Investors

Underscore VC is a Boston-based venture capital firm backing bold entrepreneurs from Seed to Series A with an aligned community designed to fit each startup's unique needs.

• Michael Skok

As a former entrepreneur turned VC, Michael partners with daring entrepreneurs to invest in founders and build from inception to market leaders creating billions of dollars of value. Current representative investments include Acquia, Demandware (now part of Salesforce), and Salsify.

North Bridge Venture Partners invests in exceptional people whose ideas have the potential to disrupt the way we live and work. North Bridge Venture Partners provides seed-to-growth financing to help transform those ideas into companies and those companies into market leaders.

• Ed Anderson

For the past 25 years, Ed Anderson has provided financing and advised entrepreneurs who are focused on building game-changing companies. Ed has had the good fortune to be involved as a seed or first round investor and director in some of the communications industry's most successful start-ups.

Formation 8 is a technology investment firm based in Silicon Valley with a presence in Korea, Singapore and China. Formation 8 operates as one firm with a unified mission to identify great potential and help realize the dreams and ambitions of the best entrepreneurs.

• Shirish Sathaye

A general partner at Formation 8, Shirish Sathaye focuses on investments in next-generation enterprise software, cloud-based software, wireless and wireline networking, storage infrastructure and systems.

Founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, CA, defined by respect for the entrepreneur and the company building process. The firm is led by general partners who are former founders/operators, CEOs, or CTOs of successful technology companies, and who have domain expertise ranging from biology to crypto to distributed systems to security to marketplaces to financial services.