Best Startup
At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Boston, Massachusetts based Founder operating in the Software space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Christopher Bergh
Founder, CEO & Head Chef of DataKitchen
Christopher Bergh is a Founder, CEO, and Head Chef of DataKitchen. As CEO, he oversees the Product, Engineering, Implementation, Services, Sales, and Marketing teams. DataKitchen’s mission is to provide the software, service, and knowledge that enables every data analytics team to successfully implement DataOps. Chris and his fellow co-founders started DataKitchen because they envisioned a world where every data professional and his or her data team no longer felt powerless or frustrated by failed and painfully slow projects, but instead were excited and energized by their ability to deliver high-quality, on-demand insight. In 2013, the trio of founders launched DataKitchen and built their own end-to-end DataOps software platform to do just that. Chris is an industry-recognized expert on DataOps. He is the co-author of The DataOps Cookbook and The DataOps Manifesto as well as a speaker on DataOps at many industry conferences and with media outlets. Chris has more than 30 years of research, software engineering, data analytics, and executive management experience. At various points in his career, he has been a COO, CTO, VP, and Director of Engineering at various tech startups, which were acquired by IBM Unica or Model N. Chris holds an M.S. from Columbia University and a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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About DataKitchen, DataKitchen: DataKitchen is a DataOps software company that helps organizations deliver more data products faster with lower errors that customers trust.
Jay Meattle
CEO & Founder of Shareaholic
Jay started [Shareaholic, Inc.](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/shareaholic), a company fanatical about making sharing on the web better, faster, easier, and more measurable. Over 2 million people have used the award winning tools created by Shareaholic. Jay was Vice President of Products at Lookery, an online user-targeting network that offered lightweight, economical targeting data for over 200 million users. Before Lookery, Jay was the Product Manager and founding member of the small team that was responsible for creating and launching [Compete.com](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/compete), now part of the WPP Group [Nasdaq: WPPGY]. In addition, as co-founder of PopSignal, one of Boston’s largest professional networking organizations, Jay is actively contributing to the growth of Boston’s technology startup community. Jay earned a B.S. cum laude in Computer Science from Tufts University. He also minored in Entrepreneurial Leadership and Multimedia Arts. At Tufts he was awarded the MacJannet scholarship. Jay is also a TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Leadership Fellow and in 2012 was named to the TR35 India — MIT Technology Review magazine’s annual list of the world’s top innovators under the age of 35. He loves creating, lives for technology and innovation, and likes making things happen. You can follow Jay on Twitter @meattle or his blog http://www.meattle.com/jay/
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About Shareaholic: Shareaholic is an Audience Engagement platform that helps over 300,000 businesses grow audience engagement, loyalty & conversions.
Steve Kokinos
Founder & Chairman of Fuze
Steve is responsible for the strategic direction and management of Thinking Phone Networks. Under his leadership, the company is transforming the way enterprises view communications as a key driver of business visibility, process improvement, and results. Previously, Steve was a founder of BladeLogic, Inc., a recognized leader in the data center automation market with a Fortune 500 client list that includes GE, Time Warner, Microsoft, Cable & Wireless, Walmart, and Sprint, among others. Prior to BladeLogic, Steven was founder, president, and CEO of WebYes, Inc., an early market leader in the Web hosting and application service provider arena. WebYes provided the electronic software distribution platform for all of Sun Microsystems’ software products, including Java, and was acquired by Breakaway Solutions in 1999. At Breakaway, Steve established and ran the company’s ASP business. He played a critical role in driving the business to $120M in revenue and taking the company public, and in just 18 months was responsible for Breakaway’s #2 worldwide ASP industry ranking. Steve holds a B.A. from McGill University
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About Algorand, Fuze, G20 Ventures: Formerly ThinkingPhones, Fuze is a cloud-based communications and collaboration solution that connects organizations across devices.
Caithrin Rintoul
Co-Founder/CEO of Provender
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About Provender: Provender is an online platform that enables farmers to create direct-trade associations with buyers.
Rob Gonzalez
Co-Founder & CMO of Salsify
Rob Gonzalez co-founded Salsify, Inc., in 2012 and serves as its Vice President of Business Development and served as its Vice President of Marketing. Previously, Rob Gonzalez ran inbound marketing and product management for Cambridge Semantics, another Boston-area startup.
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About Salsify: Salsify empowers brands by providing tools to track and analyze inventories, presentation, and sales of goods on digital shelves.
Jason Purcell
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Salsify
Jason Purcell Co-Founded Salsify, Inc. in 2012 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Jason Purcell served as General Manager of eBusiness at Endeca Technologies, Inc. Jason Purcell served as Senior Vice President of Marketing & Product Management of Endeca Technologies, Inc. Jason Purcell spearheaded Endeca’s global marketing and product management organizations, responsible for core product marketing, strategy, and messaging. Jason Purcell roles at Endeca included leading the technical sales organization and establishing new product initiatives. Jason Purcell held positions at Parametric Technologies in the US and Japan. He holds B.Sc. in Biological and Engineering Sciences from Washington University
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About Salsify: Salsify empowers brands by providing tools to track and analyze inventories, presentation, and sales of goods on digital shelves.
Andy Singleton
Founder, CEO of MaxOS
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About MaxOS: MaxOS expertise in blockchain, custom software development and mobile app development with a focus on the financial services industry.
Andrew Goldfarb
Founder of Photo Butler
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About Globespan Capital Partners, Photo Butler: Photo Butler is a free mobile app for collaborative, real-time photo sharing that’s changing the way the world shares memories.
David Benaim
Co-Founder & CTO of Photo Butler
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About Photo Butler: Photo Butler is a free mobile app for collaborative, real-time photo sharing that’s changing the way the world shares memories.
Scott Harris
Co-Founder | VP. Product Definition & UX of Onshape
Scott Harris is a Co-founder and the vice president of product definition and user experience at [Onshape](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/onshape-inc-#/entity), a full-cloud 3D CAD system. Previously,he co-founded and worked as the VP of new concepts at SolidWorks.
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About Onshape: Onshape is a product development platform that unites CAD, data management, collaboration tools, and real-time analytics.
Yuchun Lee
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Allego
As an Executive-in-Residence with Summit Partners, Yuchun Lee works closely with the Summit team to help identify and build leading technology companies with a focus on enterprise software and data analytics. Yuchun currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Clarabridge, a company backed by Summit in 2013. Yuchun is the founder and former CEO of Summit portfolio company Unica Corporation, a software company focused on meeting the needs of marketers seeking to embrace technology to reach new customers. As Unica’s CEO since its inception in 1992, Yuchun chose Summit as a growth equity partner in 1999. Yuchun guided Unica to a successful IPO in 2005 and under his leadership, the company became a global provider of enterprise marketing management solutions serving more than 1,500 businesses worldwide. In 2010, Unica was acquired by IBM. Yuchun remained with IBM until 2012, serving as Vice President and General Manager of IBM’s Enterprise Marketing Management Group, with a global responsibility focusing on the needs of Chief Marketing Officers. Yuchun holds both Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT and an MBA from Babson College.
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About Allego, Summit Partners: Allego provides a mobile video based sales learning and development platform for high tech, financial services, medical device and pharma.
