using Visioneer, small businesses, individuals, or even enterprises can build internal apps as well as consumer facing apps that serve as runways ...

AnchorApp

Mobile conceriege for boat docking
AnchorApp let's boaters easily find, book and pay for boat dockage. Boaters, currently have to call multiple times at multiple marinas just to find transient dockage for their boats creating a frustrating, time-wasting process for boaters and marina workers. ...

PaperPhobic

Column Health

Strength | Stability | Support
We propose that, consistent with emerging models for primary care, we will disrupt the traditional addiction clinic model on three levels: a highly technology enabled set of processes, with predictive modeling software to identify risk of relapse and drive patient ...

BenefitMy

Zenefits for brokers and employers
BenefitMy is an integrated platform that fully automated benefits and HR management. It enables a paperless workflow that allows customers to easily onboard employees, setup benefit packages, enroll employees (and families), and create and mange all documents ...

Groove Technologies

Human Capital Cloud
GROOVE is developing enterprise recruiting and talent management solutions for the human capital cloud. PIPELINE enables recruiters to source a pipeline of high potential candidates from the web, prioritize who to pursue, and engage targets in the recruiting ...

ANSWR

Crowdsourced knowledge and curation platform (Pinterest for work)
ANSWR is a crowdsourced knowledge discovery and curation platform that makes finding and sharing tech support ANSWRs across the Internet simple and fast. With one click, ANSWR turns Internet searches into shared knowledge. Our intelligent search delivers expert-validated ...

Dat Venture

Connecting International Entrepreneurs with the US Market
Dat Venture’s mission is to connect founders abroad with local US resources so they can build teams, validate ideas, and engage with potential customers and investors. The vision is to become the gateway for international startups to enter the United States via ...

Intronis Technologies

Cybereason

Real time security protection for enterprises
Cybereason delivers a proprietary technology platform that automatically uncovers malicious operations (Malops™) and reconstructs them as a clear image of a cyberattack in context. This enables enterprises to discover sophisticated targeted threats at a very early ...

Reddo Mobility

Rapid mobilization of existing windows desktop applications
Gizmox provides an HTML5 platform for bringing business applications to mobile and web – rapidly, securely, and using existing development resources. With over 1M downloads, Gizmox Visual WebGui is a leading development platform for Visual Studio developers building ...

essess

Google Street View for Energy
Essess develops proprietary hardware and software which efficiently collects thermal images on millions of individual buildings across large geographies (commercial, residential, industrial), and applies advanced computer vision and machine learning techniques ...

JodiSoft

Enterprise visualization search engine.
JosiSoft is an enterprise visualization search engine that allows users to dynamically create charts and visualizations based on phrases and keywords. For example: as a marketing/sales executive, a user needs to know how iPhone sales is going in his/her company. ...

Lucolo

Ultra-secure message exchange service
Pronounced "lew-coe-low," Lucolo is an ultra-secure message exchange service that believes in one simple mission: there needs to be a better alternative to email for online conversation that's government-level secure and isn't chat-based. We've studied the nuances ...

Health Dialog Services

Agile Product Marketing Group

B2B Product Marketing-as-a-Service
Agile Product Marketing Group is a customer-centric product marketing consultancy that works with B2B software and SaaS companies who target enterprise buyers of Cloud and IT security products. We provide strategy and hands-on execution related to: Product Launch ...

Curata

Business class content marketing software

Teikametrics

E-Commerce Marketplace Analytics
Teikametrics was developed with a mission to provide the most effective and accurate tools to tackle the dynamic nature of today's e-commerce markets. Our team has an extensive background in growing and managing successful e-commerce businesses.

Full Cycle Engineering

Effortless data-driven [mobile] applications
We have developed a system for creating data-driven iOS applications. This system replaces tons of potentially buggy glue code in a typical application. Parse is a system with similar goals. However, we play nicely with existing databases, provide robust offline ...

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 ...

neohapsis

Vocoli

Vocoli is a digital suggestion box & innovation platform
Vocoli is web-based team innovation software. It helps your employees and other stakeholders suggest ideas to solve your company's biggest challenges — all in an easy-to-use interface that lets you manage the entire process. As a program manager, you can create ...

TrackTeams

Advanced CRM for Sales teams
- Advanced CRM for Sales teams - Track your on-field team with intuituve graphical approach - Track your Customers and Sales people in one single interface - Manage expenses with no extra reports - Eliminate time wasted in filing various reports

Chasm Innovations

Accelerate the adoption of disruptive technology into the Enterprise
Working with founders and executive teams of emerging technology and solutions companies. Focused on accelerating customer, market, sales and business development strategies while leading the execution plan. Once validated, the execution plan is scaled towards ...

Lucky 8 Solutions

Windows 8 Mobile Apps for Employees. Gartner predicts 20M Win 8 tablets at work by 2016
Lucky 8 Solutions develops Windows 8 tablet apps for work that make mobile employees more productive and reduce risk for employers. We make it easier for employees to securely record, save and share knowledge and information on the go using a Windows 8 touch-screen ...

Nasuni

NetMorf

Erstwhile, Enterprise and B2C application mobility platform

Infinio

Downloadable storage performance
Virtualization completely changed the modern data center, for the better. But it also drove adoption of more-expensive central storage technology - and a lot of it. Data center administrators buy more storage hardware when what they really want is better storage ...

OpenTime

On demand scheduling
OpenTime allows users to search and book appointments for any service-based business. From the perspective of the businesses, resources (human and financial) no longer need to be dedicated to booking and managing appointments. This two-sided network makes it easier ...

