MGMT Boston - W2, Q4 24 - Q3 '24 Recap
Q3 '24 Recap - Startups, Operators, The Lantern & Operators Club
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Q3 ‘24 Recap
Startups: Sense, mabl, Customers.ai, Wicket, Form Health, EnFi, Crunchtime, OfferFit
Operators: Greg Montemurro / Posh, Sharon Roth / Quantified AI, Jason Jones / Klaviyo, Haley Wilcox / ezCater, Peter George / MX
Thanks to all the startups & operators for participating in Q2 ‘24!
The Lantern: Intro Trailer / Jonathan Chang, Markit AI / Aniketh Mohanty, Wayfair / Setting the Culture / Amber Nigam, basys.ai / The Agents Are Coming / Alex Ewing, OneScreen.ai / Jess Lynch, FoundersEdge / What is MGMT Boston? And Why? / Remen Okoruwa, Propexo / Amelia Van Camp, Mirakl / Simon Taylor, HYCU / Nathan Rosenberg & Marc Printz, Farmblox
The Lantern is brought to you by Innovation Economy Banking at J.P. Morgan this September
Operators Club: Growing Fast in 2024 (July), Emerging Value in AI with C10 Labs (August), Going Early with Engineers & Operators at Asymmetric Capital (Sept) & Going Long to Build an Enduring Career at Klaviyo (Sept)
Upcoming Featured Boston Event: Ditch The Deck, 10/10 @ 5:30pm - Ever notice how most demo-days don’t actually have any demos? FoundersEdge is ditching the deck to showcase the game-changing products local startups are building. Or if you’re interested in submitting a demo, enter here 🚀
Other Resources:
The Lantern Short Form Video Series (YT / IG) - Intro Trailer / Jonathan Chang, Markit AI / Aniketh Mohanty, Wayfair / Setting the Culture / Amber Nigam, basys.ai / The Agents Are Coming / Alex Ewing, OneScreen.ai / Jess Lynch, FoundersEdge / What is MGMT Boston? And Why? / Remen Okoruwa, Propexo / Amelia Van Camp, Mirakl / Simon Taylor, HYCU / Nathan Rosenberg & Marc Printz, Farmblox / Jenni Goodman, Underscore
MGMT Boston Operators Club - a community and opportunity engine for 80+ Boston based up & coming venture backed operators
2024 Boston Tech Big Board - 2024 Companies to Watch (evolving list)
The Endeca Effect: Overview / Markets / People / Products / Conclusion / Bonus - Steve Papa Alumni Learnings
Q3 Startups Highlighted: Sense, mabl, Customers.ai, Wicket, Form Health, EnFi, Crunchtime, OfferFit
Q3 Operators Highlighted: Greg Montemurro / Posh, Susan Roth / Quantified AI, Jason Jones / Klaviyo, Haley Wilcox / ezCater, Peter George / MX
2023 1H Recap / 2023 2H Recap / 2024 Q1 Recap / 2024 Q2 Recap
Q3 Recap - Startups
Q3 Startups Highlighted (Sequentially): Sense, mabl, Customers.ai, Wicket, Form Health, EnFi, Crunchtime, OfferFit
Native AI: EnFi, OfferFit
ClimateTech: Sense
Vertical & Horizontal SaaS (+AI): mabl, Customers.ai, Wicket, Crunchtime
HealthTech: Form Health
Seed Stage: EnFi
Growth Stage (A-C): Customers.ai, Wicket, Form Health, OfferFit
Late Stage (>C): Sense, mabl, Crunchtime
Sense - a growth stage software company bringing better intelligence to the edge of our electrical grid
mabl - growth stage software company building a unified platform to streamline testing across web, mobile, API, accessibility, and performance to bring innovation to QA testing because all software should be shipped quickly with enterprise level quality
Customers.ai - a provider of website visitor identification and remarketing solutions that turn anonymous prospects into customers, using smart identification capabilities
Wicket - changing the stadium experience through advanced facial recognition software technology so fans can get to their seats faster, enjoy themselves, and stadiums get to improve their operational rigor too
Form Health - a virtual obesity medicine clinic that provides science-based obesity care to help patients achieve their weight loss and health goals
EnFi - building an agentic, native AI software platform for financial institutions to give complex credit lenders the power of 10,000 analysts
Crunchtime - a late stage vertical software company at $100M+ ARR that serves multi-unit restaurant brands, helping them deliver industry leading operational excellence in every location
