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SimpleClosure

SimpleClosure is a venture-backed startup using technology to simplify the complex process of shutting down a business. Designed specifically for startups, both bootstrapped and venture-backed, SimpleClosure manages all aspects of the closure process. By streamlining what traditionally takes months or even years, the company enables founders to wind down their businesses in a matter of days or weeks, all while ensuring everything is done properly.
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Blue Crown Growth Partners

Blue Crown Growth Partners works primarily with lower middle-market growth stage companies to help you scale your business. They offer fractional services including supporting capital raising, preparing board and investor reports, managing accounting and finance teams, acting as a liaison for legal matters, advising HR teams, and providing hands-on assistance with day-to-day operations as needed. Mike Earley has extensive strategic and operational experience in high-growth tech companies.

Finance & Accounting • Starting a Company
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TalentDock

TalentDock is a leadership recruiting and strategy services company that specializes in helping high growth B2B SaaS companies (typically Series A through Series C) build diverse leadership teams. They help find, recruit, and hire top leadership talent through retained and contingent searches.

Exec Recruiters • Hiring
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GoingClear

GoingClear is a marketing and advertising agency offering digital strategy, branding, web design, and social media services.

Design • Marketing & Events
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Deel

Deel is a global payroll and compliance platform that enables companies to hire and pay international contractors and employees seamlessly. It simplifies the complexities of cross-border hiring by handling local taxes, benefits, and compliance requirements in over 150 countries. Deel’s platform provides businesses with the tools to manage remote teams, onboard talent, and ensure legal compliance, making global hiring more efficient and accessible.

Benefits • Finance & Accounting
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Attivo

Attivo Partners is a full-service Finance and Accounting firm. Their fractional CFO and accounting services help founders navigate the complexities of company building through all stages of the journey - raising capital, building business models, and achieving successful exits. Attivo's partnership is built to scale, providing customized solutions and thought leadership with services that drive growth and evolve alongside our client’s business.

Accountants • Bookkeeping
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Kruze Consulting

Kruze provides Startup Accounting, Bookkeeping Services, CFO Consulting and Tax Prep to over 800+ startups. To date, Kruze’s clients have raised over $15 billion in venture capital and are market leading SaaS, Software, eCommerce, eHealth, Biotech and FinTech startups. If you reach out, please mention that the reference is coming from Harris Stolzenberg at Pillar VC.

Accountants • Bookkeeping
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Alma

Alma simplifies immigration for founders, technologists, researchers, scientists and others at the top of their fields leveraging our highly experienced immigration lawyers and a user-friendly platform. Our value proposition is simple: high-quality legal services, fast turnaround of documents and better approval rates for clients.

Hiring • Human Resources
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TriNet

TriNet is an all-in-one HR software that combines HR administration, hiring, employee management, payroll and benefits in one system. With the TriNet HR platform, you can streamline all HR functions and processes to spend less time on tedious HR tasks and more time running your business. They also provide comprehensive immigration support for founders and their employees - this service is designed to make their transition and stay in the country as smooth as possible.

Benefits • Finance & Accounting
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Brown Immigration Law

Brown Immigration Law focuses on delivering successful corporate immigration solutions to support employers and foreign talent in a variety of high-growth startups and established businesses across the U.S. and beyond.

Hiring • Human Resources
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Clark Lau

The U.S. immigration system is complex and unforgiving. One small mistake could trigger endless delays or, worse, life-changing consequences. Even so, with proper planning, pitfalls can be avoided and challenges can be overcome. Partner with Clark Lau LLC to help navigate the system. Their years of experience with employers and individuals will help you see the big picture, anticipate hurdles, and plan ahead. They take a broader perspective of your ultimate goals, determine the most appropriate immigration solution for you, and then partner with you each step of the way to get there. Moreover, their connection with a broad network of attorneys around the world and participation in professional organizations allow them to have access to immigration insight that could only help serve you better. If you are looking for an immigration firm that is knowledgeable, responsive, and vested in your outcome, Clark Lau would love to work with you.

Hiring • Human Resources
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Baker Tilly

Baker Tilly is one of the world’s largest CPA and Advisory firms. The Baker Tilly teams work with technology companies in each phase of the business lifecycle. Our industry expertise, technical knowledge and relationships with others who serve this industry provide value to companies. Baker Tilly’s services include complete back-office accounting solutions for seed and Series A-funded technology providers, audit and tax preparation, 409A and related valuation support, state sales tax expertise, SOC 2 reporting, and deal diligence services. Additionally, Baker Tilly’s digital team offers CTO advisory services, cyber security risk mitigation, and technology transformation expertise. Baker Tilly’s New England office has over 30 years of experience working with hundreds of venture-backed technology companies, and thus is uniquely positioned to provide support and insights to avoid the pitfalls that can arise in a rapidly growing startup.

Accountants • Finance & Accounting
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Browne Consulting

Browne Consulting is a specialized provider of Operational Accounting, Finance and tactical HR support to early‐stage life science companies. Their team of seasoned professionals bring a wealth of experience to advise and support companies at every stage, from pre‐seed to Series A and beyond. They work primarily with companies incubated and funded by premier life science venture capital firms. As a result, they have a deep understanding of the needs of sophisticated investors and, more importantly, how to partner with our clients to help them execute on those needs. With Browne Consulting, you can count on expert guidance and support as you navigate the complex finance and HR challenges that come with scaling a life science company.

Biotech • Finance & Accounting
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SAP Concur

SAP Concur is a travel and expense management software solution provided by SAP. Concur offers cloud-based services that help organizations manage their business travel, expenses, and invoice processes more efficiently.

Finance & Accounting • Starting a Company
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Banc of California

Banc of California is one of the nation’s premier relationship-based business banks focused on providing banking and treasury management services to small-, middle-market, and venture-backed businesses. The Venture Banking Group offers a broad range of venture debt, fund finance, and treasury and cash management solutions. Key lines of business served include VC-backed multi-stage tech companies, VC and PE fund finance, developing life science companies and comprehensive treasury management services.

