Engine Ventures invests in early stage teams & companies bringing scientific and technological breakthroughs to market.

Pre-seed venture capital fund investing in technology startups.

We are a group of individuals giving monthly micro-grants for the advancement of creative and innovative projects and ideas as well as supporting artistic and technical communities. We started in the Boston area and have grown to 83 chapters in 13 countries who have awarded more than USD $5,600,000 in direct grants to date.

Advisor to the MIT Sports Lab which is building an interconnected community of faculty, students, industry partners, alumni, and athletes who are passionate about tackling challenges that lie at the intersection of engineering, education, research and sports.

The Engine seeks to support early stage teams & companies bringing scientific and technological breakthroughs to market.

Startup Institute is a full-time immersive eight-week experience that prepares people to become great hires for technology startups. Programs are run in Boston, NY, and Chicago.

Co-instructor of graduate course 6.932, "Linked Data Ventures" with Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee and others.

Co-instructor of required undergraduate course in Entrepreneurship.

Co-director of the accelerator program in Boston. Between 2011 and 2014 we invested in 64 early stage companies including GrabCAD, Pillpack, Ovia, Wymsee, Careport, Synack, Placester, Kinvey, Evertrue, Memrise, Promoboxx, Ginger.IO, docTrackr, NBD Nano, Zagster, and many many more.

Founding director of a product development and innovation center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Among other projects, the lab designed and developed the user experience for Bing Twitter search.

Responsible for engineering and technical operations at this startup founded by Jeff Taylor, founder of Monster.com, and funded by General Catalyst and Sequoia Capital. Recruited the engineering team, set the architecture, built and launched a comprehensive web portal for consumers over the age of 50. We built the team and launched the first eleven products in only 8 months.

Responsible for new company development in Boston. As member of the Idealab Operating Committee, participated in investment decisions and oversight of Idealab companies.Founding Chief Technology Officer of four Idealab companies: Refer.com, Compete, Picasa (acquired by Google), and Paythrough. Founding CEO of three companies: Newbury Networks, Pathspace, and Newbury Payments. Hired and managed product development teams to launch these companies.At the same time managed an R&D team (engineering, design, product management and business development) that built a dozen prototypes including search, social networking, online advertising optimization, telepresence, and mobile applications.

Built a hosted streaming audio service that provided private label Internet radio to portals and ecommerce sites. Customers included Altavista, Barnes & Noble, iNBC, CDNow, iwon.com and others.

Radnet developed a web groupware server and portal software for enterprise extranets.Responsible for technical strategy. Helped raise $38M of venture funding. Managed corporate marketing for successful company launch. Spokesperson to media and analysts and frequent speaker at conferences. Lead the startup and staffing of professional services group.

Director of Product Management and Design, InterNotes, 1994 - 1995Key role in creating and launching the first Internet products at Lotus. Product gained sales of $1 million in half a year and was folded into Notes to create the Domino server. Presented Internet strategy to analysts and conferences including DEMO '95, PC Forum, MIT Enterprise Forum, Andersen Consulting ASSIST, and Lotus Symposium Series. Lotus technical representative to IBM Internet Strategy group.Consulting Engineer (Staff technology position), 1992 - 1994Chair of the Lotus Architects' Council. Defined and evangelized Notes/FX, a technology that differentiated Lotus SmarSuite applications through integration with Lotus Notes. Participated in design of next-generation products across many business units.Senior Product Development Manager - Graphics Products Group, 1987 - 1991Managed software development for second largest product line at Lotus. Responsible for dozens of global product releases including product transitions from DOS to OS/2 and then to Windows. Member of management committee for graphics business unit, $100M annual revenues.Director of Advanced Development, Graphics Product Group, 1986 - 1987

Developed "Freelance Graphics". Acquired by Lotus Development.Architect, 1984 - 1986Inventor, designer and lead engineer, Freelance Graphics 1.0. Freelance won numerous awards and quickly became the best-selling graphics application for personal computers, ultimately growing in just 6 years to $100M annual revenue (in today's dollars, $200M inflation adjusted).Software Engineer, 1981 - 1983Key developer and team leader on Graphwriter. Involved in twenty-five product release cycles using BASIC, Pascal, and C under DOS, UCSD P-System and UNIX.

Developed software for graphic display of econometric models used in the PIMS Study.