Christopher Rocca

Nanigans, Inc. provides digital and mobile advertising software. Its services includes predictive optimization, business intelligence, workflow automation and cross-channel and cross device. The firm’s Ad engine enables marketers to automate the labor-intensive process of delivering social ads at scale and overcome the challenges involved in optimizing for revenue generating customers and return on ad spend. The company was founded by Denton Claude and Ricardo C. Calvillo Jr. in 2010 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Viridity Software is the leader in energy resource management. Viridity EnergyCenter software provides in-depth insight and trending information, down to the component level for IT equipment that is converted to analysis and discrete energy saving actions. With it, managers are able to make measurable reductions in cost and space. The overall result is a more useful, efficient data center. Backed by North Bridge Venture Partners and Battery Ventures, Viridity Software is based in Burlington, MA. Viridity's management team includes successful entrepreneurs with executive experience from Hewlett Packard, Symantec, Motorola, APC, and Digital Equipment.

C-Port Corp. develops and manufactures network processors used in optical networks. It provides key elements of a communications platform solution for customers building networking systems. The company offers processor technology and software tools for building networking products that support the converged global network infrastructure. C-Port was founded by Laurence G. Walker and David J. Husak in November 1997 and is located in North Andover, MA.

Hadapt, Inc. develops software solutions that integrates structured query language (SQL) with apache Hadoop and enables customers to analyze their data (structured, semi-structured, and unstructured) in a single platform – no connectors or rigid structure. The firm's flagship product, Adaptive Analytical Platform, brings a native implementation of SQL to the Apache Hadoop open-source project. The company was founded by Daniel Abadi, Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski, and Justin Borgman in July 2010 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.