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Hourwork

HR Tech

Hourwork

HourWork offers a new, better way to hire and retain hourly workers in today’s understaffed world. Our best-in-class recruitment and retention solutions help match employers with top hourly talent, uncover what matters most to employees, and automatically check in at key milestones to prevent early attrition. Our name is rooted in our commitment to celebrate and build the interdependent relationship between employers and employees. We partner with clients who see themselves as skill providers and who have a deep belief that their business is most successful when their employees feel successful, too. This understanding – coupled with our advanced HourWork technology – differentiates our customers from the abundance of employers ready to hire today as an employer of choice.

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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.

Boston Tech Insights

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

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.

Viddyup

Event Tech

Viddyup

Viddyup is the video matchmaker for event experts. Consumers share their needs, watch personalized video intros, and vibe with experts face-to-face before choosing the best fit.

Fertu

Software

Healthcare

Fertu

Fertu is transforming user and patient outreach for digital health companies, health plans and employers with a marketing automation platform that increases enrollment and access to care while lowering cost and effort. Built by healthcare marketers, for healthcare marketers, Fertu solves the toughest challenges of multi-channel touches across the campaign lifecycle to increase user acquisition and enrollment. And Fertu helps benefits administrators to centralize and simplify the management of their various digital health providers.

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July 22nd, 2025

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.