Founders & Leadership
Underscore Core Partners
Co-Investors
Schematic Ventures
Underscore Portfolio
As early-stage investors, we don’t spend a lot of time trying to predict the future. We leave it to bold founders to envision the next generation of iconic software companies. That said, we don’t back companies or even ideas. We back people. People who are uniquely qualified and purposeful about solving impactful problems. That’s why it will always be about you. Just ask our founders.
The Underscore team is everything a founder could ask for in an investor. They truly put their founders first - from fundraising, to sales intros, to bringing the right advisors and resources around the table through their Core Community - the Underscore team has acted as an extension of our team.
Janvi Shah
Co-Founder & CEO, Hue
We depend so much on the Core Community for little and big things daily. Underscore has the absolute best network of operators among all the VCs I have worked with.
Palash Soni
Co-Founder & CEO, Goldcast
The Underscore model is unbeatable. I recommend them to everyone.
Rob Gonzalez
Co-Founder & CMO, Salsify
Underscore continues to be the most helpful investor on our cap table. They are willing to jump in and help whenever I need them and will bring in other team members as needed.
Ben Mackinnon
Founder & CEO, Kard
Choosing a VC is one of the most important decisions a founder makes. Underscore knows what it means to build enduring companies through strategically partnering with the founder and management team alike. The entire team has been instrumental in helping us bring our vision to life.
Tanya Bakalov
Co-Founder & CEO, HelloTeam
From providing strategic guidance to facilitating introductions, Underscore’s long-term partnership with Coda has been invaluable to us as we have grown. What’s more, they’re also some of our biggest fans, as both avid users and vocal supporters.
Shishir Mehrotra
Co-Founder & CEO, Coda
Beyond Underscore's incredible network, they’re also just really good people who actually work as a team. Literally every member of the Underscore team has helped us in some material way.
Rebecca Kossnick
Co-Founder & CEO, Hypernatural
Underscore's been a great partner every step of the way. I truly think they’re the best-connected VC in the Boston ecosystem—they know everyone. They’ve made countless helpful connections for us, including introductions to potential hires, advisors, and other investors.
Alex Sambvani
Co-Founder & CEO, Slang.ai
Unlike other VCs, Underscore has built its operating model on the knowledge that moonshots are only accomplished through a communal effort of shared responsibility.
Rahkeem Morris
Co-Founder & CEO, HourWork
Underscore was more than an investor - they were an extension of our team, actively working with our fast-growing company to refine our strategy and unlock the next level of customer growth.
Mark Gally
CEO, Zaius
We wouldn't be here today without Underscore VC's uncommon commitment to our mission and team.
Patrick Grady
Co-Founder & CEO, TetraScience
Aircon
Transforming air cargo with shared airfreight gateways.
Related Articles
ACQUIRED
AnyQuestion
Premium social video app that empowers members to ask questions and get answers from world-class experts.
Apploi
Apploi is your one-stop-shop for healthcare recruitment, hiring, onboarding, and credentialing.
Founders & Leadership
Underscore Core Partners
Co-Investors
Defy Partners, MXV Capital
Appregator
Appregator acquires, scales, and builds outstanding Shopify apps.
Founders & Leadership
ACQUIRED
BastionZero
Simple zero-trust access for dynamic cloud environments.
Founders & Leadership
Underscore Core Partners
Co-Investors
Highland, Notion
Acquired by: Cloudflare
BusRight
BusRight is modernizing our nation's largest mass transit system, school buses.
Founders & Leadership
Underscore Core Partners
Co-Investors
Long Journey Ventures, Ubiquity Ventures
ACQUIRED
Cazena
Cazena makes cloud data lakes easy for all enterprises.
Founders & Leadership
Co-Investors
Andreessen Horowitz, North Bridge Venture partners
Acquired by: Cloudera
Related Articles
Cenoa
Cenoa is a global super wallet improving access to digital dollar-based savings products ideal for everyday people in emerging markets.
Founders & Leadership
Co-Investors
Ulu Ventures, Quiet Capital
Related Articles
Clockwork
AI-powered FP&A for growing companies and their advisors.
Founders & Leadership
Underscore Core Partners
Chris Reisig, Thomas Jensen, Suresh Bala
Related Articles
CloudZero
CloudZero is the leader in cloud cost intelligence.
Founders & Leadership
Underscore Core Partners
Co-Investors
Innovius Capital, Matrix Partners, G20 Ventures
ACQUIRED
Coda
Coda is an all-in-one doc that brings words, data, and teams together. Coda reimagines how teams work together and lets anyone make a doc as powerful as an app.
