These MIT STEX Startups Leave No Industry Behind in the AI Revolution

From healthcare and finance to transportation and agriculture, the startups listed below demonstrate how AI applications are enhancing user experiences, improving data access and security, and optimizing enterprise operations across industries.

Read more about some of the successful use cases coming out of the MIT Startup Exchange (STEX) program, where impactful technologies are leading the way for the industries of tomorrow. 
 

Adaviv is bringing AI directly to farmers and farmworkers to improve their profits with better harvest outcomes and fairer worker incentives. Their AI-powered platform makes adoption easy, delivering real-time feedback on fruit quality, labor performance, and crop health via WhatsApp, mobile, and in-field tools. Growers use it to allocate labor efficiently, reduce waste, and standardize work quality, seeing up to 30% labor savings and 40% less yield variability. Now expanding from fresh produce into berries, citrus, palm, and forestry, Adaviv is scaling impact across high-value crops.
 

CoCoPIE offers a game-changing solution to holistically optimize AI models from compression to compilation, solving the most pressing challenge of AI deployment by significantly reducing cost, accelerating inference speed, while boosting accuracies on resource-constrained devices. CoCoPIE’s distinctive technology of compression-compilation co-design for full stack AI optimization has won multiple IEEE competition awards and US patents, and has been commercially deployed in millions of devices worldwide.
 

DeepVerse is a cutting-edge materials informatics company that harnesses advanced computational modeling and machine learning to accelerate the discovery and optimization of new materials. The company is dedicated to transforming materials science by integrating high-throughput experimentation with data-driven analytics and first-principle calculations, enabling faster and more sustainable innovations. DeepVerse has demonstrated success across diverse fields such as battery materials, polymers, catalysts, and high-performance alloys, showcasing the versatility of their platform to design materials with enhanced performance and reduced development costs. 
 

Gensaic is a generative protein design company developing transformative medicines for metabolic and age-related disease through tissue-selective, intracellular delivery of siRNA and other therapeutic molecules. To do so, Gensaic's proprietary engine, FORGE(tm), pairs unbiased directed evolution and AI-guided protein design, advancing the next generation of precision therapies.
 

HeronAI's software platform automates the transformation of complex data into actionable insights, enabling businesses to make informed decisions rapidly. By integrating with tools like QuickBooks and Excel, HeronAI consolidates data from multiple sources, generating intuitive dashboards and reports in under five minutes.
 

Ikigai Labs Labs developed generative AI solutions for tabular data to improve how enterprises harness artificial intelligence. The company's core offering is a no-code AI platform built upon proprietary Large Graphical Models (LGM), designed to handle complex, multivariate tabular and time-series data. This platform enables organizations to automate data-intensive operations across various sectors, including finance, analytics, and supply chain management.
 

Melodi helps teams monitor and improve user interactions with AI assistants, ensuring AI is a revenue driver, not a risk. Melodi's conversation intelligence automatically measures success rates, uncovers failure patterns, and provides actionable recommendations—so every AI conversation works as intended and so critical customer data is not lost in the transition to AI automation. Melodi works with high volumes of conversation data with any AI assistant and is easy to integrate with out-of-the-box SDKs. Melodi is also SOC 2 certified.
 

Posh AI democratizes banking access and accelerates responsible AI adoption for financial institutions. Built for financial services, Posh AI assistants enhance customer interactions and empower frontline staff across voice, digital, and knowledge channels. Our platform delivers 24/7 self-service, conversational banking, and increased employee efficiency. Backed by top AI and financial experts, Posh transforms customer and employee experiences.