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The Marbl Platform

SaaS

The Marbl Platform

The Marbl Platform is a groundbreaking sales tool meticulously crafted for the ductless industry. Revolutionizing the sales process, Marbl allows HVAC professionals to size, design, and price a custom ductless system directly in the homeowner's residence during the initial visit. Built on a foundation of extensive product knowledge and installation expertise, the platform simplifies complex configurations, making them easy, accurate, and fully automated. The platform's interactive nature encourages homeowners to actively participate in the system design, ensuring a tailored solution that meets their unique needs. With its cloud-based delivery, professionals can effortlessly move around the home, capturing design details via the Marbl iPad App or Android tablet. The Marbl Proposal Tool, a standout feature, is customized with the user's unique pricing. It automatically integrates Mitsubishi unit prices based on the system design, allowing for the addition of accessories and overhead costs. The result is a comprehensive, fully priced proposal presented on the spot. Enhanced with e-signature technology, Marbl ensures a seamless sales closure, enabling professionals to secure a signed proposal and email it to the customer before even leaving the premises. As a testament to its efficacy, industry experts like Roger Willett, NEBU Regional Sales Manager-Mitsubishi, laud Marbl as a game-changer in addressing the prevalent 'email a bid' challenge in the HVAC/R industry.

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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

Human Cloud

Cloud

Human Cloud

We help companies find the best flexible talent solutions so that they can scale their flexible workforce. We spent 10+ years building the largest Knowledge Graph for the flexible talent industry, then launched the Human Cloud Platform, a platform that helps companies find, vet, and deploy the perfect flexible talent solution. We also built the #1 global media channel in the flexible workforce category (top 10% global podcast), published the Human Cloud Book with HarperCollins, and reached 120,000+ executives weekly. Want to get involved? Find your perfect solution at App.HumanCloud.com

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.

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.

Paperless Parts Inc

Manufacturing

Paperless Parts Inc

Paperless Parts is a Boston-based Series B SaaS company backed by OpenView leading the digital transformation for custom part manufacturers. Our cloud-based software helps manufacturers increase revenue and win more business. Paperless Parts' patented technology and proprietary geometry engine unlock hidden insights that enable job shop manufacturers to modernize and grow their businesses. Paperless Parts integrates with your ERP system to level up how you quote and communicate with customers by rapidly pinpointing manufacturability issues, creating quotes, and processing orders for additive manufacturing, sheet metal fabrication, and CNC machining production processes.

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