OfferFit - building an AI Decisioning platform that enables lifecycle marketers to automate personalization at scale, taking the tedium & pain out of A/B testing
Q3 Recap - Operators
Q3 Operators Highlighted (Sequentially): Greg Montemurro / Posh, Sharon Roth / Quantified AI, Jason Jones / Klaviyo, Haley Wilcox / ezCater, Peter George / MX
Product & Engineering: Greg Montemurro, Sharon Roth
Revenue: Haley Wilcox, Peter George
Operations, Finance, G&A: Jason Jones
Greg Montemurro, Chief of Staff to the CPO @ Posh - a fast talking, hard charging product & community leader who opened doors..so he could knock them down
Sharon Roth, Senior Director of Product @ Quantified AI - a Product & Design leader who’s built her career in the lab, across different modalities, to bring more creative product experiences to life
Jason Jones, Global Employer Brand Lead @ Klaviyo - a collaborator, tireless worker, and employment marketer who carved his own path with a little help from his friends
Haley Wilcox, Director, Enterprise Sales & Partnerships @ ezCater - a competitor, listener, and solution driven revenue leader who has built partnerships through environments spicy and mild
Peter George, Managing Director, Financial Institutions @ MX - a relationship-first FinTech revenue professional who builds trust by finding common ground
Q3 Recap - The Lantern
The Lantern is brought to you by Innovation Economy Banking at J.P. Morgan this September
Introducing The Lantern - a short form video series by MGMT Boston featuring the best startups (+founders), ecosystem leaders, and ferociously talented operators in Boston
W1: Trailer Launch / Markit AI / W1 Summary (Setting the Culture)
W2: Aniketh Mohanty, Wayfair / Amber Nigam, Basys.ai / W2 Summary (The Agents are Coming)
W3: Alex Ewing, OneScreen / Jess Lynch, FoundersEdge / What is MGMT Boston? And Why?
W4: Remen Okoruwa, Propexo / Amelia Van Camp, Mirakl
W5: Simon Taylor, HYCU / Nathan Rosenberg & Marc Printz, Farmblox
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Q3 Recap - Operators Club
Some other quarterly highlights if you’ve made it this far..
Growing Fast in 2024 (July) - Growth is about nuance, timing, and being ready. It takes operating rigor and experience to learn to ride the waves, ask good questions, and most of all great things take time to build. Thanks to Andrew Lau, John Andrews, Kristen from Fidelity and Nate & Rafael from HubSpot for a great event
Emerging Value in AI with C10 Labs (August) - The Emerging Value in AI lies in intersectional use cases that combine 1.) top teams with 2.) unique / proprietary datasets and 3.) domain expertise in a massive market that could contribute $15.7T to the global economy by 2030. Thank you to David Berlin, Shahid Azim, and the rest of the C10 Labs team for the entertainment & education
Going Early with Engineers & Operators at Asymmetric Capital - Thank you to Rob Biederman, Nancy Chou, and the rest of the Asymmetric team for having us to their Back Bay office to discuss the right individual characteristics and cultural ingredients needed to be successful in early stage environments. Thank you to Rob Biederman, Michele Spitzer, Nancy Chou, and the rest of the Asymmetric team for having us to their Back Bay office
Going Long to Build an Enduring Career at Klaviyo - Thanks to Klaviyo, Women in Product, Lily Lyman, Stephanie Furfaro, and Jen Kessler for sharing a ton of wisdom on following your interests, mentors, what stays the same, maintaining energy, business school, and guidance for mentees. And a special thank you to Jason Jones from Klaviyo & their team alongside Daria Marmer & Women in Product for helping pull the evening together
We’ll leave it there for now. On to Q4!
Any feedback for me? One thing you liked? One thing you didn’t? Local startups or operators to highlight? Just reply to this e-mail!
See you next week!
-Matt