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Today, nearly 250 Foley Hoag lawyers practice law at the highest level in business transactions and litigation matters throughout the United States and around the world. Our strength lies in our deep understanding of our clients’ businesses and industries, of their strategic priorities and operational imperatives, and of the marketplace realities that shape their business interests. These strengths provide our clients with distinct competitive advantages.
Castile Ventures is a top-performing early-stage venture capital firm that provides financial backing and strategic guidance to help exceptional entrepreneurs build successful technology businesses.
AFFILIATE DIRECTORY
The following list of Affiliate Members support the local technology community. Please join us in supporting them.
“Deloitte” is the brand under which 165,000 dedicated professionals in independent firms throughout the world collaborate to provide audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, and tax services to selected clients.
ACCOUNTING
Led by passionate, results-oriented partners, CHEN PR's 20-person agency has the depth to create comprehensive programs for each and every client.
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Silicon Valley Bank is the premier commercial bank for companies in the technology, life science, venture capital/private equity and premium wine industries. SVB provides a comprehensive suite of financing solutions, treasury management, corporate investment and international banking services to its clients worldwide. Through its focus on specialized markets and extensive knowledge of the people and business issues driving them, SVB provides a level of service and partnership that measurably impacts its client's success.
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From Dublin to Durban, from Minneapolis to Manila, our job is channeling knowledge and value through our lines of service and 22 industry-specialised practices. We bring our experience and talents to help educational institutions, the federal government, non-profits, and international relief agencies address their unique business issues. We also combine our unique perspectives, skills, and diverse backgrounds to create innovative solutions to today's most complex business issues.
General Catalyst Partners is a venture capital and private equity firm that invests in exceptional entrepreneurs who are building the technology-based companies that will lead innovation and transform industries.
KPMG operates as an international network of member firms offering audit, tax and advisory services. We work closely with our clients, helping them to mitigate risks and grasp opportunities.
We meet the evolving needs of our clients by bringing our extensive experience in representing companies engaged in cutting-edge areas of business, including software technologies, the Internet, electronic commerce and medical technologies.
We combine the skills and resources often found in a larger firm environment, with the accessibility and responsiveness a smaller, more flexible structure provides.
LAW FIRMS
Finnegan is one of the largest IP law firms in the world. The firm practices all aspects of patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret law, including counseling, prosecution, licensing, and litigation.
We have one of the largest education practices in the US, regularly advising and representing colleges, universities and independent schools across a full spectrum of legal issues to meet and exceed client needs.
Massachusetts Technology Development Corporation is a leading edge venture capital firm that addresses the "capital gap" for start-up and expansion of early-stage technology companies operating in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Sigma Partners focuses on identifying exceptional entrepreneurs with creative ideas and supporting them in building great companies. For over two decades Sigma Partners has invested in over a hundred early stage companies, and our portfolio has consistently outperformed.
CommonAngels® is a group of 75 leading private investors and several dozen limited partners in two co-investment funds. We have rich expertise in over 58 specific sectors and finance the region's most innovative high-tech ventures with a focus on capital efficiency.
VENTURE CAPITAL/INVESTORS
North Bridge, a $3.2Billion bi-coastal firm established in 1994, invests in exceptional people whose ideas have the potential to disrupt the way we live and work. Our Seed, Venture and Growth Equity strategies help transform those ideas into companies and those companies into market leaders.
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PUBLIC RELATIONS
STRATEGY & TECHNOLOGY CONSULTANTS
Lois Paul & Partners LP&P is a leading, national strategic communications agency that provides a wide range of public relations services to high-technology, life sciences, and clean energy companies.
SDI offers help and advice to companies looking to invest in Scotland and provides a range of services for businesses to take advantage of all that this fantastic country has to offer.
We are early stage venture capital investors focused on the healthcare technology, internet and digital media, and communications and software industries. We partner with exceptional entrepreneurs to solve real problems in their industries.
We practice at the very top of the legal profession and offer a cutting-edge blend of capabilities that enables us to handle deals and cases of any size and complexity.
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Trusted partners to exceptional entrepreneurs. For twenty five years, Ascent has been dedicated to financing and supporting innovative entrepreneurs striving to build emerging market leading companies.
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Schwartz Communications is the premier PR agency for technology, healthcare and cleantech companies. In a media-driven world, Schwartz helps companies translate technical innovation into market advantage. Leveraging the power of the media, Schwartz PR campaigns allow our clients to level the playing field against entrenched competition or to show how new technologies can mean a whole new ballgame.
Swissnex Boston connects the best of many worlds by bridging the knowledge, energy and expertise in science, higher education and innovation between Switzerland, New England and Eastern Canada.
J. Scott Southworth is the founder of an independent law firm with a private practice in patent and intellectual property (IP) where clients have included start-up endeavors and technical companies of all sizes, as well as academic institutions.
MCRC is a source of mezzanine capital and long term debt for Massachusetts business. Our investments support growth, finance acquisitions and provide long term working capital for middle market and emerging growth businesses.
FOREIGN INVESTMENT AGENCIES
Commonwealth Capital Ventures is a leading venture capital firm focused on early and growth stage technology companies. Our experienced professionals empower management teams to build outstanding growth companies that deliver superior returns to investors.
Flybridge Capital Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm whose mission is to assist entrepreneurs in growing innovative, global companies. With $560 million under management, the firm is focused on investing in consumer, energy, healthcare and information technology markets and is led by a team with domain expertise and more than half a century of combined experience in venture capital. www.flybridge.com
The goal at Prism VentureWorks is a simple one: to work with talented entrepreneurs and management teams to develop new technologies disruptive to the status quo and build substantial business enterprises around them. We achieve this by deploying our team to work together with entrepreneurs to create market-leading companies.
