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at an Underscore portfolio companyAt Getaway, we believe in making space for more free time. Our tiny cabins in nature provide a break from the city, technology, and work, so that guests can recharge and reconnect to who and what matters most. Outposts are located within about a two-hour drive of major metro cities—far enough to disconnect but close enough for a spontaneous escape. Getaway has 29 Outposts with over 1000 cabins located outside of Atlanta, Austin and San Antonio, Boston, Charlotte and Raleigh, Chicago, Cleveland and Pittsburgh, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Nashville, New York, Portland, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.
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, anddata-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.
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.
Salsify is an e-commerce software startup that empowers 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.
CloudZero brings the agility and culture of DevOps to cloud cost management. Engineers are the first line of defense against ballooning AWS costs, but the lack of context and visibility has made those engineers and their leaders feel they can’t take on that responsibility without it slowing them down. CloudZero empowers them to make the right buying decisions with a machine learning-platform that’s as agile and efficient as the cloud-savvy companies who use it. Our most important features are fully-automated cost anomaly tracking & alerts, AI-driven cost mapping, streamlined and simplified graphs/charts, and automatically generated resolutions for issues that are actionable and straightforward. Pulling reports, building dashboards, setting budgets— these are all things of the past. CloudZero’s automatically brings items that require engineers’ attention to the surface in the spaces where they already work. Meanwhile, the snappy and streamlined UI provides deep engineering context that makes it all super easy to investigate and explore. With CloudZero, organizations now have the ability to understand operational cost at an architectural level, repeatedly and in real time, enabling all stakeholders to understand, interpret and contextualize cost related information across products, teams, departments, and the organization as a whole.
project44 is an advanced visibility platform for shippers and third-party logistics firms. project44 connects, automates and provides visibility into key transportation processes to accelerate insights and shorten the time it takes to turn those insights into actions. Leveraging the power of the project44 cloud-based platform, organizations are able to increase operational efficiencies, reduce costs, improve shipping performance, and deliver an exceptional Amazon-like experience to their customers. Connected to over 175,000 carriers worldwide and having comprehensive coverage for all ELD and telematics devices on the market, project44 supports all transportation modes and shipping types, including Parcel, Final-Mile, Less-than-Truckload, Volume Less-than-Truckload, Truckload, Rail, Intermodal and Ocean.
H1 provides a global healthcare platform to help life sciences companies, hospitals, academic medical centers, and health systems connect with providers, find clinical research, locate industry experts, and benchmark their organizations. As the trusted source of information on healthcare professionals and institutions, H1 connects the entire healthcare ecosystem through real-time data and clinical findings. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.
Messari provides market intelligence that drives high-conviction participation in the crypto economy. We help professionals, builders, and communities navigate web3 by providing world-class tools and intelligence. Founded in 2018, Messari is the leading provider of crypto market intelligence products that help professionals navigate crypto/Web3 with confidence. We bring transparency and smarter qualitative and quantitative analytics to the industry by combining a global research database with a comprehensive suite of data visualization and asset discovery tools. We help drive smarter participation in crypto from individuals and institutions alike.
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.
Slang integrates with data, so it knows customers, greets them personally, and predicts why they’re calling. It even remembers them when they call back. Slang analytics accurate data unlocks invaluable insights: trending products, keywords, detailed caller stats, and more. Plus, Slang uses smartyficial intelligence to tag contact reasons - no more manual tagging.
Herald is a digital infrastructure that uses a single API to connect software developers to commercial insurance carriers. Herald's API is used by software developers to obtain quotes from multiple carriers across multiple lines of business, including Workers' Compensation, Business Owners Policy (BOP), and General Liability.
Posh is a conversational AI and NLP technology development company that enables developers to deliver a new way to interact with users. With Posh, website actions that takes minutes to complete can be sped up to just seconds with a simple message from bots. Companies in finanical services, healthcare, utilities, and beyond are using the Posh platform to re-create call centers and automate routine requests for both customers and staff while saving time and money. The company wants to make the internet experience easier and more enjoyable. Posh was launched on 2015 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Ikigai helps modern analysts and operations teams automate data-intensive business, finance, analytics, and supply-chain operations within clicks without VLOOKUPs. IKIGAI's Inventory Ops Automate inventory tracking and monitoring by creating a single, real-time view of inventory across all locations and channels, even down to the component level.
At 3Box Labs we are on a mission to usher in a new era for the web, where data is secure, interactions are trustworthy, and relationships are the basis of connection. Our first product, Ceramic, is the building block for composable data on the web and is powering thousands of the world's most ambitious applications. We're backed by the best investors in the space (USV, Placeholder, Variant, Multicoin) who have deep conviction in our mission. We are a lean, voraciously curious team from across the globe. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We cannot succeed in our mission without it. People that identify with groups traditionally underrepresented in tech are particularly encouraged to apply.
Kard’s rewards-as-service platform makes loyalty more rewarding by simplifying the rewards experience for cardholders, financial institutions, and merchants. Utilizing the Kard API, financial institutions — including neobanks, traditional banks, and any other card issuer — can quickly and easily build their own customizable rewards program, driving cardholder engagement and loyalty by connecting users to the brands they love and rewarding them for everyday purchases. Powering rewards for over 45 million cardholders in the Kard issuer and partner network, Kard drives new customer acquisition and loyalty for thousands of in-store and online merchants across the US.
HelloTeam is the all-in-one employee engagement and performance management platform for the modern workforce. Through virtual recognition, surveys, goals, performance reviews, and powerful people analytics, HelloTeam is empowering every employee to be connected, engaged, and inspired.
Coda creates online documents and the utility of applications into a single new canvas. Coda blends the flexibility of a document, the power of a spreadsheet, and the utility of applications into a single new canvas, enabling anyone to make a doc as powerful as an app. Coda is something entirely new, that looks and feels familiar. Makers start with a blank canvas and a familiar blinking cursor, but can use a new set of building blocks like tables that act like databases, or buttons that take action to create their own unique solutions.
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.