Partners

Grow Your Business With Experienced Partners

Relationships with trusted partners can make all the difference when getting your business off the ground. The Bain Capital Ventures Innovation Center can help you get introduced to the best and brightest in the community.


Value-Add Angels and SuperAngels

  • CommonAngels
    CommonAngels is Boston’s largest seed stage investment organization.  Through our angel network and funds, we work with outstanding entrepreneurs in building innovative information technology companies.

  • First Round Capital

    First Round Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm who is not afraid of investing in pre-revenue companies.

  • Genacast Ventures

    Genacast Ventures is a seed fund that invests up to $750,000 in technology-centric Internet start-ups in the northeastern US.

  • Launch Capital

    LaunchCapital addresses the capital needs of companies that are in the earliest stages of funding by providing a needed source of financing to companies that can quickly advance to the next level of development.

  • Launchpad Venture Group

    Launchpad Venture Group is a Boston-based angel investment group that provides funding to innovative, technology-driven early-stage companies.

  • Ron Conway

    Ron Conway is an active angel investor based in Silicon Valley. He has made hundreds of investments in leading internet businesses on the east and west coasts.

Accounting Firms (stay on top of your numbers)

  • Levine, Katz, Nannis & Solomon, PC

    Certified Public Accountants, business consultants & advisors to technology and emerging businesses

  • Livingston & Haynes

    Full-service CPA firm with a specialty in the tech industry.  Offering a range of services, from financial statement audits, reviews and compilations to tax filings and financial consulting, to ensure that your business runs smoothly.

Banks That Love Startups (stash your money away and get credit)

  • Comerica Bank

    Comerica Bank specializes in providing comprehensive banking services including treasury management, deposit and investment products and loan products specifically designed for high growth companies.  Our commitment to the technology and life sciences sector is backed by the considerable resources of one of America's leading banks.

  • Silicon Valley Bank

    Provides diversified financial services to emerging growth and mature companies in the technology, life science, private equity and premium wine markets

Law Firms (get incorporated, patent your innovative ideas)

  • Goodwin Procter

    Goodwin Procter represents over 500 technology and life sciences companies, 200 venture capital and private equity firms, and many of the leading investment banks and is consistently at the top of the league tables for financings, tech M&A and public offerings.  In the tech and life science sectors, we have a deep bench of intellectual property lawyers who provide strategic counseling, licensing, patent prosecution and litigation support for start-ups.  We also offer numerous alternative billing arrangements that accommodate the needs of start-ups and allow them to husband their capital for growth and we are well positioned to help entrepreneurs with their new company formation.

  • The Tech Group at Lowenstein Sandler

    The Tech Group represents the leading venture funds in the country and works with technology entrepreneurs and businesses at every level - from the labs of leading universities to the largest companies in information technology, telecommunications and life sciences. Members of the Tech Group have also founded and run the following resources for early stage entrepreneurs and VC's: First Growth Venture Network, AngelVineVC and Grape ArborVC.

  • Ropes & Gray

    Ropes & Gray is a leading global law firm with offices in Boston, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, New York, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Tokyo, and Washington, DC.  Their technology company lawyers provide tremendous experience and practical advice in organizing, financing, and advising technology businesses across the country. Ropes & Gray has extensive industry expertise, together with nationally leading capabilities in intellectual property and other critical legal disciplines.

  • Sonnenschein Venture Technology

    A National Top 10 venture law practice that is renowned for providing nimble, fast-paced counsel to cutting-edge emerging growth technology and life sciences companies from Silicon Valley to Boston and New York and around the globe.

  • WilmerHale

     

                                               WilmerHale offers legal representation across a comprehensive range of practice areas and handles matters of any size and complexity.  WilmerHale's Waltham office is exclusively focused on the representation of start-ups and emerging companies from incorporation to IPO and beyond.

Recruiting Firms (find the right talent)

  • Kesic I Cervino

    Kesic I Cervino is a retained executive search firm for venture backed growth companies across technology, healthcare and clean tech.

  • Polachi

    Polachi is a premier exeutive search firm with offices in Boston, New York and Silicon Valley. Polachi has the national reach and results your company deserves.

  • Venator Partners
    Venator Partners is an executive search, talent management, and advisory services firm founded in 1995 with offices in Boston, Boulder, Washington, and Israel.

Venture Consultants

  • The Hatchery

    The Hatchery is a venture collaboration and advisory firm based in NYC serving as a venture catalyst for emerging and established companies in the Technology, Energy and Social Impact sectors - domestic and international.

Technology Consultants

  • Aeturnum

    Aeturnum is a software services company based in Westford, MA with development offices in Westford, Sri Lanka and India. They have worked with some of today's most innovative organizations to provide them with quality-centric, innovative and cost-effective software solutions and consulting services. The Aeturnum team developed a startup development program called Athiva which includes software solutions for start-ups and venture funded companies as well as enterprise IT organization.