36 Startups You May Have Met at Startup Boston Week 2026
If you spent any time wandering through Startup Boston Week this year, there’s a good chance you met a founder, tried a product, scanned a QR code, or found yourself saying, “Wait...that’s actually really cool.”
That was exactly the point of Test Startups IRL.
Across two afternoons during Startup Boston Week 2026, we handed the room over to startups building everything from AI infrastructure and HealthTech to consumer apps, FinTech, EdTech, PropTech, ClimateTech, and more.
Attendees could walk up, meet the people actually building these companies, try what they were working on, ask questions, and give founders real-time feedback.
So, whether you stopped by Test Startups IRL and want to reconnect with a company you met — or completely missed it and want to see what was in the room — here are the 36 startups that participated in Test Startups IRL at Startup Boston Week 2026.
AI + B2B Software
Vectraseed
AI | Learn More
Vectraseed Arx gives AI agents a persistent workspace connected to the tools and data teams already use. Rather than relying on endless chat threads and constant prompting, it creates an intelligent command center that can monitor what’s happening, identify what needs attention, and help users take action.
Noryvor AI
AI Infrastructure | Learn more
Noryvor AI helps teams determine whether AI-generated system changes are actually safe to ship. Its platform independently checks proposed changes for correctness and performance, rejects benchmark gaming, and produces an auditable decision before a change moves forward.
PitchIN
B2B Software | Learn more
PitchIN is an AI-powered business development agent that helps companies find mutual-fit opportunities for fundraising, sales, partnerships, and deals. Users define what they’re looking for, and PitchIN surfaces companies looking for them, too.
YOUnifiedAI
B2B Software | Learn more
YOUnifiedAI connects the accounting, CRM, payroll, scheduling, and payment systems used by franchises and service businesses. By bringing these systems together, the platform reduces manual reconciliation and helps businesses better understand their revenue, cash, customers, and operations.
HealthTech + Life Sciences
Comura Solutions
HealthTech | Learn more
Comura.ai is building a Digital Independence Platform designed to help older adults remain healthy, connected, and independent. Its first solution, HealthCompass.Cloud, helps people overcome language and access barriers when finding and applying for essential health and public benefits.
InfraHealth
HealthTech | Learn more
InfraHealth helps independent pharmacies resolve prescriptions that get stuck before they become patient delays. Its AI-powered platform identifies stalled prescriptions, determines why they’re stuck, recommends the next best action, and learns from each resolution.
MediSimplify
HealthTech | Learn more
MediSimplify’s Simpli helps families stay on top of a loved one’s healthcare between appointments. It turns scattered notes, updates, and visit information into an organized view of what happened, what needs follow-up, and what should be discussed at the next appointment.
Holistic Health Hub
HealthTech | Learn more
Holistic Health Hub is building a whole-person healthcare platform designed to help people navigate conventional, functional, integrative, and holistic care. Its Wellbeing Concierge combines human guidance with AI support to help consumers find appropriate care, understand their options, and navigate the broader wellness landscape.
KaiAvora Health
HealthTech | Learn more
KaiAvora Health brings oral biology into the broader picture of women’s health. The platform connects signals from the mouth with life stage, health history, symptoms, and lifestyle to help users better understand their health, identify opportunities for prevention, and explore personalized pathways forward.
MedLit
HealthTech | Learn more
MedLit turns a patient’s own health records into plain-language explanations they can understand and act on. Its approach keeps explanations grounded in the actual medical record, helping patients make sense of information like lab results without introducing unsupported medical information.
cdm-app
Life Sciences | Learn more
cdm-app is an AI-assisted, human-in-the-loop service designed to make clinical trial data reconciliation more efficient. It helps clinical data managers reconcile cross-site data while maintaining the deterministic outcomes required by regulated industries.
MultiOmics
Life Sciences | Learn more
MultiOmics is developing LiquidMammo™, an AI-driven liquid biopsy for early breast cancer detection. The company is leveraging access to a breast cancer research biobank and an AI-powered biomarker discovery platform, with the potential to expand into other cancers and blood-based diagnostic applications.
Sales, Marketing + HR Tech
Clutched
Sales Tech | Learn more
Clutched helps sales and field teams turn in-person event conversations into actionable pipeline. The platform captures conversations, scores them against a company’s ideal customer profile, and creates structured follow-up and CRM-ready records while the context is still fresh.
Supercase
Sales Tech | Learn more
Supercase helps B2B teams build stronger financial cases for their products. It creates a shared value model that can carry from marketing through sales, helping teams translate operational benefits into the financial language buyers need to justify and approve a purchase.
In The Lab Studios
MarTech | Learn more
In The Lab Studios helps emerging beauty and fashion brands validate ideas before investing heavily in development. Brands bring an early concept, the platform tests it with vetted creators, and teams receive structured feedback they can use before deciding what to build.
Sift Skills
HR Tech | Learn more
Sift Skills helps hiring teams identify the strongest candidates already in their applicant pipeline. The platform analyzes applicants’ skills, experience, and qualifications, then lets recruiters describe what they’re looking for in plain language to surface the best matches.
Vetta
HR Tech | Learn more
Vetta uses AI to match candidates’ proven accomplishments with the real-world business challenges employers need solved. It turns resumes into structured achievements and job descriptions into problem statements, then creates confidential, blinded matches designed to reduce bias and identify stronger fits.
FinTech
impause
FinTech | Learn more
impause is designed to catch an impulse before a purchase happens instead of showing users the damage afterward. Built by founders with experience in behavioral and consumer financial products, impause applies those principles to help people interrupt unnecessary spending.
