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.
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.
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.
TrustCloud, f.k.a. Kintent, is a “trust assurance platform to turn GRC (governance, risk & compliance) into a profit center”. Founder Sravish Sridhar started the company in 2020 after previously starting, scaling and selling a backend as a service (BaaS) startup by the name of Kinvey to Progress in 2017. I think he wanted to convey the intent that he was ready to help reinvent the back office again. And in a much bigger way. Is that too much?
ezCater is the world’s “largest marketplace for corporate catering”. They make it easy to order food online for your office. This Boston area late stage growth startup is a second attempt business founded in 2007 by Stefania Mallett & Briscoe Rodgers. The original concept had traction but was unfortunately shut down when they ran out of money before it could reach profitability. The second time, Stefanie & Briscoe had a great insight for their restart*. They pivoted the company from a vertical, single industry approach to a horizontal, multi-industry model.
Think of PartsTech as the “Kayak for aftermarket auto procurement”. They match auto shops with major suppliers like Napa Auto Parts, AutoZone, Advance Auto Parts & others to get custom parts through large distribution channels to individual auto shops faster, cheaper, and more efficiently. If you got your brake pads or rotors fixed recently, there’s a good chance they were purchased through PartsTech.
