Boston Startups

Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Boston.

29 hardware Startups View all

Quality GPTs - Custom designed GPTs for businesses

QualityGPTs

GPTs, personalized for you.
Agency providing easy to use AI tools to small businesses.

Exinda Networks - hardware infrastructure internet infrastructure networking

Exinda Networks

Intelligent approach to application SLA assurance and network control
Exinda is a proven global supplier of next generation WAN Optimisation and Application Acceleration products. The company has helped over 2,500 organisations in over 80 countries worldwide improve the end user experience, manage application performance, manage ...

Understory - hardware analytics big data news

Understory

Hyper-local weather data and analytics powered by proprietary hardware.
Understory generates real-time, localized, weather data, powered by a dense grids of patent-pending, next generation weather stations. The hardware designed by Understory detects rain, hail, winds and other weather events directly at the Earth’s surface where the ...

Amp Idea - hardware mobile payments taxis

Amp Idea

An interactive entertainment & payment system designed for taxis - Techstars '09 (Acq.)

Fortified Bicycle - hardware e-commerce sporting goods bicycles

Fortified Bicycle

City-Proof Bike Gear
A few summers ago a friend's bike light was stolen off his handlebars. Riding home that night a car smashed into him. Why did this happen? Because there isn’t a single bike light - or any other bike product - properly designed for urban cyclists. In fact 51% of ...

Jibo - hardware robotics artificial intelligence human computer interaction

Jibo

Interactive social and emotive robots

Superpedestrian - hardware consumer electronics transportation bicycles

Superpedestrian

Transforming urban mobility
Our diverse team is developing lightweight electric vehicles with integrated online platforms, finding new ways to connect people with their environment. Founded in late 2012 by Assaf Biderman, Associate Director at MIT's Senseable City Lab, Superpedestrian seeks ...

Rise Robotics - hardware robotics industrial automation

Rise Robotics

Breakthrough Actuators: Like Transistors for Motion
Rise Robotics invents, develops, and manufactures breakthrough, patented, power components that are affordable, lightweight, and efficient. Our first product, the Cyclone Rope Piston, tensions and contracts two points efficiently using fibrous rope and injection ...

Lowcost Email cheap flights alerts

NowBoarding ✈️

Invite-only mailing list.
We search the best weekend and long-haul flight deals so you can book before everyone else.

Okin - mobile hardware fitness consumer electronics

Okin

Connected devices for strength training
Fitness devices that make exercising at home or at the gym smarter, more engaging and fun via: - Real-time interactivity & feedback - Automated activity tracking - Guidance & community support

sage - hardware food and beverages consumer electronics

sage

robots that cook for you
Sage robots store your ingredients, generate potential recipes from what's in your kitchen, and give you a smart menu with transparent nutrition and cost. Then they cook, at your command.

Ridgewing Guitars - hardware e-commerce music musicians

Ridgewing Guitars

Bio-Acoustic | Modular | Open-Source
Guitars based on open-source modular design, and crowdsourced library of compatible components - designed to emplower the crowd to lead the frontiers of innovation, design and quality in guitars. Product is ready and sells like hot cakes even at the prototype stage... ...

Ashton Instruments - hardware consumer goods consumer electronics sporting goods

Ashton Instruments

Affordable Cycling Power Meter
We're building the first power meter that lets you train smarter and ride faster, without emptying your wallet in the process.

Plexxi - hardware enterprise software networking data center infrastructure

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 ...

Invitation codes

The referral community
Invitation App is a social network where people post their referral codes and collect rewards on autopilot.

RF Venue - hardware audio wireless communications hardware

RF Venue

Eliminating Wireless Microphone Audio Interference
RF Venue's products address widespread interference and dropout problems associated with wireless audio systems. The company's patented antenna systems and RF spectrum management technology are widely adopted by over 300 commercial sound companies and are used ...

