Become a sponsor
We’re on a mission!
If your organization works with early stage startups or investors and you’d like to have a hand in reimagining, detangling, diversifying, and improving the funding ecosystem for 1st time founders, especially female founders - we’d love for you to come along! Sponsors get to connect with our robust network of investors, entrepreneurs and service providers who are helping us change the narrative of who receives funding.
Thank you to the people and companies moving the needle on making the funding ecosystem more equitable!
Perks of Being a Sponsor
Be part of the movement
We’ve been building our community for 25+ years and we’re known around town as one of Boston’s longest-running organizations supporting founders. Now, we’re working with founders nationwide to create a more equitable ecosystem.
Exclusive network
Through your sponsorship, you become part of our network and gain access to other early-stage founders, investors, and community partners in our ecosystem. We’re a proud 501(c)3 non-profit working to lift up our community. Join us!
Be a thought leader
Pay it forward! Share your experience, skills, and expertise to help shape the next generation of founders. Know your dollars and experience are truly making a difference!
Current sponsors
We love these people!
Accelerators
Serban Georgescu
3 Copley Pl,
Boston, MA 02116
Phone: 617-247-5153
Serban.Georgescu[at]international[dot]gc[dot]ca
The CTA@Boston is an award-winning six-to-eight month non-equity program. It connects Canadian Tech and Life Science companies to: U.S. clients strategic partners investors It emphasizes aggressive business development and growth. Located at the Cambridge Innovation Center, the program offers customized team mentoring from successful entrepreneurs, investors and industry leaders.
Accounting and CPA
Cecilia M. Frerotte, CPA
99 High Street
Boston, MA
02110
Phone: 617.261.8186
cfrerotte[at]wolfandco[dot]com
Wolf & Company is a leading regional CPA firm providing insightful financial accounting and audit services. With offices in Boston MA, Springfield MA, Albany NY, and Livingston NJ, we deliver assurance, tax, risk management and business consulting services throughout the northeast.
CFO & Controller
Johnnie Walker
Phone: 408.430.0820
johnnie[at]rooled[dot]com
At Rooled, we combine decades of experience with best-of-breed technologies to make your finances easier to manage, easier to coordinate and easier to advance. We offer better financial control by guiding you through each stage of your company’s life cycle. Our CFOs, Controllers, and staff accountants will partner with you to understand your business to implement customized and tailored solutions. We are here to help you by not just being your financial consultants, but your partners as you take your business to new heights.
Insurance
Greg Pierce
300 First Avenue
Suite 100
Needham, MA
02494
Phone: 781.431.2500
gpierce[at]nsins[dot]com
NorthStar was founded in 1995 for the sole purpose of delivering the very best service and risk management expertise in the insurance industry. We are fanatical in our dedication to excellence in the delivery of insurance and risk management services. We provide our clients “extra step” service along with world class talent and experience. We strive to stand apart from the crowd by delivering insurance services fast and well.
Lawyers
Dinesh Melwani
1 Financial Center,
Boston, MA
02111
Phone:(617) 542-6000
DKMelwani[at]mintz[dot]com
Built on Excellence, Driven by Change Mintz creates breakthrough legal strategies that help clients solve problems and forge ahead. Our attorneys combine legal, business, and industry insight to help navigate shifting challenges. We help clients comply with evolving regulations and compete in emerging markets. While meeting their increasing financing needs, we can also assist with handling employment and labor issues. To compete tomorrow, you need the best business strategy now. We’ll help you make the next move.
Elke Trilla
One Boston Place,
201 Washington Street, Suite 2000 Boston, MA 02108
Phone: 617.598.7863
etrilla[at]wsgr[dot]com
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is the premier legal advisor to technology, life sciences, and other growth enterprises worldwide. The firm represents companies at every stage of development, from entrepreneurial start-ups to multibillion-dollar global corporations, as well as the venture firms, private equity firms, and investment banks that finance and advise them.
The firm is nationally recognized as a leader in the fields of corporate governance and finance, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, securities litigation, employment law, intellectual property, and antitrust, among many other areas of law.
WSGR has offices in Austin; Beijing; Boston; Brussels; Hong Kong; London; Los Angeles; New York; Palo Alto; San Diego; San Francisco; Seattle; Shanghai; Washington, D.C.; and Wilmington, DE.
Jeremy Halpern
155 Seaport Blvd
Boston, MA
02210
Phone: 617.439.2943
jhalpern[at]nutter[dot]com
Welcome to a high-value experience in legal services. A more contextual way of thinking. A more collaborative way of working. A more personalized approach that puts you and your success first. Welcome to a nationally-ranked firm that is as interested in your business as you are. A firm that combines insightful consultation with practical execution. A firm where smart solutions never come at the expense of good value.
Welcome to Nutter – exceptional legal expertise with extraordinary dedication. That’s uncommon law.
Valuation
Lynn Haddad Sommers
Office: 617.275.7064
Mobile: 617.680.6367
lsommer[at]cabrilloadvisors[dot]com
Cabrillo Advisors provides clients with high quality business valuations, from 409a valuations to fairness and solvency opinions. Our experienced team serves the most dynamic private and public companies across the nation. Top attorneys, CPAs, investors and business advisors rely on our services to fulfill the needs of the companies they represent. We serve hundreds of companies in life sciences and technology each year, and we are a committed supporter of the startup community.
Venture Funds
Charles Hipwood
308 Congress Street
5th floor
Boston, MA 02210
Tel: 617.723.4920
Fax: 617.723.5983
chipwood[at]mass-ventures[dot]com
MassVentures is the Commonwealth's strategic venture capital team, and a Technical Assistance Powerhouse. We find, fund, and foster early-stage deep tech that fuels economic growth across the Commonwealth.
We are intentional in supporting deep tech entrepreneurs who have diverse backgrounds or are from diverse geographies in the state.