Adrien Nussenbaum
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Mirakl
Adrien brings to MIRAKL over 12 years of experience in business development and entrepreneurship with a strong emphasis on technology and retail. Prior to co-founding MIRAKL, Adrien co-headed FNAC.COM’s Marketplace business unit, focusing on developing the seller program and content syndication deals to increase the product offering. Prior to that, Adrien joinded Philippe in 2006 in the creation of SplitGames to grow it into a major group of websites dedicated to gamers until its acquisition by FNAC in 2008. Previously Adrien was a manager with DELOITTE’s restructuring team where he advised many retailers in their turnaround process. In his earlier years, Adrien co-founded ALL INSTANT, a NY based corporate instant messaging solution sold in 2003. Adrien started his career as an Investment Banker with PARIBAS in Hong-Kong. He holds an MBA from HEC School of Management in Paris and a joint degree from NYU Stern School of Business.
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About Mirakl: Mirakl is an enterprise marketplace solution helping brands and retailers to launch and grow an enterprise marketplace at scale.
Michael Simon
Founder & CEO of LogMeIn
Michael Simon is the Member Board of Directors at CKE Restaurants, Inc.
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About CKE Restaurants, LogMeIn: LogMeIn provides SaaS-based remote connectivity, collaboration, and support solutions for businesses and consumers.
Joe Lemay
Co-Founder & CEO of Rocketbook
Joe Lemay is CEO & Co-Founder at Rocketbook.
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About Rocketbook: Rocketbook is a cloud-connected reusable notebook.
Jake Epstein
Co-Founder & Chief Innovation Officer of Rocketbook
Jake Epstein is Co-Founder & Chief Innovation Officer at Rocketbook.
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About Rocketbook: Rocketbook is a cloud-connected reusable notebook.
Chris Greendale
Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Cloud Technology Partners
Chris Greendale is the founder, chairman, and the chief executive officer of Cloud Technology Partners, a Massachusetts-based company that designs and builds cloud solutions for applications and infrastructures, which reduce IT costs and streamline operations. He began his career as the vice president of marketing at Oracle. In 1991, Greendale co-founded Cambridge Technology Partners and ran sales and marketing department of the company. In late 1997, he left Cambridge and founded Breakaway Solutions, a similar integrator focused on the next technology wave, Internet-driven enterprise solutions. He also made numerous personal investments in companies such as Siebel Systems and sat on a number of high-profile boards, including Clarify and Glasshouse. Greendale holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and an MBA in finance from Southern Illinois University.
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About Cloud Technology Partners: Cloud Technology Partners designs and builds cloud solutions for apps and infrastructures that reduce IT costs and streamline operations.
Derek Zanga
Co-Founder and CEO of Zone & Company Software Consulting LLC
Derek Zanga is the CEO and Co-Founder at Zone & Company Software Consulting.
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About Zone & Company Software Consulting LLC: NetSuite sales, implementations, services, and custom development
Errol Fagone
Co-Founder, CTO of Zone & Company Software Consulting LLC
Errol Fagone is the Co-Founder and CTO at Zone & Company Software Consulting.
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About Zone & Company Software Consulting LLC: NetSuite sales, implementations, services, and custom development
Alex Johnson
CTO & Co-Founder of Plotly
Alex is Plotly’s CTO and the instigator of Plotly.js. He also consults for Microsoft Research and the Center for Quantum Devices at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, focusing on data acquisition for quantum computing experiments. Alex holds a BS in Physics from Harvey Mudd College and a PhD in Physics from Harvard University. He has 20 peer reviewed publications, including 2006 paper of the year in Science, and other top journals including Nature, Physical Review Letters, and Journal of Power Sources. He has previously worked in the fields of semiconductor optics, quantum information, magnetic resonance imaging, hydrogen fuel cells, and photovoltaic power.
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About Plotly: Plotly is a data science and AI company that makes it easy to create and deploy interactive web apps in any programming language.
David Cancel
Founder & CEO of Drift
David Cancel is a serial entrepreneur, podcast host (Seeking Wisdom) and angel investor/advisor. He is best known for creating hypergrowth products and product teams at companies such as Drift, HubSpot, Performable, Ghostery and Compete. David was named the top-ranked CEO by of USA Today and has been featured by media outlets such as The New York Times, Forbes, Fortune, Wired, and Fast Company, and has guest lectured on entrepreneurship at Harvard, Harvard Business School, MIT, MIT’s Sloan School of Management, Bentley, and other universities. His popular blog has been read by 1M+ entrepreneurs and his Twitter account is considered a “must-follow” account for entrepreneurs, executives and product people. David is also the author of the best-selling book, Conversational Marketing.
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About Drift: Drift is a Revenue Acceleration platform that uses Conversational Marketing and Conversational Sales to help companies grow revenue.
Idit Levine
Founder and CEO of Solo.io
Idit Levine is the Founder & CEO at solo.io. She is a former CTO for the cloud management division at EMC and a member of its Global CTO office, where she focuses on management and orchestration (M&O) over the entire stack, microservices, cloud-native apps, and platforms as a service. Idit became fascinated with the cloud when she joined DynamicOps (vCAC, now part of VMware) as one of its first employees. She subsequently took part in developing Verizon Terremark’s next-generation public cloud and served as acting CTO at Intigua, a startup focused on container and management technology. Idit graduated from Bar-Ilan University with a bachelor of science in Computer Science and Biological Science.
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About Solo.io: Solo.io develops tools to help the enterprise adapt and make the most of innovative cloud technologies.
Garry Choy
Co – Founder of andros
Dr. Garry Choy, MD, MBA, is Q’s Chief Medical Officer. Prior to joining Q he was faculty at Harvard Medical School / Mass General Hospital where he held leadership positions in enterprise and imaging informatics including as Assistant Chief Medical Information Officer, Director of the Medical Imaging Trials Center, and Medical Director for MGH-QPID Analytics. Recipient of a number of grants and awards in applying machine learning to healthcare from the ACR, CRICO, and RSNA. Previously a research scholar focused on advanced imaging techniques at the National Institutes of Health and Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Completed MD from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and residency training at Harvard-based Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. Completed MBA from Hopkins, MS in Economic Engineering Systems & Operations Research from Stanford, and BS in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University.
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About andros, Massachusetts General Hospital, Q Bio: andros is a provider of network management solutions for healthcare organizations.
Nicholas Harris
Founder, CEO of Lightmatter
Nick Harris is the CEO and co-founder of Lightmatter, where his team is leading the evolution of computing, reducing its impact on our planet, and enabling the next great leaps in human progress through silicon photonics. Prior to founding Lightmatter, Nick was an Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Fellow and National Science Foundation Fellow at MIT, where he received his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Nick has authored 67 academic articles and 13 patents, and his doctoral thesis was titled “Programmable nanophotonics for quantum information processing and artificial intelligence.” Nick was previously an R&D engineer working on DRAM and NAND circuits and device physics at Micron Technologies.
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About Lightmatter: Lightmatter uses light to create photonic compute chips specialized for AI.
John Goscha
Founder and CEO of Native Voice
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About Lucidity Lights, Native Voice: Native Voice is a software SDK for audio device manufacturers to integrate their SDK to create the next generation of listening devices.
Jeremy Paradise
CEO and Co-Founder of Auction Mobility
Jeremy Paradise is seasoned entrepreneur with a track record of building enterprise and consumer software companies. In 2011, he co-founded Quickable, a mobile marketplace designed to be easy to use and fair to both buyers and sellers on sites such as eBay and Craigslist. In 2013, he launched Auction Mobility, the mobile marketplace of choice for the world’s leading auction houses. Jeremy currently works as the CEO of Auction Mobility. Prior to Quickable and Auction Mobility, Jeremy spent 13 years providing consulting services and Siebel implementation analytics software. After leaving Siebel itself following a three-year tenure, he founded Paradise Analytics Inc. Paradise Analytics established multiple channel partnerships with enterprise software companies such as Siebel, Microsoft, and Oracle. It sold software and services to Fortune 1000 companies such as Genzyme, Solidworks, Serono, Pfizer Adams, Fleet Bank, and Viacell. Paradise Analytics was acquired in 2004.