Founders & Leadership
Co-Investors
Kleiner Perkins, Greylock, NEA
Acquired by: Grammarly
Darby
Darby allow doctors to manage urgent problems while patients stay at home. Darby's core product is the missing technology layer connecting providers and in-home vendors.
Founders & Leadership
Co-Investors
Flare Capital Partners, January Ventures
ACQUIRED
Flare
Designed by survivors of assault, Flare is a smart bracelet that gives you an easy out of any iffy situation.
Founders & Leadership
Co-Investors
Lerer Hippeau, Bolt
Acquired by: Smart Alert Holdings
ACQUIRED
Forge AI
Forge AI’s captures the world’s unstructured data and transforms it into enriched, computational-ready knowledge, immediately usable by data science teams, analysts, algorithms, and applications.
Founders & Leadership
Underscore Core Partners
Co-Investors
Accomplice, Boston Seed Capital, Imagination Capital, Project 11 Ventures
Acquired by: FiscalNote
Related Articles
ACQUIRED
Frase
Frase is the first Answer Engine Platform that leverages deep learning to find answers in long-form, unstructured content.
Goldcast
Goldcast is the digital events platform built for B2B marketers to host amazing brand experiences and drive revenue.
Founders & Leadership
Underscore Core Partners
Co-Investors
Afore Capital, Unusual Ventures, HubSpot Ventures
Related Articles
H1
H1 is a developer of healthcare data analytics platform intended to help companies make smarter scientific decisions.
Founders & Leadership
Co-Investors
IVP, Menlo Ventures, Lux Capital, Altimeter Capital, Goldman Sachs Asset Management
HelloTeam
HelloTeam is a modern engagement and talent management platform focusing on the main driver of your company's success – your people.
Founders & Leadership
Co-Investors
Osage Venture Partners, Bain Capital Ventures
Herald
Digital infrastructure for commercial insurance. Quote and bind insurance from multiple carriers through a single API.
Founders & Leadership
Underscore Core Partners
Co-Investors
Lightspeed, Afore Capital
Hi Marley
The first intelligent conversational platform built for P&C insurance. Powered by SMS, Hi Marley simplifies carrier and policyholder communication.
Founders & Leadership
Underscore Core Partners
Co-Investors
True Ventures, Emergence Capital
Related Articles
ACQUIRED
HourWork
HourWork is building an hourly workspace that works for everyone.
Founders & Leadership
Co-Investors
Dorm Room Fund, MassMutual, Morgan Stanley
Acquired by: Sprockets
Hue
Drive sales with shoppable user-generated content solutions.
Founders & Leadership
Underscore Core Partners
Co-Investors
NFX Capital, Fika Ventures, MBA Fund, Sequoia Scouts, Glasswing
Related Articles
Hypernatural
Hypernatural is an AI video platform that makes it easy to create beautiful videos from anything. Turn your ideas, blog posts, videos and more into incredible short-form videos to grow your brand.
Founders & Leadership
Ikigai Labs
Ikigai automates manual, data-intensive operational processes using AI to help data operators who run mission-critical business processes.
Founders & Leadership
Underscore Core Partners
Co-Investors
Foundation Capital, 8VC
ACQUIRED
IOpipe
Serverless DevOps platform built for teams building and running event-driven architectures in AWS Lambda.
Founders & Leadership
Co-Investors
Madrona, NEA, Correlation
Acquired by: New Relic
Kaiko
Kaiko is the leading data provider for the digital finance economy.
Founders & Leadership
Underscore Core Partners
Co-Investors
Point Nine, Anthemis, Eight Roads
Kard
Kard is a technology platform helping banks and other card issuers build an engaging rewards program with our thousands of brand and retailer offers.
Founders & Leadership
Underscore Core Partners
Co-Investors
Tiger Global, Fin VC
Related Articles
LearnLux
LearnLux is the leading provider of workplace financial wellbeing that blends fiduciary digital planning with access to one-on-one guidance from Certified Financial Planner professionals.
Founders & Leadership
Co-Investors
Dorm Room Fund, Rough Draft Ventures, January Ventures
Lendflow
Lendflow is an API-based financial infrastructure company enabling vertical SaaS software providers to create and embed lending products in their platforms.
Founders & Leadership
Underscore Core Partners
Co-Investors
Y Combinator, Uncorrelated Ventures, 2048 Ventures
Related Articles
Lumanai
Luminai takes multi-click processes and makes it one click across multiple software systems.
