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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 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.
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Gil Benghiat
Founder, VP of Products & Implementation of DataKitchen
Gil Benghiat is a Founder and VP of Product & Implementation of DataKitchen, a company on a mission to provide the software, service, and knowledge that enables every data analytics team to successfully implement DataOps. At DataKitchen, Gil leads an Implementation Team of talented software and data engineering professionals responsible for guiding customers’ adoption of DataOps and optimal use of DataKitchen’s DataOps Platform. Gil also leads a Product Development Team responsible for the definition, design, development, quality, and operation of DataKitchen’s SaaS DataOps Platform. Gil has over 35 years of experience in software engineering spanning multiple technical leadership roles at data-oriented technology companies, such as AT&T Bell Laboratories collecting and displaying network data, managing data at Sybase, collecting and cleaning clinical trial data at Phase Forward, integrating pharmaceutical sales data at LeapFrogRx, and liberating his clients’ data at Solid Oak Consulting. At previous companies, he achieved results such as growing a company from 4 to 320 employees and revenue from $0 to $60M resulting in IPO and improving the scalability of the product to increase the number of systems managed from 300 to 12,000. Gil holds an Sc.B. from Brown University in Applied Mathematics and Biology and an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
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About 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.
Brad Cohen
Executive Chairman and Founder of Medcase Health
Brad Cohen is the Executive Chairman and Founder at Medcase Health.
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About Brightcom Group (formerly LYCOS Internet Ltd), Edgecase.ai, ESPOT TV, Medcase Health: Medcase’s ever-evolving marketplace of clinicians sits at the intersection between technology and healthcare.
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.
Louis Sivillo
Co-Founder and CTO of RemoteHQ
Louis Sivillo is the co-founder and CTO of RemoteHQ.
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About RemoteHQ: RemoteHQ enables businesses to create interactive meeting rooms where their employees can use video conferencing to communicate.
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.
Raymond Kurzweil
Founder and CEO of Kurzweil Technologies
Ray Kurzweil is a noted futurist, author, inventor, and executive. He has been described as “the restless genius” by The Wall Street Journal, and “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes. Inc. magazine ranked him #8 among entrepreneurs in the United States, calling him the “rightful heir to Thomas Edison,” and PBS included Ray as one of 16 “revolutionaries who made America,” along with other inventors of the past two centuries. Ray was the principal developer of the first CCD flatbed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. Ray is the recipient of the $500,000 MIT-Lemelson Prize, the world’s largest for innovation. In 1999, he received the National Medal of Technology, the nation’s highest honor in technology, from President Clinton in a White House ceremony. And in 2002, he was inducted into the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame, established by the U.S. Patent Office.
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About Google, Kurzweil Technologies: Kurzweil Technologies offers solutions such as pattern recognition, AI, algorithms, signal processing, and simulation of natural processes.
Marc Raibert
Founder of Boston Dynamics
Marc Raibert is founder and CEO of Boston Dynamics, a company that creates some of the world’s most advanced dynamic robots, such as BigDog, Atlas, Spot and Handle. These robots are inspired by the remarkable ability of animals to move with agility, dexterity, perception and intelligence. A key ingredient of these robots is their dynamic behavior, which contributes to their effectiveness and versatility in the real world. Before starting Boston Dynamics, Raibert was Professor of Computer Science and Robotics at MIT and Carnegie Mellon. While at CMU and MIT Raibert founded the Leg Laboratory, a lab that helped establish the scientific basis for highly dynamic robots and that set the stage for the work done at Boston Dynamics. Raibert is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
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About Boston Dynamics, Boston Dynamics: Boston Dynamics is an engineering company that specializes in building dynamic robots and software for human simulation.
Boris Lipchin
Founder and CEO of BRIO Systems
Boris Lipchin, co-founder and CEO of Brio Systems, Inc.. Boris was previously a co-founder and CTO of Airmada, Inc. before Airmada four years as a flight software engineer, launch operator and GN&C engineer for SpaceX.
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About Brio, BRIO Systems, Techstars: BRIO Systems offers a complete COVID-19 testing system to help employers keep teams safe and businesses on track.
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.
Vojta Drmota
Co-Founder and CEO of Ribbon
Vojta Drmota is the Co-Founder and CEO of Ribbon.