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About Auction Mobility, QUICK Technologies: Auction Mobility is a customized auction software platform that provides auction services to promote tablet, mobile, and the web.
Samuel Clemens
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Reprise
Samuel Clemens is a Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Reprise.
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About Harvard Business School, Reprise: Reprise empowers enterprise sales and marketing teams to create sales demos, product tours, and trial environments.
Bryan Stevenson
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Reprise
Bryan Stevenson is a Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Reprise.
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About Reprise: Reprise empowers enterprise sales and marketing teams to create sales demos, product tours, and trial environments.
Lawrence Longo
Co-Founder & COO of Lightkeeper
Larry was a co-founder of Tamale Software, Inc. Additionally, he served as the COO of 033 Asset Management, LLC. Larry has held senior management positions for over 30 years, which have included responsibility for SEC filings, financial and treasury functions, Information Technology (including systems implementations), banking relationships, merger and acquisition activity, sales, marketing and client service, patent filings, as well as additional areas of operations. Larry graduated with high honors from Bentley College and has been involved in a number of civic organizations, including serving on the Board of Directors of the Greater Hartford Jaycees, and The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (Connecticut Chapter). He was previously on the Board of Directors of Sunrise International Ltd. — a privately held fourth party logistics company that operates in Shanghai, China — and of Sudbury Babe Ruth Baseball. Larry and his wife live in Sudbury, MA with their three children.
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About Lightkeeper: Lightkeeper provides managers immediate and relevant information for making critical investment decisions .
Kendall Tucker
Founder and CEO of Knoq
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About 186k Ventures, Knoq: Knoq is a technology company that encourages people to talk to their neighbors.
Alec Rooney
CTO and Co-Founder of Minim
Alec Rooney is the Co-founder and CTO at Minim.
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About Minim: Minim (NASDAQ: MINM) was born as a networking company and now delivers intelligent software to protect and improve the WiFi we depend on.
Sam Mallikarjunan
CEO & Co-Founder of OneScreen.AI
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About HubSpot, OneScreen.AI: The world’s first Market Network for real-world media. Performance marketing meets out-of-home on the internet of places.
Aaron White
Founder of ProfitWell
Aaron White is the Founder of ProfitWell.
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About Blissfully, Price Intelligently, ProfitWell: ProfitWell provides business intelligence solutions for companies and businesses.
Patrick Campbell
Co-Founder of ProfitWell
Patrick is a Campbell Co-Founder at ProfitWell, he is also a Special Projects Analyst at Gemvara. He is essentially the “first boots on the ground” attacking different business needs. Prior to Gemvara, Patrick worked in Sales and Operations at Google. In his free time, Patrick enjoys traveling, reading, and boogieing down with the Boston Startup Community.
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About FounderDating, Price Intelligently, ProfitWell: ProfitWell provides business intelligence solutions for companies and businesses.
Jared Stenquist
Co-Founder of HqO
Jared is CEO and Founder of CampusLIVE. A 24 year-old entrepreneur living in MA, Jared was named one of BusinessWeek’s Top 25 Entrepreneurs under 25 in 2008.
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About Dailybreak, Fullstack Ventures, HqO: HqO helps building owners and property teams thrive with technology that engages tenants and creates the most value for their assets.
Greg Gomer
Co-Founder of HqO
With a reputation for driving conversations that connect communities of entrepreneurs, Greg has been a founding team member with Chase and Kevin at Pinyadda, Streetwise Media, and VentureApp. A systems analyst at Fidelity Investments prior to these ventures, Greg is now heavily involved in the local startup community and advisor to Flybridge Capital Partners. At VentureApp, Greg conducts the teams and processes that connect founders and businesses with custom business solutions from premium vendors across the country. Greg received his BS in entrepreneurship and management information systems from Babson College.
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About Fullstack Ventures, HqO: HqO helps building owners and property teams thrive with technology that engages tenants and creates the most value for their assets.
Nidhi Aggarwal
Founder of Qwiklabs
Nidhi Aggarwal is the coauthor of the the Medium publication Radical Product. An entrepreneur who is passionate about building radical products, most recently Nidhi led product, strategy, marketing, and finance at data integration company Tamr. Previously, she cofounded cloud configuration management startup qwikLABS (acquired by Google), which remains the exclusive platform used by AWS customers and partners worldwide to create and deploy on-demand lab environments in the cloud, and worked at McKinsey & Company, where she focused on big data and cloud strategy. She holds six US patents. Nidhi holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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About Qwiklabs, Radical Product, Triphammer Ventures: Qwiklabs provides lab learning environments that help devs and IT pros get hands-on experience with leading cloud platforms and software.
Rei Goffer
CSO & Co-Founder of Tomorrow.io
Rei served in the Israeli Air Force for ten years, managing R&D projects and cross-branch operations. He is passionate about developing technologies that change lives, and transforming seemingly crazy ideas into reality. Rei enjoys food — both cooking and eating, music and being in warm places. He holds a BA in economics from Ben Gurion University, an MBA from the MIT Sloan, and a Master in Public Administration from Harvard JFK School of Government.
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About Tomorrow.io: Tomorrow.io is a weather intelligence platform that provides real-time weather forecasts.
Shimon Elkabetz
CEO & Co-Founder of Tomorrow.io
Shimon served in the Israeli Air Force for 11 years in several managerial and commanding positions. Multiple near-death weather-related experiences during his service stoked a fascination with the weather, that little thing that affects us all. He’s also passionate about soccer and can recall any statistic whether you ask him to or not. Shimon holds a BA in economics from Ben Gurion University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Tomorrow.io: Tomorrow.io is a weather intelligence platform that provides real-time weather forecasts.
Krenar Komoni
Founder & CEO of Tive
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About Tive: Tive develops a hardware and software platform designed to track the conditions of shipments.
Andrew Lau
Co-Founder & CEO of Jellyfish
Andrew Lau is the Co-Founder and CEO of Jellyfish.
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About Jellyfish: Jellyfish is an engineering management platform that enables leaders to align engineering work with strategic business objectives.
David Gourley
Co-Founder of Jellyfish
David Gourley is the Co-Founder of Jellyfish.
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About Jellyfish: Jellyfish is an engineering management platform that enables leaders to align engineering work with strategic business objectives.
Tanya Bakalov
CEO and Founder of HelloTeam
Tanya Bakalov is the CEO & Founder of HelloTeam, a modern employee engagement and performance management platform that is redefining the way companies engage and retain top talent. In 2005, Bakalov left her position as a Senior Consultant at Deloitte and Touche to co-found SevOne, where she served as COO and Chief People Officer. Under her leadership, the company grew to more than 500 employees worldwide and generated nearly $100M annually, making it the industry leader in digital infrastructure management software. Using her experiences in scaling SevOne, Tanya created HelloTeam in 2016 to address a growing problem in the workplace: providing business leaders with data and insights needed to build strong and data-driven people strategies. In collaboration with her global team, Bakalov advances the mission to empower each individual within an organization: boosting productivity, transforming the employee experience, and enhancing overall business and company culture. Her groundbreaking work as a two-time female founder earned her several awards, including the prestigious 2016 EY Entrepreneur of the Year® award. Bakalov is also Managing Partner at VT Technology Ventures and a member of the Horn Entrepreneurship National Advisory Board at the University of Delaware. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting and MIS from the University of Delaware.
