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255 companies · SBIR/STTR awards, last two years

Recently funded science companies in Massachusetts

255 companies in Massachusetts closed federal SBIR/STTR awards in the last two years. 3 of them have open roles on our board and come first; the rest follow, newest award first. The funding event is the signal — small companies grow right after the award lands.

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Morsecorp, Inc

22 open roles on the board

Cambridge, MA134 employeesDepartment of DefensePhase IIcompany site

“Prophecy”

$3.0M2 awards

Merlin Labs

10 open roles on the board

Boston, MA150 employeesDepartment of DefensePhase IIcompany site

“Enhancing Reduced-Crew Flight Operations with NLP-Driven Real-Time Dynamic Replanning”

$2.0M

Strand Therapeutics Inc.

2 open roles on the board

Boston, MA8 employeesDepartment of DefensePhase II

“STX-005: A Next-Generation Therapy for Autoimmune Disease to Sustain Force Readiness”

$1.2M

Busek Co., Inc.

Natick, MA110 employeesDepartment of DefensePhase IIcompany site

“Compact Stored Propellant Propulsion System for VLEO Satellites”

$1.7M

Analog Photonics LLC

Boston, MA26 employeesDepartment of DefensePhase Icompany site

“On-Chip Wavelength Generation for DWDM Photonic Transceivers”

$250k

Charles River Analytics, Inc.

Cambridge, MA156 employeesDepartment of Defense, Department of Health and Human ServicesPhase I/IIcompany site

“Neural Network Enhancements for Customized Reduced Order Models to Accelerate Nuanced COA Evaluation and Reasoning (NECROMANCER)”

$18.2M20 awards

Physical Sciences Inc.

Andover, MA259 employeesDepartment of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Transportation, National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationPhase I/IIcompany site

“Bio-inspired Energy Dissipating Structures for Enhanced Airdrop Capabilities”

$64.2M84 awards

True Engineering Technology, LLC

Lincoln, MA2 employeesDepartment of DefensePhase IIcompany site

“Enhanced Language-oriented System for Analysis and Management of C2 and Maintenance Data”

$1.7M

Aperture Space, Inc.

Lexington, MA4 employeesDepartment of DefensePhase I/II

“Quad-Pol L-band Scatterometer for Ocean Surface Vector Winds in Extreme Conditions”

$3.1M2 awards

Spectral Sciences, Inc

Burlington, MA43 employeesDepartment of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationPhase I/IIcompany site

“Development and Demonstration of an Efficient Multiphysics Modeling Framework for Rain-Induced Damage and Aerodynamic Effects on Hypersonic ”

$11.1M13 awards

Triton Systems, Inc.

Chelmsford, MA126 employeesDepartment of Defense, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationPhase I/IIcompany site

“Coatings for Reliable Compact Rotary Engines”

$29.7M41 awards

Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc.

Watertown, MA101 employeesDepartment of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationPhase I/IIcompany site

“Transparent Conducting Oxide Based On-Chip Modulators for Applications at Cryogenic Temperatures”

$7.9M15 awards

Gelsight, Inc.

Waltham, MA30 employeesDepartment of DefensePhase IIcompany site

“GelSight Nano: Compact Tactile Fingertips for Intelligent Grasping in Industrial Environments”

$3.3M2 awards

Solvus Global LLC

Worcester, MA102 employeesDepartment of Defense, Department of EnergyPhase I/IIcompany site

“High-Performance, No-Helium Cold Spray for Structural Repair Applications”

$2.9M6 awards

Photonic Systems, Inc.

Bedford, MA8 employeesDepartment of DefensePhase I/IIcompany site

“High Performance Electro-optic Modulator Designed for Military Aircraft”

$2.1M3 awards

Macrocycle Technologies

Cambridge, MA6 employeesNational Science FoundationPhase Icompany site

“SBIR Phase I: Low-Cost, Waste-Resilient Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) and Polyester Upcycling Through Macrocyclic Chemistry”

$305k

Fluent Metal Inc.

