delta v Inaugural Partner Network

Our delta v Partners are key components of the accelerator program. Partners are C-suite executives, founders, VCs, and domain experts across multiple industries.

Each Partner will provide a range of monthly office hours, workshops, and mentorship.

Come back to see more Partners in our inaugural network as we add them in the coming weeks.

Ed Hallen

Ed Hallen is a co-founder of Klaviyo and has served as a member of its board of directors since September 2012 and as chief strategy officer since November 2024. Prior to that, Ed held various roles within Klaviyo from September 2012 to July 2016, before returning in July 2021 as chief product officer. He is also the co-founder of Team Engine, a text-first human resources and operations platform, which he founded in January 2018 and served as chief executive officer until April 2021. Prior to founding Klaviyo, Ed served as principal at Applied Predictive Technologies, a business analytics software company, from August 2004 to April 2010. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia, and an MBA from MIT Sloan.

Andrew Bialecki

Andrew Bialecki is a co-founder of Klaviyo and has served as a member of its board of directors since September 2012 and as co-Chief Executive Officer since January 2026. Prior to that, Bialecki served as Chief Executive Officer from September 2012 to December 2025. Prior to founding Klaviyo, Bialecki served as Chief Technology Officer of RockTech, a sales and marketing software company, from April 2011 to June 2012; Senior Engineer at Performable, a marketing software company, from July 2010 to March 2011; and Lead Engineer at Applied Predictive Technologies, a business analytics software company, from September 2007 to June 2010. Bialecki holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics, Astronomy, and Astrophysics from Harvard University.

Snejina Zacharia

Snejina Zacharia is the founder and CEO of Insurify, America’s top-rated digital insurance agent. Under Snejina’s leadership, Insurify’s AI-powered platform has transformed how consumers compare, buy, and manage insurance. With more than 500 insurance partner integrations, Insurify delivers over 60 million annual quotes and has facilitated more than $300 billion in coverage since the company launched in 2013. With more than 20 years of experience in entrepreneurship and enterprise software, including senior leadership at Gartner, she has built and scaled multimillion-dollar businesses across global markets. Snejina holds an MBA from MIT Sloan and continues to lead Insurify in its mission to make insurance more equitable, transparent, and accessible for millions of customers. She has been celebrated for her entrepreneurial excellence, named among the Top 25 Tech CEOs of Boston (2024) and honored as EY’s New England Entrepreneur of the Year (2021). Since Snejina founded the company, Insurify has earned national recognition, including Inc. 5,000 Fastest-growing Private Companies in America (2025, 2024), Boston Business Journal Fast50 and Middle Market Company of the Year (2025),  CNBC’s World’s Top InsurTech Companies (2024), Forbes’ Next Billion Dollar Startups (2022, 2023), and the Forbes Fintech 50 (2021, 2023, 2024).

Dharmesh Shah

Dharmesh Shah is co-founder and CTO of HubSpot. Prior to founding HubSpot in 2006, Dharmesh was founder and CEO of Pyramid Digital Solutions, which was acquired by SunGard Data Systems in 2005. In addition to co-authoring Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media and Blogs, Dharmesh founded and writes for OnStartups.com — a top-ranking startup blog and community with more than 700,000 members. In 2013, Dharmesh published HubSpot’s Culture Code, which has garnered over five million views. Named an Inc. Founders 40 in 2016, he is an active member of the Boston-area entrepreneurial community, an angel investor in over 60 startups, and a frequent speaker on startups, inbound marketing, and company culture. Dharmesh holds a BS in computer science from UAB and an MS in the management of technology from MIT.

Brian Halligan

Brian Halligan, co-founder of HubSpot, served as the company’s CEO until 2021. During this time, he earned consistent recognition on Glassdoor’s and Comparably’s lists of best CEOs. Brian coined the term “inbound marketing” and together with Dharmesh Shah built a movement around the concept, which included organizing the INBOUND event and co-authoring the book Inbound Marketing. Prior to HubSpot, Brian earned an MBA from MIT Sloan where he continues to stay involved. He developed MIT’s popular Scaling Entrepreneurial Ventures class, which he has taught for over a decade. In recognition of his outstanding mentorship in entrepreneurship, MIT Sloan honored Brian with the Monosson Prize in 2023. As the founder of Propeller Ventures, Brian directs a $100 million climate tech venture fund, specializing in ocean innovation investments. He serves on the boards of Navier and Aquatic Labs and is also a senior advisor at Sequoia Capital, where he coaches startup founders on their journey to becoming scale up CEOs.

