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HYCU, Inc. is the world's #1 leader in SaaS data protection. And today this startup has a vision to be the world leader in AI data protection too! MGMT Boston is thrilled to be spotlighting HYCU - one of Boston’s top startups through this month of April - in conversations with different members of their leadership team. First up? Founder and CEO Simon Taylor joins us to share his vision, what's happening today, some wisdom, and how we can grow the Boston tech ecosystem together! 👀 What is the vision for 2025 at HYCU? 👀 This is THE year when HYCU becomes the world’s #1 leader in SaaS data protection, serving thousands of customers across an ecosystem of 30,000+ SaaS applications. HYCU has 86 SaaS integrations and has been thinking deeply about what to do with the world of Generative AI. AI is really about the data lake, taking multiple sources of data, and combining them in new, different & better ways. HYCU is thrilled to announce they are going to become the world’s #1 leader in AI recovery. Their team will make it easy to have your data is protected, no matter what data lake you’re using, ingesting, or what you want to do with your data. 🔍 What’s going on inside HYCU this spring of 2025? 🔎 2025 kicked off with HYCU signing the Dell Extended Technologies (ETC) Partnership. Today there are 3,000 Dell sellers across the world actively incorporating HYCU into their offering and marketing their platform. HYCU has built a strong partnership with iManage, one of the leading content management platforms in the legal space. HYCU Is the world’s first and only backup provider for all of iManage. What started as this idea to have all these SaaS integration and their own marketplace is slowly becoming a snowball where more and more SaaS companies are coming to HYCU and asking for their help with backup & recovery. Because of their relationship with Anthropic and others, they can help any SaaS company quickly get to market with a true end-to-end data protection platform that is industrial grade for the enterprise, government , and more. Simon's message for his team? 2025 is go time! It’s time to move! 🤔 What has Simon learned from more recently building HYCU? 🤔 Understanding the true impact of empathy. At HYCU they believe that relationships are ultimately what wins. If you view your customers and partners through the lens of an empathic relationship, that will endure over the long term. 🤝 How can we help? 🤝 Boston is still underserved by Silicon Valley. HYCU has been fortunate to work with Enrique Salem at Bain Capital and Theresia Gouw at Acrew Capital. Not every Boston venture has that opportunity! We need more press about Boston, to understand where Boston rocks (cybersecurity, data, data science, data protection, etc.). We’ve got the best feeder systems in the world with MIT, Harvard, and 300 other schools. We need to bring the investment community to us and work harder to build a true Boston technology ecosystem!

🙋⚙️ Civic Roundtable is building a collaboration engine for government, helping make the public sector more integrated and effective ⚙️ 🙋 It's W2 / Q2 / 25 & this week in our MGMT Boston startup series we’ve got Civic Roundtable, a seed stage team is building the Google for government - a modern operating system that helps public sector teams work smarter, faster, and more efficiently across agencies to get things done. Madeleine Smith & Joshua Seiden traveled from sea to shining sea helping agencies improve operational efficiency and response capabilities as employees of Mark43. They saw govt agencies struggle to communicate across departments, let alone state lines. Through phone calls, email threads, and outdated legacy systems govt workers struggled to access information. Madeleine headed off to Harvard Business School where she met classmate Austin B.. They bonded over a shared passion for public service and, over dinner at the finest Mexican institution in the Greater Boston area - Felipe’s - hatched a plan to solve the problem of government communication once and for all. It could have been Cirque du Soleil for the government, Austin was all in! Local government spending is $1T+ and there are more than 90,000 government agencies & entities employing 22.5M+ people. Ok, let’s be real these numbers are in flux in the era of DOGE but you get the point. There are a ton of people, resources, and complexity when it comes to federal, state, and local government coordination. Our government is running on 1980s technology, endless paper forms, and monstrous custom-build projects that take years and millions of dollars to deploy. Why? There’s no single place to quickly ask “who should I talk to about veteran homelessness in my county?” or “what grants are available for parks & recreation right now?” Government workers on the front lines need more modern, flexible, and easier tools to use. “Who’s working on attracting technology companies to MA and keeping talent here?” Wouldn’t we like to know! In 2024 Civic Roundtable raised a $5M Seed round led by General Catalyst and established their initial customer base. The team more than tripled their customer count, currently serve 600+ cities and counties, have multiple seven figure contracts, and touch a population of 70M+ people nationwide. In 2025 they are eager to see what scale can look like. The team will be looking to grow their GTM team beyond Founder led sales, add to their engineering team, and bring on a Chief-of-Staff type resource. They were recently named one of Fast Company’s 2025 Most Innovative Companies and their NPS has jumped more than 15 points in 6 months. Operators to Know: -Emily Benz, Deployments -Alden Quimby, Head of Engineering -Sanjana Rao, Senior Software Engineer -Alex Stein, Head of Product If you're interested in learning more, the full post is linked in the comments Sign up for the newsletter to see who we bring you in the weeks ahead!