Established in 2001, Rutberg & Company, LLC is a research-centric investment bank focused exclusively on providing M&A advisory services to both public and private companies, and raising mid to late stage capital for industry leading emerging growth companies in the wireless and digital media industries.
Highland Capital Partners was founded with the mission of helping great people build great companies. For over twenty years, the firm has taken a sector-focused approach to investing in exceptional healthcare, internet & digital media and technology companies. With $3 billion of committed capital and offices in Boston, Silicon Valley, Shanghai and Geneva, Highland has invested in and worked to create such firms as Ask Jeeves, Avid Technology, CheckFree and more.
Chapin Intellectual Property Law is a mid-sized patent law firm of senior level Patent Attorneys. We provide high quality patent work in all technology areas with up-front cost quotes that are often substantially below those of large firms. We have excellent references as to our quality, experience, attention to detail, responsiveness and reasonable costs. You may call the firm’s founder, Barry Chapin, for a no-cost discussion on processes, filing options, and associated costs.
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Canadian Consulate - Our Consulate General has the role of representing Canada and of projecting Canadian interests in one of the world's most dynamic and important cities.
America's Growth Capital is a national, emerging growth focused investment bank founded by seasoned growth sector specialists with experience at the leading boutiques and bulge bracket investment banks.
From the moment you contact one of our offices, whether in France or abroad, and even after your project is up and running, you can count on the IFA to offer tailored expertise every step of the way.
HUMAN RESOURCES
TriNet provides Human Resource Outsourcing to small and medium size companies so they can focus on their real business priorities and allow us to administer benefits, payroll, and human resources thus allowing our clients to focus on their real business priorities. TriNet aggregates our 5000 clients representing 88,000 employees to provide savings and efficiencies from a single source vendor vs. a multivendor approach.
For nearly two decades, Boston-based ATLANTIC-ACM has been providing strategic consulting and research services to leading business owners, operators and investors around the world.
BB Marketing Plus works with clients to identify, develop, and execute business-to-business marketing strtegies and programs that increase revenues and accelerate sales.
Catharine Trebnick - Over the years, I noticed that investors were equally susceptible to influence. This realization created in me an insatiable curiosity regarding the intersection of information and investment. I became driven to pursue my dream to leverage my connections and knowledge of technology to help investors make sound decisions based on accurate and timely information.
CSMG is a boutique strategy consulting firm serving the communications, technology, and digital media industries.
We combine our deep understanding of the global market with creative, yet rigorous, analytic techniques to provide strategic management consulting services to companies around the world.
High Start Group is a hands-on consulting firm that specializes in breakthrough product strategies for startups and Fortune 500 technology companies. Our customer-centric, iterative approach ensures that you rapidly conceive, validate and launch products that meet your customers’ needs.
MONDO STRATEGIES is an international consulting firm dedicated to the three key areas for success in the international software business, operating based on specialized knowledge and holistic approaches for Strategic Planning, Software Processes, and Localization and Internationalization of products and operations.
Oliver Wyman is a leading global management consulting firm that combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy, operations, risk management, organizational transformation and leadership development.
Partners In Productivity specializes in increasing sales and channel effectiveness by delivering high-quality information about products and services to improve performance.
Rudolph Communications – A professional Communications company providing public relations, media relations, online content optimization services and marketing communications services. With integrity, humor and passion, we bring seasoned and savvy communications experience to business for tangible, bottom line results.
SD Lawson & Associates, LLC – A Management Consulting firm focused on helping clients implement superior business strategies, including Strategic Engagements, Operations Analysis and Improvement, Health Care Information Systems, Merger & Acquisition Due Diligence, and Executive Coaching and Mentoring.
Software Pricing Partners - Since 1982, Software Pricing Partners, formerly MarketShare, has been helping software companies improve their financial performance by making better decisions about pricing.
Vision. Passion. Persistence. These are the hallmarks of exceptional entrepreneurs. For over 30 years, we've seen the impact that small groups of talented individuals can have. As early stage investors, we've been proud to help them realize their visions. To do something that hasn't been done before. To build great companies that lead markets - and change the world.
Genovation Capital - Genovation was created with a vision to fill a void in the market…we saw the need to launch a venture capital firm that truly focused on building innovative companies through a teamwork approach.
Makaira Venture Partners is a venture capital firm focused on investing in early stage companies and technologies located primarily in the Northeast corridor. Makaira’s core competency is in Life Sciences, with a concentration in medical devices and technologies.
Plum Island Ventures - Marco Peterson is a start-up expert and early-stage CEO with a proven ability to build successful tech companies. Marco retired as Chairman of TimeTrade Systems in October 2010 and has been working on a range of independent projects.
CATHARINE TREBNICK
SD Lawson & Associates, LLC.
SOFTWAREPRICINGPARTNERS
Goodwin Procter LLP is a national law firm with a growing international presence. With offices in Boston, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Washington, D.C., we work closely with clients to advance business objectives in the U.S. and abroad. Our corporate headquarters are in Boston, where the firm was originally founded in 1912.
Edwards Wildman attorneys are known internationally for their work in private equity, venture capital, corporate and finance transactions, complex litigation, insurance and reinsurance, and intellectual property. Our clients know us as their trusted legal and business adviser—providing the strategic, collaborative and client-focused counsel that helps protect and advance their business goals.
Ernst & Young is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction, advisory services and strategic growth markets. We aim to have a positive impact on businesses and markets, as well as on society as a whole.
Lynx is a premier software technology recruiting agency specializing in the greater Boston / Cambridge / Massachusetts / New England high-tech community. Our client base is focused on startups and smaller high-growth companies, as well as larger technology companies which foster a dynamic, entrepreneurial culture. Our extensive network of individual relationships targets people who are passionate about building their software careers in these types of environments.
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