Ann C. Brady

ShapeUp, Inc. provides social networking and incentives-based employee wellness programs. It offers Social Wellness, a platform that uses social networking, gaming, behavioral economics, and financial rewards to support employers and health plans. The firm’s solution features health challenges, progress tracing, incentives, integration, and reporting. It also provides an online tracking interface that allows participants to customize the categories to track, including exercise minutes, pushups per day, and number of hours slept. The firm also offers Empower, an online weight loss and diabetes prevention solution. The company was founded by Rajiv Kumar and Brad Weinberg in 2006 and is headquartered in Providence, RI.

FirstBest Systems LLC delivers underwriting management system solutions. The company was founded by Julian Pelenur, John Belizaire and Joseph Pilkerton in 2006 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Applause APP Quality, Inc. provides software testing services. It utilizes a roster of testers from various countries and territories to provide testing of web, desktop and mobile applications in development. The company was founded by Doron Reuveni and Roy Solomon in 2007 and is headquartered in Framingham, MA.

CVP Management, Inc (Converge Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1998 by Nilanjana Bhowmik and Maia Heymann. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Golden Seeds LLC (Golden Seeds) is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Stephanie Hanbury-Brown. The firm is headquartered in New York city with an additional offices in Arizona, Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Houston, New Jersey, New York and Silicon Valley.

Apperian, Inc. develops transformative mobile applications. Its solutions for dealer networks, contracted workers, unmanaged devices, public sector, education, sales and marketing, field service, retail and kiosks, and human resources. The company was founded by Matthew Finkelstein, Chuck Goldman, and Barry Goldman in 2009 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Art Technology Group, Inc. provides an integrated suite of Internet customer relationship management and e-commerce software. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.