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About Ribbon: Ribbon is a one-stop-shop online platform for live and recorded events that provides services such as Zoom integrations and email marketing.
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.
Nischal Nadhamuni
CTO & Founder of Klarity
Nischal is Cofounder and CTO of Klarity. Nischal is an MIT hacker (B.S. 18′) with strong Machine Learning background. Before he co-founded Klarity, he built an automated fraudulent user detection tool at Flipkart and worked on algorithms to detect cancer causing mutations using Machine Learning for Mass General Hospital.
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About Klarity: Klarity uses Artificial Intelligence to automate Billing & RevRec contract review for SaaS and Software companies.
Andrew Antoš
CEO & Founder of Klarity
Andrew is Cofounder and CEO of Klarity. Andrew is a Harvard lawyer (LL.M. 17′) and spends his time on product development, doing sales and business strategy. Before Klarity, he worked as an associate at Squire Patton Boggs where he was focusing on Technology M&A and IP & Licensing.
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About Klarity: Klarity uses Artificial Intelligence to automate Billing & RevRec contract review for SaaS and Software companies.
Ramses Alcaide
Co-Founder , CEO & President of Neurable
Ramses Alcaide is an electrical Engineer, neuroscientist, previous CEO of Pharo LLC and current CEO of Neurable. At Pharo, he managed high impact health projects, such as a malaria prediction system, a rehabilitation technology for stroke patients and a health monitoring system. As a researcher, he has worked extensively to develop the brain-computer interface (BCI) technology for people with amputations, children with cerebral palsy and people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. He was also the CTO and CSO at NeuroStride, developing their go to market strategy and technology. Lastly, he is also the inventor and primary developer of Neurable. His honors include the Neuroscience Innovator Award, National Science Foundation Fellowship, and Ford Foundation Fellowship.
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About Neurable: Neurable creates brain-enabled control directed towards virtual and augmented reality.
Toby Simpson
Co-Founder & COO of Fetch.AI
Toby Simpson is a producer of the successful a-life Creatures series of games and early developer at Deepmind. His thirty years’ experience in software, ten as a CTO, are now focussed on crypto-economics.
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About Fetch.AI: Fetch.AI develops a decentralized network for digital representatives to find, communicate, and trade with each other.
Humayun Sheikh
Co-Founder & CEO of Fetch.AI
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About Fetch.AI: Fetch.AI develops a decentralized network for digital representatives to find, communicate, and trade with each other.
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.
Stephen Smith
Co-Founder of Pear Therapeutics
Stephen Smith received his B.A from Harvard University, J.D. from Columbia University, and M.Ed from Harvard University School of Education. After law school, Stephen served as an assistant district attorney in New York. He later joined the staff of the Senate Judiciary and Foreign Relations Committees. After leaving the Senate, Stephen worked at Conflict Management Group; a nonprofit associated with Harvard Law School, and taught in the advanced program on negotiation at Harvard University Law School. As part of his work at Conflict Management, Stephen consulted with global clients including the Organization of African Unity, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and the parties in the Irish Peace process. Stephen is a three-time recipient of the Danforth Award for excellence in teaching at Harvard University and is also the winner of the Lyndehurst Foundation Prize for social and artistic achievement. For the past twenty years, Stephen has been on the Kennedy board of Joseph P. Kennedy Enterprises, the Kennedy family investment office. He has delivered keynote presentations at the annual conferences of the Family Firm Institute and the Family Office Exchange– the two major family business organizations. Stephen has also served on the board of the John F. Kennedy Library, the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial, Citizens Energy, the Northeastern University School of Public Policy, and INCAE Business School and the advisory board of the Joslin Diabetes Center at Harvard Medical School. Stephen is a Fellow at the International Economic Alliance, an organization dedicated to promoting innovative international trade. As a partner and board member, Stephen is actively involved in a number of medical and green technology businesses, including Emlink, which develops, designs and manages sustainable technology; The Marwood Group, a healthcare-focused strategic advisory and financial services firm; and Pear Therapeutics, a medical software company. Stephen was Deputy Campaign Manager for Senator Edward Kennedy during his Presidential and Senatorial campaigns, Youth Coordinator for the campaign of Mario Cuomo, served on the New England Steering Committee for the Obama presidential campaign, and continues to be active in Democratic politics.
