Mentor Collective

Mentor Collective has delivered 1400+ unique mentorship programs, established 180+ institutional partnerships, and formed 320,000+ mentoring relationships through expert-led research, services, and technology. As an impact-first investment of the Lumina Foundation, Mentor Collective partners with forward-thinking institutions that are committed to equity, inclusion, and relationship-centered education. We partner with 200+ colleges and employers to provide all students with a relevant, trained peer, professional, or alumni mentor. Our partner institutions have seen an average reduction in melt rates of -13.79% and an average effect on retention of +5.67%, with a total of more than 320,000+ mentorships created since our inception in 2015. Mentor Collective is a mission-driven company that has also been recognized on the Inc. 5000 list from 2020 - 2024 with a 183% 3-Year Growth as well as winning the Inc. Regionals in 2022 - 2024. We are a BuiltIn Best Place to Work (BPTW) and in 2024 alone, Mentor Collective won: #5 Best Startup to Work for in Boston #13 Best Remote Startup to Work for in the Nation #33 Best Startup to Work for in the Nation #45 Best Remote Company to Work for in Boston (of any size) AND, #71 Best Remote Company to Work for in the Nation (of any size)

Simply Business

Simply Business is dedicated to making small business insurance simple and accessible. Our robust digital marketplace allows small business owners to find and buy the insurance they need online, matching them with coverage from multiple top insurers to offer choice, transparency, and value. We have nearly 20 years of experience supporting small businesses, with over 1 million customers worldwide. Founded in the U.K. in 2005, Simply Business launched its U.S. operations in 2017 and today employs over 1,000 people across offices in London and Northampton in the U.K., and in Boston and Atlanta in the U.S.Simply Business is more than our name. It’s how we approach small business insurance:

MacPaw

MacPaw develops and distributes software for macOS and iOS that simplifies the lives of Mac users. Renowned for innovative and precision-engineered products, including CleanMyMac X, Setapp, ClearVPN, and the Unarchiver, and housing the Moonlock cybersecurity division, MacPaw is committed to elevating and securing the user experience within the Mac ecosystem. MacPaw’s focus on software technology, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Machine Learning (ML), and more, aims to seamlessly integrate research breakthroughs into practical MacPaw products. Founded in Kyiv, Ukraine, with a subsidiary office in Boston, MacPaw products have more than 30 million users worldwide, with one in every five Mac users having at least one app downloaded. Our values — to create experience, make impact, and stay human — influence MacPaw's creative, authentic, and caring team. They affect everything we do, from our products to the teams we build. We think big by focusing on essential. With us, you can take a lead and deliver the result that will make you proud. We value when people finish what they started and can measure the result. You have a chance to create an experience, not just a product. Macpawians always listen to our customers and respond to make their experience flawless and exciting. Through attention to detail, we make an extra effort to streamline it for our users, partners, and team members. Stay human... in any situation, even when it's tough. We care about each other and always see a person in our users. We build long-term relationships by creating technology for the benefit of humans. Play nice. Be frank and real!

Sortly

Sortly is the simplest inventory platform for business and teams to stay on top of their stuff. Our visual system enables business to easily track what they have, where it is, and who has it. Anytime, anywhere, on any desktop, tablet or mobile device. Sortly is trusted by tens of 1000’s of small businesses and teams at large enterprises including HP, Honeywell, Sanford Health,Yale, Coors, Lyft. Featured in Forbes, ABC, Fox, New York Times & Inc. etc! More than 15 million items sorted! Sortly's Principals: SMART - We make decisions based on knowledge and understanding with the aim of creating and improving differentiated products that benefit our business and customers. INSPIRING - We embrace the spirit of entrepreneurship, taking considered risks and pushing ourselves to think boldly and creatively. EMPATHETIC - We are customer-centered by mission, with respect for the individual and a desire to create a great community. REAL - We seek opportunities to learn from our mistakes and successes, our colleagues and customers, and to help each other improve.

ClosedLoop

ClosedLoop is committed to enhancing every healthcare decision with AI and improving lives. For us, that's what it all comes back to: using data to help people achieve better health. With a mission like this, it's easy to get out of bed in the morning – whether you're commuting into our Austin office or just heading down the hall to work from home.

