Black Kite provides third party cyber risk intelligence software. This cybersecurity startup was founded in 2016 by Candan Bolukbas, a former CEH (certified ethical hacker) for NATO. They’re on a mission to build the most trustworthy cyber rating system in the world.
Ashlyn Donohue made a contract with herself that she was going to be an attorney who solved business problems, no matter how her path down the mountain looked. Today, she is the Director of Legal at Boston-based legal tech startup LinkSquares, front and center as “customer zero” helping the company solve legal, business, and product challenges on the daily. It takes drive, intentionality, and experience to help scale a growing startup’s legal team while also advising on its product strategy.
Kelly Cheng has been a creative problem solver, marketer, and pitch person for most of her life. She’s circled the globe from Hong Kong to Boston to San Francisco and back, managing an international team today as the Head of Marketing & Growth at Boston based hybrid events platform Goldcast.
Mirakl is the “SaaS solution chosen by leading enterprises worldwide to manage their third-party marketplace and dropship business”. A late stage startup, Mirakl is dually headquartered between Paris and Somerville. This company generates some serious scale so buckle up as we take you on a journey from Paris to Boston to the internet.
Tony Iuliano is a cybersecurity revenue leader who found the world of technology and startups with a little help from his friends, who became family. Today, Tony is the Senior Director of North American Sales at cybersecurity leader Recorded Future, the largest aggregator of threat intelligence in the world outside of the U.S. Government.
Basys is “software for healthcare pre-authorization”. Started in 2022 by healthtech veterans Amber Nigam & Jie Sun, the duo met at Harvard’s data science program and incubated the company out of Harvard’s iLab. These entrepreneurs are on a mission to help drive scalable impact by stripping out some of the massive inefficiency in our healthcare system using artificial intelligence.
CloudZero is “software for cloud infrastructure costs.” The company was founded in 2016 by Matt Manger and Erik Peterson. Matt and Erik are two experienced technical leaders who met at Veracode and had personally dealt with the pain of managing infrastructure costs across multiple clouds, dashboards, and functions.
Whether it’s his affinity for competition, brotherly love, or solving puzzles, Mark Hardy has always been destined for the camaraderie of a startup. Having transitioned from growth equity investing to the world of early-stage companies, Mark currently serves as the Director of Revenue Operations at Black Kite, a high-growth cybersecurity startup headquartered in Boston. Black Kite offers the premiere third-party risk intelligence platform, and Mark works alongside the sales, marketing and customer success teams to create more cohesive go-to-market strategies for the company.
I had so much fun writing the MGMT Boston newsletter alongside you all these past three months. There are too many people to thank but…thank you. It’s been a really cool quarter of personal and content growth and I look forward to bringing you more in Q2!
EKOS.ai is an “all in one engagement platform for hybrid communities” founded by Melis Dural in 2020. To understand EKOS is to understand Melis. She’s originally from Turkey, traveled to Switzerland for high school, and came to the U.S. when she was 18 to attend Northeastern. She went on to complete her MBA at Babson. To communicate with friends, family, and colleagues she’s pretty much been remote the entirety of her adult life.
