Tuesday, August 17, 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. 24 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:

Eldersync.com: Founded in 2010, Boston-based Eldersync.com is an online service for monitoring the health and well-being of elderly patients.

g2gConnect LLC: Framingham-based g2gConnect, founded in 2010, provides senior-friendly touchscreen kiosks and services to visually link seniors to their remote family members.

OsmoPure: Founded in 2009, Boston-based OsmoPure designs ans manufactures water filtration systems for water bottles to provide clean drinking water.

SkinnyTrip Inc.: Founded in 2009, Somerville-based SkinnyTrip creates incentives for employees to choose low-cost options when on business trips and tracks customer spending while traveling.

Zero Carbon Inc.: Founded in 2008, Rockport-based Zero Carbon has developed a process to capture and convert carbon dioxide into petrochemicals.