Cambridge, MA5 employeesNational Science FoundationPhase Icompany site

“SBIR Phase I: Drop-on Demand Liquid Metal Additive Manufacturing”

$305k

Myrias Optics Inc

Amherst, MA0 employeesNational Science FoundationPhase I/II

“STTR Fast-Track: Advanced Manufacturing of All-inorganic Polarization Controlled Metasurfaces for Enabling Next Generation Full-Stokes Imagi”

$1.6M2 awards

Ultrasonium Inc

Woburn, MA13 employeesNational Science FoundationPhase Icompany site

“SBIR Phase I: Advancing Metal Additive Manufacturing with Novel Acoustic Molding Technology”

$305k

Applied Imaging Solutions LLC

Quincy, MA2 employeesDepartment of CommercePhase IIcompany site

“Online Short Wave Infrared Hyperspectral AI-Imaging System (SWIRhyperspectral AI-Imaging) for measuring cell culture material, process and q”

$400k

H2C Energy Inc.

Woburn, MA1 employeeNational Science FoundationPhase I

“STTR Phase I: High Throughput Discovery of Catalysts for Water Electrolysis Anion-Exchange Membranes”

$302k

CipherSonic Labs Inc

Cambridge, MA3 employeesNational Science FoundationPhase Icompany site

“SBIR Phase I: Bridging Multi-Party Computation and Fully Homomorphic Encryption for Practical Data Security Solutions”

$303k

Quantum Formatics

Cambridge, MA1 employeeNational Science FoundationPhase Icompany site

“SBIR Phase I: AI-Accelerate Superconductor Discovery for High-Field Magnets”

$305k

VectorWave Corporation

Auburndale, MA6 employeesNational Science FoundationPhase Icompany site

“SBIR Phase I: Spectrum Coexistence Digital Twin”

$305k

R7 Instruments, Inc.

Somerville, MA2 employeesNational Science FoundationPhase I

“SBIR Phase I: Acoustic Expander for Air-Cycle Flash Freezers and Ultra-Low Temperature Refrigerators”

$304k

Limax Biosciences Inc

Somerville, MA2 employeesDepartment of Health and Human Services, National Science FoundationPhase Icompany site

“SBIR Phase I: Hemostatic Tough Adhesive Hydrogels for Advanced Biosurgery”

$769k2 awards

Giner Inc

Auburndale, MA40 employeesDepartment of Health and Human Services, National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationPhase I/IIcompany site

“Multi-Purpose Flame Retardant Materials for Habitation Solutions”

$2.4M4 awards

Emergingdx Inc

Lowell, MA1 employeeDepartment of DefensePhase I/IIcompany site

“Autonomous Soft Robot for Locomotion in Granular Seabed Media”

$4.1M5 awards

Wafer, LLC

Beverly, MA145 employeesDepartment of DefensePhase I

“Securely Interfacing with SDA’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA)”

$180k

Revbio, Inc.

Lowell, MA12 employeesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase IIcompany site

“Improved Treatment Options for Vertebral Compression Fractures in Elderly Patients Using Minimally Invasive, Image-Guided Delivery of a Rege”

$2.0M

Wildstar LLC

Beverly, MA183 employeesDepartment of DefensePhase I/II

“NEXUS: Interconnecting with SDA’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) Transport Layer”

$4.0M3 awards

Bluebird Photonics, Inc

Wayland, MA5 employeesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase I

“Novel light source development for robust multi-MHz retinal OCT”

$306k

Orama Technologies Inc

Boston, MA4 employeesDepartment of DefensePhase I/II

“Orama Mixed Reality Combat Simulator: AI-Driven Mixed Reality Combat Simulator for Adaptive Near-Peer Threat Training”

$1.4M2 awards

Capesym Inc

Natick, MA15 employeesDepartment of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human ServicesPhase I/IIcompany site

“Low-Cost High-Efficiency X-ray Imaging Panels for Field Radiography”

$2.1M3 awards

Cps Technologies Corp.

