Eagle Eye 🦅 January Update
Updates on BC startups and tech
Happy January! Every month this newsletter highlights:
Two startups – one founded by a current student and one founded by an alumni
Two people – a current student and an alumni
Campus updates – past month and upcoming month
Featured jobs – at BC alumni-led startups
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Here’s the update…
🚀 Featured startups
🚌 Student startup: Communy
Communy is an online platform for universities to stream live tours and post webinars to prospective students across the globe. Students receive content that is tailored to their interests. https://www.communynow.com/
Founder: Dean Sheinman CSOM ‘24 (LinkedIn)
🎓 Alumni startup: Wunderite
Wunderite is a data exchange that aims to bring efficiency to the commercial insurance marketplace, transparency to stakeholders, and actionable insight to decision-makers. Wunderite's goal is to drive down costs, make companies safer, and insurance more wonderful. https://www.wunderite.com/
Founder: Peter MacDonald CSOM MBA ‘19 (LinkedIn)
⭐️ Featured people
🚌 Student: Jenna Steichen
Jenna is from Minnesota and is studying Information Systems & Business Analytics. She’s the current president of Start@Shea (the student-run wing of BC’s Shea Center for Entrepreneurship) and is on the executive board of BC’s Women Innovators Network. She spent her 2019 summer as a True Ventures fellow, where she worked at Prellis Biologics as a BD + marketing intern. Jenna spent last summer at Summit Partners, where she’ll be joining full-time after she graduates.
Jenna Steichen CSOM ‘21 (LinkedIn)
🎓 Alumni: Jere Doyle
Jere is a venture capitalist, angel investor, two-time founder, and current Popolo Family Executive Director of Boston College’s Shea Center for Entrepreneurship. He is a Managing Director at Sigma Prime Ventures and operates Oyster Angel Fund. Jere previously founded and launched two companies, Prospectiv and Global Marketing, leading both to successful liquidity events. He is passionate about entrepreneurship and he has particular expertise in all areas of customer acquisition. Jere received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School following his undergraduate studies in marketing and finance at Boston College.
Jere Doyle CSOM '87 (LinkedIn)
❗️Updates
🆕 What happened this past month (December)?
12/1: Contrary’s Boston Pitch Competition (winner: BC startup Communy!)
12/1: Start@Shea’s Zoom with an Entrepreneur: John Murphy & Vishal Suna
12/2: Start@Shea’s Zoom with an Entrepreneur: Joe Medved & Meagan Loyst
12/2: WIN’s STEM Fireside Chat with Arev Doursounian (BC '17)
12/2: Senior Legacy Committee’s Networking Event
12/3: BCCSS’s Discord bot workshop
12/3: Start@Shea’s Zoom with an Entrepreneur: Pat Twomey
12/8: Start@Shea’s Zoom with an Entrepreneur: Danny Wirtz
12/9: Start@Shea’s Zoom with an Entrepreneur: Jason Krantz
12/9: Start@Shea’s Accelerate@Shea info session
⏭ What’s coming up next month (January)?
BC students are on winter break! School resumes 1/28. Not much going on this month.
Start@Shea: Accelerate@Shea program – teams finalized, kickoff soon
Eagle Eye: launched, check it out: http://eagleeyenewsletter.carrd.co/
💼 Featured jobs
Highlighted jobs at BC-founded startups
💡 Internships
DraftKings: Software Engineering Intern (Boston, MA)
WePay: Product Manager Internship (Redwood City, CA)
💸 Full-time
DraftKings: Security Engineering Manager (Boston, MA)
Drizly: Consumer Product Director (Boston, MA)
Aceable: Associate Product Manager (Austin, TX)
Wealthsimple: Frontend Platform Engineer (Toronto, CA or remote)
Iterable: Engineering Manager, Product (San Francisco, CA)
Split: Backend Engineer (Redwood City, CA)
Locus Robotics: Robotics Software Engineer (Wilmington, MA)
Cariina: Full-Stack Engineer (Tulsa, OK)
📚 Campus Organizations
BC on-campus tech and startup organizations:
Start@Shea – https://www.startatshea.com/
Women Innovators Network (WIN) – https://www.bcwin.org/
Boston College Computer Science Society (BCCSS) – https://bccss.io/
Women in Computer Science (WiCS) – https://www.instagram.com/wics_bc/
Girls Who Code (GWC) – https://www.instagram.com/girlswhocodebc/
Thanks for reading!
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This newsletter is written by Jack McClelland (CS + Finance @ BC ‘22).
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