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Kintent (TrustCloud)

Compliance in business infiltrates every department and every process. Kintent helps automate compliance so that businesses can focus on what they do best. The software offers a risk-based assessment of company data to help identify potential areas of non-compliance. Various workflows and templates are available for different types of compliance needs.

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Piaggio Fast Forward

Automotive

Piaggio Fast Forward

Piaggio Fast Forward is a new technology and design company established in 2015 by the Piaggio Group, the manufacturers of Vespa, Aprilia, Moto Guzzi, Derbi, and Gilera. PFF was established with an open mandate to re-think smart mobility platforms in a world where city navigation and short-distance transportation are rapidly changing. We’re a highly creative, motivated, interdisciplinary team of innovators committed to building lightweight, semi-autonomous, and entirely self-driving mobility platforms that easily, safely, and efficiently move people and goods in urban settings

Silvertree

Consumer

Silvertree

Silvertree is on a mission to inspire the world’s aging population. We are developing a wellness wearable platform that provides the right balance of safety, connection, and style for active older adults. Aging is a personal experience, yet aging with dignity and independence so often includes the caring involvement of family and loved ones. That is why we are designing a stylish, wrist-worn wearable that is built for safety and deeply rooted in human connection, across generations. We aim to be the consumer brand associated with vitality, style, and independence for the growing population of fifty-five million Americans ages sixty-five and beyond.

Emulate

Healthcare

Emulate

Emulate Inc. is a privately held company that creates advanced in vitro models for understanding how diseases, medicines, chemicals, and foods affect human health. Our lab-ready Human Emulation System® includes three components: Zoë® Culture Module, Organ-Chips, and analytical software applications. The platform provides a window into the inner workings of human biology and disease—offering researchers a new technology designed to predict human response with greater precision and detail than conventional cell culture or animal-based experimental testing. Research conducted using our Organ-Chips has been published in high-impact scientific journals, including Science. In addition, Organ-Chips have been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York for their permanent collection and have also been awarded Product Design of the Year 2015 by London’s Design Museum.

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.

Hydrow

Healthcare

Hydrow

New to the market, fast-growing, incredibly innovative, and already recognized as one of the Boston Globe’s Top Places to Work, Hydrow is the Live Outdoor Reality (LOR)™ rowing machine that delivers on-water experiences at home with workouts led by world-class athletes. Engaging twice as many muscles as cycling (86%, in fact), Hydrow’s interactive technology delivers challenging virtual workouts, including On the Mat offerings like Yoga (Strength, Mobility) and Pilates from gorgeous locations around the world. Hydrow connects members with an entire community of fellow rowers who experience the rivers and waterways of the world together in synchrony. You, too, can be part of that community. At Hydrow, you’ll have the chance to shape a company that is disrupting the fitness industry while creating engaging content unmatched in the marketplace today. Sound exciting? That’s because it is!

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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.