Agile Six

At Agile Six. we use modern technology and user-friendly, inclusive design to build better government services for everyone. Agile Six is a people-first, remote-work company that serves shoulder-to-shoulder with federal agencies to find innovative, human-centered solutions. We build better by putting people first. We are animated by our core values of Purpose, Wholeness, Trust, Self-Management and Inclusion. We deliver our solutions in autonomous teams of self-managed professionals (no managers here!) who genuinely care about each other and the work. We know that’s our company’s purpose – and that we can only achieve it by supporting a culture where talented people feel valued, self-managed, and love to come to work. The work: Agile Six is a full-spectrum digital services, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB). We combine government transformation, service delivery, agile coaching, and a team-based culture. Built on a shared belief that government software should be just as efficient and engaging as commercial products, we have implemented agile digital services transformations on numerous contracts. Our unique experience and collaborative approach allow us to inject commercial-grade innovations into government spaces with ease. Agile Six was founded on a shared belief in and commitment to strong government digital services delivery. We are a founding member of the Digital Services Coalition, a group of commercial digital services firms committed to building better tech for the government. This commitment to building a better citizen-centered government is what brought us to this space and we are using this energy to deliver the next generation of software innovations to customers.

Valimail

Valimail is a pioneering, identity-based, anti-phishing company that has been ensuring the global trustworthiness of digital communications since 2015. Valimail delivers the only complete, cloud-native platform for validating and authenticating sender identity to stop phishing, protect and amplify brands, and ensure compliance. Valimail has won more than a dozen prestigious cybersecurity technology awards and authenticates billions of messages a month for some of the world's biggest companies and organizations, including Uber, Fannie Mae, WeWork, and the U.S. Agency for International Development.

EnergyHub

EnergyHub's platform lets consumers turn their smart thermostats, electric cars, and other IoT devices into virtual power plants that keep the grid stable and enable higher penetration of solar and wind power. We work on technology that already provides energy and cost savings to more than a million people.

Xplor Technologies

We're the first global platform integrating SaaS, payments and growth technologies to help businesses succeed. We help our customers achieve more growth, faster. We offer software solutions in fast-growing "everyday life" verticals: Childcare & Education, Fitness & Wellbeing, Field Services and Personal Services – and a global, cloud-based payments processing platform. With operations in North America, Australasia, Europe, and the U.K., we serve 78,000+ businesses that processed over $36BN in payments, in over 140 countries in 2022. We offer smart software solutions across “everyday life” verticals, making life simple for daily activities with a recurring nature – from dropping your kids off at childcare, getting something at home repaired, going to the gym or a studio, and picking up your dry cleaning, our software helps businesses to overcome obstacles and build great relationships with their customers. Our cloud-based platform is designed from the ground up. That means we can offer a full-service payment solution that helps SMBs securely accept payments through a proprietary, omni-channel platform. Software companies and sales offices receive the tools they need to grow and scale through our partnership program. We also provide a powerful suite of mobile apps and digital services that accelerate growth, by helping customers engage, communicate with and retain consumers, manage digital marketing and loyalty programs, schedule appointments and service deliveries, and provide access to tailored data and insights. We have everything you’d expect from a leading SaaS and global payments provider: * Global integration capabilities, for seamless API-driven connectivity with our SaaS and third-party software; alongside our global gateway and tokenization engine. * Seamless payment acceptance and processing, handling authorization, fraud detection, clearing and settlement, tailored for frictionless, omni-channel and recurring payments. * Centralized data and engagement engine, for reporting insights, and CRM tools for marketing and loyalty. * Deep vertical expertise - hyper-local "everyday life" businesses have specific needs which off-the-shelf software can’t meet. We’re experts at solving for these, because many of us used to work in the verticals we serve. Our purpose is to help people succeed. Our Xplorer promise is that we'll help you reach your full potential. And power others to reach their own. Come join us!

Panther

Panther Labs was founded by a team of security practitioners who faced the challenges of security operations at scale and set out to build a platform to solve them. The result was Panther, a refreshingly practical platform for threat detection and response powered by a highly scalable security data lake and detection-as-code. Panther gives security teams the power to detect any breach, anywhere and is trusted by customers like Snowflake, Dropbox, Figma, Coinbase, and more.

