Startups

Black Kite

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.

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Mirakl

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.

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Basys

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.

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CloudZero

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.

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EKOS

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. 

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Wonderment

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.

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CareAcademy

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.

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Piction Health

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.

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LinkSquares

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.

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