Norton, MA110 employeesDepartment of Defense, Department of EnergyPhase I/IIcompany site

“30b Foam-Lattice Composite Impact Limiter”

$2.2M6 awards

Material Answers, LLC

Weston, MA1 employeeNational Aeronautics and Space AdministrationPhase Icompany site

“Polybenzoxazine Aerogels for Insulation in 38% Oxygen Environments”

$150k

Pendar Technologies LLC

Cambridge, MA65 employeesDepartment of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationPhase I/IIcompany site

“Heterogeneous integration of infrared single mode lasers with photonic integrated circuits”

$1.6M5 awards

Lybra Bio

Cambridge, MA2 employeesDepartment of Health and Human Services, National Science FoundationPhase I

“Microneedle-mediated expansion of skin-resident regulatory T cells for management of autoimmune skin diseases”

$611k2 awards

Emmune Inc

Cambridge, MA5 employeesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase I/IIcompany site

“Process development for manufacturing eCD4-Ig”

$1.3M2 awards

RealNose Inc

Arlington, MA1 employeeDepartment of DefensePhase I

“Embedded Machine Olfaction for Multi-Modal Sensing”

$209k

Microbiotix, Inc.

Worcester, MADepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase I/II

“Novel Benzyl-Piperidine antifungal agents to treat intractable Mucorales infections”

$1.6M3 awards

Rendever, Inc.

Somerville, MA30 employeesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase I/IIcompany site

“Improving Mental Health and Social Connectivity for Older Adults through Virtual Reality-Based Social Interventions”

$1.7M2 awards

ExQor Technologies Inc

Boston, MA2 employeesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase Icompany site

“New Nanoprobes for MR Imaging of TrkB in Alzheimer's Disease”

$500k

PASCALL Systems, Incorporated

Boston, MA12 employeesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase IIcompany site

“Developing an Elderly Patient-Specific, Accurate, Intuitive and Highly Interpretable System for Unconsciousness Management in General Anesth”

$6.8M5 awards

Glial Therapeutics, LLC

Boston, MA4 employeesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase I

“Targeting aVb8 integrin to restore astrocyte-microglia crosstalk to treat Alzheimer's disease”

$255k

Tauvision

Concord, MA1 employeeDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase I

“An Eyedrop Diagnostic Test for Alzheimer's Disease”

$493k

General Biologics, Inc.

Cambridge, MA2 employeesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase I

“Development of a tissue-targeted non-thrombotic EPO derivative”

$307k

Navigation Sciences, Inc.

Brookline, MA1 employeeDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase I

“Targeted Localization and Optimized Surgical Resection for Lung Cancer”

$225k

Bodkin Design & Engineering LLC

Newton, MA8 employeesDepartment of DefensePhase IIcompany site

“Multi-Sensor Prototype for Non-Destructive Corrosion Evaluation and Characterization”

$3.0M2 awards

Protean Bio Inc

Lexington, MA3 employeesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase II

“IND-enabling studies of D6PV- a novel ApoC-II peptide mimetic therapeutic”

$1000k

International Fabric Machines

Cambridge, MA2 employeesDepartment of DefensePhase IIcompany site

“Imperceptible Fabric-Integrated Wireless Batteryfree Fiber Temperature Sensor System (fID-T) for Remote Frostbite Detection and Prevention”

$1.3M

Maglev Aero Inc.

Boston, MA14 employeesDepartment of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationPhase Icompany site

“HYDRATE: A Zero-Emission Direct Drive Parallel Hybrid Turbofan for Personal Jets”

$223k2 awards

Gvd Corp

Cambridge, MA12 employeesDepartment of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationPhase I/IIcompany site

“Conformal coatings to enhance biocarriers for rapid-startup of biofilm reactors”

$1.9M2 awards

PopCom Health

Medford, MA4 employeesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase I

“Project GAME ON!: Empowering urban children to engage in healthy behaviors to reduce obesity risk through an interactive digital comic tool”

$397k

Embiosys Inc.

North Andover, MA5 employeesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase IIcompany site

“CuRrEnT: Capecitabine in RCB2/3 with a wearable induced Electric field device in Triple Negative Breast Cancer”

$1.4M

Raiz Diagnostics Inc.

Boston, MA3 employeesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase IIcompany site

“Scaling Lymphoma Diagnosis: A Cost-Effective Gene Expression Assay for Broad Implementation”

$1.8M

Microvascular Tissues, Inc.

Jamaica Plain, MA6 employeesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase Icompany site

“Evaluating the Effect of a Local Microvascular Tissue Graft Treatment in Rat Models of Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy”

$350k

Absco Therapeutics, Inc.

Brookline, MA3 employeesDepartment of Health and Human Services, National Science FoundationPhase Icompany site

“Enhancing Solid Tumor lmmunotherapy with Targeted siRNA Delivery”

$712k2 awards

Safebvm Corp.