Biotech • Banks
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HSBC Innovation Banking

HSBC Innovation Banking brings HSBC’s expansive product suite and unmatched international capabilities to support startups and their VCs in the innovation ecosystem at every stage of their journey. Our mission is to provide founders and their teams with exceptional service, tailored banking and venture debt facilities, and value-add connections to our extensive global network of investors and corporate clients. If you have any questions about HSBC Innovation Banking, please reach out to Meeta Kapadia!

Banks • Budgeting & Planning
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Cobrandit Video

Storytelling and documentary style video for events, launches, thought leadership, investor relations, marketing & PR. Clients include Algorand, Microsoft, Harvard Business School, Pfizer, and many startups.

Biotech • Marketing & Events
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Looma

Looma provides holistic product design services to the life science industry. They blend disciplined engineering with craftsmanship and execution with creativity.

Design • Engineering
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Katz Nannis + Solomon

Kats Nannis + Solomon specializes in helping early-stage, angel and venture funded technology, life science and entrepreneurial companies.

Bookkeeping • Finance & Accounting
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Deloitte

Ray is an Audit & Assurance partner and the New England technology leader. He has more than 25 years of experience and has served clients ranging from venture capital-backed emerging-growth companies to many of our most complex multinational clients. Ray specializes in the software industry and has led complex global audits, SEC reporting, IPOs, and mergers and acquisitions, and has a strong background in due diligence and purchase accounting, income taxes, and revenue recognition.

Bookkeeping • Finance & Accounting
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Sunset

Sunset is a powerful and compliant tool to help you shut down your tech business.  From asset sales to dissolutions, they save founders & investors thousands of dollars, hundreds of hours, and countless headaches.

Tech
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Plenty Search

Plenty is an executive search firm for fast-growth, venture-backed startups. Led by a team of former operators, they understand startup challenges, how to hypergrow with thought, and how to design the right executive team for your business.

Biotech • Exec Recruiters
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Plymouth Street

Plymouth Street offers personalized application support to top STEM talent worldwide, assisting them with their US immigration process and supporting various visas including J1, O1, and EB1/2. Their mission is to propel scientific and technological advancement by enabling global talent to live and work in the US.

Biotech • Hiring
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Podium Law

Caryn Davies is a successful lawyer and entrepreneur, transitioning from an impressive career as a decorated Olympic rower to a sought-after corporate attorney. She founded Podium Law, a technology-driven legal firm designed to expedite and improve legal processes for businesses, leveraging proprietary machine learning techniques to deliver faster and high-quality legal services.

Tech • Legal
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Oxeon

Oxeon connects leading healthcare investors, entrepreneurs and executives to grow and scale businesses and transform the U.S. healthcare system.

Tech • Hiring
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Barrington James

Barrington James is a global life science recruitment business that focuses in the Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology and Medical Device sectors.

Biotech • Hiring
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Activate

Activate's mission is to empower scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market.

Biotech • Biotech Community
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Goodwin

Goodwin partners with clients to practice law with integrity, ingenuity, agility and ambition. Our 1,800+ lawyers across 13 locations in the United States, Europe and Asia excel at complex transactions, high-stakes litigation and world-class advisory services in the technology, life sciences, real estate, private equity, and financial industries. We worked closely with Goodwin Technology and Life Sciences Partner, Olivia Uitto, to develop the IP brainstorm template and IP search guide.

Biotech • IP Law Firms
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Saluda Grade

Saluda Grade delivers institutional knowledge and capital resources to the Alternative Lending real estate sector. Our core mission is to identify Regional Private Lenders and create growth through investment and strategic partnerships.

Budgeting & Planning • Fundraising
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BioBAT

BioBAT’s space is ideal for research or manufacturing. Its spacious floor plates can be partitioned into affordable wet labs, dry labs and offices. BioBAT offers flexible leasing options, and tenants have the opportunity to lease additional space to accommodate further growth

Biotech • Lab Space
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Focus SF

Focus Innovation Studio provides flexible coworking lab space, ideal for technology and scientific research and development, and features shared equipment and laboratory infrastructure to allow members to work undisturbed and with maximum focus.

Biotech • Bay Area Lab Space
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Bio, Tech and Beyond

Bio, Tech and Beyond (BTNB) operates a 7,000 ft2 research facility at 6076 Corte Del Cedro, Carlsbad, California 92011. We acquired the building as our new permanent home in 2019.  The facility includes a separate tissue culture room, fume hoods, dedicated chemical-resistant lab benches, -80C and -20C cold storage and about 30 pieces of shared laboratory equipment.

Biotech • Lab Space
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Murrieta Innovation Center

The Innovation Center supports new and innovative companies that are focused on Healthcare Technologies and Medical Devices. To date we are home to nine start-ups in the Southwest Riverside County area & house several resource organizations.

Biotech • Lab Space
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The Basement

The Basement was launched in 2015 with the support of Jeff and Kim Belk '83, Formerly InterDigital Inc., Aryeh Bourkoff '95, LionTree LLC, and Mark Suster '91 of Upfront Ventures. In the spirit of UC San Diego's entrepreneurial DNA, The Basement is a space for students from all academic disciplines to test innovative ideas and apply theory to real-world experiences. With the support from alumni and community support, students can build companies and social innovation ventures that become the fabric of our community, creating jobs and inspiring a culture of ingenuity and impact with help from The Basement

Biotech • Lab Space
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Icogenex Bioincubator

Icogenex Bioincubator is designed to meet the needs of startup and small companies in the life science sector with a focus on molecular and cellular biology and chemistry activities, allowing your business to be successful without the concerns of facility management, safety program oversight and equipment needs.

Biotech • Lab Space
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CoMotion

CoMotion Labs provides a multi-industry incubation environment for early-stage startups. While preference is given to UW spinoffs, we accept startups from outside the UW community as well. From critical infrastructure to learning, mentoring, and networking, CoMotion Labs nurtures and enables success. And we help them grow without taking equity. Our labs operate in three incubators on the UW Seattle campus, each focusing on a particular industry sector: life sciences and hardware in Fluke Hall, and technology in Startup Hall.

