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Invest Alongside Boston's Leading Angels:   Learn More About Our Syndicates Two young founders on a mission to get valuable data about complex illnesses which are not now easily captured. Nell Meosky Luo and Dan Toffling of Folia Health tell the story of how their startup came together and where it's headed. Highlights include: Nell Meosky Luo bio. Dan Toffling bio. What Folia Health does. Patient...

Repeat founder Adam Martel went to work for Babson College as a major gifts fundraiser in order to get his MBA for free. While at Babson he identified the problem Gravyty is addressing and met his co-founder Rich Palmer. Gravyty attracted early support from Christopher Mirabile's LaunchPad Venture Group. The company just completed a $2 million plus raise to ramp up its growth. A really sparkling i...

Invest Alongside Boston's Top Angels:  Our Syndicates To super angel Jeff Arnold the way to make money in biotech is to make few but highly researched bets and then back them to the hilt. His remarkable record is hard to argue with. The interview takes us from his student days at MIT through his various startups and investments; a tour de force. His approach has much to teach angels and founders....

Sal's Investment Syndicates:  Learn More About Our Syndicates Engineer and consultant Susan Conover's struggle with skin cancer inspires her to apply AI to help us understand what's going on with our skin. This determined founder has made considerable headway in building the most valuable asset an AI startup can have: a strong, proprietary data set. A fun interview with a dynamic founder. Highligh...

Invest Alongside Boston's Top Angels:   Link to Our Investment Syndicates Two of Boston's most active angels, Marlene Boyaner of Golden Seeds and Doug Bates of Walnut Venture, talk to Sal Daher about angel investing, fundraising, building a startup and various other topics. The panel takes challenging questions from an audience of startup founders. Highlights include: Marlene Boyaner bio. Doug Bat...

Invest Alongside Boston's Top Angels in Our Syndicates:   Our Investment Syndicates Page Building a business in education is hard but Steve Shapiro has beaten the odds several times. His latest accomplishment is as CEO of FineTune Learning which is set to grade essays from 3.6 million students taking the CollegeBoard's AP Exams starting in July of 2019. Founded by brilliant Maine educator Ogden Mo...

Invest Alongside Boston's Top Angels:   Learn About Our Syndicates How his grandfather succeeded despite being blind inspired Shivang Dave, Ph. D. to change the world.  As an accomplished bioengineer and a founder, he aims to bring high-quality eye exams to the masses in India with a new device. The Madrid-MIT M+Visión Fellowship was crucial to building a capable and cohesive founding team for Ple...

Invest Alongside Boston's Top Angels:   Learn About Our Syndicates From studying Ancient Greek to building a business, founder Brendan Dowdall has traveled an interesting path. Construction is a staid industry but Brendan is revolutionizing it with data. Concrete Sensors' innovative devices sit in concrete and transmit data. The payoff is already evident in time savings and improvements in quality...

Invest Alongside Boston's Top Angels:   Learn About Our Syndicates Two friends from Turkey are bringing the latest advances in AI to people with visual impairments. Emre Sarbak was a consultant and a successful social entrepreneur. Çağrı Zaman was an architect but is now completing his PhD at MIT's Media Lab in computer vision. Their startup Mediate is building practical tools to help people with...

Join Boston's Top Angels in Our Syndicates:  Learn About Our Syndicates Upon graduating in the upper strata of her engineering class at MIT, Lucinda Linde was promptly accepted at Harvard Business school. She worked as an engineer in two successful tech companies, one of which was co-founded by Clayton Christensen of "Innovator's Dilemma" fame. Her incisive intellect and practical outlook were pri...

Invest Alongside Boston's Leading Angels:   Our Syndicates Science is broken. Vast increases in people and money applied to scientific inquiry have failed to raise the rate of discovery. Among the reasons for this is that the workflow of labs is firmly stuck in the 1990s. Repeat founder Gabor Bethlendy is tackling this huge problem by creating Meenta.io, a platform to allow researchers to plan and...

Invest Alongside Boston's Top Angels:   Link to Our Syndicates Page Action Jack Barker move over! Chainsaw Jack Huntress is the real deal. CEOs don't get more dynamic than this geologist turned founder. Jack's startup, HomeBinder offers invaluable tools to help homeowners manage and record work done on their most valuable asset. It's getting real traction via home inspectors eager to help home buy...

