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AI-native and AI-empowered software startups
in the US and Israel at Pre-Seed & Seed
Society is experiencing dramatic disruptions in many markets and geographies. Talented entrepreneurs are nimbler and better suited than incumbents to take advantage of rapidly changing market conditions.
Our founders target emerging opportunities and design their ventures with the rules of new paradigms in mind.









Team
JOHN HARTHORNE
Founder & Managing Director

As the Founder and decade-long CEO of MassChallenge, John is obsessed with entrepreneurship and has worked with thousands of startups since 2010. MassChallenge is the most-startup-friendly and largest startup accelerator on the planet and has graduated over 3,000 startups which have cumulatively generated billions of dollars of revenue and have created over 200,000 jobs.
While launching and running MassChallenge, John generated a vast network of new and established founders, corporate partners, investors, and innovation talent. Furthermore, John gained unrivaled experience working to support startups as an advisor and connector, learning which teams, models, and partners create sustainable success most consistently. John left MassChallenge in 2019 to launch Two Lanterns in 2020.
John holds a BA from Bowdoin College, an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, an Honorary Doctorate from Suffolk University, and certificates for Leadership and Innovation from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.



Partner

MICHAL GILON-YANAI
Michal Gilon-Yanai has been the founder and director of multiple entrepreneurship programs in the US and in Israel. She founded the MBA Innovation & Entrepreneurship track at IDC, directed two programs at MIT’s entrepreneurship center and, most recently, founded and led the Biomedical Entrepreneurship Program at the NYU school of medicine. Through this work, she developed a keen understanding of technology and science commercialization and supported dozens of innovators and entrepreneurs over the course of two decades. Michal began her career at a healthcare IT startup where she filled several roles and served as a member of the company’s management team.
Michal also played a critical role in launching the MassChallenge Israel program, joining its advisory board for several years. She has outstanding access to deal flow, and contributes deep startup experience to Two Lanterns. Michal served in the IDF Intelligence corps, received computer science and law degrees from Tel Aviv University, and earned her MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 2007. She joined Two Lanterns Venture Capital in 2020.
LILY TOTO
Senior Associate

Lily Toto is a Senior Associate on the Two Lanterns team. She brings a wealth of experience from her time at L.E.K. Consulting, where she worked on due diligence, strategy, and M&A projects within the firm's private equity group. In addition to her time in consulting, Lily has worked at several early-stage software startups, including leading business development at Veriphix, spearheading strategic operations at Wellist, and launching marketing efforts at Resultid (Techstars Boston 2020).
Lily uses her combined background in management consulting and startups in order to source new companies, conduct diligence on potential investments, and work across portfolio operations at Two Lanterns. Lily studied Economics and Government at Georgetown University, where she also interned at Fidelity Investments and served as CEO of Georgetown Collegiate Investors, one of the largest student-owned and student-run equity investment funds in the country. She joined Two Lanterns Venture Capital as an Associate in 2023.

Advisors

DESH DESHPANDE
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Founder Cascade Communications, Sycamore Networks, etc
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Serial mentor, investor, philanthropist
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Life-member of the MIT Corporation
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Founding Board Member, MassChallenge
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PhD Queens University
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B.Tech. IIT Madras

ZOHAR GILON
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Israeli Super Angel with extensive experience as an investor (over 200 investments) and investment advisor
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Transaction manager for some of Israel’s most recognized exits, managing each from inception to exit
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Pivotal advisor for creation of MassChallenge Israel
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MBA Tel Aviv University
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BS EE/CS Technion University

BILL SCHNOOR
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Partner at Goodwin Procter LLP
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Former Co=Chair of Goodwin's Technology and Life Sciences practices
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Board Member at MassChallenge Israel
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Mentor for early-stage companies focused on scalable science and technology, particularly in healthcare and artificial intelligence
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JD Yale Law School
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BA Yale University

SATISH TADIKONDA
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Executive Fellow in Entrepreneurship at
the Rock Center, Harvard Business School -
Executive Partner of Blue Cloud Ventures,
a growth equity fund based in NYC -
Entrepreneur in life science and healthcare
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Active early-stage investor; member of
TiE Angels, TBD Angels, and Sky Ventures -
PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a focus on medical imaging
Portfolio
Akooda offers an AI based enterprise search and insights platform, providing a complete Ops Intelligence solution. Using military grade security, they help stakeholders answer questions around People, R&D, & GTM, without storing raw data and with no human input needed. Akooda partners with large organizations across verticals, providing hard ROI in measurable metrics around sales, onboarding, and cross-collaboration.
Akooda is backed by top investors including NFX, Founder Collective, and Village Global, as well as leaders from Meta, Pinecone, and Google.


basys.ai uses an AI-based platform to automate the process of prior authorization and utilization management, improving costs for health plans/payers. By automating the process of encoding/digitizing payer policies using machine learning, they reduce piloting timelines by up to 9 months.
Core team hails from Harvard University. Co-investors include Nina Capital, Lilly Ventures, Asset Management Ventures, and Chaac Ventures Fund.


