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.
Jasmine Pogue has been through a storm or two on a path to establishing herself as a revenue leader and future executive leader determined to make it to the top no matter the obstacle. She’s been around the world on a career journey from retail to telecom to SaaS and is just getting started. Today, she manages the revenue team for Skilltype, a talent management software company serving libraries. There are a few of those around here I’ve heard?
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Dana Wensberg wasn’t just looking for a job. He was looking to learn from leaders that were making disruptive products and driving innovation forward. As one of Paperless Parts’ first full time employees and early Software Engineers, Dana is a builder who found a tribe that’s laser focused on making manufacturing better with the help of software. Maybe he’ll even help us get to Mars.
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Wonderment is “post purchase e-commerce software for retailers”. Founded in 2020, Wonderment was created by two former Hubspot colleagues who were independently exploring building something in the e-commerce space before they decided to come together. Brian Whalley & Jessica Meher were soon joined by Wesley Abbey on the engineering side of the house with a mission to help build a better post purchase experience for e-commerce retailers.
As the Chief of Staff at late stage marketplace technology company Mirakl, it makes perfect sense that Amelia Van Camp was born in Commerce, Michigan. Her spiritual guide up above might just be a capitalist. But if you asked Amelia where she’s from she would say a small town in Illinois 60 miles outside of Chicago.
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CareAcademy is “training & up-skilling software for caregivers”. Founded by Helen Adeosun in 2016, Helen moved to Boston from Georgia to attend the Harvard Graduate School of Education. There, she took a class called Development Ventures as part of a cross-registration between MIT & Harvard graduate students. The focus of the class was to come up with businesses which had social impact. Helen proposed a concept for upskilling care workers that was well received and, just a year later, her entrepreneurial journey began. Two years later, she was focused on the business full time.
Piction Health is “fast, convenient, AI powered digital dermatological care”. Founded by Susan Conover & Pranav Kuber in 2019, this seed stage Boston based healthtech startup & their team are aiming to build the largest dermatology practice in the world. Their goal is to bring better, more scalable skin care solutions to patients across the country in the $29B U.S. specialty dermatology market.
Lily Macomber is from the smallest town in the smallest county in the smallest state in the country but there’s nothing remotely small about the impact she is making today supporting founders. Lily has been supporting founders all her life.
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LinkSquares is an AI-powered legal software platform for businesses & in-house legal teams. In 2015, Founders Vishal Sunak (CEO) & Chris Combs (SVP, BD) spent almost a year researching the problem they eventually set out to solve – streamlining contract management in order to free up teams to solve their business problems. This is a Boston-based growth software company, if there ever was one, aiming to become a local tech employer for many years to come.
When it comes to building a career, TJ Massie has always been on offense. Even if an earlier chapter of life had him playing a slightly different position. He’s a big thinker, conscientious relationship builder, and calculated risk taker who has a lot to teach us about building trust through relationship selling. Let’s get to it!
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