Boston Startup Hub

Welcome to the hub for the most groundbreaking and ambitious startups in Boston! Our directory has just landed, want to join us on this exciting journey?

Join Discover

Featured Startups

Dive into our directory to uncover more innovations that are shaping the city's future.

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.

Details

Voatz

Cybersecurity

Blockchain

Voatz

Voatz is an award winning mobile elections platform that is changing the way the world votes. Backed by cutting-edge security, biometrics and a blockchain-backed infrastructure, Voatz enables smartphone voting to increase accessibility and security in elections. Since inception, Voatz has successfully served more than 2.3 million voters across 130 elections with several governments, major political parties, universities and non-profits. In 2018, Voatz ran the first mobile vote in US Federal Election history, and, in 2020, Voatz became the first smartphone app based system to be used for voting in the US Presidential Elections. Voatz was recently selected by 15 cities in Canada for the 2022 Ontario Municipal Elections.

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.

FreezeNit

Healthcare

FreezeNit

FreezeNit will improve the treatment of head lice for millions of families in the US. Our innovative approach simultaneously freezes and asphyxiates lice using only cold CO2 gas, in one short, non-toxic treatment.

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.

Details

Go to Directory

Latest News

Dive into our blog for the latest trends and success stories from the Boston's startup community.

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.