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About Pear Therapeutics: Pear Therapeutics is a software-based digital therapeutics platform designed to treat disease and enhance the efficacy of pharmaceuticals.
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.
Archil Cheishvili
Co-Founder and CEO of GenesisAI
Archie (Archil) Cheishvili is the Co-Founder and CEO of GenesisAI.
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About GenesisAI, Palatine Analytics: GenesisAI is an Artificial Intelligence marketplace that allows companies to buy or sell AI products and services
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.
Dongho Kim
Co-Founder & CTO of Secondmind
Dongho’s research interests are various fields of machine learning and in particular decision making under uncertainty via reinforcement learning. He is originally from South Korea and a former postdoctoral researcher at Cambridge University Engineering Department. He is co-founder and CTO at PROWLER.io. He used to play the keyboard and write songs in a rock band. He has also been practising guitar with games like Rocksmith.
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About Secondmind: Machine learning for automotive innovators
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.
Richard Friesner
Co-Founder of Schrödinger
Richard A. Friesner is Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University and Director of the Columbia Center for Biomolecular Simulation. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts of Sciences, and has been awarded a Sloan Foundation Fellowship, Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, and an NIH Research Career Development Award. Current interests include quantum chemistry, development of potential functions for molecular simulation, continuum electrostatic models, and protein folding. Dr. Friesner is a co-founder of Schrödinger, and a member of Schrödinger’s Board of Directors.
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About Columbia University, Schrödinger: Schrödinger develops a chemical simulation software for use in pharmaceutical and biotechnology research.
Nimrod Vax
Co-Founder & CPO of BigID
Nimrod has over 15 years of experience in enterprise security software and identity management serving in various capacities ranging from engineering, product and business management. Prior to founding BigID, Nimrod served as VP Product Management, Product Line Manager for CA Identity Management product line and as an advisor to security startups in the area of identity management and user behavior analytics. Nimrod holds a BSc. in Computer Science and a Masters of Business Administration with specialization in Marketing Management.
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About BigID: BigID is a data intelligence company developing software that helps companies secure customer data and satisfy privacy regulations.
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.
Christopher O’Donnell
Co-Founder of ProfitWell
Christopher O’Donnell is Chief Product Officer at HubSpot, as well as the Co-Founder at ProfitWell, he is also a technology product strategist, designer, and evangelist. Christopher joined HubSpot as a part of the Performable acquisition in June of 2011. Prior to joining Performable in the Fall of 2010, Christopher managed a team of designers and product managers serving the largest customers in the world: our nation’s various military and intelligence organizations. Simultaneously, Christopher started and drove a content-driven social media marketing effort that today boasts over a million readers. Prior to working in online marketing and product development, Christopher operated a music production business, where he put his B.A. in Music from Brown University to good use.
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About HubSpot, 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.
Jim Salem
Founder of Quickbase
Jim Salem is the Founder of Quick Base.
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About Quickbase: Quickbase helps organizations see, connect and control every element of the complex projects.
Claude von Roesgen
Founder of Quickbase
Claude von Roesgen is the Founder of Quick Base.
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About Quickbase: Quickbase helps organizations see, connect and control every element of the complex projects.
Joe Rice
Founder of Quickbase
Joe Rice is the Founder of Quick Base.
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About Quickbase: Quickbase helps organizations see, connect and control every element of the complex projects.
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.
Beth Porter
Co-Founder, President & COO of Esme Learning Solutions
Beth is vice president of product and will lead the strategy, development, and implementation of edX’s product roadmap. Prior to edX, Beth was vice president of software product management at Pearson Education where she led product and service development for large-scale online education systems. Beth has spent her career envisioning and developing computer-enabled and online teaching and learning experiences. Her education expertise helps edX develop a cutting-edge platform to help professors, learners, and institutions transform education. Beth holds a BA and an MAT from Cornell University.
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About Esme Learning Solutions, Riff Analytics: Esme Learning is transforming the world’s workforce for the Fourth Industrial Revolution using AI.