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About HelloTeam, VT Technology Ventures: HelloTeam is the all-in-one employee engagement and performance management platform for the modern workforce.
Sravish Sridhar
Founder & CEO of Kintent
Sravish is the Founder and CEO at Kinvey.
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About Kintent: Kintent provides a compliance automation platform for certifications such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA.
BC Krishna
Founder and CEO of MineralTree
BC Krishna is a technologist and entrepreneur skilled at turning innovative software solutions into industry-leading companies. He is currently President and CEO of Boston-based MineralTree, Inc, a venture-backed company that has created a secure payments platform for small and medium businesses. Prior to MineralTree, he founded bank fraud detection software company Memento. Prior to Memento, he founded FutureTense, a company that pioneered the content management category. BC holds an M.S. in Visual Studies from the MIT Media Lab, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in Pilani, India. He is an avid reader, runner, and squash player.
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About MineralTree: MineralTree provides mobile and online accounts payable automation software for finance professionals at growing organizations.
Michael Lin
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of Reify Health
Michael Lin is the Co-Founder & Executive Chairman at Reify Health.
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About Reify Health: Reify Health is a cloud-based software company that develops tools for the clinical trial ecosystem.
Jonathan Bush
Founder and CEO of Zus Health
Jonathan Bush is the CEO and Founder of Zus Health. He is also the Chief Executive Officer, President, and Chairman of the Board of Directors. Mr. Bush co-founded athenahealth, Inc. in 1997 and has been a director since our inception. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Bush served as an EMT for the City of New Orleans, was trained as a medic in the U.S. Army, and worked as a management consultant with Booz Allen & Hamilton. Mr. Bush obtained a Bachelor of Arts in the College of Social Studies from Wesleyan University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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About Firefly Health, Zus Health: Zus Health helps a new wave of healthcare builders to create technologies and services without the usual blockers.
Andy Palmer
Co-Founder and CEO of Tamr
Andy Palmer is a serial entrepreneur who specializes in accelerating the foundation and growth of early-stage, mission-driven companies. He has helped start, fund or found more than 50 innovative companies in technology, health care and the life sciences. Andy founded Koa Lab, a start-up fund in the heart of Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass.; and co-founded Tamr, with Turing Award winner MIT professor Michael Stonebraker. Andy was named Angel of the Year in the New England Venture Capital Association‘s 2013 NEVY Awards.
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About Carta, ExaGrid Systems, Founder Collective, jobFig, Kinsa, Koa Labs, Openbay, Tamr, Tamr: Tamr is an enterprise data unification company that is cost-effective, scalable, and accessible to any enterprise.
Frank Selldorff
Founder & CEO of Acorio
Frank Selldorff is CEO and founder of Meteorix. An accomplished veteran of the IT consulting industry, with a sharp focus on innovation, Frank founded Meteorix in January of 2011 because he believes Workday’s technology is revolutionary and that the opportunity exists to change the way services are delivered. A true entrepreneurial leader, adept building high performing teams, Frank drives the company’s unwavering commitment to both customer and employee success. In addition to his role at Meteorix, Frank is also founder and Chairman of Momentum Equity Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in companies with the potential to become industry leaders in the information technology sector. Prior to Momentum, Frank was founder and co-CEO of Reach Internet Incubator, whose portfolio of companies includes success stories BrandMuscle, BlackSmith Applications, BrainShark and netNumina (later acquired by Keane). In 1992, Frank founded Breakaway Solutions, a full-service Internet provider, and served as its chairman, president and CEO through 1998. Under his direction, the company was recognized as one of the nation’s fastest-growing technology companies, ranking No. 73 on the 1998 Inc. 500 and on Deloitte and Touche’s Fast 50/500 from 1996-1998.
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About Acorio, Meteorix: Acorio helps customers to maximize the return on their investment in ServiceNow.
Aman Narang
Co-Founder & President of Toast
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About Toast: Toast is an all-in-one point-of-sale and restaurant management platform for businesses in the food service and hospitality space.
Steve Fredette
Co-Founder & President of Toast
Steve Fredette is President and co-founder of Toast, where he leads product and innovation initiatives. Prior to Toast, he worked on mobile app development before the iPhone came out, creating the first Flickr and Shoebuy.com apps. At Endeca, now Oracle, he co-founded their mobile commerce business, building the product team and driving sales, marketing, and services to over $10 million in revenue in two years. He also ran the Special Operations team at Endeca, creating new prototypes for various customer and business needs, including Endeca’s business intelligence platform. Steve holds a BS degree from MIT.
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About Toast: Toast is an all-in-one point-of-sale and restaurant management platform for businesses in the food service and hospitality space.
Geoffrey Bernstein
Co-Founder & General Partner of Indicator Ventures
Geoff is Co-Founder and General Partner at Indicator Ventures, an early-stage venture firm focused on investments in accessibility and infrastructure across enterprise software, digital health and fintech. Prior to founding Indicator Ventures, Geoff was a research associate and member of the Investment Committee at HighVista Strategies, a Boston-based hedge fund with $5B in assets under management. Geoff was responsible for sourcing and analyzing investment opportunities across multiple sectors and asset classes, focusing primarily on illiquid investments including real estate, infrastructure, private equity and venture capital. Geoff was also responsible for analyzing and presenting portfolio construction and performance to clients, which included family offices, foundations, pensions, endowments and sovereign wealth funds. He also assisted with valuations and fund operations roles as part of a lean team. Before moving to the buy-side, Geoff spent four years in Leveraged Finance and Debt Capital Markets at Jefferies & Company in Los Angeles, New York and London, where he worked on underwriting and syndication of over $10B in high yield bonds and leveraged loans for businesses across all industries. Geoff grew up in the Greater Boston area where he lives with his wife Taylor and their son Dustin. He’s a graduate of Brown University, where he graduated *magna cum laude* with a major in Economics and a minor in Applied Mathematics. He’s extremely passionate about healthcare accessibility and innovation, education and the Boston community, and currently serve as a Trustee and member of the Finance Committee and Corporate Leadership Council for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston where he’s been involved for over 15 years, first as a volunteer. Additionally he serve as a Trustee and member of the Finance Committee at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
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About Indicator Ventures: We invest in founders building software making work, life, and wealth-building easier and more accessible.
Venkat Janapareddy
Founder & CEO of Jobiak
Venkat Janapareddy is the Founder & CEO at Jobiak.
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About AKAR Ventures llc, Dragonfly Data Factory, Jobiak: Jobiak is an AI-based recruitment marketing platform that publishes job postings to Google, accelerating the flow of qualified candidates.
Nitzan Shaer
Co-Founder and CEO of WEVO
Co-Founder and CEO at WEVO.
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About WEVO: WEVO is a customer experience company that offers a solution for pinpointing WHY visitors are not engaging.
John Moss
Founder and CEO of S2 Security Corporation
John has been an innovative force in security systems technology for more than 30 years. Before founding S2 Security in 2002, in 1981 he created Software House (now owned by Tyco International). He has led the creation of two successful companies and over a dozen major commercial products in the industry.
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About LenelS2, S2 Security Corporation: S2 Security Corporation, develop a unique line of open architecture, scalable, IP network-ready products.
Kevin Frechette
Co-Founder & CEO of Fairmarkit
Kevin Frechette is the CEO and Co-Founder at Fairmarkit.
