MassChallenge is a non-profit organization that connects entrepreneurs with the resources they need to launch and succeed immediately. Primary activities include running an annual global startup competition, documenting and organizing key resources, and organizing training and networking events.

The 2010 MassChallenge

MassChallenge

MassChallenge is a non-profit organization that connects entrepreneurs with the resources they need to launch and succeed immediately. Primary activities include running an annual global startup competition, documenting and organizing key resources, and organizing training and networking events.-...

 Startup Competition

Launched in April 2010 with $1M in total awards split amongst the top teams (selected from the final 26). The 2010 competition had 440 entrants from over 26 countries and 24 states and resulted in 111 finalists. By providing an accelerator program to all finalists, MassChallenge is the world’s biggest and broadest startup accelerator. The accelerator program ended with 26 companies in the running for a share of the $1,000,000.. The first Final Awards Ceremony was held at Fan Pier, Boston

Boston

Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...

 on October 21, with keynotes by Mayor of Boston Thomas Menino

Thomas Menino

Thomas Michael "Tom" Menino is the mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, United States and the city's first Italian-American mayor...

, Steve Case

Steve Case

Stephen McConnell "Steve" Case is an American businessman best known as the co-founder and former chief executive officer and chairman of America Online . Since his retirement as chairman of AOL Time Warner in 2003, he has gone on to build a variety of new businesses through his investment...

, and Gregory Bialecki, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...

 Secretary of Housing and Economic Development.

The 2010 Winners and Runners Up

Prize ($)	Company
100k	Ksplice Ksplice Ksplice is an open source extension of the Linux kernel which allows system administrators to apply security patches to a running kernel without having to reboot the operating system. Ksplice has been implemented for Linux on the x86-32 and x86-64 architectures. It was developed by Ksplice, Inc...
100k	Locately
100k	OsmoPure
100k	Samanta Shoes
50k	3Play Media
50k	Abroad101
50k	Energesis Pharmaceuticals
50k	OsComp Systems
50k	Pearl's Premium
50k	RelayRides RelayRides RelayRides is a peer-to-peer car rental or carsharing service. It allows private car-owners to rent out their vehicles on a short-term basis, via an online interface....
50k	Rentabilities
50k	ScholarPro Inc.
50k	Seeding Labs
50k	StorageByMail.com
50k	Symmetric Computing
50k	Zyrra
Runners Up	7Solar Technologies, Inc.
Runners Up	Architexa
Runners Up	Aukera Therapeutics, Inc.
Runners Up	Brass Monkey
Runners Up	Embed.ly, Inc.
Runners Up	JoyTunes JoyTunes JoyTunes is a private Israeli company, established in 2008, publishing computer and video games that are controlled by musical instrument. Games are intended to teach music and encourage practice, by translating routine music skills exercises to a game played using the musical instrument via a...
Runners Up	Novophage
Runners Up	Relay Technology Management
Runners Up	Sproxil Sproxil Sproxil is a venture capital-backed for-profit company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts that provides a consumer SMS verification service through its Mobile Product AuthenticationTM service.-Activity:...
Runners Up	ViThera Laboratories

The 2010 Partners

Diamond Sponsors	Platinum Sponsors	Gold Sponsors
Commonwealth of Massachusetts	Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is a non-profit foundation based in Kansas City, Missouri. It has an asset base of $2 billion...	Foley Hoag LLP
Fan Pier A Development of the Fallon Company	Solidworks SolidWorks SolidWorks is a 3D mechanical CAD program that runs on Microsoft Windows and is being developed by Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp., a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes, S. A. . SolidWorks is currently used by over 1.3 million engineers and designers at more than 130,000 companies worldwide...	Babson College Babson College Babson College is a private business school located in Wellesley, Massachusetts near Boston.- History :Babson College was founded by Roger Babson on September 3, 1919, as the Babson Institute. It was renamed "Babson College" in 1969...
The Deshpande Foundation Deshpande Foundation Deshpande Foundation is a non-governmental organization founded in 1996 by Gururaj and Jaishree Deshpande. Foundation has embarked on large scale projects in the United States and India such as :...		Xerox Xerox Xerox Corporation is an American multinational document management corporation that produced and sells a range of color and black-and-white printers, multifunction systems, photo copiers, digital production printing presses, and related consulting services and supplies...
Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...  New England Research & Development Center		Joshua Boger
The Blackstone Charitable Foundation
Vestify
The Mass Tech Collaborative
Massachusetts Massachusetts The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...  Clean Energy Center
Massachusetts Technology Development Corporation
Russian Venture Company Russian Venture Company Russian Venture Company is a government fund of funds and a development institute of the Russian Federation, one of Russia's key tools in building its own national innovation system.Russian Venture Company was established by Russian Government on June 7, 2006...