David Shrier
Co-Founder & CEO of Esme Learning Solutions
David is a globally recognized thought leader in technology and educational innovation, serial entrepreneur, and author. The portfolio of digital classes he created for MIT and University of Oxford have engaged more than 15,000 innovators in over 140 countries, and revolutionized the model for university short-course offerings. He is a Professor of Practice (AI and Innovation) with Imperial College Business School, and holds a secondary appointment as Associate Fellow with SaÏd Business School, University of Oxford. David has published five books in the past five years focused on technology disruption, the three most recent of which with MIT Press or Little Brown. His latest book, Augmenting Your Career: How to Win at Work in the Age of AI will be published by Little Brown in spring 2021.
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About Adit EdTech, Colorado School of Mines, Copper, Esme Learning Solutions, FINRA, Imperial College Business School, MIT Press, Riff Analytics, University of Oxford, Visionary Future: Esme Learning is transforming the world’s workforce for the Fourth Industrial Revolution using AI.
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.
Giulio Ruffini
President, CSO and co-founder of Neuroelectrics
Dr. Giulio Ruffini is the CEO and CTO of Starlab and the president and CSO of Neuroelectrics. He obtained a BA in Mathematics & Physics from Berkeley and a PhD in theoretical physics from UC Davis/LANL in 1995. In 2000 he founded Starlab to transform science into high-impact technologies.
12 years later he founded Neuroelectrics, a company which combines high-precision multichannel stimulation technologies with advanced biophysical and neuro-computational models.
For the past 15 years, Giulio has been developing technology for and researching the use of non-invasive brain monitoring and brain stimulation techniques, with a focus on EEG and transcranial current stimulation. His paper on brain-to-brain telepathy communication was the top 10 most shared papers of 2014. He is currently leading or involved in several European programs such as Galvani ERC Synergy, STIPED or Neurotwin.
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About Neuroelectrics: Neuroelectrics is a digital brain health company that diagnoses and treats brain disorders with personalized neuromodulation, and improves overall brain health.
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.
Venky Soundararajan
Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer of nference
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About nference: nference.inc, provides an AI based software platform that synthesizes siloed biomedical knowledge for insights and makes it computable.
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.
Adam Kelly
Co-Founder & Chief Knowledge Officer of Accrete
CKO at Accrete.AI.
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About Accrete: Accrete AI enables organizations to solve novel classes of real world information complexity problems by scaling tacit knowledge.
Eduarda Bardavid
Co-Founder & CEO of Drag
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About Drag: The Everything Inbox for teams. One single place to support customers, manage tasks and close deals, from the place teams love – Email.
Rana el Kaliouby
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Affectiva
A pioneer in artificial emotional intelligence (Emotion AI), Rana el Kaliouby, PhD, is co-founder and CEO of MIT spinoff and category-defining company Affectiva, and is the author of Girl Decoded. Rana led the innovation of the company’s award-winning technology, which uses deep learning and massive amounts of data to analyze complex and nuanced emotions and cognitive states from face and voice. She has raised over $50 million in venture and strategic funding for Affectiva, where the company’s technology is used by automotive OEMs and tier 1 suppliers to improve road safety and the in-cabin experience, in addition to 25% of the Fortune Global 500 companies to test content, and in other industries like HR video recruitment and mental health. Rana is now paving the way for Human Perception AI: software that can detect all things human, from nuanced human emotions and complex cognitive states, to behaviors, activities and the objects people use. Prior to founding Affectiva, Rana was a research scientist at MIT Media Lab where she spearheaded the applications of emotion recognition technology in a variety of fields, including mental health and autism research. Rana holds a BSc and MSc in Computer Science from the American University in Cairo, a PhD from the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge and a Post Doctorate at MIT. Rana is one of few women leading a disruptive AI company. A Muslim-American and passionate advocate, she frequently speaks in press and on stage about innovation, women in technology, ethics in AI and leadership. Forbes recently included Rana in their list of America’s Top 50 Women in Tech, Fortune Magazine included her in their 2018 40 under 40 and she was named one of the three Global Business pioneers by Bloomberg in 2017. Rana is a trustee at the American University in Cairo and a senior advisor to the Technology and Public Purpose project at the Harvard Kennedy School. Rana is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders and a member of the Partnership on AI, alongside founding companies Amazon, Apple, Google/DeepMind and others.
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About Affectiva, Affectiva, Harvard Business School, The World Economic Forum, The World Economic Forum: Affectiva is a developer of an emotion-recognition software designed to analyze subtle facial and vocal expressions.
