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50 BEST SMALL COMPANIES TO WORK FOR IN Boston
Cogo Labs
Analytics + Angel or VC Firm
About us
Who we are: We’re not your average startup incubator. We think bigger than that. We aspire to be at the nexus of innovation and entrepreneurship. Located in the heart of Cambridge, Massachusetts, we capitalize on our proximity to successful technologists and organizations to foster the next generation of leaders at the forefront of consumer
55
Local Employees
Founded
Cambridge
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.
34
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
Extension Engine
Edtech + Professional Services
About us
We believe in the power of education to change lives for the better. The digital transformation of learning is about more than going online. It’s about harnessing digital technology, creativity, and innovation to make learning better. It’s about designing, building and growing learning experiences while gaining organizational knowledge and capacity
30
Local Employees
Founded
Cambridge
Location
Piaggio Fast Forward
Computer Vision + Hardware
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
Yesware
Information Technology + Productivity
About us
Yesware is an all-in-one sales toolkit that helps connect salespeople with prospects, track customer engagement, and close more deals. Yesware removes barriers to productivity and empowers sales teams to make smarter decisions, faster through data insights and sales communication in their existing email workspace. Yesware allows you to cut the
50
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
Abacus Insights
Big Data + Cloud
About us
Abacus Insights allows 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.r
55
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
Hi Marley
Insurance + Software
About us
Hi Marley is the intelligent communication platform for the insurance industry. Built by people who know and love insurance, the platform enables hassle-free texting across the entire ecosystem, empowering insurance professionals and delighting policyholders. Hi Marley’s industry leading analytics deliver novel insights that fuel continuous
65
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 40 million people around the world, Lose It! is the most effective, personal, app-based weight loss program. Our members have lost over 100 million pounds (and counting)!
45
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
PS AI Labs
Analytics + Artificial Intelligence
About us
PS AI labs is a data science consultancy firm that uses deep resources and world-class data science to help businesses change the way they optimize their operations and understand their customers.
Our data scientists and AI experts are adept at tackling complex business challenges with predictive analytics. We design, build, and implement
26
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
Privy
eCommerce + Marketing Tech
About us
The #1 reviewed app for sales in the Shopify App Store. Used by 500,000+ small ecommerce brands around the world. Our mission is to provide the tools, education, and support small ecommerce brands need to grow their online stores and build thriving businesses.
60
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
Threat Stack
Cloud + Security
About us
Threat Stack is the leader in cloud security & compliance for infrastructure and applications, helping companies securely leverage the cloud with proactive risk identification, real-time threat detection through the powerful combination of the Threat Stack Cloud Security Platform® and the Threat Stack Cloud SecOps Program℠.
100
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
SmarterTravel
Big Data + Marketing Tech
About us
SmarterTravel is a digital marketing company and leading provider of personalized travel recommendations and targeted travel content to US consumers. The Company’s proprietary algorithms go beyond keyword search to provide a high-performance marketing channel to reach both consumer and business travelers. SmarterTravel was formed from Cognius, a
46
Local Employees
Founded
Cambridge
Location
Gradient AI
Artificial Intelligence + Insurance
About us
Gradient AI is a fast-growing startup, bringing state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) solutions to the trillion-dollar insurance industry. Founded in 2018, we have recently raised $20M from top Insurtech investors to continue fueling our growth. Our software-as-a-service platform provides bias-free, data-driven
30
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
BookBub
Consumer Web + Digital Media
About us
BookBub is one of the fastest-growing consumer tech startups in Boston. Millions of readers use our products every day to find great books, and our service empowers thousands of leading publishers and authors to drive sales and find new fans. Check out bookbub.com, and our audiobooks retailing platform, chirpbooks.com.
110
Local Employees
Founded
Cambridge
Location
Silvertree
Hardware + Healthtech
About us
Silvertree is on a mission to empower the world’s aging population. We are developing a wellness wearable platform that provides the right balance of safety, connection, and style for active older adults. We aim to be the brand associated with vitality and independence for the growing population of 55 million Americans ages sixty-five and beyond.