Frederic Kerrest

Frederic Kerrest is the vice chairman and co-founder of Okta and has been a director since July 2009. He served as Okta’s chief operating officer from 2009 to November 2023, during which time he was responsible for Okta’s day-to-day operations and worked with employees, partners, and customers to deliver on a vision of freeing everyone to safely use any technology. As a key member of management, Frederic helped set corporate priorities to drive success for Okta and its customers. He oversaw corporate strategy, corporate development, strategic partnerships, and Okta’s social impact arm, Okta for Good. Prior to Okta, Frederic worked in sales and business development at Salesforce.com, and in venture capital at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. He is the author of Zero to IPO, a Wall Street Journal-bestselling guidebook to building startups based on his own experiences, as well as those of some of the world’s most successful and recognizable entrepreneurs. The book was an outgrowth of his award-winning podcast of the same name. He advises early-stage software companies and serves as a member of the MIT Corporation Visiting Committee for MIT Sloan. Frederic earned a BS in computer science from Stanford, and an MBA in entrepreneurship and innovation from MIT Sloan, where he was the recipient of the 2008 Patrick J. McGovern, Jr. Entrepreneurship Award.

Lidiane Jones

Lidiane Jones is a transformational technology leader and former CEO of Bumble and Slack. At Bumble, she led a company-wide transformation—streamlining operations, accelerating innovation, and redesigning its marketplace monetization model for sustainable growth. Previously, as CEO of Slack and a senior executive at Salesforce, she managed multi-billion-dollar SaaS businesses, drove go-to-market global expansion, and integrated Slack’s $28B acquisition while reigniting its product-led growth. Earlier at Salesforce, she led several multi-billion-dollar cloud businesses, driving global expansion and digital transformation across industries. Lidiane held product leadership roles at Sonos and Microsoft prior to that. She is known for combining deep technical strength with disciplined execution, fostering innovation that scales creating the right environment for high performing teams. Lidiane now serves on the board of Validity, a marketing deliverability platform, and as a senior advisor at Silversmith Capital advising on organizational transformation, AI strategy, and leadership through change.

Biz Stone

Biz Stone is an entrepreneur and creative technologist best known as a co-founder of Twitter, where he helped transform how the world communicates in real time. Before Twitter, he was shaping online culture by building early blogging communities at Xanga and Blogger, and pioneering podcasting with Odeo. After Twitter, Biz launched and shaped influential platforms including Medium, a publishing platform for thoughtful writing, and Jelly, a social search engine acquired by Pinterest. Today, he is co-founder of West Co, a company dedicated to helping people live more on purpose through technology designed with intention and care. Beyond building companies, Biz is an active angel investor, board member, and advisor, backing companies such as Square, Slack, Pinterest, Nest, Beyond Meat, and Liquid Death. He is known for spotting cultural shifts early and helping founders navigate the intersection of technology, design, and human behavior. Recognized globally for his contributions, Biz has been named Inc. Magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Decade, one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People, and GQ’s Nerd of the Year. He is a fellow at Oxford University and the author of several books, including Things a Little Bird Told Me. 

Paul English

Paul English is best known as the co-founder of Kayak, the travel search app that was acquired in 2012 by Priceline/Booking.com. The founder of Boston Venture Studio, Paul has launched and successfully sold five other software startups: Lola, Moonbeam, GetHuman, Boston Light, and Intermute. Paul is also the founder of five nonprofit organizations: Embrace Boston, Summits Education in Haiti, The Winter Walk for Homelessness, the Bipolar Social Club, and the Institute for Applied AI. He is the subject of Tracy Kidder’s book “A Truck Full of Money”. You can hear an interview with Paul on “How I Built This” with Guy Raz, and you can see his videos from TEDxBoston from 2022 and 2024.

Emily Green

Emily Green started her professional career as a software developer in special effects; transitioned to technology marketing; then to technology research and consulting with Forrester Research. She became a three-time CEO, both scaling and downsizing, acquiring and selling companies. In her last gig she grew a startup though multiple rounds of capital and debt and built an award-winning scalable platform. Emily was granted a B.S.LL cum laude in linguistics from Georgetown University, and an M.S.Eng in artificial intelligence and computer graphics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Engineering (before AI was a thing). ANYWHERE, her book on the business impact of global connectivity, was published in 2010 by McGraw-Hill; she was named a Mass High-Tech All-Star in 2011. She is now an independent director on two public company boards and chairs the board of UP Education Network, a non-profit group that transforms failing public schools into places of joy and high achievement. At MIT Sloan, Emily co-teaches 15.378 Building an Entrepreneurial Venture (GSD).