Boston, MA11 employeesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase IIcompany site

“Integration of Sotair with Capnography for Standardizing Manual Ventilation Technique and Improving Patient Outcomes”

$500k

Syntis Bio Inc

Boston, MA12 employeesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase I/IIcompany site

“Development of an Oral Methionine-Gamma-Lyase Enzyme for the Treatment of Homocystinuria”

$3.2M5 awards

Guardion Inc

Burlington, MA4 employeesDepartment of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationPhase Icompany site

“Portable Major and Trace Constituent Gas Analyzer for Habitable Environments”

$375k3 awards

Mizar Therapeutics Inc.

Woods Hole, MA4 employeesNational Aeronautics and Space AdministrationPhase II

“Mizar S/TAR High-Throughput Platform for Identification of Senescence Altering Therapeutics”

$900k

Xgenomes Corp.

Cambridge, MA6 employeesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase Icompany site

“Achieving ultra-high-density, ultra-high-precision single molecule localization microscopy with whole-video deep learning architectures”

$1.1M3 awards

Poly Orth International

Sharon, MADepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase II

“3D-printed Skin and Bone Integrated Pylon (SBIP-3D) for Direct Skeletal Attachment of Limb Prostheses.”

$594k

Zeest Bio Inc

Watertown, MA5 employeesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase I

“Development of a novel liver-specific positron emission tomography tracer”

$400k

Tatum Robotics LLC

Hudson, MA1 employeeNational Science FoundationPhase II

“SBIR Phase II: Robotic system outputting multimodal methods to aid in communication”

$1.2M

Neurofieldz Inc

Newton Center, MA3 employeesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase Iwoman-ownedcompany site

“Objective Mobile diagnostics for Optic Neuropathies”

$376k

Oasis Pharmaceuticals, LLC

Lexington, MA5 employeesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase I

“Development of PAR2 Pepducins for the Treatment of COPD”

$468k

Kephera Diagnostics LLC

Framingham, MA13 employeesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase I/IIcompany site

“Peptide-based ELISA for laboratory diagnosis of sarcoidosis”

$1.3M2 awards

Robigo, Inc

Cambridge, MA5 employeesNational Science FoundationPhase IIwoman-owned

“SBIR Phase II: Engineering the Plant Microbiome to Reduce Disease in Crops”

$1.2M

Signablok, Inc.

Worcester, MA2 employeesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase I/IIcompany site

“TREM-1 therapy for the treatment of empyema”

$1.3M2 awards

Intelon Optics, Inc.

Woburn, MA19 employeesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase IIcompany site

“Next-generation Brillouin ocular scanner”

$566k

EARTH XYZ, Inc.

Cambridge, MA8 employeesDepartment of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationPhase I/IIcompany site

“Ultra Low Reflectance Black Silicon for Visible to IR Light Absorption”

$1.4M2 awards

Linguistic Inc

Cambridge, MA7 employeesDepartment of EducationPhase IIwoman-ownedcompany site

“Personalized and Context-relevant English lessons with AI (Pace AI) to Advance Adult Learners in Integrated Education and Training (IET) Wor”

$1M

Edifii, Inc

Cambridge, MA2 employeesDepartment of EducationPhase II

“AI and Neuroscience-powered chatbot to provide students individualized guidance that complements the support they receive from school counse”

$1M

FGC Plasma Solutions, Inc.

Cambridge, MA10 employeesDepartment of DefensePhase IIcompany site

“High Mach Airbreathing Target (HMAT)”

$5.0M2 awards

Adeptrix Corp

Dorchester, MA5 employeesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase Icompany site

“TauTrace™: An ultrasensitive immunoassay for neurodegenerative protein biomarkers”

$500k

Mycsology Foods Inc.

Medford, MA1 employeeNational Aeronautics and Space AdministrationPhase Iwoman-ownedcompany site

“A discovery platform to optimize the production of nutrient rich food via solid state fermentation of feedstocks relevant to spaceflight.”

