Top Tech Startups in Cambridge, MA in 2027

Topsort is the leading AI and Auction-based retail media global company, transforming retailers and marketplaces into top ad networks on par with industry giants. Through seamless integration, Topsort provides a comprehensive Bidless™ retail media tech stack featuring highly flexible API tools, an industry-leading privacy-safe clean room with robust online and in-store attribution, and a transparent ad network for streamlined media buying across multiple ad networks. In just three years since launch, Topsort has raised $38 million in funding from investors like Pear Ventures, Quiet Capital, FJ Labs, and Upload Ventures.

LogicMonitor®’s SaaS-based observability and IT operations data collaboration platform helps ITOps, developers, MSPs and business leaders gain visibility into and predictability across the technologies that modern organizations depend on to deliver extraordinary employee and customer experiences. LogicMonitor seamlessly monitors everything from networks to applications to the cloud, empowering companies to focus less on troubleshooting and more on innovation. For more information, visit logicmonitor.com. Great Place to Work Certified, 2022 Best Places to Work, Built in Austin 2022 Company with the Best Benefits, Built in Austin 2022

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.

Volta Labs was spun out of MIT in 2018 with the simple mission of building biological automation from the ground up. Volta is in the proximity of Kendall Square, known as "the most innovative square mile on the planet". Being part of the open biotech culture in Kendall Square made us realize that today’s biologists are held back by the limitations of existing automation tools. With DNA sequencing in particular, we observed that the advances in DNA readout technologies had moved further along than the advances in the upstream steps of preparing samples for sequencing (sample prep). ‍ What started out as a simple printed circuit board to manipulate colored droplets at the MIT Media Lab during co-founder Udayan Umapathi’s graduate work was quickly directed toward solving the “sample prep bottleneck”. The company raised Seed Funding from top VCs in 2019 and later that year added Will Langford as a co-founder and Head of Engineering. ‍ Since then, we have been heads down in the lab inventing and building novel fluidic and sample manipulation technologies. We take an anti-disciplinary approach to solve very hard problems and weave together instrumentation, fluidics, software, biology and chemistry. While our current focus is on sequencing sample prep, we envision a new approach where a single universal machine automates most biological workflows in genomics, proteomics and synthetic biology.

Our first product is an automated hair braider that reduces appointment times from hours to minutes, empowering stylists to triple their business and addressing the 8 billion hours spent braiding hair each year.

Resilient data movement for agentic AI with software, systems and silicon delivering low latency and high bandwidth data network between compute, memory and storage.

We combine expert curation and unmatched value to connect readers with books they’ll love. We believe that discovering, buying, marketing, and selling books online should always be an easy, joyful experience. We lean into two key concepts – expert curation and unmatched value – to build innovative products and tools that get the right books into the right hands. Our teams at BookBub and Chirp have helped the publishing industry drive hundreds of millions of dollars in ebook and audiobook sales worldwide – and every day, millions of readers turn to us for help finding books they’ll love.

Learning for software developers is broken. Available options are boring, time-consuming, not relevant to everyone, or require the company to take a big productivity hit. We've designed a fast, effective training solution for tech teams that avoids those pitfalls. Targeted Capability Training is: - Core to how an engineering team operates, not a fringe add-on or an after-thought. - Learning that aligns with business priorities and changes what the team is capable of. And we’re called Skiller Whale because … well, our love of puns knows no bounds. Our mission is to change what tech teams are capable of. We’ve found the most effective way to accomplish this is through challenging, realistic exercises that can be explored and tackled in our interactive teaching model. We strive to be intelligent, playful learners, like our Orca, Ada (yes, we love a Lovelace reference). These principles define who we are, not only as a company providing a product, but also as a group of people working together. We believe that diversity makes us stronger and are dedicated to building a company that represents society as a whole. We value marginalised people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort. We value honest and open communication, and we believe that in order to foster an environment that enables this, it’s important that our team feel included, recognised and like they can bring their full selves to work.

Our AI powered platform uniquely supercharges B2B distributors sales through three channels: reps, email and e-commerce. By understanding which customers are likely to purchase each product and when, from new items to items which are frequently re-ordered our AI is able to direct sales reps on which customers to talk with and about what products. We also allow companies to send targeted emails tailored to each customer which sync with the messaging from the sales team. Finally, our customers customers get a personalized buying experience online. At one enterprise customer, we increased rep effectiveness by 9x in a control trial. At another customer, we are projected to drive a 10% increase in revenue with one year of use of our product. Reps love using our platform, saying it “makes me a killer.”

We power activities and attractions in every corner of the globe. Founded in Hawaii in 2013, FareHarbor is the leading booking platform for tours, activities, and attractions. We believe in better software—a product that makes businesses more productive and profitable, and we're unapologetically excited about this industry; all 550+ of us. We're a modern team distributed across 8 offices in the US, Sydney, and Amsterdam. We're always in touch in all the ways you'd expect, like video calls and slack rooms. We founded FareHarbor on the firm belief of doing right by our clients. So, best-in-class customer support is at the heart of everything we do. We move fast, shipping new features weekly and evolving and growing to meet our customer's unique needs. We'd love to have you on the team. You'll interact with our new and existing clients and have a direct hand in how we grow.