Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Startup Watch: Five you should follow

By Mass High Tech Staff

As part of each week’s Startup Report, Mass High Tech highlights five startup companies, and their business goals, that are profiled in the New England Tech Directory. With each week’s Startup Watch, 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 Aug. 4 edition of Mass High Tech’s weekly Startup Report e-mail by visiting www.masshightech.com/startup-watch.

For guest access to today’s directory listings, visit the following companies:

Abine Inc.    Founded in 2009, Cambridge-based Abine develops website privacy tools for consumers.

Create-A-Mattress LLC    Founded in 2010, Needham-based Create-A-Mattress allows consumers to create custom mattresses using online design tools.

Lightwave Power Inc.    Founded in 2008, is developing novel solar energy products based on nanoarrays and 2-dimensional plasmonic and photonic crystal arrays.

Naughty Nutritionist    Naughty Nutritionist was founded in 2010 as a website for delivering health news and information in a consumer-friendly manner.

PleaseBringIt    Founded in 2008, PleaseBringIt offers free online interactive signup sheets for planning events, collecting donations and coordinating fundraising.