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Jason Purcell and the Trouble With a Simple Product Page
Jason Purcell saw a business hiding in the sales sheets that brands sent to retailers. Building Salsify meant solving the information problem - and learning how to keep people connected as the company grew.
Vinay Seth Mohta and the human side of the machine
From MIT problem sets to enterprise AI, Vinay Seth Mohta has kept returning to the same question: what happens when the software meets the people who must use it? His route through Endeca, KAYAK and Manifold offers a practical answer.
Andrew Lau
Andrew Lau is the co-founder and CEO of Jellyfish, the Boston company that pioneered the Engineering Management Platform - software that does for engineering organizations what Salesforce did for sales. An MIT-trained engineer who spent nine years running engineering at search pioneer Endeca, Lau reconnected with two former colleagues a decade later to build a tool that translates the work of software teams into language the business actually understands. Jellyfish has raised roughly $117M, tracks 600-plus engineering organizations, and sits at the center of the industry's loudest debate: how to measure what AI is really doing to software development.
Vinay Mohta
Vinay Seth Mohta is the CEO and co-founder of Manifold, a vertical AI platform for life sciences that aims to make clinical research roughly 10 times faster and a tenth of the cost. An MIT-trained engineer who began at MathWorks and was an early team member at Endeca (acquired by Oracle) before co-founding and serving as CTO of Kyruus, Mohta started Manifold in 2016 as a pragmatic AI lab and has since rebuilt it into a product company tackling what he calls the 'Life Sciences Chasm.' He raised an $18M Series B in December 2025, bringing total funding to about $40M.