Boston Startup Ideas

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The event took place on Friday, November 16th at 9:00 am at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.

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A government-backed startup that analyzes data from the Boston Police Department’s body cameras and uses those statistics to help police departments across the country innovate their own policies around body cameras.

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This Boston-based startup wants to make it easier for urbanites to find the perfect park for all of their needs.

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A Boston-based startup that wants to take on Slack. The startup is creating a full-fledged chat platform that they say can go head to head with Slack. The company, which has raised $2.5 million and has no product yet, is based in the city’s Innovation District.

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A startup from the Boston area with a 3-person team that helps companies to build custom risk models for specific markets, and then build models that automate the process of gathering and analyzing data at scale.

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A Boston-based startup with a focus on clean energy. Their product is a roof tile that pulls energy from the sun. This project is a spinout from Techstars.

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A company that helps athletes and other team members make sense of their training data. The startup was founded in November and is currently available in San Francisco, New York City, and Boston.

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A company that provides a “wearable” device for monitoring blood sugar. It was founded in Boston by a team of MIT graduates.

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A La Carte is a service that connects companies with independent contractors, and allows them to earn extra income via their own websites. They say that in the past few years they’ve signed up over 500 businesses in the Greater Boston area, earning over $2 million in additional revenue, and have scaled their operations to 3,800 independent contractors.

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This startup is building a platform to help small businesses find the right staff for their specific needs. The startup said that they have now launched in Boston and New York.

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A Boston startup that aims to make it easier for people to start a business by cutting out the middlemen that currently profit from them. It offers a suite of services that allow companies to set up a website in 15 minutes.

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3 years ago

Ticket sales for anime conventions and concerts, with a focus on anime conventions. The startup works with publishers and artists to build events, and has already hosted events at Anime Expo, Tokyo’s Anime Digital Expo, and Anime Boston.

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3 years ago

Health AI is building a digital health platform for the chronically ill and people in the early stages of developing diseases. The company launched in Boston in early 2017. The startup is building an AI-enabled doctor system that will read and interpret patient medical records and send the data to an online health doctor.

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A startup that helps health care organizations make more effective referrals to specialists. It’s currently being used by a network of 20 hospitals in Boston, with plans to expand to the rest of the US within the next six months.

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3 years ago

A startup that uses machine learning to predict what people will do next. The startup, which is based in Boston, is trying to leverage “pattern recognition” to predict the next move in a given situation.

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This startup is building a “mobile workbench” for independent contractors using the same tools as an in-house workers. The startup is working with over 50 contractors in their home city of Boston.

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3 years ago

A startup with a mobile app that allows individuals to pay for parking by scanning their license plate. It is first launching in the Boston area.

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A platform to create, operate, and scale an online survey to gather information on a topic. The Startup has launched a beta in Boston and plans to launch in NYC for the fall.

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The following startups have left TechStars Boston since the program’s start in 2011 and are no longer affiliated with the program:

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A directory for finding the nearest dry cleaner, restaurant, and other types of businesses. The company launched in Boston with the goal of landing in New York and Los Angeles by December.

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A co-working space in Boston, with a focus on “collaborative co-working”. The entire building is for rent, with spaces ranging from a private desk to a 20-person office to a larger shared space.

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3 years ago

A Boston-based startup building an iPhone app that will enable users to record their driving/riding behavior and then analyze it to help them make better decisions

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“We’re not trying to build on Boston’s history, we’re trying to build on Boston’s future.”

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The Boston-based startup is building a system that helps retailers find the most effective way to promote their product to the right people on Facebook. And it's building a whole new Facebook for small business.

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A platform allowing users to order and pay for carbon offsets. Carbon Cow is a Boston-based startup that focuses on helping companies and organizations get involved in climate change. Currently the company is working with organizations like the World Wildlife Fund and Environmental Defense Fund.

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A company that helps big companies get their employees to be more data-driven. They’re working with several large companies in Boston to help their teams focus on more data-driven decision making.

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A Boston-based startup that’s building a way to store and organize restaurant and event reviews so that they can be accessed at anytime, anywhere.

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Inspired by the need for more and better housing in major cities, e-Housing helps companies host housing options for their employees, creating an “off-site” location for them to meet. It’s set to launch in Boston this summer.

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Seed investments for early stage startups in Boston, managed by a pair of former Bain Capital Ventures partners. The seed fund will invest $50,000, and the idea is the accelerator will help entrepreneurs grow their company before they get to the point that a Series A investment is warranted.

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This startup aims to help power out-of-town businesses by allowing them to take advantage of the high-speed internet from their users. It has offices in New York and Boston.

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A SaaS startup working on a platform for scheduling and managing healthcare appointments. The startup is growing fast in Boston and is now profitable.

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The startup is building a way to manage your credit card payments and payments at retailers. It’s first product, a card reader, was used by the Boston Mayor’s office, and the startup was acquired by Stripe in 2014.

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A startup for finding and sharing items at a discount in your city. Founded in late 2014, the startup is based in Boston, and has signed up more than 1,000 stores in the US, including Bed Bath & Beyond, Target, Staples, and Price Chopper.

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The startup, which was founded in October 2017, originally named “Disconnect”, was founded by Yevgeny Ponomarev, a Russian software developer who immigrated to the U.S. in 2012. The company, which currently has 3 full-time employees and 7 part-time workers, is based in Boston, MA and San Francisco, CA.