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About Fairmarkit: Fairmarkit is an intelligent sourcing platform that empowers organizations to more efficiently purchase the goods and services they need.
Tarek Alaruri
Co-Founder & COO of Fairmarkit
Tarek Alaruri is the COO and Co-Founder at Fairmarkit.
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About Fairmarkit: Fairmarkit is an intelligent sourcing platform that empowers organizations to more efficiently purchase the goods and services they need.
Olivier Porté
Co-Founder of Alpha Vantage
Olivier Porte is the Co-Founder of Alpha Vantage.
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About Alpha Vantage: Alpha Vantage is a Y Combinator backed company building the modern data platform for the next generation of financial market participants.
Anand Mahurkar
Founder & CEO of Findability Sciences
Anand is Founder of Findability Sciences. A global technology executive Anand has 24 years of global business management. An innovator in Big Data & Contextual Data Technologies, Anand is on the advisory board of IBM Watson Ecosystem Partner Advisory Board. During 2014 IBM Big Data Magazine identified Anand as a Big Data Hero. Winner of server career award, Anand guides many startup companies. Anand has worked with globally recognized technology companies in developing innovative technology solutions and services. His goal is to help organizations and businesses understand Human Insights from the large data, too big to know.
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About Findability Sciences, Forbes Technology Council, TiE-Boston: Applies the power of big data, cognitive computing, and artificial intelligence (AI) in the award winning Findability Platform®.
Sanjeev Verma
Co-Founder of PreVeil
Sanjeev is a technology entrepreneur with a track record of building successful businesses.In 2000 he co-founded Airvana, which developed mobile wireless infrastructure used by leading mobile operators such as Verizon and Sprint to deliver high speed 3G data services. Airvana grew to be the world’s second largest supplier of CDMA 3G mobile data infrastructure and the world’s largest supplier of small cells. Sanjeev spent over 13 years at Airvana, as Executive Vice President, Corporate Development and helped grow the company’s business from an idea to a large public company. Prior to Airvana, Sanjeev held various technical and business leadership roles in Motorola’s Internet and Networking Group.
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About PreVeil: PreVeil is a cybersecurity company, born out of research at MIT, that provides end-to-end encryption.
Randy Battat
CEO & Founder of PreVeil
Before PreVeil, Randy was President and CEO of Airvana from 2000-2014, growing the company from a two-month old startup to a 400 person global corporation.Airvana became the #2 supplier of wireless broadband infrastructure software for the CDMA standard used by operators like Verizon and Sprint, and the #1 supplier of femtocell access points used to provide great wireless coverage inside homes. Randy spent the first thirteen years of his career at Apple, including five years as Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing and three years as Vice President of the PowerBook Division. After Apple, Randy joined Motorola to run its Wireless Data Group and later became Senior Vice President of Motorola’s Internet and Networking Group, responsible for businesses such as cable voice and data communications, enterprise networking equipment, and wireless content servers.
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About PreVeil: PreVeil is a cybersecurity company, born out of research at MIT, that provides end-to-end encryption.
Andrew Schiller
Founder & CEO, Chief Scientist of NeighborhoodScout
Andrew Schiller is Sr. Leader, Science & Analytics at CoreLogic.
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About CoreLogic, NeighborhoodScout: NeighborhoodScout is a software for consumers to select residential real estate and make relocation decisions.
John Amaral
Founder and CEO of Slim.AI
John Amaral is the Founder and CEO of Slim.AI He was the Head of Product Delivery, John is responsible for driving the product roadmap and engineering initiatives across the CloudLock CASB and cloud cybersecurity solution set. John has more than 20 years of experience as a technologist and product development leader in information security and networking. Prior to joining CloudLock, John served as the Senior VP of Product Management at Trustwave where he guided the technical direction and development of several core Trustwave security product lines. He joined the company through the acquisition of data loss prevention leader Vericept in 2009 where he was Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Research and Development. Before Vericept, he was Chief Technology Officer at NEI, now known as UNICOM Engineering. He was also Chief Technology officer at Artel Video Systems. He was founder and Chief Technology Officer of ITS Corporation, a developer of broadband networking equipment and technology, which was acquired by Artel Video Systems. John was selected as a top 40 under 40 business leader by American Venture Magazine in 2007. John holds an Executive MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management and a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts.
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About Slim.AI: Slim.AI helps application developers create, build, deploy, and run their cloud native apps.
Andrew Needleman
CEO & Founder of DoseSpot
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About Claricode, DoseSpot: E-Prescribing Integration Services
Ash Ashutosh
Founder, President and CEO of Actifio
Ash joined Greylock in 2008. While being a recognized leader in the storage industry, Ash’s areas of interests include semiconductors, systems, storage, software and utility and cloud computing. As a serial entrepreneur, Ash has over two decades of operational and strategy experience in founding, building and advising companies. Ash was the founder of three companies in technologies ranging from semiconductors, systems and enterprise software, each of which led their respective markets and had successful exits. He also worked for and has been a member of the board or the advisory board of several large and small technology companies. Prior to joining Greylock, Ash was Vice President and the Chief Technologist at the storage business unit at HP, responsible for strategy and development of next-generation data center technologies. He joined HP as a result of the acquisition of AppIQ, a company he founded in 2001 that became a leader in standards-built Storage Resource Management (SRM) software. Ash currently serves on the board of Delphix, a company developing radically innovative database management solutions. He is also a charter member of TiE Boston.
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About Actifio, G20 Ventures: Actifio delivers enterprise data-as-a-service to global enterprise customers and service provider partners.
Eugene Kaspersky
Founder & CEO of Kaspersky Lab
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About Kaspersky Lab, SafeUM: Kaspersky Lab is a vendor of endpoint protection solutions for consumers, SMBs and enterprises.
David Coppins
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of IntelyCare
David Coppins is co-founder and CEO of IntelyCare, the intelligent workforce management solution for post-acute healthcare facilities. Prior to starting IntelyCare, David served as president of Virgin Pulse, part of Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group. Before Virgin Pulse, David co-founded the college savings company Upromise in 1999. After Sallie Mae bought Upromise for $300M in 2006, David remained with the company and was later named CEO. Earlier in his career, David held various roles in business consulting and private equity at companies including Monitor Deloitte and Monitor Clipper Partners. David has a bachelor’s degree in business management from Brigham Young University.
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About IntelyCare, Virgin Pulse: IntelyCare is revolutionizing healthcare staffing, scheduling, and training by offering an enterprise workforce management platform.
Jeffrey Franklin
Co-Founder and Vice President of Sales and Business Development of TrueCommerce
Since co-founding RedTail in 2000, Jeff has played an integral part in the development of the RedTail’s flagship managed EDI service—from its design and development, to its implementation as part of a total electronic trading solution for middle-market businesses. He brings more than 25 years of expertise in the understanding of manufacturing systems that include electronic data interchange As Vice President, Sales for Sage / AccountMate, Jeff focuses on RedTail’s sales in those market segments. Earlier, Jeff transitioned from VP of Product Development Director of Sales and Business Development. Prior to founding RedTail Solutions, Jeff was IT Director for RBI, where he developed and implemented a collaborative system for new product development in addition to his general responsibilities for RBI’s IT strategy and systems. Jeff also started Electro-World and Boca Software, and wrote a full MRP system for electronics company Solitron. Jeff attended the University of Florida
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About TrueCommerce: TrueCommerce, Inc. provides electronic data interchange (EDI) solutions to small and mid-tier companies. Its end-to-end solution includes
Fred Shilmover
President & Founder of InsightSquared
Prior to InsightSquared Fred headed global IT and was an associate at Bessemer Venture Partners. His background includes an SMB consultancy he founded as well as corporate development at Salesforce.com.Fred has a B.A. from Tufts and an MBA from Harvard Business School. In his off time Fred is an avid wakeboarder.
