The cohort

Meet the founders

Operators, engineers, and builders shaping the future of tech in Boston. No spectators — just people shipping real products and solving hard problems.

Aidan McCarty

Founder & CEO, Verified

1-click identity verification — share verified personal data across websites instantly. Forbes 30 Under 30. Stanford.

Identity B2B SaaS

Andrew Smith

Co-Founder, Swapt

Intelligent QR codes and NFC for personalized in-store customer experiences. Backed by Klaviyo co-founders.

Retail Tech B2B SaaS

Ben Katz

Co-Founder & CEO, HYBRD

The training platform for hybrid athletes — Strava meets strength. Y Combinator F24. Ex-WHOOP.

Fitness Consumer

Benj Cohen

Founder, Proton.ai

AI-powered CRM built for distributors. $20M raised. Customers report 2.6x average sales growth in year one. Harvard.

AI / ML B2B SaaS

Bill Simmons

Co-Founder, Orbit.me

AI-organized messaging across texts, email, and social. Serial entrepreneur — prev. DataXu (acq. by Roku). MIT PhD.

AI / ML Consumer

Chris Oates

Founder & CEO, Legislata

AI-powered policy intelligence platform for government affairs, journalists, and advocates. Oxford PhD. BU lecturer.

GovTech AI / ML

David Bender

Founder, Brickgraph

Knowledge graphs and geospatial AI for commercial real estate — unifying fragmented data to surface hidden patterns.

PropTech AI / ML

David Chang

Founder, Via AI

Relationship AI that finds warm intro paths to any buyer. Serial entrepreneur — Gradifi (acq. E*Trade), Where (acq. PayPal).

Sales AI B2B SaaS

Emily Mu

Co-Founder & CTO, Marveri

AI that compresses months of legal due diligence into minutes. $3.5M raised. Backed by Bessemer. MIT PhD.

Legal Tech AI / ML

Jack O'Brien

Co-Founder, Subconscious

AI agent infrastructure with reasoning across unlimited context. 2x exited founder. Ex-Google. MIT Sloan. Pearce Fellow.

AI Infra Deep Tech
Jesse Amato-Grill

Jesse Amato-Grill

Founder

Building in Boston.

Stealth
Max Makeev

Max Makeev

Founder, Spruce Systems

Building Spruce Systems. Serial founder — prev. Owl Labs (Meeting Owl 360° camera). Ex-iRobot.

Hardware Deep Tech

Nathan Spielberg

Co-Founder & CTO, Tamarin AI

AI procurement analytics — turning cost centers into strategic assets. Stanford PhD, MIT BS. Ex-Motional (autonomous vehicles).

AI / ML Enterprise

Nick Leonard

Co-Founder & CEO, VoiceRun

Code-first platform for enterprise voice agents. $5.5M seed led by Flybridge. MIT decathlete. Ex-Pratt & Whitney.

Voice AI Enterprise

Noa Flaherty

Co-Founder & CTO, Vellum

The AI product development platform — build, deploy, and evaluate LLM-powered apps. Y Combinator W23. MIT. Ex-DataRobot.

AI Infra Developer Tools

Raj Shrimali

Co-Founder, GrowthFactor

AI-powered site selection for retail real estate — cutting location evaluation time by 80%. MIT Sloan. Tested with 5 major US retailers.

AI / ML Real Estate

Roman Stolyarov

Founder, Lambda Surgical

Physical intelligence for surgery — spatial awareness technology enabling never-before-attained surgical precision.

Med Tech Deep Tech

Scott Johnston

Co-Founder & CEO, Lumafield

Industrial CT scanning made accessible — bringing X-ray inspection to every manufacturer. $100M+ raised.

Hardware Deep Tech

Simon Taylor

Founder & CEO, HYCU

Multi-cloud backup and recovery as a service — purpose-built data protection for modern enterprises. $100M+ raised.

Cloud Infra Enterprise

Zara Perumal

Co-Founder & CTO, Overwatch Data

Real-time cybersecurity and OSINT intelligence. Y Combinator S22. Forbes 30 Under 30. MIT. Ex-Google Threat Analysis.

Cybersecurity AI / ML
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Founders

5

YC-backed

8+

MIT & Harvard

12+

Sectors covered

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