🔒🔄 Tines is building a workflow automation platform for the AI era, with enterprise grade security as its foundation 🔄 🔒 It's W1 / Q2 / 25 & this week in our MGMT Boston startup series we’ve got Tines - building a low-code approach to scaling enterprise workflows, leveraging deep experience dealing with the challenges of managing permissions, integrations, and productivity across complex environments. Tines co-founders Eoin Hinchy and Thomas Kinsella spent years running large security teams at eBay and DocuSign. They saw up close what it’s like to handle endless alerts, mundane task management, and manual processes that bog down analysts. In 2018 they set out to build a secure workflow automation platform to triage alerts, orchestrate responses, and free up teams to focus on the truly valuable and proactive side of threat intelligence. The global enterprise software market is $230B growing to $400B+ by 2030. The proliferation of software tooling and complexity make processes, workflows, and security a tricky proposition to manage. The key to Tines’ approach is a no-code/low-code platform that pretty much anyone can implement quickly without an army of engineers in hours rather than weeks. Traditional automation tools have historically required heavyweight deployments, custom code, and specialized headcount. Over the last 18 months, Tines has evolved their approach to realize a broader opportunity - automate & orchestrate workflows for different technologies across the entire enterprise. Tines is aiming to bridge the gap between siloed software systems and the surging interest in large language models (LLMs). Eoin, Thomas, and team are user experience and design obsessed. Their entire design org reports directly into Eoin as a demonstration of the importance of user friendly UX focused products. 2025 is all about building product, deepening R&D, and scaling go-to-market. They’ll remain heavily invested in design and user experience, coupling “human-friendly” to “enterprise-grade.” With 400+ customers, tens of thousands of unique workflows, and a path to $100M+ in revenue there are big growth plans in the coming quarters. Although Tines was co-founded in Dublin, Boston houses the U.S. nerve center for much of the product, marketing, and sales teams. Tines has a plan to add dozens of employees stateside over the next 12 months, with a significant percentage in its Boston (U.S.) HQ. As Tines grows, keep an eye out for them to get more involved in the local Boston community through events and other collaborations. This surging team is newly backed by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, SoftBank Vision Fund 2 & Activant Capital alongside existing investors Accel, Felicis, CrowdStrike Falcon Fund, and Addition. Sláinte! If you're interested in learning more, including the roles Tines is hiring for and some operators to know locally, the full post is linked in the comments Sign up for the newsletter to see who we bring you in the weeks ahead!

🔎🚀 Copley is building an enterprise grade, AI-powered content optimization and experimentation platform for commerce 🚀🔍 It's W11 / Q1 / 25 & this week in our MGMT Boston startup series we’ve got Copley, leveling the playing field to help growing brands compete with the largest storefronts in the world in a scalable way. This veteran team from Klaviyo & Salesforce has climbed the mountain before and they’re on a mission to help emerging brands do the same. David Henriquez led engineering projects for partners like Salesforce and customers like Kendo Brands, Steve Madden, and Staples at Klaviyo. David eventually led their Developer Ecosystem. After 5+ years he left Klaviyo and recruited his college roommate, mike torra, to democratize advanced AI and data science to help brands grow. David also kept in touch with Sean Marshall, his original hiring manager, who built and led Klaviyo’s global sales org from $20M to $450M+ in revenue. What do you get when you combine two world class engineers with a world class GTM leader? You get Copley, an incredibly fit founding team ready to lead e-commerce businesses into an AI-powered future! Copley is building an AI-powered solution to analyze creative assets, break down channel silos, and help their customers acquire more customers in a more efficient, scientifically driven way. With Copley’s initial launch, they are offering two products: Traits (free!) and Experimentation (managed). Traits allows Shopify brands to benefit from instant creative tagging across thousands of historical creative assets. Copley’s AI can quickly tag years worth of creative automatically based on attributes like background color, number of products shown, or whether there’s a "?" in the text. One of Copley’s customers, Million Dollar Baby, had been testing 5-10 creative concepts per quarter. With Copley, they have scaled to run 150 creative tests and learned which assets drive the highest ROI. All with the same size marketing team and Copley handling the data science! In Q2 they will begin monetizing their initial user base and are looking for forward-thinking e-commerce operators who want to run large-scale experimentation. If you’re a DTC brand looking to run 100+ tests a quarter without adding headcount, they’d love to talk! Backed with $4.8M from Asymmetric and Underscore VC, Copley is hiring selectively for top engineering talent and will continue to grow from their Boston HQ right near PO Square. If you’re a Shopify brand, you need to try out Traits for free. Operators to Know: -Michael Carlise, Principal Software Engineer -Madeleine Daly, Staff Software Engineer -Angela Lin, Product Designer -Kevin McNerny, Principal Software Engineer If you're interested in learning more, the full post is linked in the comments Sign up for the newsletter to see who we bring you in the weeks ahead!

