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50 BEST SMALL COMPANIES TO WORK FOR IN Boston 2020
Mentor Collective
Edtech + Social Impact
About us
Mentor Collective is the leading provider of impact-driven mentoring programs. MC partners with universities to provide all students with a relevant, trained peer, professional, or alumni mentor.
Our partner institutions have seen retention impacts ranging from 1% to 17%, with a total of over 21,000 mentorships created over the last 2 years.
25
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
Lose It!
Fitness + Healthtech
About us
Lose It! is mobilizing the world to achieve a healthy weight. Downloaded by over 35 million people around the world, Lose It! is the most effective, personal, app-based weight loss program. Our members have lost over 80 million pounds (and counting)!
42
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
Perceptive Automata
Artificial Intelligence + Machine Learning
About us
Perceptive Automata is solving what is often described as the hardest of the hard problems for automated driving: human behavior prediction technology for the safe large-scale rollout of highly automated and autonomous vehicles, especially in urban areas.
19
Local Employees
Founded
Somerville
Location
Privy
eCommerce + Marketing Tech
About us
Privy is the leader in ecommerce marketing for small businesses and entrepreneurs. Our mission is to provide the tools, education, and support small ecommerce brands need to grow their online stores and build thriving businesses. Privy is used by over 400,000 stores in 180 countries today, helping generate $2.5B in sales.
65
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
Wellframe
Healthtech + Mobile
About us
Wellframe helps healthcare organizations support every aspect of health beyond the four walls of care delivery. We provide care transformation services, a patented engagement platform, clinical programs that support the clinical and social determinants of health, and rigorous measurement.
90
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
Piaggio Fast Forward
Computer Vision + Robotics
About us
Founded in 2015 by the Piaggio Group, Piaggio Fast Forward creates lightweight, intelligent mobility solutions for people and goods. Based in Boston, MA, the company is dedicated to helping people to move better, further, faster, and more enjoyably. PFF builds products that travel with people on the move.
73
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
BookBub
Consumer Web + Digital Media
About us
BookBub is one of the fastest-growing consumer tech startups in Boston (and we’re profitable). Millions of readers use BookBub every day to find great books, and our service empowers thousands of leading publishers and authors to drive sales and find new fans.
100
Local Employees
Founded
Cambridge
Location
PlacePass
eCommerce + Travel
About us
Founded in 2016 and located in the heart of Boston, PlacePass is building a world-class tours, activities, and events marketplace to transform the way people discover the world. In addition to the placepass.com consumer brand, our white label platform powers co-branded websites for the world’s top travel companies across hotel, air, and car sectors
30
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
MedTouch
Healthtech
About us
MedTouch helps hospitals and health plans build integrated digital marketing and technology strategies that enhance the patient experience. We start with understanding the consumer's journey and how they make their care decisions. We then leverage those learnings by designing technology solutions and campaigns that attract and nurture patients.
45
Local Employees
Founded
Somerville
Location
3Play Media
Software
About us
3Play Media provides closed captioning, transcription, translation, and audio description to more than 2,500 customers in higher education, media & entertainment, enterprise, and government. 3Play Media simplifies the process through flexible APIs, video platform integrations, and a user-friendly account system.
54
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
DUST Identity
Computer Vision + Internet of Things
About us
Our business delivers Trust. We’re a security start-up that ensures trust in physical objects by supplying a secure link between the physical object and its digital records. We envision a world where every product, component, and package has a trusted identity that can be tracked across the entire lifecycle.
10
Local Employees
Founded
Framingham
Location
ProfitWell
Software
About us
For forward-thinking recurring revenue businesses who value growth, ProfitWell provides industry standard BI solutions that improve your retention and monetization automatically through unmatched subscription intelligence.
ProfitWell serves over eight thousand subscription companies including Autodesk, Atlassian, and Lyft.
65
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
Mightier
Edtech + Gaming
About us
Mightier was developed and tested at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School to give kids a place to practice emotional regulation and develop coping skills. Mightier offers a library of biofeedback video games. Kids wear a heart rate monitor as they play biofeedback video games. When kids learn to stay calm, they succeed in the games
27
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
Appcues
Software
About us
At Appcues, our mission is to help teams build products their users love.
With Appcues, you can create in-product experiences (user onboarding, feature announcements, etc.) without writing any code. We believe it's the non-technical people who oftentimes have the best information about a user's needs and desires.
63
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
Dispatch
Mobile + Software
About us
Dispatch is one of the fastest-growing software companies in America. Leveraging its proprietary platform and industry-leading technology integrations, Dispatch partners with customer-centric brands to simplify complex home service logistics.
55
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
Nanoramic Laboratories
Hardware + Other
About us
Nanoramic specializes in energy storage technology and material solutions. We synthesize and incorporate nano-carbons in various materials and transfer these properties at the macroscale level. We choose advanced and proprietary combination of advanced materials, creating new materials that meets the needs of several applications.
