Annie Lindseth is building a career in startups by teaching others how to fly, using her experience managing stakeholders and aptitude for operational rigor as the Chief of Staff at growth stage healthtech startup Connie Health. Annie leverages cross-functional strategic planning & execution skills to help make healthcare more trustworthy for older Americans.
OneScreen is building an end to end analytics platform to help brands select, purchase, and measure OOH (out of home) advertising. They’re bringing better analytics to the oldest advertising platform in the world: real life. Because life is better in the real world!
In May of 2017, I joined Paperless Parts as the first hire outside the founding team. Paperless Parts caters to custom part manufacturers, offering a quoting and estimating platform that marries the precision of CAD, versatility of Excel, and the organizational power of ERP systems. This platform simplifies and scales the complex processes of quoting custom parts by automating the extraction and application of data from part files into cost and pricing models. I’ve journeyed with the company from its pre-revenue stage to its current status as a market leader, through numerous pivots and product enhancements, as both an engineer and product manager. I’ve distilled four key learnings that I believe are essential for anyone venturing into the Manufacturing SaaS space.
Thank you to the talented, connected, and extremely helpful co-host, Kristen Craft, from Fidelity for Startups for hosting a tremendous B2B SaaS breakfast last Tuesday. Kristen is a champion of the Boston startup ecosystem and her team at Fidelity is helping venture backed startups from Seed to late stage with their cap table solution, going head to head with Carta.
Circle is a late stage web3 startup determined to build a new internet financial system. Their flagship product is a digital dollar stablecoin – USDC (USD Coin) and EURC (Euro Coin). They are, in their words, “one of the first digital asset-native commercial financial institutions built on public blockchain ecosystems and decentralized finance protocols”.
Kelly Peters is a storyteller, communicator, and marketing powerhouse who is helping tell the stories of tomorrow, today, as the Director of Marketing at Boston-based, late-stage weather intelligence company Tomorrow.io.
Duckbill is a personal assistant for everyone, combining a consumer AI driven software platform with real life expert humans in the loop, delivering a direct to consumer execution engine to help manage your daily life. This team is leveraging AI to bring personal assistants to working adults and alleviate some of the stress that comes with balancing a busy career and life.
Verve Motion is building an industrial wearables robotics & software platform for hardworking humans.
Founded out of Harvard’s Biodesign Lab in 2020 by Ignacio Galiana, Conor Walsh, Mike Rouleau, and Nathalie Degenhardt this team has been working on the research that ultimately became the commercial startup Verve Motion for over a decade. With initial funding for military use cases (via DARPA) and continued research grants from organizations like the National Institute of Health and National Science Foundation, research has been commercialized for an industrial use case to help make humans stronger & less fatigued.
Dean Walsh has traveled across ecosystems and hierarchies as a bridge between eras, one of the last paperboys, who rode his bike and mind on a path from neighborhood streets into the world of high growth startups. Today, he serves as the Senior Program Manager for TiE ScaleUp, TiE ScaleUp, an equity free accelerator program for Boston-based seed startups.
Centaur Labs is the leading healthcare data annotation platform — helping AI developers build, monitor, and validate their models at scale. Centaur leverages a community of 58K+ healthcare experts and performance-based incentives, to drive fast and accurate annotations across multiple data types (text, 2D/3D imaging, video, audio, waveform, etc.).
