Tuesday, August 10, 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. 17 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:

Diagnostics For All Inc.: Founded in 2007, Cambridge-based Diagnostics For All uses a simple method of patterning microfluidic channels into paper to create novel medical diagnostics.

Fivi: Boston-based Fivi, founded in 2009, is a website for fitness tracking and planning that includes tools for tracking routes and calculating body fat percentage and caloric intake.

Greenbean Recycle: Founded in 2009, Somerville-based Greenbean Recycle helps users track the impact of their recycling efforts in real-time online or via a smartphone.

Shareable Ink: Founded in 2009, Newton-based Shareable Ink makes digital pen and tablet devices for the medical industry.

Solar Engineering Solutions Inc.: Founded in 2008, Cambridge-based Solar Engineering Solutions has developed new solar thermal technologies that serve the heating and cooling needs of buildings.