38
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
GreatHorn
Cloud + Information Technology
About us
GreatHorn is redefining email security to better protect organizations against advanced email threats like phishing, social engineering attacks, and zero-day malware. We solve our customers’ email security struggles with leading-edge technology and a team of dedicated, clever people with a customer-first philosophy.
22
Local Employees
Founded
Waltham
Location
Mavrck
AdTech + Marketing Tech
About us
Mavrck is the leading, all-in-one, advanced influencer marketing platform enabling companies such as P&G, Godiva, and PepsiCo. Using its self-service influencer manager, marketers can take an automated and performance-based approach to influencer marketing by discovering and collaborating with influencers to create trusted content and insights.
62
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
Madaket Health
Healthtech + Software
About us
Madaket Health eliminates non-strategic, administrative costs in the healthcare system and allows providers, intermediaries, and insurance companies to communicate more efficiently.
We are hiring! Visit https://madaket-health.breezy.hr. for current openings
49
Local Employees
Founded
Cambridge
Location
Wistia
Marketing Tech + Software
About us
Wistia is the video platform for business. And dogs. We work hard to bring together people from a wide variety of backgrounds and identities, all with the goal of building more inclusive, more useful, and more impactful products and experiences.
100
Local Employees
Founded
Cambridge
Location
SFL Scientific
Artificial Intelligence + Cloud
About us
SFL Scientific is a data science consulting and professional services firm, providing a broad range of solutions in data engineering, machine learning, and Artificial Intelligence. We provide strategy, prototype, integrate, and manage sophisticated AI solutions by leveraging emerging technology, working across twenty industry sectors.
25
Local Employees
Founded
Quincy
Location
Fairmarkit
Software
About us
Through streamlined sourcing, vendor identification and automatic quoting, Fairmarkit accelerates the bid-to-buy process. Our solution uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to reduce manual effort by 30-40% on purchases while yielding savings of over 15%.
25
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
RightHand Robotics
Computer Vision + Machine Learning
About us
RightHand Robotics is a leader in providing robotic piece-picking solutions that improve performance and efficiency in e-commerce order fulfillment and intralogistics. Its RightPick product platform is a software-driven hardware-enabled solution that handles the core task of picking and placing individual items as part of a wide range of workflows.
70
Local Employees
Founded
Somerville
Location
XL
Automotive + Greentech
About us
XL is a high-growth automotive technology company. We are developing and producing cutting-edge technology to convert conventional vehicles into hybrids and plug-in hybrids to reduce fuel consumption and to generate a compelling return on investment for fleet customers. Our customers include transportation, municipal, and utility fleets.
35
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
Pixability
AdTech
About us
Pixability is a video advertising software company that uses data science to optimize large, complex campaigns across YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Connected TV.
60
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
Human Care Systems
Healthtech + Information Technology
About us
Human Care Systems (HCS) is the Treatment Experience company – we deliver improved access, use, experience and outcomes from medicines. Our customers are biopharmaceutical companies seeking to improve therapy initiation and adherence. The foundation of our solution is our Resilix™ Treatment Experience Platform + clinical services.
30
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
Hi Marley
Insurance + Software
About us
Marley is changing the conversation between insurance companies and their customers. Hi Marley is a conversation platform that simply and easily connects people with their insurance companies. Marley combines intelligent messaging and human touch to make the experience as easy and efficient as possible.
25
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
Plastiq
Fintech + Payments
About us
Plastiq is bill pay with benefits, enabling business owners and consumers to use a credit card for virtually any expense, even ones that normally require a check. With Plastiq, it's easier to earn credit card rewards, tap early-payment discounts, and use your cash in ways that make the most sense for you.
5
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
Cambridge Semantics
Big Data + Software
About us
Our product allows IT departments and their business users to semantically link, analyze and manage diverse data sources whether internal or external, structured or unstructured, with speed and at enterprise scale using only a fraction of the resources normally required by traditional approaches.
75
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
Vecna Robotics
Robotics + Transportation
About us
Vecna Robotics delivers automated material handling, hybrid fulfillment, and workflow optimization solutions featuring self-driving vehicles operated by a learning autonomy stack. It delivers value for customers in distribution, warehousing, and manufacturing. Beyond traditional automation, it focuses on maximizing human and robot capabilities.
80
Local Employees
Founded
Waltham
Location
CareDash
Healthtech
About us
CareDash is the fastest growing doctor review website, working to create transparency in the healthcare industry and transform the experience of finding a provider. In addition to useful provider information and unfiltered reviews, we present complex healthcare information and data in a comprehensive and clear manner.
30
Local Employees
Founded
Cambridge
Location
Touchplan
Software
About us
Touchplan is a SaaS construction collaboration tool that field teams, planners & stakeholders actually like.
Ready to use within minutes to enable teams to beat deadlines & deliver projects that save an average of 20%. Trusted by $22B+ of construction, 12,000+ users, 800+ global projects, 100+ general contractors & ENR top 100 to finish ahead.
