Boston

The Boston chapter is where it all began in 2006. Boston, the largest chapter has graduated 88 Fellows to date, and includes the Founders & CEOs of some of Boston’s best known startups (Fellows in brackets) including Architexa (Vineet Sinha), AssuredLabor (Sid Goyal), BostInnovation/Streetwise Media (Chase Garbarino), Momelan (Sameer Sabir), Runkeeper (Michael Sheeley), Relay Technology (Dave Greenwald), Retroficiency (Bennett Fisher), Shareaholic (Jay Meattle) Ubersense (Krishna Ramachandran) and Zazu (Punit Shah) as well as outstanding young innovators such as Jose Gomez (named 2010 MIT Technology Review Under 35 Innovator and Humanitarian of the Year).

Applications for the Class of 2012 are now closed and will re-open in June next year.  The Program is anchored by TiE Boston (Al Kapoor and Vanita Shashtri) to whom we owe a big special thanks, and is sponsored by Edward Angel Palmer & Dodge (Richard Kimball), and Foley Hoag (Mark Haddad and Prithvi Tanwar) who have been supporting our local entrepreneurs for years.

Program Leaders & 2012 Fellows: Babak Kia (Boston University) & Paulina Hill (MIT)
Advisors: Scott Yaphe (ABS Ventures) & Anupendra Sharma (Venture Capitalist and SLP Founder)
Sponsors: Edward Angel Palmer & Dodge (Richard Kimball) and Foley Hoag (Mark Haddad)
Contact us: Babak Kia
SLP Boston Fellows

List of Mentors, Speakers & Judges
Aaron Sandoski, Managing Partner, Norwich Ventures
Andrew Jay, Managing Partner, Siemens Venture Capital
Andrew Paradise, Founder & CEO, AisleBuyer
Bill Warner, Founder, Avid Technology & Angel Investor
Brian Rosen, Founder, Drync
Brian Shin, Founder & CEO, Visible Measures
Chris Sheehan, Managing Partner, Common Angels
Dave Collard, Former CFO, Prime Computer
David Thrower, Chairman & CEO, InSound Medical Inc.
Desh Deshpande, Serial Entrepreneur
Dharmesh Shah, Founder, Hubspot
Diane Darling, CEO, Effective Networking Inc.
Diogo Teixeira, Founder, Tower Group & Angel Investor
Doug Fambrough, General Partner, Oxford Biosciences
Dr Amar Sawhney, Founder of several medtech companies
Eric Emmons, Partner, Siemens Venture Capital
Eric Paley, Managing Director, Founder Collective
Jason Reuben, Founder & CEO, Paragon Lake
Jeff Carbeck, Founder & Chief Scientist, Nano-Terra
Jeffery Moore, VP, MPH Venture Management
Jim Matheson, Partner, Flagship Ventures
Jit Saxena, Founder, Netezza & Serial Entrepreneur
Joe Caruso, Angel Investor & Mentor
John Lim, Principal, Dogpatch Labs
Jonas Brickhaus, VP, Business Development, IDEO
Maria Hastopoulous, Founder & CEO Z Corporation
Mark Haddad, Partner, Foley Hoag
Mark Tepper, Angel Investor, Lifesciences
Micah Rosenbloom, Founder Collective
Michael Greeley, Managing Partner, Flybridge Capital
Mike Webb, CEO of EPIX & Ascent Therapeutics
Mukti Khaire, Harvard Business School
Nat Sims, The Sims Lab, Harvard Medical School
Nina Dudnick, Founder, Seedling Labs
Pano Anthos, Founder of Hangout
Raj Melville, Social Entrepreneur
Richard Kimball, Partner, Edward Angel Palmer and Dodge
Robert Creeden, Managing Partner, Partners Venture Fund
Scott Yaphe, General Partner, ABS Ventures
Shari Loessberg, Lecturer, MIT Sloan
Shawn Broderick, Serial Entrepreneur
Steve Delity, CEO, Rapid MicroBio
Todd Dixon, General Partner, New Atlantic Ventures