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.
Rob Foregger
Founder of NextCapital
Robert Foregger, also known as Rob, is Founder of NextCapital Group, Inc. and serves as its Executive Vice President and Director. Robert Foregger served as Chief Strategy Officer and Senior Vice President at EverBank Financial Corp. Robert Foregger is Co Founder of Personal Capital Corporation and served as its Chief Strategy Officer. He Co Founded everbank.com and served as its Chief Operating Officer. Robert Foregger has 15 years of experience in the direct-to-consumer financial services industry. He directed Signet Bank’s national retail deposit gathering business and assisted in the development of its direct-to-consumer national financial service strategy. Prior to Signet Bank’s acquisition of the Blanchard Group of Funds, he served as a Senior Marketing and New Product Development Manager of Blanchard. He serves as Member of Advisory Board at Personal Capital Corporation. He received a B.S. in Business Administration from University of Vermont.
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About NextCapital, Personal Capital: NextCapital provides a personal benchmarking tool to help clearly understand how investments are performing.
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.
Dirk Englund
Co-Founder of DUST Identity
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About DUST Identity, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, QuEra Computing: DUST Identity is a proprietary technology which utilizes nanodiamonds to create an unclonable identity layer on any object.
Ophir Gaathon
Co-Founder & CEO of DUST Identity
Ophir Gaathon is the CEO and co-founder of DUST Identity.
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About DUST Identity: DUST Identity is a proprietary technology which utilizes nanodiamonds to create an unclonable identity layer on any object.
Kalyan Veeramachaneni
Co-Founder of DataCebo
Kalyan Veeramachaneni is a principal research scientist within MIT’s Schwarzman College of Computing. He is a principal investigator at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), where he heads the Data-to-AI Group. His group focuses on building large-scale AI systems that work alongside humans, continuously learning from data, generating predictions and integrating those predictions into human decision-making. The group develops foundational algorithms, abstractions, and systems to enable these three tasks at scale. Algorithms, systems and open-source software developed by the group are deployed for applications in the financial, medical, and education sectors. Veeramachaneni is the co-founder of Feature Labs, a data science automation company (acquired by Alteryx). Veeramachaneni is also the co-founder of PatternEx, a cybersecurity company that adapts machine learning models based on real-time analyst feedback. Veeramachaneni earned an MS in computer engineering and a PhD in philosophy and electrical engineering from Syracuse University.
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About Alteryx, DataCebo, Feature Labs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: DataCebo engages in making synthetic data a reality.
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.
Moshe Yanai
Founder & CEO of Infinidat
Moshe Yanai has been instrumental in the development of some of the most advanced and successful storage technologies in the history of the industry. Mr. Yanai began his career in the 1970s, building IBM-compatible mainframe storage based on minicomputer disks. He went on to develop high-end storage systems for Nixdorf, and in the late 1980s, joined EMC, leading the team that developed Symmetrix (today’s “DMX series”). As Vice President of EMC’s Symmetrix group, Mr. Yanai was responsible for design and development of all hardware and software products for EMC’s industry-leading enterprise storage systems. Based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, EMC’s Symmetrix group grew from only one employee in 1987 to more than 3500 under his leadership. Mr. Yanai graduated in 1975 from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology with a Bsc in Electrical Engineering. He holds over 40 patents for various innovative storage hardware and software-related technologies.
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About IBM, Infinidat: Infinidat is a data storage software platform designed to store and protect numerous petabytes of data.
Ben Edelstein
Co-Founder of LogRocket
Ben Edelstein is the co-founder of LogRocket.
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About LogRocket: LogRocket records videos of user sessions with logs and network data, identifying UX problems and revealing the root cause of every bug.
Matthew Arbesfeld
CEO and Co-Founder of LogRocket
Matthew Arbesfeld is the CEO and co-founder of LogRocket.
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About LogRocket: LogRocket records videos of user sessions with logs and network data, identifying UX problems and revealing the root cause of every bug.
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.
Joshua Lessing
Co-Founder and CEO of Root AI
Joshua Lessing is the Co-Founder and CEO at Root AI.
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About AppHarvest, Root AI: Root AI is a research company aiming to create intelligent robots that will help growers build the farms of the future.