Embue - hardware clean energy energy efficiency consumer electronics

Embue

Inspired HVAC
Connected controls platform for multi-zone & multi-family heating & cooling systems. Embue's low-cost wireless sensors and controllers monitor equipment efficiency and optimize HVAC runtimes based on observed and predicted patterns of activity, weather, building ...

Formlabs - hardware bridging online and offline mass customization 3d printing

Formlabs

A high quality, low cost 3D printer that works out of the box.
Formlabs is reinventing 3D printing with the Form 1, the first affordable, high-resolution desktop 3D printer. Started out of MIT, we’re a fast-growing, focused team, having an outsized impact. At Formlabs, you’ll work hand-in-hand with a creative group of scientists, ...

Gridco Systems - hardware clean technology energy management utilities

Gridco Systems

Distribution grid control with power electronics
Gridco Systems is introducing a new class of intelligent power distribution solutions that enable utilities to meet the evolving demands of the 21st century electric grid. Our solutions leverage recent advances in power electronics in combination with distributed ...

Weft - hardware SaaS enterprise software logistics

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 ...

SmartSports - hardware SaaS information technology

SmartSports

Smart sports products

Dragon Innovation - hardware consumer electronics product development services user experience design

Dragon Innovation

We make hardware look easy
Successfully manufacturing consumer electronics is insanely hard. Dragon Innovation makes it feel easy. Founded by a team of seasoned hardware experts, Dragon radically de-risks and simplifies manufacturing. We provide the framework, process, tools, knowledge, ...

Rugged Communications - mobile hardware clean technology internet infrastructure

Rugged Communications

Affordable, Solar-Powered Telecommunications for Rural Locations
Rugged Communications offers an innovative approach to telecommunications. We apply the principles of development work to install and maintain solar-powered telecommunications systems for rural people in developing countries. Our approach depends upon strong relationships ...

Sage Devices - hardware energy efficiency energy management home automation

Sage Devices

Sage Devices is a new company working on devices and services for home energy management. We are exploring a range of products based on technology for detailed energy monitoring and feedback.

Ring Theory - hardware transportation Wearables Wearable technologies

Ring Theory

Wearable technology that gives your fist-bump access to anywhere!
Sesame Ring is designed to give you fingertip convenience by incorporating your smart card with a dash of style. Starting with the T, Sesame Ring scoots you through the gates, so you’ll never miss another train fishing out your Charlie Pass.

908 Devices - hardware analytics chemicals homeland security

908 Devices

Elegant analytical tools from mass spectrometry
Mass spectrometry is a well-established analytical technique used in virtually every chemical analysis laboratory for limitless applications from safety & security, to food science, biotechnology, clinical diagnostics and controlling industrial processes. Conventional ...

Harmonix Music Systems - hardware music video games console gaming

Harmonix Music Systems

Harmonix is one of the world’s leading independent game development studios, best known for creating blockbuster franchises like Rock Band and Dance Central. We’re currently hard at work inventing the future of music and motion gaming.

ReGenerator-X - hardware clean energy energy efficiency

ReGenerator-X

Decentralize the grid.
We are in the early design process of the initial prototype. We are seeking to bring to market a new household appliance that could potentially disrupt the entire scope of modern energy distribution. The product concept is modular power box with basic functionalities ...

Oasys - hardware consumer goods consumer electronics

Oasys

Making convenience products convenient
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CoolChip Technologies - hardware console gaming pc gaming High Performance Computing

CoolChip Technologies

Kinetic Cooling for Advanced Electronics
Over the last half-century, everything in computing has significantly evolved - everything but the fan-cooler. Thermal management is critical to product performance and longevity, yet fan-coolers remain antiquated and have not kept pace with modern electronics ...

Modkit - hardware deep information technology development platforms developer tools

Modkit

Democratizing programming and engineering
Modkit Micro helps you make (almost) anything smarter—the only limit is your imagination. From stuffed animals that respond to hugs, to window blinds that squint for you, if you can think it up, Modkit Micro can help you program it to happen.

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