Jonathan Hinton

Jonathan Hinton has been a serial entrepreneur since he won Youth Entrepreneur of the Year in high school and later the EY Entrepreneur of the Year as an adult. He has over $700M in exits with his last three companies sold to Fortune 500 companies listed on the NYSE.  Two of those companies are now both ranked among the top five microgrid companies in America (PowerSecure and RavenVolt). Jonathan graduated in the top 2% of his class with an accounting degree before completing his MBA at MIT. While he has deep accounting knowledge and M&A experience, he also is a licensed electrician in seven states and deeply understands the technical nature of microgrid / power designs making him uniquely talented for boards seeking both a financial expert, but someone to advise around M&A or growth strategies for microgrid related technologies (batteries, solar, generators, etc). Given his twenty plus years in the industry around sustainable energy, he can also advise on issues related to sustainability goals for public companies.  He has been on several private boards and currently serves on one public board (NASDAQ: SSBK).

Sam Udotong

Sam Udotong is co-founder and CTO at Fireflies.ai, the AI notetaker that helps teams get more out of their meetings. Fireflies serves 20m+ people and 500K+ organizations. Sam studied computer science and aerospace engineering at MIT as an undergrad and started Fireflies after college. Today Udotong manages a 100+ person team that operates out of 20 countries and raised $19 million in funding from Khosla Ventures & others. He was featured on the cover of Entrepreneur magazine in 2020 and named to the Forbes “30 Under 30” in Enterprise Technology in 2021. Sam believes that AI-augmented conversations will continue to revolutionize how we work and learn.

Selin Kocalar

Selin is the co-founder and COO of Delve, the AI-native compliance platform that helps 1,500+ of the fastest-growing companies get and stay compliant. She began building Delve out of an MIT dorm room with her co-founder Karun after the two built an AI medical scribe and experienced firsthand the challenges of HIPAA compliance. Since then, Delve has gone through YC, Prod, and Z Fellows, raised a $32M Series A at a $300M valuation led by Insight Partners, and scaled to 8-figures in profitable revenue. Today, Delve works with companies like Whop, Wispr Flow, and micro1 to achieve compliance without hundreds of hours of busywork.

Jason Furtado

Jason Furtado is a Boston-based entrepreneur with a passion for high-growth companies. As the founder and CEO of Shoobx, Jason built a platform that automated the complex legal and equity workflows essential to scaling a company and handling the diligence of a fundraise or M&A. His vision for a more efficient private market culminated in the strategic acquisition of Shoobx by Fidelity Investments in 2023. Jason has an MEng and BS in Computer Science from MIT.

Karun Kaushik

Karun is the co-founder and CEO of Delve.co. 4 million people spend their days taking screenshots and filling out spreadsheets to prove compliance. Delve agents automate compliance busywork for 1500+ customers across the world. As a Bay Area native, Karun loves all sports, driving, and seeing other MIT founders crush it!

Jonathan Ng

Jonathan Ng is the founder & CEO of Iterative Health, a leading specialty research network accelerating access to novel therapies in GI care. A surgeon by training, Jon began his journey in Cambodia at age 15, later founding four pediatric hospitals and a major MRI network in Singapore. He launched Iterative Health in 2017 to improve patient outcomes by empowering research sites with tech-enabled services and deep clinical trial expertise.

Nagarjuna Venna

Nagarjuna Venna is a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan where he teaches classes in entrepreneurship. He is the cofounder of BitSight, a security ratings company he cofounded in 2011. BitSight created a new market category and has grown to become a global organization with over 2,500 customers, 500+ employees, and $400M+ in venture funding. Nagarjuna served as the chief product officer and a board director from 2011 to 2020. Prior to BitSight, he cofounded Saperix, a risk management company, which was acquired by Firemon in 2011. He holds a Bachelor’s in computer science and engineering from National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India, and a Master’s in engineering and management from MIT. Nagarjuna received the Distinguished Alumni Award for Professional Excellence in Entrepreneurship from NIT Warangal in 2024.

