Procurement Sciences is an artificial intelligence software platform that helps government and commercial contractors build a unique era of competitive advantages, designed to help them win more bids and proposals. Founded in 2022 by Christian Ferreria and John Knapp, this is a rapidly growing startup leveraging AI to solve the workflow challenges of government and commercial contractors.
Joe Haftel is a customer focused leader who keeps an open perspective, from sales to project management to implementation, in order to find a perfect fit helping customers implement software to grow their businesses. As the Implementation Project Manager at Paperless Parts, Joe is helping machine shops throughout the U.S. digitize and adapt to meet the needs of tomorrow.
Benchling is building a verticalized software platform for biotechnology research. Founded by Sajith Wickramasekara after he dropped out of MIT in 2012, he was soon joined by Ashu Singhal to help unlock the power of biotechnology and accelerate the pace of life science R&D to build the “GitHub of biotech”. Admittedly, Benchling is San Francisco headquartered but they have a significant Boston base and founding story so…we’re gonna allow it!
Pablo Bello is an outside of the box product leader who learned to go on offense through a defensive learning experience. He’s served as a co-founder, built a product team from scratch for a successfully acquired neobank, and is plotting his next move to a growth stage startup.
PredictionStrike is a simulated stock market that allows users to invest in “stock” of their favorite professional athletes. Founded in 2018 by childhood friends Brad Chabra & Deven Hurt, they had an idea, got to work, and the rest is history right? Well, not exactly.
Scroobious is a software platform building tools to help more underrepresented founders get funded. In 2022, only ~2% of the $241B raised in venture capital investment went to female founded startups (Pitchbook). In MA, that number was 0.9%.. The numbers for underrepresented founders overall aren’t much better.
Wyatt Bramhall likes to dream up products that he can bring to life. Living off the land on Martha’s Vineyard, he can build products from conception to within pixels or millimeters..when he has WiFi. As a Lead Product Manager at Amazon aggregator Perch, he’s leading a supply chain roadmap to bridge the physical & digital world in order to bring more products to your doorstep faster & cheaper.
UptimeHealth is a software platform that predicts and simplifies medical device repair, purchase, and service events. Founded in 2018 by Bill Olsen & Jinesh Patel, this team is on a mission to become the trusted source for automating care of the equipment that takes care of us.
Klaviyo is a marketing automation platform that helps companies drive revenue through e-mail, SMS, Mobile push, and more. Klaviyo founders Andrew Bialecki & Ed Hallen met at Applied Predictive Technologies outside of D.C. Next, Andrew moved back to Boston where he joined Performable, David Cancel’s startup that was later acquired by HubSpot.
What is the best way to build a career? It’s probably best to start with the end in mind. Or you could learn from Ben Katz, a startup Product & Growth leader rounding out a wide ranging skillset with each step he takes. Because it’s not about how you get there, but that you get there. As the GM of Health & Fitness at Appex, Ben is building the foundation for a long career in entrepreneurship.