Biotech • Lab Space
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BioLabs

BioLabs are the premier co-working spaces for life science startups- unique places where you can test, develop and grow your game-changing ideas. As entrepreneurs and investors ourselves, we have first-hand experience with the pain-points biotech start-ups face. Our goal is to change how scientific entrepreneurs do business by building an ecosystem that empowers bioinnovators to grow quickly, while maximizing capital efficiency.

Biotech • Bay Area Lab Space
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BioLabs North Carolina

BioLabs North Carolina is located in a unique biotech co-working facility in downtown Durham, North Carolina. Our aim is to attract the most ambitious startup companies in life sciences. This premium open lab space and office space favors collaboration. The lab is equipped with top-of-the-line research equipment, with additional services to help resident companies reach their milestones faster.

Biotech • Lab Space
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Bayer CoLaborator

The CoLaborator offers entrepreneurs and young life science companies suitable laboratory and office infrastructure and access to the company’s research expertise and infrastructure as well as a first point of contact in the search for partnering options in the pharmaceutical and agriculture industry.

Biotech • Bay Area Lab Space
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UNCW Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

The UNCW Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) offers programs, services, and activities to promote and support entrepreneurship and the creation of innovative new ventures in Southeastern North Carolina. The CIE is an extension of the university and partners with both public and private organizations to support regional economic development and the creation and growth of innovation-based businesses.

Biotech • Lab Space
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JLABS (Johnson and Johnson)

Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JLABS is a global life science network for innovation, providing startups with access to capital-efficient lab space and resources, including expertise, community, industry connections and entrepreneurial programs.

Biotech • Bay Area Lab Space
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BioNetwork Natural Products Lab and Test Kitchen

The Natural Products Lab (NPL) offers analytical testing services and onsite equipment rental for life science businesses, entrepreneurs, and researchers. Quality assurance tests available range from total ash value to water activity testing and can include tailored GC and HPLC methods for your ingredients or finished product.

Biotech • Lab Space
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Piedmont Food and Ag Processing Center

Piedmont Food Processing Center is a NC non-profit providing management services to shared kitchens across the state. We are based at the Orange County, NC facility which was established in 2011 as a joint project between Alamance, Chatham, Durham, and Orange counties. We are grateful for our many partners and supporters in this effort.

Biotech • Lab Space
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Technology Enterprise Center of Eastern Carolina

The Technology Enterprise Center of Eastern Carolina offers 35,000 square feet of office, laboratory, and light manufacturing space to technology-based companies on a short-term lease basis.

Biotech • Lab Space
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TheLab at RTP

The Lab offers affordable wet and dry lab space on flexible, cost-efficient terms. Located around the corner from the Hub RTP development, the location is one that affords ease of access to all points of the Triangle and RTP life.

Biotech • Lab Space
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AB Tech Business Incubation Program

Looking to launch an entrepreneurial venture or grow a small business? The Small Business Center (SBC) at A-B Tech Enka is part of the statewide Small Business Center Network (SBCN), a community college-funded initiative with a vision to foster and support entrepreneurship, small business, and economic development in local communities. with an emphasis on assisting start-ups, early-stage, and at-risk enterprises.

Biotech • Lab Space
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NanoBio LaunchPad at Gateway

The Gateway Launchpad is a unique co-working environment for start-ups and small businesses needing access to high tech laboratory space. This co-working environment is utilized to support “start-up” operations of newly formed nano-bio related entities and other small businesses. Generally, firms of this nature struggle to find space of a suitable size at a reasonable cost which is where the Gateway Launchpad fits in. Users are provided with a telephone and internet access as part of their occupancy.

Biotech • Lab Space
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Wet Lab LaunchPad

Whether you’re a company in an early stage of research or a graduate student in need of a place to conduct research, this specialized space designed for biomedical research and laboratory work can take you to that next stage of development.

Biotech • Lab Space
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HLabs

HLabs is an award-winning digital agency specialising in web design, interactive storytelling, and no-code technology. HLabs push the boundaries of creativity to deliver industry leading interactive experiences to their clients. They have a global team of 40 passionate creatives, across 4 time-zones, that offer a full service package of brand strategy, design, development and content creation for anything you need from pitch decks, campaign landing pages to full website launches. You have a digital project? HLabs can get it done!

Biotech • Design
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Korn Ferry

Korn Ferry is a global organizational consulting firm. We work with clients to design their organizational structures, roles and responsibilities. We help them hire the right people and advise them on how to reward, develop and motivate their workforce. And, we help professionals navigate and advance their careers.

Tech • Hiring
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True Search

Global recruitment for board members, c-suite executives, VPs, directors and other strategic talent. We focus on investment firms, their portfolio companies, and public companies seeking transformative growth. True Search is also a founding partner of AboveBoard, a diversity-focused startup bringing unparalleled solutions to the critical need to bring more women and executives of color to leadership roles. We work with Matt Goldstein and Cory Bolotsky.

Tech • Hiring
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Daversa Partners

Daversa is Silicon Valley’s go-to executive recruiting firm, hiring for Instacart, Uber, Spotify, and more

Tech • Hiring
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Danforth Advisors

Danforth is the financial and operational backbone to hundreds of life science companies, providing integrated and scalable consulting teams ranging from staff accountant through CFO. The company’s services span the full breadth of a finance organization’s needs, whether short or long term, including accounting and operational finance support, capital raising, financial planning and analysis, IPO preparation, post-public SEC compliance, clinical business operations management and strategic and operational human resources.

Biotech • Accountants
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KKH Advisors

KKH Advisors is a life sciences and digital health advisory firm, which provides: Early-Stage Financing/Fundraising and Investor Targeting CEO & Executive Media Training Advisory Services Corporate Communications & Media Relations Counsel Financial Communications Advisory and Counsel Crisis Communications Materials Branding and Development Corporate Rebranding & Message Development.

Biotech • Marketing & Events
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Picket Fence IP

Picket Fence IP is founded by Greg Sieczkiewiczis to partner with the best entrepreneurs and venture firms to build transformative life science endeavors. They engage at thought-inception through IPO to create, build, maintain, defend and monetize vigorous IP protection strategies.

