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

The marketplace retention CRM — helping Amazon sellers identify and keep their customers. Backed by Klaviyo co-founders.

E-commerce 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

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

Derek Caneja

Co-Founder & CTO, VoiceRun

Code-first platform for enterprise voice agents. $5.5M seed led by Flybridge.

Voice AI Enterprise

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

Fabián Yáñez-Laguna

Co-Founder & CTO, AiRE

Relationship intelligence for real estate agents — surfacing the life events that signal when to reconnect with a past client. MIT. Previously Amazon AWS and Dell.

PropTech 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

Jonathan Chang

Co-Founder & CEO, Markit AI

SMS-native newsletters and monetization — helping creators own their audience off social platforms. Tufts CS & MechE. Techstars mentor and Entrepreneur in Residence at BU.

Creator Economy Consumer

Jonathan Roman

Founder & CEO, Stage Zero Health

Cancer screening as a managed employee benefit — working out who needs which screening, then making sure it actually happens. Founded in Cambridge, MA.

Health Tech AI / ML

Justin Gelwicks

Co-Founder & CEO, AiRE

Tracks promotions, home value changes, and life events so real estate agents know exactly when to reconnect with past clients. MIT researcher.

PropTech AI / ML

Kristina Fontanez

Founder & CEO, Adept Scientific

An AI copilot for the lab — voice guidance, troubleshooting, and auto-logging at the bench. PhD. Two startups taken to exit, one acquired by Illumina.

Life Sciences AI / ML

Linda Waller

Founder & CEO, EpiGo

A pocketable epinephrine auto-injector for people with life-threatening allergies. Diagnosed at age 4, Linda designed the device she spent her life wishing existed.

Med Tech Hardware

Mary Delaney

Co-Founder & CEO, Tamarin AI

AI procurement analytics — turning cost centers into strategic assets. Ex-McKinsey associate partner. MIT ChemE & Biology.

AI / ML Enterprise

Matt Crane

Founder, MGMT Boston

The media company for venture-backed startups in Greater Boston. Boston native; a decade in the Bay Area leading CS & Ops at AdRoll and Liftoff Mobile (acq. Blackstone).

Media Community

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

Sandro Catanzaro

Founder, Momentiv

Building in stealth. Co-founder & CIO of DataXu (acq. Roku). Born in Peru, five companies started before MIT Sloan — then a detour through MIT Aero/Astro, NASA, and Bain.

Stealth AI / ML

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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