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About InsightSquared: InsightSquared is a revenue intelligence platform that provides sales intelligence solutions for forecasting, accuracy, and decision-making.
Mark Ethier
CEO & Co-Founder of iZotope
Mark Ethier is the Co-founder and CEO at iZotope
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About iZotope: iZotope develops technology solutions for audio recording, mixing, broadcasting, and sound designing.
Diego Villegas
Co-Founder & CEO of Slang
Diego Villegas is the Co-Founder & CEO at Slang.
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About Slang: Slang offers a variety of online specialized English courses for career development using a proprietary ML-driven engine,
Kamran Khan
Co-Founder & CTO of Slang
Kamran Khan is a Co-Founder and CTO at Slang.
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About Slang: Slang offers a variety of online specialized English courses for career development using a proprietary ML-driven engine,
Joe Moriarty
CEO & Co-Founder of Raven360
Joe Moriarty has a long history of motivating teams and delivering increased sales for various technology providers. He joined Raven360 in May 2011, previously working with Hybrivet Systems, where he was vice president of sales and marketing. While there, Joe led efforts that delivered a 2003 percent increase in sales from April 2010 through February 2011, when 3M acquired Hybrivet Systems. Joe also served as vice president of sales at TR3 Solutions, where he led the sales group to successfully market a portfolio of Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions for retail and consumer packaged goods. His work experience also includes director of sales roles for both Sterling Commerce (now IBM), and TR2 Solutions, a cloud-based startup acquired by Sterling Commerce, as well as senior software sales positions at Commerce One, AppNet, and Research and Planning. Joe holds a Bachelor of Science in Resource Economics from the University of Connecticut.
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About Raven360, Raven360: Raven360 provides a sales readiness platform that delivers up-to-date and consistent sales content, training and coaching.
Vasu Ram
Chief Product & Technology Officer / Founder of Raven360
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About Raven360: Raven360 provides a sales readiness platform that delivers up-to-date and consistent sales content, training and coaching.
Haowei Zhang
Co-Founder & CEO of Waylens Inc.
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About Waylens Inc.: Waylens is a vision technology company that develops camera products & solutions for automotive applications.
Shanel Fields
Founder and CEO of MD Ally
As the child of a volunteer EMT, Shanel Fields was inspired by her father’s experiences as a first responder to launch a healthcare technology company in the 911 space that focuses on ensuring the appropriate use of finite emergency resources and improving long-term patient outcomes. In 2018, she leveraged her mobile and healthcare technology expertise to launch MD Ally, an EMS telemedicine platform that enables collaborative partnerships between public safety and provider organizations for large-scale mobile integrated healthcare initiatives. Shanel has found that driving innovation in the 911 space has fulfilled her desire to positively impact the world around her and improve the health of all citizens, particularly when they’re at their most vulnerable moments. Prior to launching MD Ally, Shanel attended Wharton Business School where she majored in Healthcare Management, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, as well as worked alongside life-long EMS researchers to study patient ER utilization and first responder advocacy. For more than a decade, she’s worked for innovative companies like AT&T and athenahealth, where she has scaled and led impact-focused growth teams focused on enterprise health systems, payers, and independent health entities.
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About MD Ally: MD Ally is a telehealth company that enables a virtual response tier for 9-1-1.
J.J. Allaire
Founder & CEO of RStudio
In 1995 J.J. Allaire created the web development tool Cold Fusion and co-founded Allaire Corporation. Macromedia acquired Allaire in March 2001. In 2002 J.J. Allaire founded Onfolio to create web research, syndication, and publishing tools. Microsoft acquired Onfolio in March 2006. At Microsoft, J.J. led the integration of Onfolio products into Windows Live, including the release of the weblog publishing tool Windows Live Writer. In 2007 J.J. Allaire co-founded Stax Networks to create a Platform-as-a-Service for Java applications. CloudBees acquired Stax Networks in December 2010. In 2008 J.J. Allaire created the iPhone application Lose It! and founded FitNow, Inc. Lose It! was the top free iPhone Health and Fitness application in both 2009 and 2010. In 2008, J.J. Allaire founded RStudio to build projects around the open-source R Statistical Computing environment. RStudio was recognized as one of the top 25 technology products of 2014 by InfoWorld.
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About RStudio: RStudio develops open source and enterprise-ready professional software for the R statistical computing environment.
Satya Gupta
Founder & CTO of Virsec
Satya Gupta is Virsec’s visionary and has over 25 years of expertise in embedded systems, network security and systems architecture. Prior to focusing Virsec to a product orientation, Satya built Virsec as a highly profitable software design and consulting business and targeted data networking, application security and industrial automation projects. Prior to this, he was Director of Firmware Engineering at Narad Networks and Managing Director and Chief Engineer at Eastern Telecom and Tech Ltd. Satya holds six patents in complex firmware architecture with products deployed to hundreds of thousands of users. He holds a BS degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur and additional degrees from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.
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About Virsec: Virsec is a software security company protecting enterprise application workloads from cyberattacks.
Thomas Copeman
Founder of Nara Logics
Prior to jumping coasts to found Nara, Tom was the serial entrepreneur behind names like lululemon athletica Australia-New Zealand and BodyGlide. He’s also well versed in the tech sector, having served as principal investor and analyst for private and publicly held companies. In founding Nara, Tom furthers his entrepreneurial career as a visionary and a category creator.
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About Nara Logics: Nara Logics is a neuroscience-based AI synaptic intelligence for better decisions.
Peter Hartzbech
Founder & CEO of iMotions A/S
Peter Hartzbech passion is global entrepreneurship and building companies. Driven by a desire to make a difference in the world, he embarked upon his entrepreneurial career by starting his first venture at the age of 25. Prior to founding iMotions, he worked in Ernst & Young Denmark and Venture Cup Denmark, where he advised start-up companies on business plans, strategic and financial issues. In December 2006, Peter was appointed by Red Herring Magazine as Top 25 under 35, where the Magazine appoints Notable Entrepreneurs under 35. Peter’s positive attitude and global vision have been the main driving forces behind iMotions’ rapid growth and expansion.
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About iMotions A/S: iMotions A/S develops and provides biometric platforms, neuromarketing, psychology, VR, and engineering solutions.
Bart Heilbron
CEO & Co-Founder of BlueConic
Bart earned his stripes as an entrepreneur and visionary by founding the web content management company GX Software in the early days of the World Wide Web. Here he managed the company’s growth with his strategic insights into the online market, first as head of sales and business development operations, and later as CEO. Bart’s entrepreneurship and firm belief in the power of online engagement subsequently inspired him to co-found BlueConic. Under his leadership, BlueConic has become a highly successful provider of online marketing software. Bart is passionate about cross-channel, customer-driven online engagement and holds a master’s degree in communication and new media.
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About BlueConic: BlueConic’s customer data platform liberates first-party data so companies can transform customer relationships and drive business growth.
Martijn van Berkum
CTO & Co-Founder of BlueConic
Martijn brings to BlueConic a tremendous amount of experience and innovation in product management and business development, with an expert ability to integrate technology, the Internet and marketing. He has a passion for cutting-edge technology and its impact on markets, business and society. Martijn is a true visionary, driving the company’s thought leadership. In collaboration with R&D and marketing, he translates his vision into a world-class product.