25
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
TVision
AdTech + Big Data
About us
TVision Insights is a television attention measurement company pioneering the way brands, their agencies, TV networks and OTT platforms determine the true value of their video content and advertising. The company’s core technology uses data science and motion capture technology to passively assess eyes on screen, the single most accurate way to mea
25
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
HqO
Mobile + Real Estate
About us
HqO is a tenant experience platform that enables landlords to create places people love. Headquartered in Boston, HqO partners with the leading landlords, property managers, and brokers who want to attract innovative tenants, provide a premium experience, and increase overall asset value by accessing untapped data about their tenants and space.
Founded
Boston
Location
Abacus Insights
Big Data + Healthtech
About us
We allow healthcare companies to unlock the value of their data by removing the burden of maintaining and updating an enterprise data management platform. Abacus provides a flexible, efficient, and secure platform that organizes and exchanges data from various sources and formats, allowing healthcare companies to uncover differentiated insights.
Founded
Charlestown
Location
Cybba
AdTech + Marketing Tech
About us
Cybba works with brands to develop digital marketing solutions that advance the customer journey. Our data-driven products optimize conversion rates and provide all the information you need to grow your brand, create engaging, personalized messages, and drive unbeatable retargeting campaigns.
50
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
HaulHub Technologies
Logistics + Software
About us
HaulHub builds technology for material hauling. HaulHub fully manages material movement for producers, contractors, and carriers with automated scheduling, real-time GPS tracking, electronic payment processing, and data analytics. We power 1,000+ jobsites and plants nationwide.
11
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
PathAI
Artificial Intelligence + Healthtech
About us
PathAI’s mission is to advance medicine with intelligent pathology. PathAI's platform provides end-to-end data-driven pathology analysis, resulting in fast, accurate and standardized pathologic diagnoses.
75
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
HEXstream
Big Data + Cloud
About us
HEXstream is a digital transformation company that is highly specialized in Data Fabric and Analytics. We provide expert consulting services to help clients streamline their business processes through the power of prescriptive and predictive analytics.
40
Local Employees
Founded
Shrewsbury
Location
TribalVision
Agency + Marketing Tech
About us
TribalVision is a Boston outsourced digital marketing firm that serves as an alternative to the traditional Boston advertising agency offerings. Our team of outsourced marketing professionals cost-effectively develops and implements client-specific marketing initiatives to generate and convert qualified leads.
Founded
Boston
Location
Evolv Technology
Artificial Intelligence + Security
About us
Evolv is a venture backed startup developing technology to detect and prevent active shooters and terrorists from attacking the places we expect to be safe. Evolv's technology is being used to seamlessly screen millions of people around the globe in stadiums, entertainment venues, performing arts centers, airports, office buildings and hotels.
33
Local Employees
Founded
Waltham
Location
Notarize
Legal Tech + Productivity
About us
Notarize is the first on-demand notary platform, allowing anyone to notarize a document online and empowering businesses to send, track and collect notarizations. We're helping people execute the most important transactions of their lives and streamlining operations for countless industries.
60
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
Compt
HR Tech + Software
About us
Compt is a passionate, people-first software company that believes there is a better way for companies to invest in its employees. Compt helps companies transform their employee perks programs from one-size-fits-all into programs that offer a personalized work experience that matches their goals, lifestyles, and preferences.
6
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
Armored Things
Artificial Intelligence + Big Data
About us
Armored Things is a Boston-based startup using artificial intelligence to transform data into valuable safety insights. We equip security personnel with the tools, information, and insights they need to keep our communities safe.
Founded
Boston
Location
Zoba
Artificial Intelligence + On-Demand
About us
Zoba is building the next generation of spatial analytics to improve the efficiency of cities and the lives of people that live in them. Our production-ready spatial data science platform provides automated demand forecasting and real-time operations strategies to shared mobility companies including micromobility operators and automobile OEMs.
10
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
Soofa
Hardware + Internet of Things
About us
Soofa is a female founded company, launched out of MIT and Harvard in 2014. We make cities smart, social, and sustainable by responsibly introducing technology into the public right of way to improve the citizen experience, because we believe that technology can benefit everyone in any neighborhood.
20
Local Employees
Founded
Cambridge
Location
Paytronix
Big Data + Marketing Tech
About us
In 2001, a vision to develop loyalty and payment technology that would define the industry’s best practices was conceived. Today, that vision has become reality. Handling billions of transactions from millions of customers, Paytronix provides rich insights for creating incremental visits and spend.
130
Local Employees
Founded
Newton
Location
Electra Vehicles
Artificial Intelligence + Machine Learning
About us
At Electra Vehicles we are passionate about making efficient energy storage and sustainable transportation more accessible by providing a comprehensive design and simulation software and advanced Ai-based controls for multi-chemistry energy solutions. These solutions excel in a multitude of applications including automotive, fleet, among others.
12
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
Ametros
Healthtech + Legal Tech
About us
Ametros is changing the way individuals navigate healthcare by providing them with the tools and support to make savvy decisions on how to spend their medical funds after settlement. Ametros' team works closely with patients, insurers, employers, attorneys, brokers, medical providers and Medicare to create a seamless experience for our clients.
45
Local Employees
Founded
Wilmington
Location
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