6
Local Employees
Founded
Cambridge
Location
True Fit Corporation
Artificial Intelligence + Machine Learning
About us
True Fit is the industry's leading consumer experience platform leveraged by apparel and footwear retailers to decode fit and size and connect shoppers with only what they love. It has organized and connected the broadest footwear, apparel and consumer data in the world to provide best in class fit recommendations covering the industry’s brands and
Founded
Boston
Location
Encortex
AdTech + Big Data
About us
Encortex is a data-driven intelligence performance marketing company. We are a small, ambitious, and diverse group of analysts, data engineers, software engineers, and digital marketers. From engineering to operations to campaign management, the Encortex team thrives on transparent communication and seriously powerful analytics. We operate with our
19
Local Employees
Founded
Needham
Location
Lightmatter
Artificial Intelligence + Hardware
About us
Lightmatter is a startup photonics company that has pioneered a new paradigm in processor chip architecture that uses photons instead of electrons. Now the leader in the photonic AI compute “space race,” this new class of high performance semiconductors is the foundation of Lightmatter’s mission to enable the growth of computing, reduce harmful
55
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
iuvo Technologies
Information Technology
About us
iuvo Technologies is a Boston-area IT consulting company and managed services partner offering IT services and solutions to the businesses that are driving innovation and growth in our local area. We've spent the last thirteen years disrupting the MSP industry to bring exceptional service to co-managed and in house IT teams across New England. Our
19
Local Employees
Founded
Westford
Location
Cambridge Semantics
Big Data + Software
About us
We are changing the landscape of modern data management by making it easier for our customers to connect complex data from across their business to gain insights and answer unanticipated questions. As a result, our customers can deliver highly blended data products in hours instead of weeks.
75
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
3Play Media
Software
About us
3Play Media provides closed captioning, transcription, translation, and audio description to customers across higher education, media & entertainment, enterprise, and government. Video accessibility is important to us, so we made it easier for everyone.
Our innovative platform provides a captioning solution that combines the best of both worlds
72
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
Bevi
Hardware + Internet of Things
About us
We're on a mission to disrupt the beverage supply chain and replace single-use water bottles with smart water machines. As the market leader in IoT-enabled beverage machines, we’ve raised over $60M in venture capital and we’re doubling year over year.
70
Local Employees
Founded
Charlestown
Location
REsurety
Energy + Fintech
About us
REsurety empowers the clean energy-fueled future through better risk management. We work at the intersection of physical science, big data, and financial engineering to help our clients understand and mitigate the risks in buying and selling energy from renewable, intermittent fuel sources.
We have supported over 6,000 MW of renewable energy
40
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
Indico Data
Artificial Intelligence + Enterprise Web
About us
Indico Data transforms unstructured data into actionable insights. With the AI and ML-powered Indico Unstructured Data Platform™, enterprises of all sizes can automate, analyze, and apply unstructured data – documents, emails, images, videos and more – to a wide range of enterprise workflows. This enables them to gain rich insight and maximize the
50
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
Panalgo
Analytics + Big Data
About us
Panalgo, formerly BHE, provides software that streamlines healthcare data analytics by removing complex programming from the equation. Our Instant Health Data (IHD) platform empowers teams to generate and share trustworthy results faster, enabling more impactful decisions.
70
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
Dispatch
Mobile + Software
About us
Dispatch is leveraging its proprietary platform and industry-leading technology integrations, Dispatch partners with customer-centric brands to simplify complex home service logistics.
42
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
OneView Commerce
Cloud + Mobile
About us
OneView has pioneered digital transformation in retail by bringing the only headless, API-first retail-as-a-service platform into production that empowers innovative retailers to build POS, commerce and digital experiences fast. OneView reduces regret spend and increases speed-to-market with a commerce engine empowering control at every touchpoint.
29
Local Employees
Founded
Hingham
Location
ChaosSearch
Big Data + Cloud
About us
ChaosSearch enables customers to Know Better, delivering data insights at scale while achieving the true promise of data lake economics. The ChaosSearch Data Platform connects to and indexes data within a customer’s cloud storage environment, rendering it fully searchable and available for analysis with existing data tools – all with unlimited
44
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
1upHealth
Cloud + Healthtech
About us
As leaders in FHIR interoperability, we are fostering an ecosystem where data can flow seamlessly. Our FHIR API platform makes it easier for multiple stakeholders to access, integrate, aggregate, and share data across health systems, apps, and payers. 1upHealth is building a data ecosystem that will promote the digital transformation of the
50
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.
60
Local Employees
Founded
Somerville
Location
Armored Things
Artificial Intelligence + Big Data
About us
Armored Things provides Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions for crowd intelligence. By combining data from existing security and IT systems with predictive analytics, we provide facilities management teams with a real-time visual representation of people and flow within any campus or venue space. Easy-to-use dashboards equip clients to
34
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
Skyword
Marketing Tech
About us
What Drives Us Is Simple! We're on a mission to make it easy for brands to tell authentic stories that establish trust and build lasting relationships. We believe that both you and your audience win when you meet their needs with original, expert content. And we’ve got the results to prove it.