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About BlueConic: BlueConic’s customer data platform liberates first-party data so companies can transform customer relationships and drive business growth.
Joseph Noonan
Founder, President & CEO of Revulytics
Joseph Noonan brings a wealth of expertise in guiding software companies to success. Prior to founding V.i. Labs, Joe was most recently senior vice president of worldwide sales, services and business development at Authentica Inc. Before Authentica, Joe served as senior vice president of worldwide sales and services at Eprise Corp., a publicly traded Web content management company, and was instrumental in the successful sale of the company to Divine, Inc. Joseph Noonan was also president and CEO of Upspring Software, a software development tools company, and successfully completed the sale of the company to MKS Systems. Joseph Noonan also spent five years at Wall Data Inc., a highly regarded publicly traded software company. During his tenure at Wall Data, Joseph Noonan managed a sales team that grew sales from 35 million to 150 million and played a major role in the successful acquisition of Wall Data by Net Manage. Joseph Noonan has also held key management positions at both Memorex Telex Corp. and Burroughs Corp.
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About Revulytics, Vee24: Insight into who’s using your software and how they’re using it.
Victor DeMarines
Co-Founder,VP of Products & Strategy of Revulytics
Victor DeMarines brings extensive product management and marketing experience in the security industry to his current position. Prior to founding V.i. Labs, Victor was a senior product manager at RSA Security where Victor DeMarines drove product strategy for the company’s strong authentication, Smart Card, and enterprise Single Sign-On client products. Prior to RSA, Victor was the director of product management at Authentica where he was instrumental in defining product strategy and direction for Authentica’s enterprise rights management and secure email solutions. Before Authentica, Victor DeMarines held senior product management positions at AXENT Technologies and Progress Software, a global supplier of software technology and services.
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About Revulytics: Insight into who’s using your software and how they’re using it.
Stephen Boyer
Co-Founder and CTO of BitSight
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About BitSight: BitSight is a platform that rates companies’ security effectiveness on a daily basis using a data-driven, outside-in approach.
Jonah Lopin
Co-Founder & CEO of Crayon
Jonah Lopin is the CEO and co-founder of Crayon. Prior to Crayon, Jonah was VP Customer Success at HubSpot, joining as an early employee and scaling the team over six years to thousands of customers and hundreds of employees. Jonah has also built and launched social and mobile apps and served as a consultant in the Strategy & Operations group at Deloitte Consulting. Jonah has lived and worked in China, where he focused on entrepreneurship and non-profits. He holds a BA from Cornell and an MBA from MIT Sloan.
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About Crayon, FriendFlair, Tapbooty: Crayon is an intelligence platform that helps businesses track, analyze, and act based on market movements.
John Osborne
Co-Founder of Crayon
John co-founded M80 Labs in 2012, and spent 2012-2014 building and launching two products: a social commerce app, and a mobile advertising app that has gotten more than 450,000 signups and first-year revenue of over $1 million. Prior to M80 Labs, John held product leadership positions at high-growth tech companies in the mobile advertising space. John was one of the early employees at AdMob, which was acquired by Google for $750 million in 2009. At AdMob, John was one of three product managers shaping the evolution of the fast-growing platform. John also founded AppDog, a consumer product in the mobile advertising space, and scaled it to hundreds of thousands of users and annual revenue of over $1.4 million. John started his career at Plumtree Software, where he was an engineer and then an engineering manager. During John’s 5+ years at Plumtree, the company grew from 30 employees to over 500, and IPO-ed on the NASDAQ. John has a BA in Electrical Engineering from Stanford and an MBA from MIT Sloan.
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About Crayon: Crayon is an intelligence platform that helps businesses track, analyze, and act based on market movements.
Les Yetton
Co-Founder of ChaosSearch
A 20+ year veteran of the Boston technology scenes, Les Yetton is currently co-founder at Chaossumo.io. Prior to that he was CEO of Deepis.com, currently available as an open source toolkit under Deepis.org, was SVP/GM of LogMeIn’s IoT business, Xively, CMO at DynamicOps, and VP Sales and BD at Softricity, acquired by Microsoft. He is an advisor and angel investor to multiple companies including Newburyport Brewing company, Banshee Wines, Viral Gains, and Novo Sano.
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About Stage 1 Ventures: ChaosSearch develops a data platform designed for scalable log analytics.
John Chukwu Emeka
Founder & CEO of Westport Software
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About AfricanPlanet, Mass.Gov, MassMarketplace, Westport Software: Westport software creates secure and modern custom enterprise and government technology solutions and services that scale to any level
Ingo Mierswa
Founder & President of RapidMiner
Ingo Mierswa is an industry-veteran data scientist since starting to develop RapidMiner at the Artificial Intelligence Division of the TU Dortmund University in Germany. Mierswa, the scientist, has authored numerous award-winning publications about predictive analytics and big data. Mierswa, the entrepreneur, is the founder of RapidMiner. Under his leadership RapidMiner has grown up to 300% per year over the first seven years. In 2012, he spearheaded the go-international strategy with the opening of offices in the US as well as the UK and Hungary. After two rounds of fundraising, the acquisition of Radoop, and supporting the positioning of RapidMiner with leading analyst firms like Gartner and Forrester, Ingo takes a lot of pride in bringing the world’s best team to RapidMiner.
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About RapidMiner: RapidMiner builds a software platform for data science teams that unites data prep, machine learning, and predictive model deployment.
Arthur Papas
CEO & Co-Founder of Bullhorn
As Bullhorn’s co-founder and CEO, Art has led Bullhorn through ten consecutive years of user growth. Today, more than 200,000 recruiters rely on Bullhorn software to hire people for more than one million job openings every year. Art speaks regularly at industry and financial events and has appeared on TV and radio programs including NPR, NECN, and more. He sits on the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Staffing Association and Portfolio Science Inc. Art was recently named to the Board of Directors of Career Collaborative – a nonprofit helping low-income adults find and keep jobs with career potential. Prior to starting Bullhorn, Art developed software for Thomson Reuters, where he co-designed and built First Call Insight. Art is a Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude graduate of Tufts University, holding a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics.
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About Bullhorn: Bullhorn provides cloud-based CRM solutions for companies in business services industries.
Ed Tourtellotte
Founder & CTO of 4G Clinical
Ed Tourtellotte is the Founder and CTO at 4G Clinical.
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About 4G Clinical: 4G Clinical provides software and services for clinical drug trials specifically in randomization and trial supply management (RTSM).
Brian Stefano
Founder & President of Data Intensity
Brian Stefano is the Founder and President of Data Intensity. In this role, Brian is responsible for driving strategic business development initiatives, identifying and nurturing market opportunities, and working with key Data Intensity customers and partners worldwide. Prior to founding Data Intensity in 2001, Brian worked for Oracle Corporation, where he was responsible for managing the company’s northeast region. While at Oracle, Brian was among the company’s top revenue producers globally, growing the business by more than $27 million annually. Brian began his career in technology as a corporate sales manager for Sybase, Inc. Brian received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Bryant College.
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About Data Intensity: Solution Expertise. Boutique Service. Trusted Advisor.
Enrico Palmerino
CEO and Founder of Botkeeper
Enrico Palmerino is the Founder and CEO at botkeeper. He is also the Founding Venture Partner at NextGen Venture Partners, Advisor of DealSyte, and Investor at TBT Group, Inc. Prior to botkeeper, Mr. Palmerino is a former CEO & Board of Directors at ThinkLite LLC and Managing Director at SmartBooks Corp. Enrico graduated from Babson College with a bachelor of science in Quantitative Methods, Strategic Management, and Entrepreneurship,
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About Botkeeper: An intelligent bookkeeping automation platform powered by human-assisted AI, purpose built for accounting professionals.