As the solution for navigating mortality, Cake uses data to match consumers with the right products for their end-of-life needs. Cake is the first stop for consumers and is the largest in the industry, on track to dominate an overlooked trillion-dollar industry. Founders are graduates of MIT and Harvard and have deep experience in healthcare and digital marketing. The CMO was an early employee at TripAdvisor.
Co-Investors include Pillar and Launch Capital.


Cooklist is an all-in-one grocery app for consumers to manage the full cycle of buying and using groceries efficiently. It is the only service that connects directly to grocery store accounts so consumers can automatically track the food they buy, track expirations, find recipes, create meal plans and shopping lists, and send orders to local stores for pickup or delivery. The app works with over 80% of the grocery stores in the US and millions of recipes.
Co-investors include Mercury Fund and RevTech Ventures.


The DriveU.auto Teleoperation Connectivity Platform enables safe teleoperation of robots and autonomous vehicles using cellular bonding and dynamic encoding. The platform is already deployed and in use on public roads, across multiple use cases, including delivery robots, autonomous trucks, shuttles, robotaxis and more.
Two Lanterns invested alongside renowned Israeli tech investors including Zohar Zisapel, Kaedan Capital and Yigal Jacoby, later joined by Proeza Ventures and Ascend Capital Partners.


Jotit is leading the digital-paper revolution in schools. The company developed the world's first paper-tablet operating-system (OS) which seamlessly blends traditional and digital learning, offering the best of both worlds while keeping handwriting at its core.
The company was founded by a team of second time founders whose previous venture was acquired by Nike in 2018, and backed by Israel's tier-1 early-stage investors including Zohar Gilon, Guy Gamzu, Good Company Impact VC, MindCET Center of Education Technology and more.


Koffie Insurance is a digital insurer purpose-built for the next generation of trucking and transportation and is the first insurtech to integrate safety technology into underwriting, pricing and loss control. Using real time data and machine learning models, Koffie delivers instant and tailored policies to modern truckers that invest in safety, rewarding them with lower premiums than traditional insurers.
Co-Investors in Koffie include Anthemis, Lerer Hippeau, Plug and Play Tech Center, and Breakout Capital.


Loora is developing an affordable and always available AI language tutor. Necessary technology leaps to enable AI-powered conversation have only just occurred. Loora will offer an AI tutor that is always available and 10x more affordable than a human tutor.
Founders graduated from the IDF special forces elite unit and have deep educational and business experience with machine learning and NLP. QPV led Loora’s Series A round. Other co-investors include Emerge Ventures, Kaedan Capital and top-tier Angels.


RevenueBase provides continuously verified, AI-ready B2B data that enriches and refreshes databases, enabling more intelligent sales and marketing decisions. Founded by industry experts, RevenueBase is transforming how teams harness data to drive revenue
Co-investors include Bessemer Venture Partners, Argon Ventures, Converge, and Graph Ventures.


SoHookd is a wellness hub for enterprises that helps healthcare carriers (payers) retain, support, and improve wellness for their employer group stakeholders by offering holistic and turnkey solutions. SoHookd helps employers bring leading and innovative wellness offerings to employees through a marketplace that lets them choose what is most beneficial to them individually.
Co-Investors include Blue Cross Blue Shield of Mass., Jumpstart Nova, PS27, and Morgan Stanley.


Surround is reinventing insurance for modern life. The Managing General Agency (MGA) helps consumers in their 20s and 30s get started with simple and accessible insurance products designed around mobility, shelter, and work.
Surround is a MassChallenge FinTech Platinum Award Winner. Co-investors include MassMutual, Newark Venture Partners, Sure Ventures, Plug and Play Ventures, Cameron Ventures, and V.J. Dowling.


TheXPlace is a Marketplace for the $217B Video Games industry, connecting Game Development Companies with the talent to get the next “hit” produced, and connecting video gaming professionals (soloists, contracting companies, studios and agencies) with work. Founder is Technion & MIT grad with 20+ years' experience and extensive contacts in the gaming industry.
Co-Investors include Angel Ventures & the Hustle Fund.


Voyantis transforms the customer lifecycle, from acquisition to retention, for businesses with extended payback periods. Large brands like Lennar, Miro, and Figma, leverage their AI platform for Value-Based Bidding on Meta and Google. Voyantis crafts bespoke predictive LTV and conversion models and orchestrates the automatic delivery of user signals to leading ad networks. Training ad networks AI for targeting the highest value customers with Voyantis delivers improved Return on Ad Spend as high as 20-50%.
Co-founders have previous experience as founders and each exited prior startups.