Biotech • IP Law Firms
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Foley Hoag

Foley Hoag is a dynamic law firm that represents public and private clients in a wide range of disputes and transactions worldwide. We have expertise in industries such as life sciences and healthcare, technology, energy and renewables, investment management, professional services and education. We also offer our clients market-leading international litigation and arbitration and corporate social responsibility services.

Biotech • Law Firms
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Mintz

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. is a general practice, full service Am Law 100 law firm employing approximately 550+ attorneys serving clients worldwide. We are headquartered at One Financial Center in Boston’s Financial District and have additional US offices in Los Angeles, New York City, San Diego, San Francisco, and Washington, DC, as well as an office in London and a strong international practice.

Biotech • Law Firms
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Cushman Wakefield

Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK) is a leading global real estate services firm that delivers exceptional value for real estate occupiers and owners. Cushman & Wakefield is among the largest real estate services firms with approximately 50,000 employees in over 400 offices and 60 countries.

Biotech • Real Estate
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Colliers

Colliers (NASDAQ, TSX: CIGI) is a leading diversified professional services and investment management company. With operations in 62 countries, our 17,000 enterprising professionals work collaboratively to provide expert real estate and investment advice to clients.

Biotech • Real Estate
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Savills

Savills is a global commercial real estate firm that exclusively represents tenants, ensuring conflict-free advocacy and better results. With deep market expertise and data-driven insights, we help companies secure the right space, negotiate the best terms, and align real estate with business goals—whether for office, life sciences, manufacturing, or specialized needs.

Biotech • Real Estate
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The Steele Group

The Steele Group (TSG) is a new commercial real estate model for early, growth and enterprise stage companies. TSG is transforming the traditional operating model by leveraging technology, establishing new centralized processes and integrating domain expertise at every stage. From locally owned small businesses to global public companies, The Steele Group prides itself on taking care of all our clients with the same integrity, attention to detail, and professionalism on which our team has built its reputation.

Biotech • Real Estate
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Pave

Pave is a suite of real-time compensation tools to help companies plan and communicate compensation. They integrate with HIRS and Cap Tables and Pave’s dataset is real-time (no 6-month lag).

Biotech • Compensation Data
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WayUp

WayUp is a virtual recruiting platform with qualified, diverse early-career candidates. This platform offers Diversity sourcing, D&I Analytics, D&I employer branding, and Unbiased Screening. WayUp has over 6M candidates, and 71% are underrepresented minorities. By using WayUp you will get more diverse candidates, measure your progress in your D&I hiring goals and amplify your employer brand.

Interns
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Handshake

Handshake is an online “all-in-one early talent recruiting platform” connecting employers with 9M+ students and alumni across more than 1400 educational institutions. Handshake has the largest, most diverse, and active early talent network in the U.S. with 5M women candidates, 1.2M Black candidates, and 1.2M Latinx candidates. By offering internships through Handshake, you will build strong connections with many universities and have the possibility of meeting a diverse group of candidates both in-person with on-campus interviews or through virtual events.

Interns
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Project Onramp

Project Onramp is a paid summer internship program focused on giving talented four-year college students from under-resourced backgrounds their “onramp” to the biotech industry. Project Onramp is looking for paid internships in hard science and in business disciplines, including marketing, communications, HR and administration. Offering Project Onramp internships is an investment in your industry’s future: you are giving talented students without access a way to learn about careers in the life sciences. Financial support from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center can subsidize each intern’s salary up to $8,160 per summer, for companies of fewer than 100 employees.

Interns
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Coretelligent

Coretelligent is a leading provider of comprehensive managed and co-managed IT support, cybersecurity, and cloud services. Our team of world-class experts provides top-tier organizations with the services they need to thrive in today's digital economy. We're proud to be one of the most awarded IT service providers in the nation. Providing complete IT support 24/7/365 days a year, our innovative proprietary technology solutions and full suite of security services ensure exceptional business performance, data protection and security for our clients' most sensitive information assets.

Engineering • IT Firms
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Jan Losert

Jan Losert is a designer, Webflow & product creator who comes recommended from other VC Platform leaders. His portfolio is on Dribbble and Behance.

Design • Engineering
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Wolf & Company

Wolf & Company is the largest regional accounting firm in Massachusetts. They work with a number of venture backed technology companies, including Pillar portfolio company Zapata.

Accountants • Finance & Accounting
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Supporting Strategies

Supporting Strategies provides full HR, benefits, accounting and payroll support to scaling companies. We work with Hayden Huff at the company. Pillar's Sarah Hodges has worked with Supporting Strategies across several startups.

Accountants • Benefits
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Forvis Mazars

Forvis Mazars is a full-service accounting firm in Boston. The firm's experienced accountants stay abreast of the latest data, regulations, and industry trends, providing advice that helps advance their clients' business goals. Pillar's Sarah Hodges has worked with the firm across several companies. We work with David Marcus at the firm.

Accountants • Finance & Accounting
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Mary Hirtle, CPA

Mary Hirtle focuses on supporting startups with various financial services, with an emphasis on tax preparation, tax savings advice, and consultation on business entity set up. Mary has worked with several startups in our network who have shared positive reviews.

Accountants • Finance & Accounting
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JP Morgan

JP Morgan is the only bank you'll ever need. The firm serves the Technology, Disruptive Commerce and Life Sciences ecosystems from inception onward with an offering that includes online banking, treasury, debt, investments and advisory services. Pamela Aldsworth leads the firm's venture practice; she has been a close friend of our firm and avid supporter of the Boston ecosystem for years, and is a wonderful partner to startups and VCs. 

Banks • Budgeting & Planning
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Silicon Valley Bank

Silicon Valley Bank has successfully supported founders, entrepreneurs, and investors for over 35 years. The company provide banking and financial services to help you, as you strive to grow your business at every stage.

Banks • Finance & Accounting
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Sapers & Wallack / Hilb Group

Sapers & Wallack/Hilb Group NE provides trusted benefits, retirement, insurance and investment advice to help you ensure the financial well-being of your business or family. Pillar works with the firm for our own insurance needs.

