Startups

The DriveWell app runs in the background of a smartphone, collecting data on driving behavior. Drivers receive a score on a scale from 1 to 100, a route map, and tips for improvement. Scores can also be used for insurance discounts, or to compete with friends and other drivers worldwide.

Smarter driving, using your phone

App that rates drivers’ behavior yields promising safety results on the road.

January 5, 2016

“In health care, there’s this gigantic world of unstructured data that needs to be translated into useable information,” says Paul Nemirovsky, who co-founded dMetrics with Ariadna Quattoni.

Detecting consumer decisions within messy data

Software analyzes online chatter to predict health care consumers’ behavior.

December 21, 2015

In a two-year study with New York City garbage trucks, the startup’s sensors cut the frequency and duration of filter regeneration in half, which produced a 1 to 2 percent fuel savings. This can be significant for fleets of trucks, such as those in the study, which use roughly 5,000 to 8,000 gallons of diesel fuel annually.

Wireless sensors could make diesel engines greener

Startup’s sensors measure soot and ash buildup in filters to help engines burn more efficiently.

December 15, 2015

Gen9's BioFab process, now being used by dozens of researchers and companies, cuts costs and accelerates the creation and testing of genes.

Scaling up synthetic-biology innovation

MIT professor’s startup makes synthesizing genes many times more cost effective.

December 10, 2015

Associate Provost Richard Lester, founder and faculty director of the Industrial Performance Center, listens to discussion and report analysis of "Growing Innovative Companies to Scale: How Does Massachusetts Measure Up?" held at MIT on Thursday, Dec. 10.

Growing innovative firms to scale

MIT study analyzes Massachusetts performance in growing tech-based companies to scale.

December 10, 2015

A new report estimates that, as of 2014, MIT alumni have launched 30,200 active companies, employing roughly 4.6 million people, and generating roughly $1.9 trillion in annual revenues.

New report outlines MIT’s global entrepreneurial impact

Alumni-founded companies have created 4.6 million jobs, generating nearly $2 trillion in annual revenues.

December 9, 2015

To date, the Building Global Innovators program has nearly 70 active alumni companies, which have raised over 50 million Euro in financing and created more than 300 high-tech jobs.

Immersion in the Boston-area entrepreneurial ecosystem

Building Global Innovators program will mentor and assist promising technology-based startups that plan to develop a presence in the United States.

November 30, 2015

Scaling commercial energy efficiency

Automated energy analytics platform collects data on commercial buildings to improve energy efficiency.

November 16, 2015

The intelligent indoor Grove Ecosystem produces fresh vegetables, herbs, and small fruits year-round.

MIT startup brings urban agriculture indoors

Co-founders of the Somerville-based startup Grove enable people to grow their own produce with an intelligent indoor gardening appliance.

November 10, 2015

MIT announces “Innovation Node” in Hong Kong

Collaborative space will give students and faculty access to unique resources to accelerate innovation.

November 9, 2015

An app for safer roads

Censio’s data analytics on driving behavior helps users improve safety and lower insurance rates.

November 2, 2015

4Axis Solutions co-founders Minsara Madhawa, Dumindu Kanankage, Kapilan Karunananthan and Anuruddha Alwis

Empowering students in Sri Lanka to form mobile-app startups

MIT Global Startup Labs program leads to student-founded startups 4Axis Solutions and PayMedia.

October 30, 2015

A smart inhaler for people with asthma

Sensors that track inhaler use aim to keep asthma patients healthy, cut health care costs.

October 27, 2015

Neumitra co-founder and CEO Robert Goldberg, a former MIT researcher

Taking stress to a new level

MIT spinout Neumitra brings an innovative approach to quantifying, understanding, and managing stress.

October 19, 2015

Smarter lenses

Newly launched mobile eye-test device could lead to prescription virtual-reality screens.