Matthew Van Buskirk
Co Founder and Co-CEO of Hummingbird
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About Hummingbird: Hummingbird operates as a modern platform for anti-money laundering.
Sebastian Schneeweiss
Co-Founder & Science Lead of Aetion
Sebastian Schneeweiss is Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Harvard Medical School and Vice Chief of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics of the Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a world-leading research and training center. His research is funded by multiple NIH, PCORI, and FDA grants and focuses on the comparative effectiveness and safety of biopharmaceuticals. He has developed analytic methods to improve the scientific validity of epidemiologic analyses using complex longitudinal healthcare databases particularly for newly marketed medical products. Applying such methods transparently and in rapid cycles for sequential medication effectiveness monitoring is the overarching theme of his research. His work is published in >300 articles, many of them in high-ranking journals. He is Aetion Inc.’s Science Lead were he develops a worldwide network of rapid-cycle analytics platforms that produces evidence fit for decision making in healthcare. Dr. Schneeweiss is Director of the Harvard-Brigham Drug Safety Research Center funded by FDA/CDER and Co-Chair of the Methods Core of the FDA Sentinel program. He is voting consultant to the FDA Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee and was inaugural member of the Methods Committee of the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute. He was President of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology, inaugural member of the PCORI Methods Committee and is Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology, the American College of Clinical Pharmacology, and the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology. At Harvard he teaches courses on Database Analytics for Pharmacoepidemiology and on Effectiveness Research in Longitudinal Healthcare Databases among others. He received his medical training at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich and his doctoral degree in pharmacoepidemiology from Harvard.
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About Aetion, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School: Aetion provides real-world evidence (RWE) and outcomes-based analytics solutions to life science companies and payers.
Angela Edwards
Co-Founder and COO of Pyxai
Angela Edwards is Co-Founder/COO at Pyxai.
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About Pyxai: Pyxai is a software company that creates HR software that screens and ranks job applicants for qualifications, soft skills, and culture fit.
Diana Yuan
CoFounder, VP Talent + Operations of Indico Data
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About Indico Data: Indico Data transforms unstructured data into actionable insights.
Dani Golan
Founder & CEO of Silk
Dani Golan oversees strategy, go-to-market and overall company operations. Previously, Dani served as President and General Manager of Performix Technologies, acquired by NICE Systems in 2006. Prior to Performix, Dani was an executive responsible for leading new ventures at EMC. Dani holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (Summa Cum Laude) from the Technion Institute of Technology, and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Prior to his professional career, Dani served as a fighter pilot and an officer in the Israeli Air Force.
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About Silk: The Database Supercharger
Alan Trefler
Founder & CEO of Pegasystems
In a three decade career, Alan Trefler has been a visionary leader, a technology change-agent, an innovative philanthropist and a trusted advisor to business executives around the world. Alan’s unique technology vision and relentless focus on customer success is changing the way many of the world’s leading enterprises engage with their customers today. His life’s work has been to design a platform for living applications that businesspeople can evolve dynamically to manage the constant disruption and change in today’s customer-centric economy. Alan’s recent book, Build for Change, describes a new generation of customers that have unprecedented power to make or break brands and the changes businesses must embrace to succeed in today’s digital world. A best-seller, the book has been reviewed and featured in global media including Forbes, Investor’s Business Daily and Les Echos. Alan founded Pegasystems in 1983 and has built the company into a $600 million provider of strategic applications with more than 3,000 employees in 30 global offices, and growing more than 20 percent annually. Alan’s interest in computers originates from collegiate involvement in tournament chess, where he achieved a Master rating and was co-champion of the 1975 World Open Chess Championship. His passion and support for chess, the game’s community and current champions continues to this day. Alan’s industry recognition includes The American Business Award’s “Software CEO of the Year,” the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council’s “Public Company CEO of the Year” and the Babson College Academy of Distinguished Entrepreneurs. He frequently presents to international business and technology audiences at industry conferences and has consulted extensively in the use of advanced technology and customer engagement Alan has been interviewed and featured in Global Media including Barron’s, the BBC, Bloomberg Television, The Boston Globe, CNBC, Customerfirst!, Les Echos, Fast Company, Fox Business News, Forbes, Fortune, The Huffington Post, Investor’s Business Daily, The New York Times, Reuters, TheStreet.com, TechCrunch and the Wall Street Journal. He has spoken about and consulted extensively in the use of advanced technologies and the future of software and has been named the inventor of numerous patents for Pega’s distinctive architecture. Alan holds a degree with distinction in Economics and Computer Science from Dartmouth College, where he was a winner of the John G. Kemeny prize in computing. A staunch advocate for education, Alan and his wife Pam established the Trefler Foundation in 1996 to improve educational outcomes. Recently, the Foundation has sponsored Union & Fifth, an innovative non-profit that turns clothing donations into money for charities.
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About Pegasystems: PegaSystems provides business process and customer relationship management solutions for organizations.
Doron Reuveni
Co-Founder & CEO of Applause
Doron Reuveni is the driving force behind one of the fastest growing tech companies in New England. With clarity of vision about the future of web and mobile applications, Doron has grown the company exponentially– in terms of funding, revenue, customers and employees—in just a few short years. Although his idea of “in-the-wild” software testing through a crowdsourcing model was a radical notion in 2007, it has been enthusiastically adopted as an integral part of the software development process for 1000+ companies worldwide. In the years since, Doron has led Applause to numerous honors, including the #8 spot on Forbes’ 2013 list of America’s Most Promising Companies and the #16 spot on the 2012 INC 500. Doron himself was also a finalist for the 2012 Ernst & Young New England Entrepreneur of the Year award. With more than 25 years experience, Doron has become an internationally-recognized expert in software development and testing, as well as startup formation and entrepreneurship. Most recently, he was the CEO and Owner of Re.D Consulting, where he advised enterprise firms on their go-to-market strategies, company direction, and product roadmaps. He assisted early stage startups in raising capital, and provided counsel to VC’s for portfolio companies’ market direction, technology and management evaluation. Prior to Re.D, Doron was SVP of Technology at Enigma, where he led multi-million dollar software implementations for companies such as Ford, Volvo, and United Airlines, while effectively managing a global team of professional software engineers, testers and project managers. In his personal life, Doron is a husband and father of three active children. He helps coach his children’s soccer teams, and is an avid skier, cyclist and runner. In fact, Doron has run the Boston Marathon for the past nine years, and competed in several triathlons.
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About Applause: Applause is a crowd-sourced digital quality testing enabling companies to deliver digital experiences to their customers.
Dana Lampert
Founder & CEO of Wiggio
In 2008, having just graduated from Cornell, Dana Lampert co-founded the group collaboration website Wiggio.com. During a previous internship on Wall Street, Dana had seen how the large corporations were equipped with amazing tools for group communication – tools that the average consumer did not have access to. Therefore, he created Wiggio to bring that sort of functionality to the average person desiring an easier way to work together. Throughout 2010 Wiggio grew from about 350,000 to 600,000 users and in March of 2011, Wiggio launched a 2.0 version of its software and a brand new iPhone Application.
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About Wiggio: Wiggio provides a toolkit for students collaborate on group projects, keep track of meetings, share documents, and contact group members.
