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Soofa

Software

Soofa

Founded in 2014 out of the MIT media lab, sustainable Soofa Signs are the leading solar-powered communication tool for cities and advertisers. Currently, Soofa Signs has homes in over 57 cities across the U.S. with plans to expand. Soofa advertisers are guaranteed high traffic, unique locations, countless ways to measure success, and a platform to update messaging in real time. We’ve worked with brands large and small like Harpoon, RedBull, New England Revolution, and Wayfair, proving that more businesses are emphasizing sustainable advertising practices. Additionally, cities like Boston, Atlanta, and Miami utilize Soofa Signs to create unique and engaging messaging with their communities thanks to our neighborhood news feed. If it’s an urgent message, or one just for fun, Soofa Signs make it easy to get information to your intended audience.

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ChaosSearch

Software

ChaosSearch

ChaosSearch enables customers to Know Better, delivering data insights at scale while achieving the true promise of data lake economics. The ChaosSearch Data Platform connects to and indexes data within a customer’s cloud storage environment, rendering it fully searchable and available for analysis with existing data tools – all with unlimited scale, industry-leading resiliency, and massive cost savings.

Dust Identity

Software

Cybersecurity

Nanotechnology

Dust Identity

DUST Identity is the creator of the Diamond Unclonable Security Tag (DUST), a technology utilizing microscopic engineered diamonds to create an unclonable identity layer on any object. At DUST Identity, we believe that authentic products tell powerful stories and build beloved brands. Our customers come to us in search of advanced identity tools to protect and connect the most valuable products and physical objects from battlefields to playing fields and everything in between. We deliver elegant, adaptable, long-lasting solutions that solve our customers' need for more control over their brands, products, and parts. DUST Identity, established in 2018 and headquartered in Boston, was created by a team of quantum physics, nanotechnology, and cyber security experts. The company is an MIT spinoff, has participated in several DARPA programs, and is backed by Castle Island Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Lockheed Martin Ventures, Airbus Ventures, Highland Capital Partners, New Science Ventures, 8VC, Angular Ventures, and others.

Boston Tech Insights

AI-Powered Qualitative Research Platform - allows corporations to easily conduct, analyze, and manage qualitative research all on one platform.

JellyFish

Software

JellyFish

Jellyfish is the pioneer Engineering Management Platform that enables engineering leaders to align engineering work with strategic business objectives. By analyzing engineering signals and contextual business data, Jellyfish provides complete visibility into engineering organizations, the work they do, and how they operate. Companies like SessionM (A Mastercard Company) and Toast use Jellyfish to optimize the allocation of engineering resources to focus their teams on what matters most to the business.

Solo.io

Analytics

Solo.io

Gloo Platform, by Solo.io, integrates API Gateway, Kubernetes Ingress, Service Mesh, and Cloud-native Networking technologies into a unified, multi-cloud application networking platform. Start building zero trust security into your distributed applications today and ensure that application communications can be secured in these dynamic environments. Gloo Platform includes: - Gloo Gateway: modern API management with secure, scalable, modern API gateway architectures. - Gloo Mesh: Gloo Mesh, based on the industry's leading Istio service mesh, simplifies multi-cloud and multi-cluster management of service mesh for containers and virtual machines. - Gloo Network: Gloo Network enables Cilium-CNI powered by eBPF to enable networking, packet filtering and observability for modern applications. Gloo Network is a modular component of Gloo Platform. Building on industry-leading open source Istio and Envoy Proxy, only Solo can help you simplify your operations with unified control, reliability, observability, extensibility, and security. We reduce your effort and risk, so you can focus on innovation with your applications. Founded in 2017 in Cambridge, MA, Solo.io is backed by Redpoint Ventures and True Ventures.

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Boston Tech Talks: Arnar Larusson from Tyme Wear

In this edition of Boston Tech Talks, Arnar Larusson, co-founder of Tyme Wear, shares how his background in biomechanics and engineering led to building a wearable tech startup—and why Boston’s unique mix of resources, talent, and community made it the ideal place to launch.