Founders & Leadership
Co-Investors
Unshackled, Moxxie Ventures, General Catalyst
Related Articles
Mable
Mable is a vertical B2B marketplace & platform that connects independent grocers, distributors, and brands.
Founders & Leadership
Underscore Core Partners
Co-Investors
Founder Collective, Venrock, Accomplice
Related Articles
ACQUIRED
Macro
Macro sets out to make meetings more productive by giving your meetings “superpowers.” A meeting interface built on top of Zoom, Macro offers insights and interactivity that bring your video meetings to life.
Macro was seeded through Underscore's UFirst Accelerator.
Founders & Leadership
Underscore Core Partners
Co-Investors
FirstMark, General Catalyst, NextView Ventures
Acquired by: mmhmm
ACQUIRED
Mautic
The first open marketing cloud, enabling companies to connect all their digital properties and channels into a seamless customer experience.
Founders & Leadership
Underscore Core Partners
Co-Investors
G20 Ventures
Acquired by: Acquia
Messari
Messari is building the cryptoasset industry’s most reliable disclosures library and data analytics platform.
Founders & Leadership
Underscore Core Partners
Co-Investors
Point72, SoftTech Ventures, Galaxy Digital Ventures
ACQUIRED
Moltin
The API-based commerce solution that makes it simple, flexible and fast to bring commerce experiences to life.
Founders & Leadership
Underscore Core Partners
Co-Investors
Frontline, Connect
Acquired by: Elastic Path Software
Movemint
The best endurance events live on Movemint.
Founders & Leadership
Co-Investors
Fitt Capital
Pagos
Pagos is an intelligent payment infrastructure solution for commerce. Pagos brings together data and tools on a single platform so that merchants can leverage the most relevant features to optimize their payment stack across various payment processing vendors.
Founders & Leadership
Underscore Core Partners
Co-Investors
Point72, Arbor Ventures, Infinity Ventures
Postcard
Postcard offers simple escapes to tiny cabins nestled in nature.
Founders & Leadership
Co-Investors
Certares
project44
Project44 is the world’s most advanced supply chain visibility platform.
Founders & Leadership
Co-Investors
Emergence Capital, Insight, Sapphire Ventures
Related Articles
Salsify
The Commerce Experience Management (CommerceXM) platform that empowers brand manufacturers to win on the digital shelf.
Founders & Leadership
Underscore Core Partners
Co-Investors
Venrock, Matrix Partners, Greenspring Associates, TPG
Related Articles
Slang
Slang is the first customizable, out-of-the-box virtual phone agent.
Founders & Leadership
Underscore Core Partners
Co-Investors
Homebrew, Stage 2 Capital, Wing VC, Active Capital, and Collide Capital
Related Articles
Soofa
Soofa is the neighborhood news feed. Combining smart city communication technology and innovative digital out of home advertising.
Founders & Leadership
Co-Investors
Accomplice, Pillar
Related Articles
TetraScience
The world’s first and only open R&D Data Cloud for global life sciences.
Founders & Leadership
Co-Investors
Insight Partners, Alkeon Capital Management, Y Combinator Continuity
Related Articles
Trove Health
Trove Health is addressing the challenge of clinical trial recruitment by building the world's largest longitudinal, consented database of prospective trial participants and their health information across geographies and therapeutic areas
Founders & Leadership
Co-Investors
Allston Venture Fund, Phoenix Fund, Two Lanterns
Vested
Vested increases employee engagement by improving equity management for employees at venture-backed private companies.
Founders & Leadership
Related Articles
ACQUIRED
Wonderment
The Post-Purchase Experience Platform.
Founders & Leadership
Underscore Core Partners
Co-Investors
Accomplice, Defy Ventures, CRV
Acquired by: Loop
ACQUIRED
Zaius
Zaius, is marketing automation, analytics, and CRM software brought together in one B2C marketing platform.
Founders & Leadership
Underscore Core Partners
Co-Investors
Matrix, Insight, Leaders Fund
Acquired by: Optimizely
3Box
3Box Labs is a Web3 product studio that creates software to advance a more open, safe, and collaborative web. It is the inventor of Ceramic, a decentralized network for composable data.
Founders & Leadership
Underscore Core Partners
Co-Investors
Union Square Ventures, Multicoin Capital, Placeholder, Venrock, Northzone
Co-Investors
As believers in the power of community, we like to work alongside strong co-investors. After all, you deserve more than one opinion at your investor table. Here’s a sampling of those we’re proud to invest with:
