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Julie Engel
Contact: Julie Engel
Julie Engel
Contact: 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.
Laura Parrott
Contact: Laura Parrott
Laura Parrott
Contact: 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.
Bob Radin
Contact: Bob Radin
Bob Radin
Contact: 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.
Emily Green
Contact: Emily Green
Emily Green
Contact: Emily Green
Emily Green is a serial founder who enjoys collaborating with early-stage CEOs, sharing her perspective as an experienced leader and coach.
Whit Mitchell
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.
Engineering
VPE Forum
Contact: Melanie Ziegler
VPE Forum
Contact: Melanie Ziegler
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.Finance & Accounting
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Wolf & Company
Contact: Mike Kanarellis
Wolf & Company
Contact: Mike Kanarellis
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.
Supporting Strategies
Supporting Strategies
Supporting Strategies provides full HR, benefits, accounting and payroll support to scaling companies. We work with Eileen Driscoll at the company. Pillar's Sarah Hodges has worked with Supporting Strategies across several startups.
Samet CPA
Contact: David Marcus
Samet CPA
Contact: David Marcus
Samet 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.
Mary Hirtle, CPA
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.
Botkeeper
Contact: Louie Balasny
Botkeeper
Contact: Louie Balasny
Botkeeper helps companies streamline their accounting tasks through the convenience and efficiency of automated bookkeeping software paired with artificial intelligence. Pillar and several of our portfolio companies have experience working with the company.
JP Morgan
Contact: Pamela Aldsworth
JP Morgan
Contact: Pamela Aldsworth
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.Fundraising
Visions in Focus
Contact: Beth Susanne
Visions in Focus
Contact: Beth Susanne
Pitch Coach Beth Susanne has helped her clients raise over $10B in funding to date, working with global leaders such as Singularity University, Oxford Foundry, Barclays, BMW, Disney, and over 3000 international tech startups from 60 countries, across all technologies. Founders have raised an average of $4M each, following her 2-day pitch intensive. Her online and in-person workshops focus on how to craft and deliver a compelling pitch so that you achieve your funding goals quickly, and your value is immediately recognised in the market. Beth came highly recommended to Pillar by one of our portfolio startups, based in Madrid, and will begin coaching our portfolio teams in 2020.Hiring, HR & Benefits
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Supporting Strategies
Supporting Strategies
Supporting Strategies provides full HR, benefits, accounting and payroll support to scaling companies. We work with Eileen Driscoll at the company. Pillar's Sarah Hodges has worked with Supporting Strategies across several startups.
Sapers & Wallack / Hilb Group
Contact: Aviva Sapers
Sapers & Wallack / Hilb Group
Contact: Aviva Sapers
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.
Radford
Radford
Radford surveys deliver rewards insights and compensation data from executives to developers to scientists to sales professionals.
Advanced HR
Advanced HR
Advanced HR offers compensation data, planning and management software.
12Twenty
12Twenty
12Twenty drives meaningful engagement with employers for career advisers and students at the university level.
10x Management
Contact: Sam Zeisler
10x Management
Contact: Sam Zeisler
10x has taken the model of talent representation from the entertainment and sports world and applied it to the tech world - 10x represents and manages high-level, pre-vetted freelance and contract engineers, developers, designers, and other technical experts. Startups can enjoy a hassle-free contracting process at no additional cost other than the standard rate of the person they work with.Legal
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Jeff Goldman Immigration
Contact: Jeff Goldman
Jeff Goldman Immigration
Contact: Jeff Goldman
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.
Latham & Watkins
Contact: Stephen Ranere
Latham & Watkins
Contact: Stephen Ranere
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.
Company Counsel
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.
Cooley
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.
WilmerHale
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.
Morse Barnes-Brown Pendleton
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.Marketing
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Ueno
Ueno
Ueno is a full-service agency, helping companies design and build beautiful digital products, brands, and experiences. They've worked with Pillar portfolio company Abridge, with great results.
Addis
Addis
The Addis team has deep roots in branding which enables them to be creative partners with a long- term strategic vision for the brands they work with. The firm provides cost-effective support and works with well-established clients in Boston.
Wilfey
Contact: Carly Mellos
Wilfey
Contact: Carly Mellos
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.
Skurchak Design
Contact: John Skurchak
Skurchak Design
Contact: John Skurchak
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.
We Make Heart
Contact: Thomas O'Connell
We Make Heart
Contact: Thomas O'Connell
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. We We Make Heart's work here. He helped to create the Pillar brand and website.
Office Space
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Petri
Contact: Tony Kulesa
Petri
Contact: Tony Kulesa
Petri develops companies attacking the world’s largest problems at the frontier of biology and engineering. The dynamic 12-month accelerator is focused on helping formation-stage innovators realize the next frontier of biology and engineering. Co-founded and funded by Pillar, and unparalleled team of pioneering entrepreneurs, industry leaders, and top researchers, Petri draws on the resources of one of the strongest biotech ecosystems in the world to support founders from around the globe with capital, coaching and peer support.
Oficio
Oficio
Oficio provides beautifully designed coworking spaces, private offices, meeting rooms, and event space in Boston.
WeWork
WeWork
WeWork is a platform for creators, providing hundreds of thousands of members around the world with space, community, and services that enable them to do what they love and create their life's work.
Impact Hub Boston
Impact Hub Boston
Impact Hub Boston provides coworking spaces that inspire, connect, and empower people to realize enterprising ideas for sustainable impact.
CIC Boston
CIC Boston
CIC (Cambridge Innovation Center) helps exceptional entrepreneurs around the globe innovate better and faster. In service of fixing the world through innovation, CIC creates infrastructure and programing for innovators. This includes flexible and custom office space; shared wet lab facilities; civic innovation spaces; and targeted initiatives to support changemakers, disruptors, and out-of-the-box thinkers in growing their companies.
Workbar
Workbar
Workbar provides a web of communal workspaces where freelancers, start-ups, and remote employees of larger enterprises can enjoy high quality office amenities at an affordable price. At convenient and accessible locations around the cities of Boston and Cambridge, the company provides meeting rooms to meet with clients and give presentations; event space; and a wide variety of social and educational programming including happy hours, lunch seminars, workshops, and networking events.Product & Growth
Craft
Contact: Jeremy Merle
Craft
Contact: Jeremy Merle
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.
Thoughtbot
Thoughtbot
thoughtbot is a design and development consultancy with an office in Boston that mentors your team while bringing your digital product ideas to life. The company has partnered with hundreds of founders and growing startups to build web and mobile apps that delight users.
Fresh Tilled Soil
Fresh Tilled Soil
Fresh Tilled Soil solves hard design UX / UI problems and brings complex product ideas to life. Over the past 13 years the team has delivered UX and product design to 700+ clients across the world.Sales
Reveneer
Contact: Greg Casale
Reveneer
Contact: Greg Casale
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.Strategy & Operations