Benefits • Hiring
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We Make Heart

Thomas O'Connell is the founder of We Make Heart. Thomas is a master storyteller and helps companies bring their identify to life through content and visual design. He helped to create the Pillar brand.

Brand Agency • Design
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Wilfey

Wilfey is a creative house that partners with VC firms to provide its portfolio companies with cost-effective design and positioning resources. Wilfey specializes in producing high-quality work on tight deadlines with expertise in branding, positioning, pitch decks, and marketing assets.

Brand Agency • Marketing & Events
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Skurchak Design

John Skurchak created our Pillar logo, and we have worked with him on several projects. He is extremely talented, and can help with full brand development.

Brand Agency • Marketing & Events
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ezCater

ezCater is a rapidly growing local Boston late-stage company that instantly connects your office with hundreds of catering options. ezCater makes it easy to order catering from hundreds of caterers on one website. This is our favorite solution for office meals at Pillar!

Caterers • Marketing & Events
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Bread & Ginger

Meghan Hargraves from Bread & Ginger is a talented chef and caterer, who often prepares delicious meals for Pillar events. Meghan provides in-office catering and at-home meal delivery.

Caterers • Marketing & Events
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Julie Engel

Julie Engel, Ph.D. is an executive coach, organization development and team development consultant and facilitator working with executives and managers to be more resourceful, grounded and wise as they navigate the ever-changing, fast-moving, uncertain, challenging, and demanding circumstances of their work and the world.

CEO / Executive Coaches • Coaches & Leadership Training
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Founder → Leader

Jaye Goldstein, who was previously on the Pillar VC/Petri team, offers leadership, management and communication coaching to biotech startups. She’s particularly passionate about supporting women and diverse founders.

Biotech • CEO / Executive Coaches
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John DelMonaco

John DelMonaco is Senior Partner with RHR International, a firm of management psychologists who consult to senior executives. John focuses on driving the success of business strategy through developing individual executives, aligning talent around key business imperatives, and strengthening the effectiveness of executive teams. John conducts assessments, 360s, succession planning, and coaching. John comes recommended to Pillar by one of our Co-Founding Pillar CEOs.

CEO / Executive Coaches • Coaches & Leadership Training
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DoorTwo

Stephanie Au has a strong background in leadership development and is enthusiastic about creating positive organizational change by helping people be and do their best. A Partner with DoorTwo, she specializes in talent management and development, organizational psychology, and behavioral science. Stephanie has worked with the Pillar VC team through workshops and 1:1 coaching.

CEO / Executive Coaches • Coaches & Leadership Training
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Bob Radin

Bob Radin is a Lecturer at Boston College who teaches management and corporate governance courses in the Graduate School of Management. He also runs a CEO interview series called the Manager’s Studio. His research has focused on power and influence in the boardroom and governance in the mutual funds industry. In addition, he serves as an executive coach to executives in the financial services industry and early stage companies and is a co-founder of Frost Ice Loft located in the Faneuil Hall Marketplace.

CEO / Executive Coaches • Coaches & Leadership Training
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Fred Harburg

Fred is from Harburg Consulting LLC, and comes highly recommended to us from one of our Founding Pillars, Yvonne Hao. He is based in Chicago, is former military, and now teaches at Kellogg and coaches executives and teams. He’s worked with government agencies, public companies, etc.

CEO / Executive Coaches • Coaches & Leadership Training
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Anthony Palombit

Anthony is based in SF, and is an experienced executive coach for CEOs and c-suite executives in Fortune 1000 and PE portfolio companies. Anthony uses unique approaches, and is very effective by phone. He also teaches at Wharton part time. Anthony was recommended to us by one of our Co-Founding Pillar CEOs.

CEO / Executive Coaches • Coaches & Leadership Training
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Nancy Raulston

Perspective2 knows that with startups there are always risks. Some are predictable, others are not. They bring a different perspective to help entrepreneurs move through the toughest log jams and eddies they are likely to encounter – particularly those involving people. Nancy Raulston draws on her diverse background to discover and address individual and team needs. She has an MBA from Dartmouth and an MA and completed PhD coursework in Clinical Psychology from the Professional School of Psychology.

CEO / Executive Coaches • Coaches & Leadership Training
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Reboot

The founder and CEO of Reboot.IO, Inc. Colonna is a certified professional coach, Colonna draws on his wide variety of experiences to help clients design a more conscious life and make needed changes to their career to improve their performance and satisfaction. He established his coaching practice in 2007. Prior to this work, Colonna was venture capitalist focused on investing in early stage technology-related startups.

CEO / Executive Coaches • Coaches & Leadership Training
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Laura Parrott

Laura brings years of experience working with managers and leaders at tech companies and beyond to her practice.  In her role at HubSpot as their VP of Leadership & Management, as well as in her former role as a Global Lead for Manager & Leadership Development Programs at Google, she helped people managers and leaders strategically approach the challenges of leading at scale. In addition to her full-time roles, Laura co-creates and leads innovative development programs for high potential business leaders. She regularly coaches emerging leaders from start ups in the Boston area, and was a highly regarded facilitator and designer for Intelligent.ly’s Emerge and Exchange programs.

CEO / Executive Coaches • Coaches & Leadership Training
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Emily Green

Emily Green is a serial founder who enjoys collaborating with early-stage CEOs, sharing her perspective as an experienced leader and coach.

CEO / Executive Coaches • Coaches & Leadership Training
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Whit Mitchell

Whit Mitchell was recommended to Pillar with high praise by one of our co-founding Pillar CEOs, who has worked with Whit for several years as a coach.

CEO / Executive Coaches • Coaches & Leadership Training
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Sam James

Sam was recommended to Pillar by the former GM of a publicly traded company in Boston. Sam has a psychology background, and brings science to his executive coaching in a non-academic way. Sam works with both CEOs and executives.

CEO / Executive Coaches • Coaches & Leadership Training
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Don Arnoudse

Don Arnoudse works with executives and their leadership teams to co-create the future they want. He guides his clients outside their comfort zones, going ‘where it’s scary’ to grow their businesses beyond what common sense tells them is possible. Don Arnoudse was recommended to Pillar by one of our co-founding CEOs' companies, who has known him for 25 years and has deep respect for his practice. Don primarily works with very senior executives.

