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at an Underscore portfolio companyGetaway is a wellness hospitality company that specializes in providing cabin rentals set in serene natural landscapes. Beyond offering beautiful tiny houses tucked away in the woods, the company's focus is on promoting disconnection from technology and embracing the present moment. Getaway encourages guests to stow away their cell phones in provided lockboxes, fostering an environment that encourages genuine conversation and an opportunity to appreciate the surrounding natural beauty. By tuning out the noise of modern society, Getaway aims to create an atmosphere where guests can reconnect with nature and themselves. The company's mission is to provide an experience that leaves a lasting impact, one that inspires guests to return time and again. The core essence of Getaway lies in offering a simple and immersive experience that helps individuals rediscover themselves, revel in the tranquility of nature, and reestablish connections with what truly matters to them. While Getaway provides the essentials for a comfortable stay, the rest is left to the guests to explore and define their own experiences. Getaway's outposts are strategically located within a convenient two-hour drive from major metropolitan cities. This proximity allows guests to disconnect from urban life while remaining easily accessible for spontaneous getaways. Currently, Getaway operates three outposts near New York, Boston, and Washington, DC, providing city-dwellers with a nearby escape to unwind and reconnect with nature.
project44 is on a mission to make supply chains work. As the supply chain connective tissue, project44 operates the world’s most trusted end-to-end visibility platform that manages more than 1 billion unique shipments annually for over 1,300 of the world’s leading brands, including top companies in manufacturing, automotive, retail, life sciences, food & beverage, CPG, and oil, chemical & gas. Using project44, shippers and carriers across the globe drive greater predictability, resiliency and sustainability. The undisputed leader in the market and innovator of Movement GPT, project44 was named the Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, #1 in FreightWaves FreightTech 2023, a ten-time leader in customer satisfaction on G2’s Supply Chain Visibility Grid, one of SupplyChainBrain’s 100 Great Supply Chain Partners of 2022, and the Customer’s Choice in Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer report. project44 is headquartered in Chicago with a diverse team spanning 15 global offices including Amsterdam, Kraków, Paris, São Paulo, Shanghai and Tokyo. Learn more at project44.com.
Salsify is an e-commerce software startup that helps brands by providing tools to track and analyze inventories, presentation, and sales of goods on digital shelves. It offers its Commerce Experience Management (CommerceXM), a platform that combines Product Experience Management (Integrated PIM, DAM, and Experience Builder) with commerce capabilities designed to enable sales both across retailer and distributor channels as well as marketplaces, social commerce, and direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites. The company is backed by Venrock, Matrix Partners, Greenspring Associates, Underscore VC, North Bridge, and Warburg Pincus. Jason Purcell, Jeremy Redburn, and Rob Gonzalez incorporated Salsify in Boston, Massachusetts in 2012.
Soofa is a female founded company, launched out of MIT and Harvard in 2014. We makes cities smart, social, and sustainable by responsibly introducing technology into the public right of way to improve the citizen experience, because we believe that technology can benefit everyone in any neighborhood. The Soofa Sign displays relevant content from the community, local advertisers, and national brands, connecting viewers to their neighborhood and city. In addition, Soofa Signs display real-time transit updates and local events calendars that are local and relevant to passerby. Soofa provides a platform for everyone in the community to have a voice and post to their Soofa Signs with Soofa Talk.
LearnLux is a digital, independent financial, and benefits education platform. It provides unbiased, customized financial education to better the way people make financial decisions. For partners, LearnLux empowers employers to offer financial wellness as a benefit.
TetraScience is an R&D cloud data management company that empowers transformation in life sciences and drug discovery, aiming to disrupt life sciences research and development, accelerate discovery, and improve and extend human life. The Tetra R&D Data Cloud provides life sciences companies with the flexibility, scalability, and data-centric capabilities to enable easy access to centralized, standardized, and actionable scientific data and is actively deployed across enterprise pharma and biotech organizations. As an open platform, TetraScience has built the largest integrated network of lab instruments, informatics applications, CRO/CDMOs, analytics, and data science partners, creating seamless interoperability and an innovation feedback loop that will drive the future of life sciences R&D. In 2014, Alok Tayi, Salvatore Savo, and Siping Wang co-founded TetraScience in Boston, Massachusetts.
CloudZero empowers engineers to build cost-efficient software without slowing down innovation. CloudZero's platform automates the collection, allocation, and analysis of cloud cost data to uncover savings opportunities and improve unit economics. Our unique approach ensures organizations have the most complete, accurate, and granular source of truth for their cloud costs. CloudZero is used by industry leaders worldwide, such as Demandbase, New Relic, Nubank, Rapid7, and Skyscanner.
Marley is the insurance industry’s premier intelligent conversation platform. Hi Marley is a conversation platform that simply and easily connects people with their insurance companies. Marley combines intelligent messaging and human touch to make the experience as easy and efficient as possible. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
Ikigai helps modern analysts and operations teams automate data-intensive business, finance, analytics, and supply-chain operations. The company's Inventory Ops automates inventory tracking and monitoring by creating a single, real-time view of inventory across all locations and channels.
Goldcast is an AI-powered B2B Video Content Platform that transforms marketing by putting video and events at the heart of the customer journey. Thousands of enterprise B2B marketers, from companies like Open AI, 6Sense, LG, Zuora, Wiz and Mailchimp, leverage Goldcast to more effectively get in front of their audience, repurpose and create engaging and consumable video content, and capitalize on brand authority and intent. Goldcast was founded in mid-2020 at Harvard Business School. Since then, we have raised over $40mn, built a bi-continental team of excellent teammates, and are one of the market leaders in the enterprise digital events space. We count 400+ great B2B firms as customers and were recently featured in G2's list of 100 fastest-growing software companies.