Today is the start of the TechStars Winter 2012 program in Boston. It’s the fourth year we have been in Boston.

Once again, we had so many great companies apply that it was unbelievably hard to pick just ten. So we decided to invest in thirteen. Boston has deep bench strength and mentors from a broad set of disciplines so we chose a diverse set of companies: from e-commerce to education, financial markets to transportation, consumer mobile to B2B enterprise SaaS. These companies will help you crunch big data, raise a venture capital fund, track your documents, publish a book, and buy music. They will make your kids smarter, make you better at sports, and yes, even make you happier.

Boston, we are ready to rock! Here are the 13 companies in the TechStars Winter 2012 program in Boston:

Platform to fundraise for alternative investments
bisonalternatives.com

Social publishing
libboo.com

Mobile app that incentivizes regular exercise
gym-pact.com

An online creative software factory
psykosoft.net

Makes renting bicycles ridiculously easy and affordable.
zagster.com

Adaptive Educational Testing
testive.com

Makes mobile couponing simple
simplygood.com

Document tracking and metrics
doctrackr.com

The friendly music market. We offer a buying, selling and trading community with the benefits of CD ownership and the convenience of digital downloads.
murfie.com

Easy Hadoop in the cloud
mortardata.com

Helps athletes and amateurs improve anywhere, anytime.
ubersense.com

The retail graph
shopsy.com

Crafting lessons through collaboration
lessonsmith.com

For further information, please contact us.