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Ascend Elements

Chemicals

Ascend Elements

Ascend Elements is an independent manufacturer of advanced battery materials using valuable elements reclaimed from spent lithium-ion batteries. Their patented Hydro-to-Cathode® direct precursor synthesis process transforms today’s waste into high-value materials for tomorrow’s EV batteries — a giant step up in sustainability for the entire industry.

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Smart Credit

FinTech

Smart Credit

Smart Credit helps maximize cashback, reward, and travel points by recommending the best credit card for every purchase.

Asimov

Biotech

Asimov

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.

UNICORN

Healthcare

Consumer

UNICORN

Welcome to Unicorn – the visionary movement that's transforming the landscape of period care, one restroom stall at a time. We're more than just an organization; we're a community committed to promoting health, dignity, and equity. With our innovative, low-profile dispensers, we're making organic tampons and pads readily available in every stall of institutions who share our vision - starting with JPMorgan Chase & Co., the first big bank to adopt our revolutionary concept.

Flipside Crypto

FinTech

Flipside Crypto

Flipside enables blockchains to live up to their full potential, by decoding and explaining blockchain behaviors. Our proprietary process extracts all of the data from blockchains and applies labels to transactions in order to identify and understand on-chain behaviors. The data is then streamed into our Business Intelligence Dashboards, to provide a clear view of real-time stakeholder behaviors and all asset flows. Flipside provides analytics to more than 80 cryptocurrency organizations and distributes ratings products via partners such as CoinMarketCap, Messari, MarketWatch and TheStreet. Flipside Crypto is backed by True Ventures, Founder Collective, CoinBase Ventures, Digital Currency Group, Galaxy Digital, and other investors.

BIY China

Software

Education

BIY China

Build-It-Yourself offers an art and engineering program driven by technology-in-education research at MIT. Our mission is to inspire and guide the next generation of builders to use technology creatively in a unique global laboratory.

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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.