CEO / Executive Coaches • Coaches & Leadership Training
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Brad Spencer

Brad Spencer is Founder and President of Spencer/Shenk/Capers & Associates, Inc. Brad is a trusted advisor to respected Fortune 500 CEOs, a highly-regarded lecturer on organizational behavior, and an expert in the field of organizational psychology. Brad Spencer was recommended to Pillar by one of our co-founding CEO's, with whom he personally works as a coach.

CEO / Executive Coaches • Coaches & Leadership Training
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Amy Tananbaum

Amy Tananbaum has over 25 years of experience consulting with organizations to improve performance. She manages an extraordinary team of resources who provide learning, consulting, and coaching services to global clients. She is wonderful to work with, and her team has supported individuals ranging from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 companies. Pillar's Sarah Hodges worked extensively with Amy through the leadership development company she previously founded.

CEO / Executive Coaches • Coaches & Leadership Training
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Jim Rosen + Associates

Jim Rosen works with several CEOs and executives in Boston at Yesware, Pixability, Influitive and other companies. He was a member of Netegrity's founding management team, and has a strong focus on mindfulness, addressing both the inner dynamics of leadership (consciousness) as well as practical skills development (competence).

CEO / Executive Coaches • Coaches & Leadership Training
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Kathy Ball-Toncic

Kathy Ball-Toncic, based in Boston, was in HR as an exec and then transitioned to coaching. She works with individuals and also facilitates workshops across a broad range of topics (eg giving/ receiving feedback, unconscious bias, presence, etc).

CEO / Executive Coaches • Coaches & Leadership Training
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Steve Schlafman

Steve is a professional certified coach, angel investor, facilitator, speaker, former operator and recovering VC. He currently operates High Output, a boutique leadership development company based in NYC. He partners with founders to help them perform at higher levels, lead more authentically and build resilient organizations.

CEO / Executive Coaches • Coaches & Leadership Training
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CEO Roundtable

CEO Roundtable is made up of private, peer advisory groups of 8 to 12 members from non-competing companies.

CEO Groups • Coaches & Leadership Training
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Catlin & Cookman High-Growth CEO Forum®

Catlin & Cookman offers curated CEO groups, as well as onsite workshops around culture & values for teams. The company has developed a range of offerings that helps innovative leaders grow great companies. Pillar partner, Russ Wilcox, participated in this CEO group as did many of our Founding Pillar CEOs. The company also offers coaching and strategic planning.

CEO Groups • Coaches & Leadership Training
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The Leadership Consortium

The Leadership Consortium convenes top talent from best-in-class partner companies, immersing participants in a virtual development experience that accelerates leadership impact. Founded by renowned Harvard Business School Professor Frances Frei and led by a team of mission-driven HBS alumnae, TLC helps best-in-class organizations create the conditions for all leaders to accelerate and thrive.

Coaches & Leadership Training • Leadership
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GH Smart

ghSMART is a leadership advisory firm to CEOs, investors and boards. With two decades of experience and over 18,000 senior executives, ghSMART helps clients achieve their top leadership priorities, including CEO succession, M&A diligence and integration, top talent selection. They offer assessments to help teams learn how to communicate more effectively. The company's assessments also offer a useful tool to incorporate in your hiring process.

CEO / Executive Coaches • Coaches & Leadership Training
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VPE Forum

Led by experienced engineering leader, Melanie Ziegler, the VPE Forum provides a peer group for leading VPEs in scaling Boston companies. The organization hosts small, dedicated groups of executives from non-competing, similarly sized companies meet in a confidential, trusting and supportive environment. Members benefit from the insights, honest advice and shared best practices of their peers. Several trusted friends of Pillar have participated in the program who have wonderful things to say about their experience.

Coaches & Leadership Training • Engineering
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The Speech Improvement Company

The Speech Improvement Company develops and delivers customized group training programs and private, one-on-one coaching sessions in five key areas: Leadership & Management, Public Speaking, Sales Communication, Customer Service Communication and Accent Modification. This company comes highly recommended from the team at a public company in Boston.

Coaches & Leadership Training • Leadership
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Collaborative Gain

Collaborative Gain is a community of senior leaders who help each other lead innovation and customer-centric change to drive business results – the most effective approach to growing your business network and career. The company offers curated peer groups for C-level executives that meet twice yearly.

Coaches & Leadership Training • Peer Groups
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Stephanie Walzak Consulting

Stephanie Walzak runs a compensation consultancy business working directly with CEOs, Senior Execs, and Boards of several promising pre- and post-IPO companies. Pillar Partner, Sarah Hodges, worked with Stephanie at her last company and had an extremely positive collaboration.

Compensation Consultants • Finance & Accounting
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Project Include

Project Include’s mission is to give everyone a fair chance to succeed in tech. We are a non-profit that uses data and advocacy to accelerate diversity and inclusion solutions in the tech industry.

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging • Leadership
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The Ready Set Co.

ReadySet is a consulting and strategy firm that helps companies build more human-centric, inclusive cultures, teams and products. Our clients span industries from tech, to nonprofits, to social change organizations each starting at a unique point in their DEI journey.

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging • Leadership
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Vaya Consulting

We provide culture, management strategy, and diversity + equity + inclusion services for organizations across sectors.

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
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Interaction Institute for Social Change

The Interaction Institute for Social Change (IISC) brings nearly 30 years of experience to our mission:to build collaborative capacity in individuals, organizations, and networks working for social justice and racial equity.

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
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PopEvent

PopEvent is a club of planners representing tech startups, non-traditional venues + unexpected experiences. The company has helped to plan several Pillar events, including our Pillar Portfolio Unconference and our Annual Thanksgiving Feast. Popavent collaborates with companies of all sizes across events of different scales. We work with Caitlin Carey at the company.

Caterers • Event Planning
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Sam Moody Photography

Sam Moody is an incredibly talented photographer who works with companies across the Boston startup ecosystem. We've worked with Sam on our firm headshots and portfolio photos. He is wonderful to collaborate with and always creates beautiful photography.

