Jeffery Maccagnone

Sermo, Inc. operates as an online physician community. It helps physicians to collect medical data from its web-based platform which helps them to discover emerging trends and provides new insights into medications, devices, and treatments. The company was founded by Daniel Palestrant and Gina Ashe in September 2006 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Affectiva, Inc. provides scalable emotion analytics for market research applications. It offers Affdex, a facial expression recognition technology; and Affdex Discovery, an automated facial coding solution for qualitative research. Its scalable solutions provide insights into consumers emotional engagement with anything from digital content to brands, advertising, movie trailers, and TV programs. The company was founded by Rana el Kaliouby and Rosalind W. Picard in April 2009 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.