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Stephanie Roulic, Head of Operations @ Goldcast

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Stephanie Roulic grew up in Massachusetts before her career as a Founder, startup event organizer, and early startup employee. It’s easier to just leave it there for a new audience than to detail the first three years of her childhood growing up in Moscow after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Or the chapter in Malaysia where she attended preschool & part of kindergarten before moving to Thailand to finish kindergarten and attend first grade. After all that she boomeranged back to the Bay State where she was born to settle in Billerica. Whew.

Stavvy

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Stavvy is “software for transactions”. The team has built a digital mortgage platform that helps real estate and mortgage professionals remove paper from the mortgage process. Have you ever bought a home? At the very least you’ve signed a lease. If you haven’t signed a lease and you’re reading this from your parents basement that’s alright too. But figure it out, ok? Anyway the insight I’m trying to relay is that there is a LOT of paperwork involved.

Nick Abate, Director of Sales Engineering @ Salsify

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Nick Abate has always been drawn to high growth experiences. Whether it’s the bustle of a city, the hard work and discipline it took to play soccer at the collegiate level, or the explosion of e-commerce over the past decade he’s always sought bar raising challenges.

Paperless Parts

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Paperless Parts is “estimating and quoting software for manufacturers”. They’re a vertical SaaS platform catering to manufacturers of all shapes and sizes. They help their customers estimate & generate quotes in order to make smarter, faster & more informed decisions to win new customers and increase revenue. Their goal is to transform operations for “job shops” through software that is tailored to the unique demands of the custom part manufacturing industry.

Jack McDermott, Manager, Growth @ Chegg

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Jack McDermott is an athlete. Or at least that’s how he saw himself earlier in life. It was a lot easier to self identify that way on the football or lacrosse field where he confidently performed instead of the classroom. You see, Jack had a stutter. Growing up, he kept getting pulled out of class to go to his speech therapy sessions. And from an early age he noticed that classrooms and our education system weren’t always designed for a kid like him. He had a problem he needed to solve.

Goldcast

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Goldcast is a “digital events platform for B2B marketers”. Founded by Harvard Business School students Kishore Kothandaraman, Palash Soni & Aashish Srinivas they host digital event experiences that get prospects and customers excited about your brand. Goldcast was born out of the pandemic amidst the rapidly accelerating shift from physical to digital and the unmet needs of a very specific, important audience: B2B marketers. 

Sheila Connolly, Principal PM @ Forward Financing

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Sheila Connolly had a dream. Her love of politics was going to propel her through undergrad, onto law school, and across the Atlantic Ocean into a career as an international human rights lawyer at the Hague. She did make it across the Atlantic Ocean, but not quite as far as the Netherlands. We’ll get there. 

Hi Marley

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Hi Marley is “communication software for insurance companies” or, in their parlance, “simple, lovable communication”. You can imagine the daily problems that insurance companies face. Their most engaged customers are coming to them at some of the most difficult times of their lives – car accidents, fires, damaged property you name it. I would know. I got in 3 fender benders before my 18th birthday. And one of them wasn’t my fault, ok? Communication is critical!

Laina Crosby, Product Manager @ Toast

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I’m honored to introduce Laina Crosby, a Product Manager at Toast. Full disclosure, Laina & I used to work together once upon a time. While Laina works at Toast, she is not Toast. Toast is not Laina. She is a person far beyond her professional identity. Lest we forget. 

Jellyfish

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Jellyfish is “Salesforce for Engineering”. An analogy that even the densest of us startup people can understand. They call themselves “The Bloom” which I have to admit is pretty cool. The Jellyfish team has capitalized on the evolving role of engineering leaders and their emerging role as business strategists as software eats the world. Founder Andrew Lau eloquently explains how Jellyfish is building a way to make engineering more measurable in a video on their website’s About Us page.

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