Invest Alongside Boston's Leading Angels:  Link to Our Syndicates Page Esportudo.com is creating new ways for sports fans in Latin America to engage with their sport. Founder Marcos Araújo, whose parents came to the Boston area from Brazil, is leveraging his background in digital media to address a huge unmet need. His website now gets 20 million visits a month and is growing. Brands love the oppo...

Invest Alongside Boston's Top Angels:   Click Here to Learn Mor e Sam Bogoch's company, axle.ai, helps clients with massive video files make sense of the content they have. The accumulation of video content is going way beyond the traditional broadcast networks and includes universities, large enterprises not in the entertainment industry, churches, sports venues etc. Video has yet to migrate to t...

Accredited Investors, Invest Alongside Boston's Top Angels:   Link to Our Syndicates Page Star founder Bryanne Leeming is back to update us on all the exciting stuff Unruly Studios has been doing. Alexa Accelerator, Inc. Magazine feature, adoption by the City of Somerville and more. Listen to this scrappy young founder who's done a lot with very little. Topics include: What they learned at Amazon'...

Accredited Investor? Check Out Our Syndicates:  Link to Syndicate Page DACA recipient, Berkeley grad, and a Googler, Victor Santos is not a typical startup founder. His Boston-based startup, Airfox is addressing a huge problem: access to affordable financing in Latin America. Through a partnership with one of Brazil's leading retail lenders, Airfox is able to gather data that enables lower-cost le...

Accredited Investors, Join Boston's Leading Angels in Our Syndicates:  Learn More About Our Syndicates Brilliant Spanish postdoc, Carlos Castro-González, goes to MIT's "Magic Wand" lab, and joins a superb international team to address an important medical problem. Leuko, their startup, now has a device and software that can tell when cancer patients are becoming immuno-compromised. Leuko's product...

Invest Alongside Boston's Leading Angels:  Learn About Our Syndicates A Renaissance man still lives in our times. He's been a priest, a Harvard prof, a non-profit exec and he's now a founder.  The startup Larry Sullivan helped found has built a platform on which C-level executives implement strategic initiatives. The proof of the pudding is that Chiefofstaff.com's platform has been adopted by some...

Some of our most interesting founders are immigrants. That is certainly the case with Federico Cismondi, a bioengineer from MIT. His path began at the foothills of the Andes and has led Federico and his co-founders to build a company, doDoc that is radically changing how the world's technology leaders handle complex documents. This was a scintillating interview. Highlights include: doDoc is not yo...

Amanda Drobnis has a technology that facilitates the use of tissue from animal placentas to regenerate tissue in other animals. The procedure, known as a placental allograft, is gaining acceptance in human medicine. Amanda plans to translate that trend to the veterinary space. I met Amanda at a mentoring session at The Capital Network (TCN), a really valuable institution that helps founders and in...

Our Investment Syndicates:  Link to Our Syndicates Page Techstars and Shark Tank alumna Alice Lewis is building both a business and a movement. Her startup, Alice's Table, offers a "business in a box" to entrepreneurial women who need a flexible schedule and want a meaningful activity. Alice's Table helps with logistics, marketing, training and technology; the members, called "execs", bring energy...

Repeat founder Keith Elliston has found the capstone to his brilliant career. His startup Axiomedix is supporting the creation of a massive bank of patient data tied to the genetics of each patient to enable medical research on an unprecedented scale. Imagine what could be learned by comparing the medical records of millions of patients with their genomic data! Keith also has the ambition of build...

Accredited Investors, an Exciting Syndicate Is Under Way:  Click to Learn More Coming from a family of lawyers in Italy, Laura Indolfi was an unlikely candidate to found a tech startup. Yet, her love of engineering and fascination with materials took her to the storied labs at MIT led by Elazer Edelman and Bob Langer. Her startup, PanTher Therapeutics is using off-the-shelf cancer drugs and biomat...

Accredited Investor, an exciting syndicate is under way: Learn More Here How do you become the giant player in a fragmented business like that of finding voice-over talent? This is just one of the questions that intrigued me in this interview with David Ciccarelli, CEO & Co-Founder of Voices, a business he stated and runs with his wife and co-founder Stephanie. If you're raising money, this episod...

New Syndicate! Sign Up to Learn More:   Link for Signing Up Running a landscaping business while in grade school gave Sean Eldridge a taste for entrepreneurship. Years later, after a successful career in large corporations, he decided to start a business, Gain Life, building software to change people's lives. Big players in the insurance business are betting that Gain Life will help their bottom l...