$156k

Veramorph LLC

Norwood, MA3 employeesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase Icompany site

“Preclinical validation of an effective oral fulvestrant product as the future standard of care endocrine therapy for ER+ metastatic breast c”

$400k

Tiba Biotech LLC

Cambridge, MA4 employeesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase Icompany site

“Targeted Delivery of Tumor Antigen esaRNA to the Spleen for Cancer Immunotherapy”

$399k

Think Therapeutics, Inc.

Newton, MA1 employeeDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase Icompany site

“Brilliant epitopes for improved cancer vaccines”

$406k

Bessor Pharma, LLC

Framingham, MA9 employeesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase II

“Development of a novel renalase agonist for the treatment of acute pancreatitis”

$904k

Velum Inc

Cambridge, MA5 employeesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase I

“Peptide YY triagonist weight loss drugs”

$315k

Biosensics LLC

Newton, MA20 employeesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase IIcompany site

“A Wearable Sensor Platform for Remote Monitoring of Motor Impairment in Huntingtons Disease and Prodromal Huntingtons Disease”

$3.3M3 awards

Acpharis

Holliston, MA2 employeesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase Icompany site

“Software for increased accuracy prediction of antibody-antigen complexes”

$202k

Kano Therapeutics Inc.

Cambridge, MA6 employeesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase I

“Active non-viral nuclear delivery of DNA templates independent of mitosis”

$350k

Xheme Inc.

Newton, MA0 employeesNational Science FoundationPhase IIcompany site

“STTR Phase II: A Completely Non-Toxic Blood Bag That Keeps Blood Healthier, Longer”

$1.2M

Imagine Scientific Inc

Norwood, MA1 employeeDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase IIcompany site

“Transforming Mammography With STARLIGHT, Imagine Scientific's Monochromatic X-Ray Imaging System”

$780k

Aphios Corporation

North Reading, MA12 employeesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase Icompany site

“Botanical Drug for Chemotherapy Induced Nausea and Vomiting”

$416k

Outcome Referrals Inc

Framingham, MA16 employeesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase IIcompany site

“Consumer-Therapist-Connector: Increasing Access to Quality Behavioral Healthcare”

$1.1M

Biomembretics, Inc.

Scituate, MA1 employeeDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase II

“Manufacturable Biomimetic Microfluidic Oxygenator for Safer, Simpler Treatment of Respiratory Failure”

$2.9M

Accure Health Inc

Cambridge, MA4 employeesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase I

“AI-powered engineering and analysis of cyanobacterium vesicles targeting gastrointestinal cancer”

$400k

Galibra Neuroscience, Inc.

Chestnut Hill, MA2 employeesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase I

“Developing Brain Penetrable AAV Gene Therapy for Succinic Semialdehyde Dehydrogenase Deficiency (SSADHD)”

$500k

Optic Fringe Corp.

Billerica, MANational Science FoundationPhase II

“SBIR Phase II: AI-Driven Part Identification that Converts Standard Coordinate Measuring Machines into Autonomous Systems for Automated Part”

$1.2M

Boston AI LLC

Medfield, MA3 employeesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase Iwoman-owned

“An AI Enabled Training Tool for Complex Surgical Suturing Skills”

$327k

Myolex, Inc.

Brookline, MA8 employeesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase Icompany site

“Electrical impedance myography (EIM) to detect and track cancer cachexia”

$263k

Aperture Bio Inc.

Allston, MA7 employeesDepartment of Health and Human ServicesPhase I/IIwoman-owned

“Rapid, Single Cell Proteomic Profiling for Biomarker Development in Precision Oncology”

$1.3M2 awards

Forward Photonics LLC

Woburn, MA11 employeesDepartment of DefensePhase IIcompany site

“Laser Magazine for Direct Diode Directed Energy Weapons”

$1000k

Interactive Aptitude LLC

Tyngsboro, MA9 employeesDepartment of DefensePhase I/IIcompany site

“ORCHESTRA-AI: Operational Rhythm Coordination & Handoff Engine for Strategic Tasking & Real-time Adaptation”

$3.2M9 awards

Ufa, Inc.

Woburn, MA130 employeesDepartment of DefensePhase I/IIcompany site

“Objective. Measurable. Mission-Ready: Advanced Evaluation Capabilities for ATC Readiness”

$3.1M3 awards

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Source: public SBIR/STTR award record. Company-level facts only. Open roles are live listings on our board.

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