Adit Abraham

Adit Abraham is the co-founder and CEO of Reducto, an industry-leading AI platform specializing in high-fidelity document ingestion for Large Language Models. Under his leadership, Reducto has pioneered Agentic OCR, transforming the way enterprises process complex, unstructured data from PDFs and legacy documents into machine-ready intelligence. He was recently recognized on the Forbes “30 Under 30” list for Enterprise Technology and has led Reducto through a period of hyper-growth, including a landmark $108M Series B funding round.

Cynthia Liao

Cynthia Liao is CEO & co-founder of Vertical Semiconductor, an MIT spinout commercializing next generation vertical gallium nitride power semiconductors to enable the foundational power layer for the future of compute and AI. Vertical Semi was a participant in the delta v 2024 cohort. Cynthia is a graduate of the MIT Sloan Fellows MBA program and a Schwarzman Scholar, and previously held leadership roles across government, policy, finance, and energy industries.

Ben Finkel

Ben Finkel is an entrepreneurial technologist and product builder currently leading engineering at West Co, where he explores the intersection of purpose, technology, and human experience. He most recently founded and served as CEO of Sesh, a company reimagining how teams run meetings in an increasingly remote world. Before Sesh, he was head of growth at Pinterest, following the acquisition of Jelly. Earlier in his career, he co-founded and served as CTO of Jelly Industries with Biz Stone, building next-generation search and discovery experiences for emerging computing platforms. Before Jelly, he founded Fluther, a community Q&A platform that scaled to over a million monthly visitors before being acquired by Twitter. At Twitter, he contributed as a senior software engineer and engineering manager, helping the product grow, evolve, and scale to over 200 million users in its early, formative years. His deep roots in problem-solving trace back to developing algorithms for space systems and advanced image processing at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He holds a B.S. with honors in Computer Science and Mathematics from Brown University.

Mariana Matus

Mariana Matus, PhD, is the CEO and co-founder of Biobot Analytics and a leading expert in wastewater-based public health surveillance. Her startup pioneered and scaled the first nationwide wastewater monitoring program during COVID-19, providing critical insights to the CDC, HHS, and hundreds of communities across the U.S. Mariana has testified before Congress, briefed White House leadership, and is recognized by TIME100 NEXT, Newsweek, and the Aspen Institute. She holds a PhD in Computational Biology from MIT and is a delta v and Y Combinator alumna.

Nischal Nadhamuni

Nischal Nadhamuni is the CTO and co-founder of Klarity, where he leads Product, Engineering, and Product Operations. Klarity’s product transforms traditional business transformation and allows enterprises to understand and improve how work actually happens. Customers include OpenAI, Zoom, Cloudflare, and Intercom. Recently named to the Forbes “30 under 30” list in AI (2025), Nischal is deeply passionate about AI and how it can be applied to solve practical problems in a human-centric way.  With two software engineers-turned-entrepreneurs as parents, Nischal knew early on he wanted to build something of his own. While an undergrad at MIT, Nischal met his co-founder, Andrew Antos, in the 15.390 Entrepreneurship class. In 2017, Klarity participated in delta v, later joining YC in Summer 2018. Klarity has raised $91 million in total funding including  a $70 million Series B round in June 2024.

Jason Norris

Jason built a structured finance group at The Bernstein Companies (real estate developer) in DC starting in 2005 where he was the managing director until 2025. He was the co-founder and executive chairman of Elektrofi from 2016-2025, a biotech formulation company that took therapeutics from an IV infusion to a subcutaneous injection. The company had licensing deals with Argenx, Eli Lilly, and JnJ and was sold to Halozyme for $985m in November of 2025. He is currently co-founder and executive chairman of LAPIX Therapeutics (started in 2019), a biotech company with a lead therapeutic focused on treating autoimmune disease in Phase 1b trials for RA, AD, psoriasis, and psoriatic arthritis. The company was recently valued at $200m. He is also the co-founder and executive chairman of TIM Therapeutics, which recently spun out of LAPIX with the goal to bring five therapeutics (immuno oncology, autoimmune, and food allergy) to the clinic over the next 2.5 years.