Acadia Analytics
FinTech | Learn more
Acadia Analytics is building CandleSage, an AI-guided quantitative investing platform for retail investors. The platform helps users put trading strategies through more rigorous testing, including comparing strategies against a “null twin” built on fake data, to help determine whether a promising backtest actually holds up.
giveBeauty
FinTech | Learn more
giveBeauty makes it possible to gift beauty, health, and wellness experiences while letting the recipient choose what they actually want. Gifts can be used across its network of salons, spas, wellness centers, yoga and Pilates studios, massage therapists, personal trainers, and other providers.
PropTech + Small Business Tech
DomaAI
PropTech | Learn more
DomaAI is building an AI-native real estate intelligence platform to help home buyers make better decisions. Its conversational home search combines MLS data, computer vision, and reasoning models to evaluate factors like layout, neighborhood, renovation potential, long-term value, and lifestyle fit.
Geoffrey AI
PropTech | Learn more
Geoffrey AI helps property management teams turn crowded inboxes into organized, actionable work. The platform identifies urgent maintenance requests, vendor issues, resident concerns, and other priorities, then helps teams create responses and ticket-ready outputs without replacing their existing workflows.
Modern Local Handyman
Small Business Tech | Learn more
Modern Local Handyman is building a mobile product designed to make running an independent handyman business easier, helping independent handymen stay more organized and make more money.
Consumer + Community Tech
GoSeeArt
Consumer App | Learn more
GoSeeArt makes it easier to discover art museums and keep track of the places you’ve visited. Think “Letterboxd for art museums” — built to encourage more people to discover art, experience it in person, and connect with their communities.
Tsumit
Consumer Tech | Learn more
Tsumit uses AI to help people discover relevant people, communities, activities, and opportunities based on their interests, skills, needs, and context. Its goal is to use technology as a bridge to meaningful real-world connections rather than keeping interactions behind a screen.
Both Bowls
Consumer Tech | Learn more
Both Bowls is a recipe and food safety platform for households with pets. Users can scan a barcode, snap a photo of a dish or menu, or enter a recipe to see whether ingredients are safe for both the people and specific pets in their home.
Givvy
Community Tech | Learn more
Givvy is a community platform where people exchange their skills and time instead of money. It’s designed to create a comfortable place for people to ask for help, offer what they know, and get things done through exchanges with like-minded people.
Bantor
Networking Tech | Learn more
Bantor is a conversation intelligence platform built for real-world networking. It captures, organizes, and helps nurture in-person interactions so valuable conversations don’t disappear into a pile of business cards or forgotten notes.
EdTech
Spark Launch
EdTech | Learn more
Spark Launch is building Sparkade, an AI-powered, game-based learning platform designed with neurodivergent learners in mind. It turns academic learning, executive function skills, and emotional regulation into immersive play to help children learn, focus, and build confidence.
GraideMind
EdTech | Learn more
GraideMind is an AI-powered platform designed to make grading, assessment, and student feedback easier for educators. It helps teachers generate rubric-aligned grading and personalized feedback while keeping the educator firmly in control of reviewing, adjusting, and approving every score and response.
ShineQuo
EdTech | Learn more
ShineQuo is a personalized growth platform that helps students and young adults turn uncertainty into action. It combines AI guidance, matched human coaches, peer community, and practical tools to help users gain clarity, build confidence, and make progress across college, career, and life.
Creator Tech
Engine Room Media
Creator Tech | Learn more
Engine Room Media helps video and podcast creators make better use of their data across platforms like YouTube, Meta, Spotify, Patreon, and TikTok. Its SaaS platform brings that information together to provide monitoring, analytics, insights, and recommendations that can help creators grow.
LegalTech
Aristotlesoft
LegalTech | Learn more
Aristotlesoft is an AI-powered legal platform built for small and growing businesses. Business owners can describe an everyday legal need — like hiring an employee, bringing on a contractor, or creating a customer agreement — and receive a guided workflow with lawyer-reviewed templates, document signatures, and real-time status tracking.
Cybersecurity + Safety Tech
HackBook
Cybersecurity | Learn more
HackBook is a cybersecurity company focused on protecting critical infrastructure, industrial organizations, and government organizations from cyber threats. Its platform provides network and asset visibility, threat detection, and insights across operational technology and IoT environments.
Neeseberry
Safety Tech | Learn more
Neeseberry is building barReleeze, a smart window security system designed as a modern alternative to traditional window bars. The system combines security, emergency escape, and fall prevention with the goal of improving both safety and quality of life for residents.
ClimateTech
Klymatrix
ClimateTech | Learn more
Klymatrix is developing reusable beverage containers designed to reduce single-use plastic waste. Its Klymacup™ and Klymabin™ integrate with wireless readers at venues like events, restaurants, bars, stadiums, and entertainment spaces to encourage sustainable behavior while reducing purchasing and waste-management costs.
The Whole Point: Get Startups in Front of Real People
Test Startups IRL wasn't designed to be another place for founders to stand behind a table and deliver the same pitch 100 times. We wanted people to actually test things - click around the product, ask the awkward question, tell the founder what confused you, tell them what you loved, tell them what you'd change, and, maybe, discover a company you want to buy from, invest in, work for, partner with, or simply keep an eye on.
That happened twice during Startup Boston Week 2026 — with 36 startups across two days getting their products directly in front of the people who could help make them better.
And if you met one of these founders during Startup Boston Week and thought, I need to follow up with them...Consider this your reminder. Go follow up.