Marketing & Events • Photographers
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Allison Kraus

Allison is a Freelance Graphic Designer & Illustrator living and working in Portland, Maine, and serving clients throughout New England.

Graphic Designers • Marketing & Events
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Meaghan Kane

Meaghan Kane comes highly recommended to Pillar as a brand, web, and experience designer for digital products.

Graphic Designers • Marketing & Events
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Erik DiMauro Design

Erik is a graphic and logo designer, and has created several logos for companies in the broader Pillar community.

Graphic Designers • Marketing & Events
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Britni Linford Design

Britni Linford is based in SLC, Utah. and frequently freelances for the Pillar team. She is creative, fast, and a wonderful person to collaborate with.

Design • Graphic Designers
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12Twenty

12Twenty drives meaningful engagement with employers for career advisers and students at the university level.

Hiring • Recruiters
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Riviera Partners

From day one, Riviera Partners has helped the most transformative companies in tech (from early stage to public, bootstrapped to venture- and private equity-backed) flourish in a continually evolving technology marketplace. This is done through the successful recruitment of Product Development - Engineering, Product Management, Design, Data Science, Infrastructure, etc. - executives and engineers. With offices across the US, Riviera is in all major tech hubs.

Tech • Hiring
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VentureFizz

VentureFizz is the leading employment branding and recruitment platform focused on the tech industry. We work with companies at all stages of development and help out with hiring across all functional areas.

Hiring • Recruiters
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Gray Scalable

Gray Scalable's team of recruiting and HR professionals help companies grow and evolve their people practices to match the standards of the world’s leading tech companies. From pre-Series A to post-IPO companies, they help build teams and develop customized programs that engage your people and advance your culture. Pillar portfolio companies have worked with Charlie Gray at the company.

Benefits • Hiring
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Reveneer

Reveneer designs, builds & manages high-velocity inside sales operations. If you don’t have the time or expertise to build your own inside sales operation, Reveneer will do it for you. The company's all-in-one services encompass the entire operation to deliver sales results that are predictable and repeatable over time. Several Pillar portfolio companies have worked with Greg Casale at the company.

Growth • Sales & GTM
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Talent House

Talent House is a boutique agency that primarily focuses on contingent searches (and some retained) with an emphasis on sales and marketing (including customer success) roles. The firm comes highly recommended to us by a VC recruiter from our network.

Hiring • Recruiters
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Betts Recruiting

Betts Recruiting is strong in Sales, Marketing and other Go-to-Market roles. The firm's leadership team focuses on strategic management-level roles. The firm comes recommended to us by a trusted VC recruiter.

Hiring • Recruiters
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RJR

RJR solely focuses on sales opportunities; the recruiters on the firm's team come from a sales background themselves, and were highly recommended to Pillar by a VC recruiter with whom we frequently work.

Hiring • Recruiters
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SLT Talent Acquisition Consulting

Susanne Talbot from SLT Talent Acquisition Consulting is an experienced recruiter with a background in executive search and technical recruiting. She is a wonderful person to collaborate with, and several Pillar portfolio companies have engaged with Susanne with great success.

Hiring • Recruiters
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The Bowdoin Group

From C-Suite to other critical strategic roles, clients of all sizes rely on The Bowdoin Group to help build strong leadership teams. We work with Scott Aldsworth at the firm.

Biotech • Hiring
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Jeff Goldman Immigration

Jeff Goldman Immigration is a law firm devoted exclusively to all aspects of business-based and family-based immigration law.  Jeff Goldman has helped several Boston founders navigate complicated immigration concerns.

Immigration & Visas • Immigration Law
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Alexandria LaunchLabs

Alexandria LaunchLabs is the premier, full-service startup platform designed to dramatically accelerate the growth of early-stage life science and agtech companies. With operational life science sites at the Alexandria Center® for Life Science in New York City and the Alexandria Center® at One Kendall Square in Cambridge and an agtech site at the Alexandria Center® for AgTech in the Research Triangle, Alexandria LaunchLabs provides move-in-ready office/laboratory space, first-class support resources, shared equipment and services, creative amenities, and access to startup capital through the Alexandria Seed Capital Platform to drive life-changing innovation. Alexandria LaunchLabs is currently accepting applications for future members in Cambridge, Greater Los Angeles, New York City, Research Triangle, and Seattle.

Biotech • Boston Lab Space
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nest.bio

Nest.Bio supports emerging biotech startups with the infrastructure and community needed to get their companies to the next level.

Biotech • Boston Lab Space
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LabCentral

A 70,000 square-foot facility in the heart of the Kendall Square, Cambridge, biotech innovation hub, LabCentral is a shared laboratory space designed as a launchpad for high-potential life-sciences and biotech startups.

Biotech • Boston Lab Space
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Newmark

Newmark is a commercial real estate advisory firm, providing clients with a single-source solution for every phase of leasing or owning a property. We know Catie Tilton, who specializes in assisting companies in the life science industry. Some of the areas she can assist with include a search for office and/or laboratory space, market evaluation, rent/cost comparison, lease negotiations, workplace strategy, or construction.

Biotech • Real Estate
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Tufts LaunchLab / BioLabs

Tufts University has developed Tufts Launchpad | BioLabs, a biotech incubator to help high-potential, early-stage innovators in the life sciences.

Biotech • Boston Lab Space
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SmartLabs

SmartLabs is a new approach to providing research scientists with an on-demand, pharma-grade research environment to accelerate scientific discovery and therapeutic commercialization. The company provides a turnkey laboratory environment, so our founders can accelerate scientific discovery from day one.

Biotech • Boston Lab Space
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Greentown Labs

Located in Somerville, Massachusetts, and founded in 2011, the Greentown Labs Global Center for Cleantech Innovation is the largest cleantech incubator in North America, operating a 100,000 sq. ft.

Biotech • Boston Lab Space
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Latham & Watkins

Pillar has worked with Latham & Watkins' John Chory, Stephen Ranere, and Emily Taylor on a number of deals. The firm also has a suite of resources in their LathamDrive website, which provides entrepreneurs the tools and expertise they need on various topics including formation, capital raising, liquidity, beyond IPO and more.