Jon Bloom

Dr. Jon Bloom is a physician, entrepreneur, and healthcare innovator who co-founded Podimetrics following an MIT hackathon — competing as the healthcare finalist in both the MIT $100K Pitch and Launch competitions, and a member of the original cohort of the MIT Beehive, the scrappy precursor to delta v. He serves as the co-founder and chief executive officer of Podimetrics, a remote monitoring platform focused on early intervention for individuals living with complex diabetes. Under his leadership, Podimetrics has been recognized as one of Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies (2024) and has been a multi-year honoree on both the Inc. 5000 and Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ lists. Jon has built Podimetrics from a graduate student idea into a platform serving health plans and federal agency partners nationwide, navigating the full arc of company building — from initial concept and NIH-funded clinical trials to commercialization, reimbursement, and scale. Along the way, he’s led the company through the inevitable pivots, setbacks, and inflection points that define the startup journey. Beyond Podimetrics, Jon is an invited lecturer at MIT, Harvard, and Boston University, where he teaches on healthcare innovation and entrepreneurship. He earned his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and completed his residency at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Nicki Driscoll

Dr. Nicolette (Nicki) Driscoll is the co-founder and chief technology officer of NeuroBionics, a medical device startup developing next-generation neural interfaces for minimally invasive neuromodulation. Since founding NeuroBionics in 2023, she has helped to secure over $10M in funding, grown the team to 14 full-time employees, and led the product development for NeuroBionics’ flagship neuromodulation device, evStim™, to the point of initiating first-in-human clinical studies in 2026. Prior to founding NeuroBionics, Nicki completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Professor Polina Anikeeva’s Bioelectronics Group at MIT, where she developed multifunctional fiber-based neural probes that combine electrical, optical, and chemical modalities to study brain circuitry. Nicki earned her Ph.D. in Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was co-advised by Dr. Brian Litt and Prof. Flavia Vitale. Her doctoral work focused on the use of carbon-based nanomaterials for developing novel soft, flexible neural electrode technologies with enhanced stimulation properties and more scalable fabrication approaches. Nicki earned her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Brown University, where she conducted research in Prof. Arto Nurmikko’s Neuroengineering lab. Her work has resulted in multiple high-impact publications, patents, and recognition through honors including the MedTech Innovator Vision Award, the MIT Female Founders Pitch Competition grand prize, Penn’s Solomon R. Pollack Award for Excellence in Graduate Bioengineering Research, and an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

Marc-Joseph (MJ) Antonini

Marc-Joseph (MJ) Antonini, PhD, is the co-founder and CEO of NeuroBionics, a neurotechnology company on a mission to expand access to neuromodulation by enabling deep-brain stimulation without the need for open brain surgery. A mechanical and neuro-engineer by training, MJ pioneered multifunctional fiber technology capable of interfacing with the brain, spinal cord, and smooth and skeletal muscles — validated in small and large animal models from rodents to non-human primates. He developed this foundational technology during his PhD in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics at the MIT–Harvard Health Sciences and Technology program, and that research became the foundation of NeuroBionics. He holds dual Master’s degrees from Imperial College London (Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering) and Université Paris-Sud (Neuroscience and Neurobiology), and an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Arts et Métiers ParisTech.

Jacob Rothman

Jacob Rothman is the former CEO and co-founder of Perch, a computer-vision–powered strength training platform developed at MIT and adopted by elite sports organizations including LSU and Georgia Football, NFL teams, U.S. military installations, and high schools nationwide. Under his leadership, Perch scaled from a startup to acquisition by Catapult Sports in 2025. Jacob is passionate about technology, hardware, and building products and systems that make an impact at scale. With experience spanning product strategy, sales, marketing, fundraising, and operations, he has helped build teams and products that transform markets.

Matt White

Matt White is the co-founder and CEO of Multitude Insights, a public-safety technology company reshaping how law-enforcement agencies create, share, and act on intelligence. With over 1,000 hours as a U.S. Navy EP-3E Flight Officer and Mission Commander, he understands the stakes of real-time information flow and operational decision-making under pressure. Before founding Multitude, Matt helped Reveal Technology scale to its first $5 million in revenue, gaining hands-on experience in early-stage growth and go-to-market execution. At Multitude, he has built a high-performing team and scaled the BLTN platform to agencies across the country, where it is driving adoption in major metropolitan markets and delivering vast improvements in how investigators and analysts coordinate cases. Matt also hosts The Innovators of Public Safety, a podcast where he interviews leaders, technologists, and investors shaping the future of law enforcement. His leadership philosophy, drawn from naval aviation (“no rank in the cockpit”), emphasizes humility, accountability, and doing what it takes to move the mission forward. He holds an MBA from MIT Sloan, an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, and a BA from Gonzaga.