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Smart Credit
FinTechSmart Credit
Smart Credit helps maximize cashback, reward, and travel points by recommending the best credit card for every purchase.
Hourwork
HR TechHourwork
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.
Asimov
BiotechAsimov
Headquartered in Boston, Asimov's mission is to advance humanity's ability to design living systems, enabling biotechnologies with outsized societal benefit. The company is developing a synthetic biology platform – from cells to software – to design and manufacture next-generation therapeutics, including biologics, cell/gene therapies, and RNA. Founded by bioengineers from MIT and Boston University, the company has raised over $200 million from top institutional investors including Andreessen Horowitz, CPP Investments, Horizons Ventures, and Fidelity Management & Research Company. Asimov builds tools to program living cells. By integrating mammalian synthetic biology, computer-aided design, and machine learning, our multi-disciplinary team is advancing the design and manufacture of biologics and gene therapies.
Fertu
SoftwareHealthcareFertu
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.
Spoiler Alert
SoftwareSpoiler Alert
Transforming excess inventory from a problem into a profit. Spoiler Alert is a B2B sales software company helping CPG manufacturers and distributors to manage excess and slow-moving inventory by digitizing the liquidation process. Our goal is to help our customers recover value for products that otherwise would be wasted, allowing them to increase profits, strengthen customer relationships, increase the effectiveness of supply chain managers, and allow for more accurate demand planning. Founded by alumni of MIT, Spoiler Alert works with some of the world's largest companies, including Campbell Soup Company, Danone North America, HelloFresh, KeHE Distributors, Kraft Heinz, Mondelēz, Johnsonville, and Nestlé, along with a growing network of discount channels committed to increasing affordable food access.
JellyFish
SoftwareJellyFish
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.
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