| Company | Location |
|---|---|
| ACT | Arlington, MA |
| Activespace | San Francisco, CA sold to an integration firm in 2000 |
| Actuality Systems | Burlington, MA |
| Aegis Semiconductor | Woburn, MA |
| AgaMatrix | Cambridge, MA |
| Akamai Technologies | Cambridge, MA |
| Ancora Pharmaceuticals | Beverly, MA |
| Angstrom Medica | Newton, MA |
| Angularis Inertial Technologies | |
| Brainstorm Technologies | |
| Brigade | Mt. Prospect, IL |
| C-bridge Internet Solutions | acquired by eXcelon (2000), then Progress software (2001) |
| Centrata | Redwood City, CA |
| Clear Methods | Cambridge, MA |
| CollegeScape | acquired by Peterson's (directories) 1998 |
| Crosskate | Marblehead, MA |
| Cube-A-Door | Greenwood Village, CO |
| CyberTrak Systems | Boston, MA |
| Direct Hit Technologies | Emeryville, CA acquired by Ask Jeeves (2000) |
| DiVA | acquired by Avid |
| eDentalStore | acquired by DentalXchange (2000) |
| Epic Snowboard Bindings | Troutdale, OR |
| EventMonitor, Inc. | Boston, MA |
| EXA Corp. | Lexington, MA |
| Firefly Network, Inc. | Cambridge, MA acquired by Microsoft (1998) |
| First Mile Solutions | Cambridge, MA |
| Flash Communications | acquired by Microsoft (1998) |
| forEquity, Inc | Cambridge, MA |
| Frictionless Commerce | Cambridge, MA |
| Genigma | Newton, MA |
| Geo-Ads | |
| GreenFuel | Cambridge, MA |
| Groceries-to-go | |
| Groundhog Technologies | Cambridge, MA |
| GVD | Lexington, MA |
| Harmonix Music Systems | Cambridge, MA |
| Imagen, Inc. | Cambridge, MA |
| InterSense Incorporated | Burlington, MA |
| Into Networks, Inc. | Cambridge, MA |
| IP Phusion | |
| Lexicus Longhand | Mountain View, CA acquired by Motorola (1993) |
| Lilliputian Systems | Woburn, MA |
| LNL Technologies | Cambridge, MA |
| Mazu Networks | Cambridge, MA |
| Mdinteractive, LLC | Brookline, MA |
| MetaCarta | Cambridge, MA |
| Mok3 | Cambridge, MA |
| MolecularWare | Irvine, CA acquired by CalbaTech (2003) |
| NanoWave, Inc. | Lynn, MA |
| Natural Standard Corporation | Cambridge, MA |
| net.Genesis Corporation | Cambridge, MA acquired by SPSS (2001) |
| Network Car | San Diego, CA acquired by Reynolds & Reynolds (2002) |
| NeuroBionics | Brookline, MA |
| Neurometrix, Inc. | Waltham, MA |
| New Frontiers Information Corp. | Cambridge, MA acquired by Banta (1995) |
| Novus Products | acquired by FP International (2001) |
| NuGoo.com | Beijing |
| Open Ratings, Inc. | Waltham, MA |
| Optiant | Burlington, MA |
| Parents Forum | Cambridge, MA |
| Patientkeeper, Inc. | Boston, MA |
| Provision Planning | Cambridge, MA |
| QDB Solutions, Inc. | Cambridge, MA |
| Rukus Network | Boston, MA |
| SensAble Technologies | Woburn, MA |
| Sentina Systems | Cambridge, MA |
| Silicon Spice | Irvine, CA acquired by Broadcom (2000) |
| Soliton Technologies | Taipei |
| Vividon | Sudbury, MA acquired by Starbak (2003) |
| Strong Numbers | Boston, MA |
| Stylus Innovation | Cambridge, MA acquired by Artisoft (1996) |
| TacShot | Cambridge, MA |
| The Mail Room | Medina, OH |
| ThinkFish | acquired by Viewpoint Data Labs (1997) |
| Trakus, Inc. | Everett, MA |
| US Building Technologies Inc | |
| VectraSense | Beverly, MA |
| Virtual Ink | Boston, MA |
| Volunteer Solutions | acquired by The United Way |
| WaveMarket | Emeryville, CA |
| Webline Communications | Burlington, MA acquired by Cisco Systems (1999) |
| Wilson TurboPower | Woburn, MA |
| Zorion.com | Sharon, MA |
These company concepts all were entered in the MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition. Participation in the MIT $50K whetted the appetite of, and provided training, skills and connections to, many would-be-entrepreneurs. This list does not include the many additional companies formed by entrants beyond their $50K concepts.
Armina Karapetyan, $50K Communications Lead
917-776-3504
armina@mit.edu
Kathleen Rowe, MIT Sloan Media Relations
781-455-9050
rowe@roweassoc.com
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