Law Firms • Legal
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Company Counsel

Company Counsel provides legal support for emerging startups. Pillar's Sarah Hodges has worked with Steve Cagnetta across several startups from inception through exit on everything from employment agreements to employee options to contracts and more. Steve is particularly helpful for startups who would prefer not to work with a big firm, and are looking for a more accessible advice. See our Pillar VC CEO Templates for several free legal documents from Company Counsel.

Law Firms • Legal
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Cooley

In 2007, Cooley launched a small office in Boston’s historic Back Bay to provide legal counsel to technology and life sciences companies and investors in the region. During the last decade, Cooley has been one of the fastest growing law firms in Boston and is now home to more than 120 lawyers, technology specialists, quantitative analysts, paralegals and staff. Cooley's clients include strategic and financial buyers and sellers in public and private acquisitions, including private equity sponsored leveraged buyouts and take-private transactions. We work with Al Browne at Cooley.

Law Firms • Legal
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WilmerHale

WilmerHale provides global legal representation across a comprehensive range of industry and practice areas that are critical to our clients' success. WilmerHale's Launch Program (https://launch.wilmerhale.com/) is tailored specifically to startups. Pillar's Sarah Hodges worked with the firm on the sale of Smarterer, a Boston-based startup that was acquired by Pluralsight. We work with Mick Bain at the firm.

Law Firms • Legal
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Morse Barnes-Brown Pendleton

Boston-area Business Law Firm Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton, PC assists companies of all sizes — from startups to Fortune 1000 — in legal services areas. Pillar had a great experience working with the firm on our office lease. We work with Michael Jabbawy at the firm.

Law Firms • Legal
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Gunderson Dettmer

Gunderson Dettmer has been ranked the #1 law firm globally for high-growth technology and life sciences companies and investors for six years in a row by PitchBook. The firm handles the majority of Pillar's legal needs in addition to supporting growth technology and life sciences companies from start-up to maturity, and 250+ of the world's leading venture capital firms. We work with several lawyers at the firm including Jay Hachigian, Jeff Engerman and Vanessa Smith.

Law Firms • Legal
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Craft

Made by Craft creates digital products focusing on beautiful, human-centered design, UX and product strategy. The Pillar team has worked with Jeremy in the past, and the team is responsible for the Petri.bio website.

Design • Graphic Designers
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Noonan Communications

Ally from Noonan Communications is a PR Consultant who can work with your team to create press releases, media advisories, media fact sheets, media lists and more. We've worked with her at Pillar.

Marketing & Events • Public Relations
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StrongHouse Media

The Pillar team has worked with Dena at StrongHouse Media on social media, content, SEO, analytics, and more.

Marketing & Events • Marketing Agencies
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HALO

Pillar has worked with HALO for the last six years to source high-quality, creative, durable swag for our portfolio companies and community. The firm is full of interesting ideas for how to turn your swag from zero to hero. Reach out for help!

Marketing & Events • Swag
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Sky PR

Sky PR is dedicated to helping businesses and organizations build and maintain a positive public image through strategic and result-driven public relations. Founded by award-winning publicists, Lara Miller and Kristen Hoff, Sky PR offers a range of services designed to enhance your brand’s visibility and credibility. Lara Miller has been in the PR industry for over 15 years and primarily works with tech clients, with a specialty in AI, Blockchain, Enterprise Tech and SaaS startups. Lara has assisted both startups and large corporations with their PR needs with great success.

Marketing & Events • Public Relations
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Fama PR

Fama works with a number of companies across Boston and beyond. They're pros, and generally work with later stage companies.

Marketing & Events • Public Relations
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LaunchSquad

Our portfolio companies on the West Coast have had great success working with the team at Launch Squad to gain news and momentum around everything from new company milestones to launch events.

Marketing & Events • Public Relations
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Launch Pad Agency

One of Pillar's portfolio companies in the robotics space has had great success with this firm. The company is based on the west coast.

Marketing & Events • Public Relations
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Chap Public Relations

Chap Public Relations is based in Chicago. The firm works with businesses to create, develop, and tell their stories to the media in a way that will resonate with key constituents - from prospective customers and employees to potential investors and partners. The firm comes recommended to us from an established founder who has worked with the firm on contributed content, product launches and more. We work with Keith Chapman at the firm.

Marketing & Events • Public Relations
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Element PR

Element Public Relations combines experience, passion and imagination to help today's technology companies tell their stories. One of our portfolio companies based in SF has seen strong results in working with the firm.

Marketing & Events • Public Relations
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Christine Fiske Coaching

Christine Fiske is an independent marketing consultant who coaches entrepreneurial leaders to recognize and leverage their superpowers, to lead with more confidence, effectiveness, and ease. She helped with Pillar’s launch. We’ve known her for years, and she’s a wonderful person and a strong marketer.

Marketing & Events • Marketing Agencies
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Avison Young

Avison Young started as a small Canadian commercial real estate company that has continually expanded its services and footprint to meet the needs of a global client base.We work with Kirk Weller at the company.

Real Estate • Real Estate Brokers
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JLL

JLL is one of our go-to real estate providers in Boston. The company is a world leader in real estate services, powered by an entrepreneurial spirit. JLL buys, builds, occupies and invests in a variety of assets including industrial, commercial, retail, residential and hotel real estate. From tech startups to global firms, the firm's clients span industries including banking, energy, healthcare, law, life sciences, manufacturing and technology. We work with Bryan Sparkes at the company. 

Biotech • Real Estate
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CBRE

CBRE is the largest full-service commercial real estate services company in New England, combining the global resources and platform of CBRE with local management, control and ownership by the key professionals who provide service to our clients in the New England marketplace. We work with Rob Kinlin at the company.

Biotech • Real Estate
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Alpine Design Works

At Alpine, we design for print & digital and we breathe new life into seasoned brands.  We lean on creativity to inspire new ideas and utilize our deep design knowledge to build quality results. There’s a reason we tend to become close with our clients – we simply care. We care about our work, we care about the people we work with, and we care about the investment that business owners are making in their company.

Design • Marketing & Events