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A startup that lets users locate and buy parking spaces and find nearby restaurants. It's in a trial run in Boston, where the startup has partnered with the city's parking authority and is charging $10 a month for a user account, plus $1 for each parking space for which the user is a permit holder.

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Idea: A market for people who want to rent their vehicles to others for a few hours or the day The company has grown to 15,000 drivers in the Boston area They’re aiming to be a trusted marketplace that makes it easier to rent cars, and more profitable for their drivers

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Boston Startup Ideas

The event took place on Friday, November 16th at 9:00 am at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.

A government-backed startup that analyzes data from the Boston Police Department’s body cameras and uses those statistics to help police departments across the country innovate their own policies around body cameras.

This Boston-based startup wants to make it easier for urbanites to find the perfect park for all of their needs.

A Boston-based startup that wants to take on Slack. The startup is creating a full-fledged chat platform that they say can go head to head with Slack. The company, which has raised $2.5 million and has no product yet, is based in the city’s Innovation District.

A startup from the Boston area with a 3-person team that helps companies to build custom risk models for specific markets, and then build models that automate the process of gathering and analyzing data at scale.

A Boston-based startup with a focus on clean energy. Their product is a roof tile that pulls energy from the sun. This project is a spinout from Techstars.

A company that helps athletes and other team members make sense of their training data. The startup was founded in November and is currently available in San Francisco, New York City, and Boston.

A company that provides a “wearable” device for monitoring blood sugar. It was founded in Boston by a team of MIT graduates.

This startup is building a platform to help small businesses find the right staff for their specific needs. The startup said that they have now launched in Boston and New York.

A Boston startup that aims to make it easier for people to start a business by cutting out the middlemen that currently profit from them. It offers a suite of services that allow companies to set up a website in 15 minutes.

Ticket sales for anime conventions and concerts, with a focus on anime conventions. The startup works with publishers and artists to build events, and has already hosted events at Anime Expo, Tokyo’s Anime Digital Expo, and Anime Boston.

A startup that helps health care organizations make more effective referrals to specialists. It’s currently being used by a network of 20 hospitals in Boston, with plans to expand to the rest of the US within the next six months.

A startup that uses machine learning to predict what people will do next. The startup, which is based in Boston, is trying to leverage “pattern recognition” to predict the next move in a given situation.

This startup is building a “mobile workbench” for independent contractors using the same tools as an in-house workers. The startup is working with over 50 contractors in their home city of Boston.

A startup with a mobile app that allows individuals to pay for parking by scanning their license plate. It is first launching in the Boston area.

A platform to create, operate, and scale an online survey to gather information on a topic. The Startup has launched a beta in Boston and plans to launch in NYC for the fall.

The following startups have left TechStars Boston since the program’s start in 2011 and are no longer affiliated with the program:

A directory for finding the nearest dry cleaner, restaurant, and other types of businesses. The company launched in Boston with the goal of landing in New York and Los Angeles by December.

A co-working space in Boston, with a focus on “collaborative co-working”. The entire building is for rent, with spaces ranging from a private desk to a 20-person office to a larger shared space.

A Boston-based startup building an iPhone app that will enable users to record their driving/riding behavior and then analyze it to help them make better decisions

“We’re not trying to build on Boston’s history, we’re trying to build on Boston’s future.”

The Boston-based startup is building a system that helps retailers find the most effective way to promote their product to the right people on Facebook. And it's building a whole new Facebook for small business.

A platform allowing users to order and pay for carbon offsets. Carbon Cow is a Boston-based startup that focuses on helping companies and organizations get involved in climate change. Currently the company is working with organizations like the World Wildlife Fund and Environmental Defense Fund.

A company that helps big companies get their employees to be more data-driven. They’re working with several large companies in Boston to help their teams focus on more data-driven decision making.

A Boston-based startup that’s building a way to store and organize restaurant and event reviews so that they can be accessed at anytime, anywhere.

Inspired by the need for more and better housing in major cities, e-Housing helps companies host housing options for their employees, creating an “off-site” location for them to meet. It’s set to launch in Boston this summer.

Seed investments for early stage startups in Boston, managed by a pair of former Bain Capital Ventures partners. The seed fund will invest $50,000, and the idea is the accelerator will help entrepreneurs grow their company before they get to the point that a Series A investment is warranted.

This startup aims to help power out-of-town businesses by allowing them to take advantage of the high-speed internet from their users. It has offices in New York and Boston.

A SaaS startup working on a platform for scheduling and managing healthcare appointments. The startup is growing fast in Boston and is now profitable.

The startup is building a way to manage your credit card payments and payments at retailers. It’s first product, a card reader, was used by the Boston Mayor’s office, and the startup was acquired by Stripe in 2014.

A startup for finding and sharing items at a discount in your city. Founded in late 2014, the startup is based in Boston, and has signed up more than 1,000 stores in the US, including Bed Bath & Beyond, Target, Staples, and Price Chopper.

A startup that lets users locate and buy parking spaces and find nearby restaurants. It's in a trial run in Boston, where the startup has partnered with the city's parking authority and is charging $10 a month for a user account, plus $1 for each parking space for which the user is a permit holder.

Idea: A market for people who want to rent their vehicles to others for a few hours or the day The company has grown to 15,000 drivers in the Boston area They’re aiming to be a trusted marketplace that makes it easier to rent cars, and more profitable for their drivers