Lightspeed Systems

For over 20 years, Lightspeed Systems® has been a leader in the ever-changing landscape of K-12 learning technology. Lightspeed Systems works with tens of thousands of schools to maximize the safety, mobility, and effectiveness of their students’ learning experience. Every device can be covered with the most effective web filter, student safety monitor, classroom management software, device management tool, and analytics program available. Why Work Here? We work diligently and intelligently as a team to create innovative solutions and better ways of doing things. Every day, every employee has an opportunity to change the world in the most meaningful way: by improving education. Lightspeed Systems has the mentality of a start-up (collaboration, access, innovation) with the stability of a company that’s been around since 1999 — and we get bigger and smarter every day.

1upHealth

With FHIR® as the foundation, we’ve created a digital platform to meet the dynamic needs of healthcare data today and evolve with them into the future. It’s a fact the need for data in healthcare will only continue to increase. 1up is building the future of healthcare data by connecting customers with the technologies and resources needed to robustly compute the value of care, outcomes, and cost. Our platform enables providers, payers, and other players in the industry to holistically manage and compute on patient data on the individual and population level. It’s time for healthcare infrastructure to join the modern world – not only to improve how healthcare operates, but to provide a better quality of care for everyone.

PlayQ

PlayQ is a rapidly growing global entertainment and technology company delivering high-quality mobile titles and innovative game development solutions to a worldwide audience. Our games have been downloaded more than 60 million times across the globe, with millions of users playing every day! Our dedicated teams, based in downtown Santa Monica, CA, work together to craft the clever, visually stunning, and unforgettable experiences that our players love. Our emphasis on individual leadership means each team member has the opportunity to make a big impact, while our commitment to creative freedom gives them the ability to create whatever they can imagine. It’s this mindset that has led us to develop our own IP, infuse games with rich storytelling, build our own development tools, and solve the deepest technical challenges - all in the name of disrupting the mobile gaming landscape.

H1

Access to medicine and healthcare is a basic human right. At H1, we believe access to the best healthcare information is also a basic human right, one that will be more important in the 21st century than ever before. Our commitment to creating a healthier future for everyone drives us to build and maintain the most current, accurate, and comprehensive healthcare knowledge base available, as well as the tools and intelligence to extract unparalleled insights to carry global healthcare forward.

kea

kea is on a mission to empower restaurant chains by enhancing customer service, streamlining operations, and boosting revenue through human-centered Voice AI. Founded in 2017, "The Cashier in the Cloud” has digitized phone ordering for hundreds of restaurants nationwide. kea's AI customizes, upsells, confirms, and processes orders through a PCI-compliant system. The technology also features a “human-in-the-loop” to ensure a smooth ordering process. The company has served over 1,000,000 guests and has raised $29.6M from VCs including Marbruck, Xfund, Streamlined Ventures, Deepcore, Heartland Ventures, and Morningside Ventures -- and we're not stopping there! If you think you'd make a stellar addition to the team, please apply!

Rinsed

We're a B2B SaaS company, providing car washes with all the tools they need to transition to a subscription model. Modern car washes are fully-automated tunnels that can wash up to 200 cars / hr and they are moving from selling single washes to all-you-can-wash subscriptions. We are giving this $15B underserved market the tools to manage and grow their subscription revenue. Trusted by over 1,600 car washes, we help our customers manage over 5,000,000 active members.

CentML

We pioneer novel technology to enhance computing efficiency, making AI accessible for innovation and to benefit the global community. We believe honesty builds integrity, honing craftsmanship delivers excellence, and collaboration fosters community.

Volley

Volley is the leading developer of voice-controlled games for smart speaker platforms like Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, smartphones, and connected TVs. Every month, millions of users interact with our popular products like Song Quiz, Jeopardy!, Question of The Day and The Price is Right.

Trulioo

Trulioo has been recognized as a “CNBC Disruptor 50 Company”, named by BC Tech Association as “Emerging Company of the Year” and “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum. Trulioo offers the most robust and comprehensive global identity verification solution in the market. Through one single portal/API, Trulioo can assist you with all your AML/KYC identity verification requirements by providing secure access to over 5 billion identities worldwide. The Trulioo mission of trust, privacy and inclusion is about recreating the trust of a village, but on a global scale. We are on a mission to make sure no one is left behind and everyone participates fully in the modern digital economy. We are hiring! Check out our open positions here: https://www.trulioo.com/apply

FirstBank

We serve as the technical force behind Colorado’s largest locally owned bank. Our technology department is 400+ strong, with continued plans for growth. We owe our success to the core values we’ve held since being founded in 1963. Our mission is 'banking for good', to do our best to do right by our customers, communities, and employees.