Some recent headlines from early March in Boston's venture backed world.... -We've got fundraisings -We've got announcements -We've got content from around The Hub -We've got a new book you shouldn't miss -Copley comes out of stealth with $4.8M from Asymmetric & Underscore VC to build an agentic, content experimentation platform for commerce businesses. Look out for their feature in the newsletter soon! -Givzey is building the world's first autonomous fundraiser and just launched their 3rd cohort of non-profits to bring digital labor to the workforce -Lila Sciences is building a superintelligence platform for life, chemical, and material science with $200M in seed funding -Kevin Walsh, Co-Founder of Melodi & previous HubSpot leader, joins The Lantern to talk about the AI analytics platform he's building -Healthtech Bluebird Kids Health raises a $31.5M Series A from F-Prime and .406 Ventures -Proof secures strategic investment from State Farm Ventures -Underscore VC announces their Pearce Summer Fellows Program for academic innovators -Jeffrey Bussgang Bussgang launches his new book The Experimentation Machine for AI Founders (and builders). I highly recommend you read it and check out the content he's putting out during his promotion tour. Jeff has a top 1% view of the VC backed world! -Pentera (dually hq'd in Tel Aviv & Boston) raises $60M at $1B+ to continue building out their network attack simulation cybersecurity platform -Sesha Kadakia from Tangify joins The Lantern to talk about her AI platform for IP & patent development -Shannon Kay from Topline Pro joins The Lantern to talk about their record 2024 and plans to grow the team & business in Boston -Ryan Quinlan from Flexcar shares his views on why their alternative car ownership model shouldn't be overlooked during your consideration process! 🚗 More on the MGMT Boston news feed. We update it pretty much daily! POW

🛠️ Tulip Interfaces is building a frontline operations platform to help deskless workforces create and manage applications without writing code 🛠️ It's W9 / Q1 / 25 & this week in our MGMT Boston startup series we’ve got Tulip, a late stage team helping discrete manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, and other physical businesses improve productivity and streamline operations to more effectively grow. Founded out of MIT’s Media Lab in 2014 by Natan Linder & Rony Kubat, the duo teamed up to close the gap between traditional manufacturing processes and build a more technology forward, IoT native, no-code frontline operations platform. 1 in 5 global workers are deskless operators who represent a $150B modernization opportunity. TLDR? The most complex tasks are still being performed by people, with limited visibility into their execution. Tulip has been on a mission to build a human centric, flexible platform to address these challenges at “the edge” of computing. Upon integration, Tulip allows their customers to build apps to see real time, customizable production insights from “shop floor” data. Composable architecture enables customers to rapidly assemble and customize apps without being tied to traditional rigid systems, digitizing workflows and collecting actionable data. Tulip works with customers all over the world, including several Fortune 500 companies and industry leaders such as Terex, Delta Faucet, Outset Medical, Stanley Black & Decker, DMG Mori, and Johnson & Johnson. The startup is headquartered in Somerville with European offices in Germany and Hungary. Their international presence supports hundreds of global enterprise customers spanning more than 35 countries. Tulip was named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, identified as a Challenger on the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Manufacturing Execution Systems, a Frost and Sullivan Entrepreneurial Company of the Year, and an IDC Innovator. Most recently, Tulip ranked 220th on the 2024 Deloitte Technology Fast 500, highlighting revenue growth of 536% over the past three years. Tulip is backed by Insight Partners, Pitango Growth, TIME Ventures, DMG MORI, NEA, and Vertex Ventures. Operators to Know (Locally): -Yael Agmon, Head of GTM Strategy & Operations -Matthew Aldrich, Head of Engineering -Kimberly Andersson, Head of Design -Gillian Catrambone, Head of Operations -Jennifer Dyment, Product & Solutions Marketing Lead -Nicholas Erickson, GTM Operations Lead -Elise Jones, Head of Corporate Marketing -Michael McCarthy, MBA, Head of FP&A -Ayana Reiner, Chief of Staff -Misha Rutman, Senior Engineering Group Lead, Build -Stephen Sanfilippo, Director of Regional Sales -Katie Scherbel, Head of Revenue Marketing -Merrill Waters, Head of Digital Marketing and Operations If you're interested in learning more, including the key roles Tulip is hiring for, the full post is linked in the comments Sign up for the newsletter to see who we bring you in the weeks ahead!

