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

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QualityGPTs

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

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Acceptional

Marketplace for successful college application essays
Our first service, launched a year ago, offers high school students the opportunity to review sample essays from admitted students at top tier colleges. The model is simple: a college student at a top tier college uploads the essay that got him accepted and every ...

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American Video Game League

College and Amateur eSports League
The AVGL is building the “NCAA" of college esports* paired with a collegiate recruitment platform. Through its online ranking system and relationships with universities and players, the AVGL will become the standard for college esports structure, player data, and ...

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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 ...

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Boundless

Save Money. Learn Faster.
Boundless is making education more accessible and affordable. Boundless is building an innovative learning platform by curating the world’s best open educational content in 20+ subjects and delivering interactive learning tools to college students. Students at ...

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Campus Lede

Competitive social network for college journalists
As a hub for college journalists to submit and evaluate content, Campus Lede is a competitive social network and an evolving, collaborative online school for college journalists. The Campus Lede’s website provides college journalists with an open forum for enhancing ...

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collegeTempo

Social Calendars for Communities
collegeTempo let's you find out "what's going on?" through a series of interactive social calendars. Users can drag and drop events from all-school, business, group, and friends' calendars into their own and vice versa. collegeTempo allows users to coordinate ...

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DailyBreak

Bite-sized contests, trivia and games for college
Dailybreak (FKA CampusLIVE) helps you take quick breaks from your day. By playing short "Challenges," you can have fun, learn new things, interact with friends, and unlock exclusive prizes. These prizes are everything from trips to electronics to discounts to those ...

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

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dorm.io

Residential management platform for universities
dorm.io is a digital hub for university students and administrators that we've designed specifically for dorms. At its core are dozens of customizable modules, encompassing building utilities (packages, room reservations, rentals, laundry) and community-centric ...

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Downtyme

Match schedules and make plans with nearby friends
Downtyme allows you to match schedules and make plans with nearby friends. It’s the fastest, most convenient way to get together with friends in your free time. Here’s how it works: 1) Sync your calendar or enter your typical weekly schedule. Downtyme only uses ...

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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 ...

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Fireflies

P2P Delivery Marketplace on College Campuses
Fireflies is a peer to peer task sharing app aimed at growing the sharing economy on college campuses. We want to change the way students exchange goods and services within a community. By using feed rank algorithms, integrated payment systems, and leveraging degrees ...

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FitCampus

Connecting active brands to active students.
FitCampus is a site for college students to track their workouts, compete with friends and win rewards from healthy brands.

Invitation codes

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

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Flashnotes

The #1 crowd-sourced educational marketplace
Flashnotes is the world's first peer-to-peer marketplace of high-quality academic content. We enable students the ability to gain access to course specific knowledge in real time by utilizing collaborative commerce and the latest technologies. Flashnotes student ...

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Freelanship

The Elance of Internships.
Freelanship provides students with inexpensive major-related work experiences that don’t require them to commit to a full-semester internship; and provides companies with a fresh perspective, quality services and an expanded audience.

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FullDorm

community/platform for college students
FullDorm.com is an online media company that targets and engages thousands of college students per month using features that students find interesting or valuable while they’re on campus. Users are required to have active school ".edu" emails. Traditionally, ...

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GrateCare

Better health care shopping
GrateCare© aims to empower the insured and uninsured consumer to make strategic healthcare choices based on their preferences of a) quality, b) budget and c) location, in easy steps, at the time and place of their choice. Through GrateCare.com (beta), we bring ...

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InnerGreek

Service-based Social Platform for College Greek Life
InnerGreek is a serviced-based, social networking website for prospective, active, and alumni members of the college Greek life community around the nation. We give both Fraternities and Sororities the tools to improve their recruitment yield, increase alumni involvement ...

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kwad

twenty-first century campus gossip
Anonymous yet accountable communities of college students, defined by strict geofencing on mobile phones.

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Learning Wellness

Comedic Educational Videos &MultiMedia
A “GROWNUP Sesame Street”: Multimedia conversations with spicy hosts and puppets plus “Saturday Night Live” skits... presenting helpful research and tools on self esteem, relationships, health, change, optimism, self-improvement, and other valuable topics. Based ...

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NimNim, Inc.

On-Demand Lifestyle Concierge for Laundry, Dry-Cleaning & Shoe Repair
NimNim - an OnDemand Laundry and Dry Cleaning Concierge. We take pride in our added level of personalization, handpicked local dry-cleaners with decades of experience, and state-of-the-art app, which can be downloaded via the Apple or Google Play Store. NimNim ...

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Qarma

Qarma. Do Good.
Qarma is all about giving back. Give to charity and get rewarded for it! follow us over @qarmaapp

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QuickHelp

Quikhelp is the fastest way to meet low-cost, in-person tutors
Quickhelp is a location-based mobile app that allows college students to meet with in-person, low-cost tutors within-the-hour. We differentiate ourselves from others in this space by focusing on the unique academic needs and circumstances of college students. App ...

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Rally

The best way to plan, share and relive your night.
Rally is going to solve the problem that is figuring out your night. Know who's down, know whatsup, know what's happening and know what happened. All in one place. Every night is a new adventure. Let Rally help you make the most of it. Lets Hoot and Rally.

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StudentUniverse

Priceline for students
StudentUniverse is a technology company that provides students with exclusive deals. We've built our own search, booking and verification tech. We're basically a bunch of geeks and business people that run the most visited student deals site in the U.S. By ...

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The Definition Of Nyce Company

Community Oriented Clothing Brand
We are a brand dedicated to engaging youth and creating a positive atmosphere. The next step for the brand will take it offline and out of stores. It is exclusive to the chosen few. Wear What You Believe.

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The Networking Collective

Mainstreaming Mentorship - "The Apprentice" meets Social Networking via eMentorship
TNC's mentor matching-engine automatically pairs the traditional Mentor and Protégé together vis-à-vis a professional networking platform and it will successfully match and ultimately demonstrate success in establishing and maintaining professional mentoring relationships ...

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TheRentist

Be your Own Agent - Angie's List for Apartment Rentals.
Don't take your sketchy realtor's advice - with all the info you need at hand, you can be your own agent. TheRentist gives Boston renters a leg up by showing them which apartments and which neighborhoods are trending at that moment - crowd-sourced apartment hunting ...

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Tuatara Corp. - Creators of GilaPad

Higher Ed Digital Learning Platform
GilaPad is a uniquely integrated, cloud-based, interactive content hub, which allows users to access and integrate content from etextbooks, popular web content via our proprietary plugin technology as well as user's PDF uploads, and combine it with self-authored ...

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Tufts University

A premier research university

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UTours

The Uber of college tours
UTours is a service that connects high school students with current college students for a personalized college tour. Our tour guides provide an authentic experience and tell you what the official university tours won't. We give you an inside look at what ...

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VentureCrowd

AngelList for Universities
VentureCrowd is an online portal focused on making relevant and sustainable connections for ventures seeking entrepreneurially minded talent. It is a free university-wide resource designed to promote innovation and create opportunities for students to become successful ...

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Youfari

Peer to Peer Textbook Rental
The site helps college students by making their college experience affordable and rewarding. We have two products. The first product Peer-To-Peer textbook rental and sale service is integrated with USPS for nation wide shipments and personal Location Based Service ...

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