Swapt is “software that helps increase brand awareness and help you track return on investment of your in-person campaigns and activations”. Founded in 2022 by former Klaviyo engineer Andrew Smith & Co-Founder Trevor Brown, Swapt is on a mission to help customers make sense of their offline data and make e-commerce into, well, commerce. They’re backed by Klaviyo founders Andrew Bialecki & Ed Hallen with additional seed capital from Asymmetric Partners & Perkins Cove Partners.
Elucid offers software to aid in“cardiovascular disease diagnosis and prevention.” Founded in 2013 (commercially) by Andrew Buckler, they’re shining light on a better way to treat and prevent cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in pretty much every developed country and leads to 17M deaths worldwide. Every year.
Herald is “the easiest API for commercial insurance”. Founded in 2021 by Matthew Antoszyk & Duncan Crystal, these Co-Founders began their startup journey built on the infrastructure of a 20 year friendship. They met as kids at summer camp, a slightly more blissful environment than the crucible of early stage startups. If you want to know what someone’s really like there’s no better way than roasting marshmallows together. Oh and by the way CTO Jacob Barnett went to the same camp too! Maybe someone should turn this camp into an accelerator.. Anyway, back to Herald.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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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.
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.
