Startup Watch: Five you should follow

As part of each week’s Startup Report e-newsletter, Mass High Tech will highlight five startup companies and their business goals. Mass High Tech will choose the weekly featured companies by soliciting nominations through a poll of 10 companies, with links to their profiles in the New England Tech Directory. Please choose five startups that you would like to know more about for the Nov. 24 edition of Mass High Tech's weekly Startup Report e-mail.

Take a look at the Startup Watch archive, where the top startups chosen each week are listed.

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Want to be considered for the Startup Watch? If you're a company founded within the last three years, contact the Startup Watch editor.

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FloDesign Wind Turbine Corp.:   Shrouded wind turbines

Ginkgo Bioworks:   Propietary DNA assembly technologies

Greenhorn Connect:   Online resource database for technology startups

KangoGift Inc.:   SMS delivery of gift vouchers

Linesider Technologies Inc.:   Network viritualization software

New England Breeze LLC:   Solar electric, solar hot water and wind energy systems installer

NextSysSecure Inc.:   Software to protect computers from the illicit use of USB drives

OnState Communications Corp.:   Cloud-based call center and PBX software

RXI Pharmaceuticals Corp.:   RNAi-based therapeutics development