80
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
Weavr Health
Healthtech + Other
About us
Weavr Health develops simple and intuitive blood collection devices designed to greatly simplify and revolutionize blood testing globally. Our mission is to design devices that make it easier for people, and their healthcare providers, to connect to their health, while reducing the barriers that prevent people from getting blood tests.
27
Local Employees
Founded
Cambridge
Location
Compt
HR Tech + Software
About us
Compt is the #1 employee stipends platform that gives your people the freedom to choose the lifestyle perks that they really want.
Compt's employee stipend & rewards software is fully customizable to your company's needs, IRS-compliant, and can support global teams.
With Compt, you can make the following stipends possible for your people:
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8
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
Cybba
AdTech + Marketing Tech
About us
Cybba equips global eCommerce brands with the tools they need to turn more visitors into customers. Unlike other platforms, we pair our deep understanding of the customer journey with world class technology to orchestrate full-funnel campaigns at scale. Cybba bridges the gap between marketing and advertising efforts to drive maximum impact across
50
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
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
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
ProfitWell
Fintech + Information Technology
About us
We help companies solve the hardest parts of growth. We're sitting on the largest collection of Subscription data in the industry - we analyze insights to discover Subscription industry truth, and then turn that understanding into outcome-centered products that reduce churn, optimize pricing, and grow subscription businesses.
50
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
Beacon Biosignals
Artificial Intelligence + Healthtech
About us
Brain monitoring is not easily accessible, interpretable or actionable. We're going to fix this, and we'd like you to help. With improved access to brain data and the right tools to act on it, clinicians could intervene in real-time, match life-altering therapies to the patients they benefit most, and treat previously untreatable neurological and
5
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
Mavrck
AdTech + Marketing Tech
About us
Mavrck is the all-in-one, advanced influencer marketing platform enabling enterprise consumer brands to harness the power of social proof that consumers trust today. Marketers use Mavrck to discover and collaborate with influencers to create trusted content at scale. Mavrck is the #1 influencer marketing platform for the Enterprise on software
30
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
DUST Identity
Computer Vision + Nanotechnology
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.
8
Local Employees
Founded
Framingham
Location
Ascent
Artificial Intelligence + Enterprise Web
About us
We’re leading the world of regulatory compliance forward by offering greater efficiencies, greater cost savings, and greater accuracy. Using market-leading RegulationAI, Ascent helps customers in financial services automate their compliance programs, significantly reducing their risk while saving time and money.
2
Local Employees
Founded
Chicago
Location
Soofa
Digital Media + Internet of Things
About us
Soofa is a woman-founded company launched out of MIT and Harvard. We make cities smart, social, and sustainable by bringing technology into the public right-of-way to improve the urban experience. We believe that technology can benefit everyone in any neighborhood.
20
Local Employees
Founded
Cambridge
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.
68
Local Employees
Founded
Trellis
Agency + eCommerce
About us
Trellis is a full-service eCommerce agency with a single mission: make commerce simple. We help growth-focused companies succeed through strategy, design, development, and performance-based marketing services. As an award-winning, remote-first organization with headquarters in Boston, we’ve had the pleasure of helping some amazing brands succeed in
20
Local Employees
Founded
Malden
Location
mabl
Artificial Intelligence + Machine Learning
About us
mabl is empowering software testers who are aiming to keep pace with today’s fast-paced software delivery. Making it easy for testers to create and run automated UI and API tests at scale, mabl buys back hours of time every week and finally brings functional UI testing to the modern era.
53
Local Employees
Founded
Boston
Location
Spyce
Food + Robotics
About us
At Spyce we cooked up something entirely new - a fast casual restaurant focused on next-level deliciousness and boundless opportunities for all. We use cutting-edge culinary techniques to bring out the very best flavor in every ingredient and make each meal personalized to you. In addition, from servers to farmers to families, Spyce provides better
40
Local Employees
Founded
Somerville
Location
Aqueduct Technologies Inc.
Information Technology
About us
At Aqueduct, our commitment to customers, employees, and the local community has allowed us to become one of the most successful solutions providers in North America, specializing in IT solutions that span the private, hybrid and public clouds. We strive to create customers for life and to be regarded as an extension of our customer’s organization.
Founded
Waltham
Location
Cricket Health
Healthtech
About us
Cricket Health is a comprehensive kidney care provider with a personalized, evidence-based approach to managing chronic kidney disease. We believe in patient intervention before kidney failure when there is still opportunity to improve quality of life, health outcomes, and control costs. Founded in 2015, we are based in San Francisco and Boston.
18
Local Employees
Founded
Cambridge
Location
What is Best Places to Work?
Best Places to Work rates companies algorithmically based on compensation and employer benefits data they provide to us.