Postman: Agentic APIs / Spring Event Round Up / The Engine, Part 3
Postman: Agentic APIs / Spring Event Round Up / Coworking Chronicles: The Engine, Part 3
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March Presenting Ecosystem Sponsor:
TLDR:
Pooja Mistry, Senior Developer Advocate at Postman - the AI-native API platform used by 40M developers across 500k+ orgs, expanding the Boston team, and hosting Agents & APIs on April 1st at International Place
Thanks to Shaili Gupta for the intro
Spring Event Round Up - top notch upcoming community events with Postman, Blitzy, Consumer Leaders, and Lovable. Get out there!
The Coworking Chronicles Series - check out our next chapter at The Engine where we met with Ross Davis Beighley from Evoworks Bio, Gizem Gumuskaya, PhD from Morphitectica, and Scott Snelling, PE from Roebling Labs (Part 3)
Thanks to Katherine Otway & Rachael Faust for organizing
MGMT Boston 2026 Startup Partners: Blitzy / Suno / HYCU / OnRamp / WHOOP
We’ll be creating media all year alongside these standout teams! More to come!
Around the Hub on MGMT Boston’s News Feed:
Quotient AI acquired by Databricks - congrats!
Wix Ventures hosting Foundry Program in Boston April 11th & 12th (apps close next week!)
Talvy (marketplace) raises $2M Seed Round from Link Ventures
Other Resources:
MGMT Boston Operators Club - a community and opportunity engine for 100+ Boston based up & coming venture backed operators
Boston Tech Big Board - 2026 Startups to Watch!
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Pooja Mistry, Senior Developer Advocate at Postman
Welcome Pooja Mistry, Senior Developer Advocate at Postman on this episode of 🔥 The Lantern 🔥
Postman is the AI-native API platform used by 40 million developers across 500,000+ organizations...and they're expanding their team here in Boston.
🚀 What’s new at Postman in 2026? 🚀
Postman just re-architected its entire platform as an AI-native API platform.
Git-connected Workspaces, a new API catalog, and a full rebuild for the agentic era built for a world where AI agents are the consumers of your APIs, not just humans.
🤖 What does "AI-native" actually mean for builders? 🤖
It means you can now design, build, and test APIs with MCP servers, AI agents, and whatever IDE you're already using all from one platform.
Postman is where you build for the agentic era. The companies building AI products today need API infrastructure that helps them keep pace.
🏙️ Why Boston and why now? 🏙️
Pooja is building Postman's developer community presence here, starting with a live event April 1st at International Place in Downtown Boston, co-hosted by Lovable.
Our top universities (like MIT & Harvard) and the broader Boston AI ecosystem make this city a natural home for what Postman is building.
Community isn't a marketing channel, it's your co-founders!
The builders who use your product every day are the ones who shape where it goes next.
🤝 How can we help Postman grow in Boston? 🤝
Show up! The April 1st Postman Developer Community event is free, hands-on, and designed for builders who want to work with APIs in the AI-native era.
Spring Event Series Round Up
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a MILLION times. Boston is a relationships town and you’ve got to get out there in person to win championships!
Here are some high quality startup gatherings you should check out locally these next few weeks:
🤖 April 1st 🤖: Agents & APIs Boston Developer Meetup at Postman (5:30pm - 7:30pm, Financial District)
Do you need to put your AI agents into production?
Create APIs that actually scale with your AI app?
Want to meet other AI builders and share best practices?
Join Postman and Lovable for food, networking, live demos and best practices on how to scale API development, and get your AI apps ready for production. Come for the learning, stay for the vibes.
🤝 April 2nd 🤝: Blitzy Networking Night: Insights from Lou Shipley, Author of Unlikely Entrepreneurs (5:30pm - 7:30pm, Cambridge)
Hear from Lou Shipley, author of Unlikely Entrepreneurs, as he shares insights, stories, and lessons from his journey building successful companies
Connect with Blitzy’s leadership, including CRO Christoper Harris, and get an inside look at our vision, culture, and growth
Network with Go-To-Market leaders and fellow innovators in the Boston area
Celebrate a strong Q1 with food, drinks, and a lively, Blitzy-style gathering
🎨 April 8th 🎨: Consumer Breakfast for Founders, Funders & Operators (9am - 11am, Financial District)
Inviting Boston-area venture backed consumer leaders, founders & investors to join for breakfast w/Matt Crane MGMT Boston, Kristen Craft
❤️ April 16th ❤️: GTM in AI Night at Lovable (5pm - 8pm, Financial District)
An evening mixer for AI-minded GTM Operators. The operators rewriting the GTM playbook with real workflows
More great events with the Mass AI Coalition here
BONUS - here are some growing companies building out offices locally I've heard about the last few weeks:
Anthropic (Enterprise/Consumer)
Augment Code (Enterprise)
General Medicine (Healthtech)
groundcover (Enterprise)
Lovable (Enterprise/Consumer)
Navan (Enterprise)
Postman (Enterprise)
Tines (Enterprise)
xAI (Enterprise)
Coworking Chronicles: The Engine, Pt. 3
Episode 37 of the Coworking Chronicles has us traveling to visit The Engine, Part 3.
The Engine is an incubator & accelerator supporting Tough Tech, the transformational science and engineering that solves the world’s most important challenges.
We caught up with…
Ross Davis Beighley, Co-Founder & CEO at Evoworks Bio
Gizem Gumuskaya, PhD, Founder & CEO at Morphitectica
Scott Snelling, PE, CEO at Roebling Labs
On this segment..
🧪 Evoworks Bio is building an all-in-one bio-manufacturing platform that works in the lab and is ready for mass distribution the next day, helping solve distribution bottlenecks like we faced during COVID
🧱 Morphitectica is combining synthetic biology and architecture to create self-constructing living materials. Think: plant a capsule, grow a brick. No molds, no heavy machinery, no massive carbon footprint
🌉 Roebling Labs is protecting vulnerable bridges from vessel collisions, the exact problem behind the Francis Scott Key disaster. The NTSB flagged 46 bridges nationally as at-risk. Scott's working hardware and software prototype is already deployed in the field
🏗️ What’s happening right now at each company? 🏗️
🧪 Evoworks Bio is actively looking to partner with academics and anyone using flasks to make proteins. Their team can help you scale!
They’re watching Drul (oral diagnostics) and Precision Chromatography Limited (chromatography tech, based in New Zealand).
🧱 Morphitectica is raising patient capital for a moonshot that needs committed, technical believers.
Gizem is watching Ecovative, Biomason (biogenic building materials) and Foray Bioscience (tree products/deforestation) based at The Engine.
🌉 Roebling Labs is in the critical transition from working prototype to a certified life safety system.
Scott is watching Omnic.AI, their founder Shaun Meredith has been a critical advisor to the company
The Coworking Chronicles Startup Summer > Fall > Winter Full Playlist / The Engine, Part 1 / Part 2
Any feedback for us? One thing you liked? One thing you didn’t? Local startups, founders, or operators to highlight? Just reply to this e-mail!
See you next week!
-Matt