Welcome Emily Groccia, VP of Customer Success at Givzey to talk about AI at Version2.ai on this episode of 🔥 The Lantern 🔥 What is Version2? Version2 is the world’s first autonomous fundraiser. Announced less than a year ago, this product directly addresses the labor shortage in non-profit fundraising. Their team creates trusted digital labor that can be applied to donors who are not managed by humans in non-profit donor portfolios. In September of 2024 they launched their first cohort of 13 innovation partners. Each partner assigns a portfolio of 1,000 donors to a virtual engagement officer responsible for executing a series of 8-12 touchpoints throughout the course of a year to lead those donors to a gift. Just like an institutional giving officer! 👀 How is that impacting the donor experience? 👀 Only 1-5% of the top donors are usually managed by a human gift officer so most of the donors served by Version 2 lie outside of a major gift portfolio. Every organization would love to manage every individual donor in a 1:1 relationship, but it’s just not possible. Version 2 is allowing organizations to reach that other 95% with a much more personalized experience. 📈 What are some of the highlights from Version2 thus far? 📈 Version2 publishes a dashboard of autonomous fundraising 2x per week. VEOs (virtual engagement officers) have raised >$500k in gifts, 3k+ engagements, and 45k+ donor activities. Their opt out rate is only 0.13%! Donors want to hear from these organizations more, in a deeper way, with the ability to reply. They value personal engagement. 🤔 Why is autonomous fundraising working? 🤔 San Diego State is a customer using Version2 for their planned giving portfolio, serving older donors. This portfolio has the highest engagement of any partner because personalized interactions that connect to donors resonate with their customers. 🔍 What is the roadmap ahead for Version 2? 🔎 Now that they’ve proven autonomous fundraising works, they are leveraging their learnings to further define use cases and apply digital labor to more aspects of advancement in the non-profit space. More to come!! The Lantern is brought to you by Givzey & MGMT Boston this March

Welcome Emily Groccia, VP of Customer Success at Givzey to talk about AI at Version2.ai on this episode of 🔥 The Lantern 🔥 What is Version2? Version2 is the world’s first autonomous fundraiser. Announced less than a year ago, this product directly addresses the labor shortage in non-profit fundraising. Their team creates trusted digital labor that can be applied to donors who are not managed by humans in non-profit donor portfolios. In September of 2024 they launched their first cohort of 13 innovation partners. Each partner assigns a portfolio of 1,000 donors to a virtual engagement officer responsible for executing a series of 8-12 touchpoints throughout the course of a year to lead those donors to a gift. Just like an institutional giving officer! 👀 How is that impacting the donor experience? 👀 Only 1-5% of the top donors are usually managed by a human gift officer so most of the donors served by Version 2 lie outside of a major gift portfolio. Every organization would love to manage every individual donor in a 1:1 relationship, but it’s just not possible. Version 2 is allowing organizations to reach that other 95% with a much more personalized experience. 📈 What are some of the highlights from Version2 thus far? 📈 Version2 publishes a dashboard of autonomous fundraising 2x per week. VEOs (virtual engagement officers) have raised >$500k in gifts, 3k+ engagements, and 45k+ donor activities. Their opt out rate is only 0.13%! Donors want to hear from these organizations more, in a deeper way, with the ability to reply. They value personal engagement. 🤔 Why is autonomous fundraising working? 🤔 San Diego State is a customer using Version2 for their planned giving portfolio, serving older donors. This portfolio has the highest engagement of any partner because personalized interactions that connect to donors resonate with their customers. 🔍 What is the roadmap ahead for Version 2? 🔎 Now that they’ve proven autonomous fundraising works, they are leveraging their learnings to further define use cases and apply digital labor to more aspects of advancement in the non-profit space. More to come!! The Lantern is brought to you by Givzey & MGMT Boston this March

Huge thanks to Matt Crane and MGMT Boston for the opportunity to share a bit about what's new with Topline Pro! We have an exciting year ahead of us, and if you or anyone you know are interested in learning more or joining us, I'd love to hear from you. Sharing career page link in comments.

Thanks to everyone who came out for our Buyers & Builders, Maximizing AI Potential event with C10 Labs. 🥶 On my drive into Cambridge I saw skaters out on the Charles River. February in Boston is...differentiated 🥶 Moderated by C10's Beth Porter and joined by Philip Ndikum, Karim Issa, Brendan McSheffrey, and ekai's Ozair A. we dug into how builders and buyers can bridge the gap to drive market adoption for this new platform shift. Like MIT's own Cursor team! Thank you to all who joined from the startup community, MGMT Boston, C10, and beyond. Special thanks to David Berlin for his masterful execution too. We'll hopefully see you again...when the thaw is complete!