Array Insights supports patient advocacy organizations, researcher organizations, and pharmaceutical companies by leveraging cutting-edge analytics tools and methodologies to extract actionable insights from patient data. Their platform, Tallulah, uses ML and genAI to transform unstructured patient narratives into a centralized hub to efficiently organize and analyze patient and caregiver stories.
Core team and advisors hail from the MIT Media Lab, MIT CSAIL, MIT IDSS, and the Broad Institute.


Because helps bridge off-site data into a personalized on-site experience for the $1.3T e-commerce industry. Through an intelligent data engine, user-defined automation, and A/B testing, they're helping growing Shopify businesses to optimize conversion of site visitors at scale.
Founder won Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2015. Co-Investors include Shopify Angels, Harlem Capital, and Stage 2 Capital.


Ceres Technology enables businesses to forecast multi-tier supply chain risks for delays and disruptions months in advance. Utilizing AI Ceres analyzes a vast amount of data, including geopolitical factors, macro & microeconomic indicators, raw material prices, financial information, and 25,000+ additional datasets to identify and pinpoint which purchase orders, products, and suppliers are at risk of delays.
Co-investors include Deftly, Everywhere Ventures, Hustle Fund, and Refashiond.


Cupixel is an augmented reality platform aspiring to be the leading arts and crafts brand for creative experiences. Cupixel enables anyone to draw any photo in any style. Users can create experiences by drawing together (with or without expert guidance) and can share their finished work and time-lapse creation videos via other social media.
Cupixel's Board Chair is Stan Rosenzweig, Executive Chairman of the Board at SVP Worldwide, the parent company of Singer, Pfaff & Husqvarna / Viking Sewing Machines.


Fermata Discovery creates streamlined AI tools that accelerate the investigation processes of private and public sector agencies. Its flagship product, VIXN, is a multifunctional intelligence collaboration and visualization platform that can adapt to any type of case. Fermata's suite of proprietary and OSINT search tools automate investigators’ time-consuming processes to expose deep data insights.
Co-investors include New North Ventures, Bonfire Ventures and Good Growth Capital.


Knox is the first automated wealth advisor and management company for property investors delivering superior investment outcomes end-to-end – from payments to banking, leasing to insurance, financing to tax, vacancy avoidance to maintenance. Knox is democratizing access to preferred rates of return via the $1.25T/yr residential investment property market. Knox's founder & CEO sold prior real estate startup to a Private Equity firm.
Co-Investors include G20, Pillar, TBD Angels, and Greycroft.


Lex is creating a securities marketplace for fractionalized commercial real estate investments. LEX sources investment opportunities in Core and Core+ assets, and structures and prices them for an offering using the RegA Tier 2 exemption. LEX then facilitates secondary trading on an Alternative Trading System using NASDAQ technology.
Co-Investors include Greycroft, Thor Equities, and Ric Clark (Chair of Brookfield Properties)


Narrable is the modern platform for healthcare at home. Narrable’s intelligent clinical solutions and automated financial systems save providers up to 60% in inefficiencies per year. Home health providers across the nation choose Narrable to deliver on their promise to patients and families.
The core team hails from Workday & Gusto; Co-investors include Flare Capital, Bienville Capital, and Washington Creek Capital.


SEMPRE offers a new class of micro edge datacenters that ensure access to data – anytime, anywhere, even in catastrophic conditions. SEMPRE offers high-performance edge computing and diverse, secure communications, including 5G, all in a tamper-resistant, EMP-hardened enclosure.
The executive team are seasoned veterans in National Security, Satellite, Hardware and Software technology, as well as Networks. SEMPRE is a trusted DoD vendor & received an SBIR III.


Stockpress is an easy-to-use media management platform that gives teams and external partners one centralized workspace to securely collaborate on, organize, and share media. Stockpress combines the folder structure from traditional file management with digital asset management features such as AI and custom file tagging, file versioning, duplicate file detection, robust permission structures, and more.
Co-investors include Alumni Ventures and Stage 2 Capital.


Swapt is building the best way to identify offline contacts. With event data capture and gamification, to the first ever one time use QR codes for promotions, Swapt is changing the way businesses understand and communicate with their customers.
Core team hails from Klaviyo; co-investors include Klaviyo founders, heads of product from Shopify and Toast, and head of ecommerce and head of AI at Amazon.


Trove Health is building the world’s largest longitudinal, consented database of patients and their health information. Trove is used to expedite clinical research, collect targeted patient reported outcomes, create longitudinal visibility into patients' health histories, and conduct targeted marketing campaigns.
Core team hails from HBS; co-investors include Underscore VC, and the Allston Venture Fund (backed by Bain, General Catalyst & Polaris).


