Top Tech Startups in New England, United States in 2027

Sama is tackling the $8.8 trillion employee engagement problem by democratising professional coaching. Sama is building a scalable B2B2C subscription-based solution to provide employees of all levels their own digital coach. Coaching helps empower employees, to be more engaged, productive and ultimately happier. Sama is purpose-driven and aims to tackle employee engagement. Its solution also allows it to address inclusion and diversity challenges within organisations. We are tapping into the $156bn professional education sector. Our strategy is to launch and establish ourselves in the UK and then expand internationally. A coach in your pocket – employees are matched with the best qualified coach to address their needs or challenges through an app which connects them to the coach either through instant messaging or via a scheduled video call.

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.

At Snout, our mission is to ensure no one ever has to make a healthcare decision for their pet based on the money in their bank account. As a modern financing alternative to traditional pet insurance, Snout wellness plans cover 100% of routine veterinary care like vaccinations, unlimited visits, and other valuable member benefits — designed to be used, not forgotten. We help pet owners prioritize care while removing financial risk for veterinary practices.

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

CROSSK is building Whitebrinjal — an AI-driven decision infrastructure for complex enterprise technology procurement. Enterprises struggle to evaluate emerging technologies because the hardest work happens before procurement: defining the problem, aligning stakeholders, comparing unfamiliar solutions, validating fit, and building the business case. Whitebrinjal structures this fragmented pre-procurement journey into a decision layer—helping enterprises move from complex problems to decision-ready engagement with the right technology providers, while helping providers reach qualified enterprise opportunities with context, intent, and stakeholder alignment. We are solving the gap between “we have a complex problem” and “we know what to buy, why, and from whom.”

We’re a squad of fintech builders, powered by Stripe, on a mission to shatter old remittance and banking limits and unleash instant cross-border payments for the Caribbean and Latin America’s business and community landscape. Whether someone is sending funds from Toronto, London, or Miami, or spending it in Kingston Jamaica (our first country), our closed-loop ecosystem gets money moving fast, locally, and for real impact.

NeuralFrame is an 25-person, venture-backed healthcare software company led by a proven IPO team. We’re reimagining how medical knowledge is captured and shared—leveraging large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, and advanced data pipelines to turn complex, messy clinical text into precise, structured insights. We work on high-impact challenges at the intersection of medicine and technology: clinical language understanding, knowledge graph design, predictive analytics, and intuitive workflow tools. Our platform powers critical hospital functions—from cancer registries to automated case finding—unlocking new levels of accuracy, speed, and research potential. If you want to solve meaningful problems with a team that moves fast, ships often, and builds products that make a real difference in patient care, you’ll fit right in.

TELUS International AI Data Solutions Creating and enhancing the world's data to enable better AI via human intelligence We help companies test and improve machine learning models via our global AI Community of 1 million+ annotators and linguists. Our proprietary Ground Truth AI training platform handles all data types across 500+ languages and dialects. Our AI Data Solutions vastly enhance AI systems across a range of applications from advanced smart products, to better search results, to expanded speech recognition, to more human-like bot interactions and so much more. TELUS International values people diversity and grants equal opportunity regardless of age, civil status, disability, gender, nationality, race, religion and political beliefs, sex or sexual orientation.

Upbound is the industry’s first platform for building internal cloud platforms. Designed around control planes, Upbound offers a new methodology for building an internal cloud platform, purpose-built for your organization. Customers can quickly build, deploy, manage, secure, and use their platforms all from a single point of control.