Startup Spotlight

Fueling Innovation Across Industries

WNE FinTech helps young entrepreneurs in Massachusetts launch startups in FinTech and AI. Through events like our annual FinTech + AI 413 Startup Launch Series and bootcamps at Mass FinTech Hub, we help tech entrepreneurs from ideation through to the development of an MVP and networking with venture capitalists for seed funding. We provide founders with access to microgrants, mentoring, compute resources, networking events, and much more. Here is our portfolio of startups.

AroundU

AroundU is where campus life actually happens. It's a verified platform built for the entire university community—students, professors, and campus clubs all get their own space. Connect with peers, discover what's trending, and never lose track of campus buzz. Buy, sell, or trade through a student-only marketplace, report lost items and reunite them with their owners, and earn extra money by offering your free time—whether you're a student, a professor sharing expertise, or a club organizing activities. AroundU is built around the real rhythms of campus life—social, practical, and always local.

AroundU Website

Divault

Divault is an AI infrastructure startup building a cloud intelligence layer for real-time, decision-driven products. It helps teams design and deploy intelligent workflows that combine context ingestion, AI reasoning, memory, and secure action execution in one platform. This allows startups to launch automation and insight features faster, with less backend complexity and stronger operational control. Divault is designed for teams that need reliable, scalable AI systems for production use.

Divault Website

Smart Credit

Smart Credit is an AI-powered, location-aware fintech platform designed to help consumers effortlessly maximize their credit card rewards, cashback, and points. By leveraging geolocation and a real-time recommendation engine, the app identifies the optimal card in a user's wallet at the point of sale and delivers instant push notifications to ensure no rewards are left on the table. Beyond immediate transaction optimization, Smart Credit offers a centralized dashboard for managing multiple cards, personalized spending analytics, and predictive insights to suggest new credit cards tailored to individual habits. The startup, founded by a resilient team of international students, aims to simplify financial management and promote financial literacy for its active users.

Smart Credit App

StuVe

StuVe is a collaborative research platform built for academics, graduate students, and research teams who are tired of juggling disconnected tools to get their work done. It brings together the entire research workflow—writing, citing, formatting, and publishing—into a single workspace where teams can co-author manuscripts in real time, manage citations directly in their documents, and produce publication-ready outputs without ever leaving the platform. Whether you're a solo student writing your first paper or a lab managing multiple ongoing projects across institutions, StuVe is designed to eliminate the tool sprawl that fragments modern academic work and replace it with one cohesive, researcher-first environment.

StuVe Website

Verrlo

Verrlo is a data driven roommate matching app that helps students and young professionals find highly compatible roommates based on lifestyle, goals, and social preferences. By showing only strong matches, Verrlo streamlines the discovery process and cuts weeks off the traditional roommate search, while delivering a safe and reliable experience. Better living begins with compatible roommates, and Verrlo’s mission is to simplify and improve the roommate search experience for all, with a vision to become the global app for roommate matching worldwide.

Verrlo Website