Exoprise

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 ...

SDK-ITpro

Globally earned relations
IT/Internet services provider

Akiban Technologies

SageCloud

Breakthrough price points for cold data storage
SageCloud’s mission is to deliver breakthrough price points for Cold Storage Tiering - cost-effectively managing petabyte-scale storage of data that is written once but infrequently accessed. With SageCloud, data center professionals can reap the benefits of storage ...

Vee24

E-Commerce Video Chat
People prefer to buy from people, more importantly people they can see, interact with, and trust. VeeStudio provides the platform from which you can personally interact with your website visitors face-to-face, providing friendly product advice, personalised support ...

Fotary

Simple Enterprise Image Management
Fotary is a simple, cloud image management platform for any business, organization or department manager who wants to store, organize and manage their image library in the cloud. Think Flickr for small & medium businesses.

Kuldat

Kuldat is a ready-to-use Big Data platform for marketing and sales.
Kuldat was founded in Boston in 2012 with a unique goal: to leverage Internet and Big Data technology to provide a competitive advantage to marketing and sales. It is a ready-to-use Big Data platform that helps businesses to understand customer needs, find new ...

Truly Marketed

Growth & Agile Marketing for Internet Startups
Our team of Internet entrepreneurs works closely with your Internet startup to generate web traffic, optimize conversion rates, and ultimately bring in more business using a highly iterative and data-driven Agile Marketing methodology. The Truly Marketed international ...

nJUVO

Transaction analysis and protection
Traverse analyzes electronic payments and detects potential problems. We allow you to set alerts that can recognize anomalies in both incoming and outgoing transactions. Customers are able to find problems, including fraud, incorrect payments, and human error ...

Syrinx Consulting

Software Consulting
Since 2003, Syrinx Consulting Corporation has built several enterprise software products that touch over 20 million client customers on a daily basis. Our track record and long-term client relationships demonstrate Syrinx's ability to deliver complex projects on ...

Via Science

Big Math For Big Problems
Via Science has a patented machine learning software engine, REFS, that helps experts analyze high value problems. For example: Plant and Animal Health: REFS analyzes genetics and soil conditions to help farmers and biologists improve crop yield. It can take ...

Composable Analytics

Marketplace for Data and Analytics
Composable Analytics has developed a revolutionary flexible business intelligence platform, built upon technology from MIT. The platform allows data scientists, analysts, IT professionals, and developers to collaboratively create and run analytical methods and ...

Paporize Solutions

Tracking, Protecting, and Access to control of shared files
Paporize is a secure solution that allows organizations to easily and effectively Access, Share, and Control all documents shared across any platform of communication. In our new digital economy, sensitive information is unintentionally shared with the wrong parties ...

Scout Exchange

Software recruitment marketplace
Scout is a fast growing software company that connects employers with the best search firms and headhunters to fill each and every job. Our recruitment marketplace identifies specialists by harnessing sophisticated data analytics.

Treppen Technologies

Intelligent Governance
The GRC (governance, risk management, & compliance) industry is somewhat 'broken'. Current systems focus on monitoring data to report on risk and compliance, and also tie corporate policy to Regulations. They do this very well, but that is also all that they do. In ...

Method Careers

The Spotify for career search. Smart. Simple.
Your job search just got a whole lot smarter. Forge curates your job search - think Spotify for job search. We've gotten rid of the search bar and use deep analytics to match employers with candidates in a seamless platform that makes the whole process easier for ...

Spookfish

Big Data Enterprise Analytics for Tactical Operations
Like ESPN Gamecast for Enterprise Operations Like Flight Status Monitors for Enterprise Operations Spookfish creates Enterprise Business Intelligence software that leverages Big Data to improve connectivity inside operating environments. Dynamic analytics presented ...

Arcus Solutions

Software think tank
Arcus Solutions is a Boston-based software development and consulting firm that identifies and implements innovative solutions for web, mobile, and other platform-based projects. We function as both a consulting an incubation firm developing applications on behalf ...

Ninja Outreach

blogger outreach software
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 ...

Gadfly Legal Technologies

Bringing transactional legal services into the 21st century.
Gadfly's first product, LeasePilot™, is a software platform for institutional landlords designed to simplify and expedite the documentation and negotiation of commercial leases. There are a number of tools that exist to facilitate the commercial leasing process, ...

Eucalypt Media Content Marketing

Scalable content marketing for startups

CallRed

Easily manage your computers and smart devices.
Get a free, simple report card for your computers and smart devices. CallRed’s team started experimenting in March 2014 with ways to reduce inefficiencies in customer service and tech support. We found product-market fit with our newest beta which helps both ...

OMS Group

Practical solutions for complex business operations.
In 2014 an HBR case study at one large company found that people spent 300,000 hours a year supporting the weekly executive committee meeting. One weekly senior-level status Meeting uses 7,000 person hours of executives time annually. 1Share is a free and secure ...

Logentries

Log Management & Analytics Built for the Cloud
Logentries makes machine-generated log data easily accessible to IT operations, development, and business analysis teams of all sizes. With the broadest platform support and an open API, Logentries brings the value of log-level data to any system, to any team member, ...

Software Robotics

Automating the enterprise
Software Robotics Corporation (Soroco) is a fully-funded stealth-mode startup company based in Cambridge, MA.  Analogous to how mechanical robots revolutionized manufacturing, Soroco believes that intelligent software robots can now replace and/or augment human ...