Axiom Health is a healthcare enterprise SaaS company providing an AI-powered, verticalized SaaS platform giving MedTech companies real-time data and insights to drive rapid business decisions. Axiom’s first two products are Market Intelligence for BD and marketing departments, and Sales Targeting for sales teams. They are powered by the world’s largest med-tech specific data lake.
Co-investors include First Trust Capital, Valiant Ventures, KVG, GCI Partners and several medtech executives of F500 Companies.


Botika stands as the AI Creative Director for over 5 million small apparel businesses, powered by proprietary simulative AI models. With Botika at the helm, business owners can devote their attention to the heart of their operations while the platform adeptly oversees every aspect of visual content creation, deployment, and ongoing optimization - resulting in significant revenue increases across key business channels.
The core team members each have 10+ years of experience in Gen AI and vast expertise in researching cutting-edge AI models from scratch.


Rooted in interoperability and AI, Connective Health's goal is to help healthcare providers save time and drive revenue by highlighting key clinical insights in their workflow from outside data. These insights save time by ensuring that PCPs and virtual providers have immediate access to the most relevant clinical data from outside their clinic. Connective enables providers to optimize risk-adjustment based revenues and increase both the volume of digital visits and care quality.
Co-investors include Nina Capital and Activate Venture Partners.


dataplor uses AI/ML and human capital to offer the highest quality location data across the globe. Customers ranging from large Fortune 500 companies to international startups rely on dataplor's accurate and comprehensive location data to drive business decisions in the $200B+ geospatial market.
F-Prime led dataplor’s Series B round and Spark Capital led dataplor’s Series A. Other co-investors include Acronym, ffVC, Quest Venture Partners, and Navigate Ventures.


Gravity AI is a marketplace for enterprise-ready AI. Engineers can browse 3rd party AI technologies that are secure, vetted for compliance, and automatically standardized in a custom container for easy, low-code implementation, all through a single procurement process that vastly increases speed to market for product teams.
Gravity AI is a TechStars graduate and a participant in the 2021 MassChallenge Fintech program.


KoalaOps automates DevOps work, making it easier to build cloud backend services. Koala's Internal Developer Platform leverages AI to make it as easy as any PaaS, but on customers’ cloud, with all the power and flexibility of Kubernetes. Companies that use KoalaOps don’t have to hire dedicated DevOps Engineers, cutting months to years in their time-to-market for their internal developer platform, allowing them to focus on building their product, not cloud infra.
Co-investors include YC, 91 Ventures, Skywell Capital Partners, and Hustle & Trust Ventures.


Linguana enables content creators to expand the global reach of their videos with a fully managed localization solution. Utilizing AI, Linguana partners with creators to launch their content across languages and platforms to reach new audiences for additional monetization opportunities.
Founders are Yuval Tal, a serial entrepreneur with two IPOs - Payoneer (PAYO) and Borderfree, and Oded Shafran, former CTO of IMGN Media.


ReturnGO’s innovative technology is at the forefront of the evolving returns management market as the first open post-purchase platform for sustainable eCommerce, helping businesses increase profits while reducing waste.
Co-investors include GoodCompany VC, TPY Capital, Cresson, Aristagora, and more.


ShipIn delivers visibility, productivity and safety to maritime transport, the backbone of global trade. ShipIn provides ship owners and managers with advanced fleet management solutions, improving operations and financial performance across global fleets. The maritime industry is embarking on an extensive digital transformation. ShipInSystems is at the forefront of smart shipping development, posed to deliver significant value to industry stakeholders.
Founder and CEO, Osher Perry, is a former winner of MassChallenge Boston.


StrongArm Technologies (SAT) is an Industry 4.0 platform that delivers a technology solution to keep industrial workers protected and productive, reducing injuries by 40%+ YoY for major enterprises including Walmart and Toyota. The solution includes a wearable device with multiple sensors (e.g., COVID-related functionality via worker proximity), a smart dock with a touch-screen that delivers customized micro-training, and a software platform that shares actionable insights with management.
Co-Investors include 3M, Sony, and Tekfen Ventures.


Syntero helps electronic product companies to achieve more cost-effective and reliable electronic designs faster by streamlining the entire development process, from concept to production with generative AI.
The team brings several decades of experience in machine learning, electronic system design, and building successful companies.


VoiceScript, Inc. is a leading supplier of legal technology-based SaaS solutions designed to modernize the court reporting and legal industries. VoiceScript solutions enable court reporting agencies and independent service providers to deliver best-in-class court reporting services while also significantly reducing production costs and delivery times for legal transcripts.
Co-investors include SoundBoard Venture Fund, and CFV Ventures.


