Happy June! Every month this newsletter highlights:
Two startups – one founded by a current student and one founded by an alum
Two people – a current student and an alum
Updates – on-campus events and other BC tech updates
Featured jobs – at BC alumni-led startups
Here’s the update…
🚀 Featured startups
🚌 Student startup: MDFiTech
MDFiTech offers investors a way to dynamically hedge mortgage-backed security (MBS) products with crypto, while also providing automated Mortgage Portfolio Risk Analysis. This allows customers to bet on crypto, while allowing loan providers to hedge inflation risk. MDFiTech is being co-founded by BC student Alex DiBlasi, who serves as the company’s CFO.
Founders:
CEO Nilesh Mukherji NYU ‘23
🦅 CFO Alex DiBlasi CSOM ‘23
🎓 Alumni startup: Adgile Media Group
Adgile Media Group is the first tech-enabled, nationwide truckside advertising company. The company uses location data from nearby phones to provide clients a way to digitally retarget potential customers near the truckside ad, then attribute the conversions that result. Adgile follows the customer journey post-exposure to see if each phone visits a website or enters a brick and mortar location, allowing clients to see ROI clearly in a way that wasn’t previously possible. https://www.adgile.co/
Founders:
CEO Mitchell Gordon WashU ‘79
🦅 COO Tom Shea CSOM ‘16
CMO Marc Strachan Adelphi ‘81
President Max Flannery Miami ‘16
⭐️ Featured people
🚌 Student: Alex Park
Alex is studying Computer Science and is currently on the e-board of Start@Shea, the student-run wing of the Shea Center for Entrepreneurship. Alex was previously a Start@Shea Ambassador and cohort member of Accelerate@Shea 2021 with Pomona, his startup. Pomona is co-founded by Alex and fellow BC student Joelle Sugianto, and connects nonprofits in need of food with for-profits such as bakeries and restaurants. Alex is spending this summer as a Software Engineer Intern at Amazon as a part of the Amazon Web Services AI Team.
Alex Park MCAS ‘24
🎓 Alum: Jolene Lozano
Jolene is an incoming Rotational Product Manager at Facebook in Menlo Park, CA. At BC, she was president of both the Boston College Computer Science Society (BCCSS) and the engineering club MakeBC while also being a TA for the class Swift / iOS Mobile App Development and a member of the Bostonians acapella group. Last summer Jolene was a Developer Programs Engineering Intern on the Smart Home Team at Google, and in the past she has also worked for CNBC, Sony Music, and BC-founded startup Wunderite. Jolene holds a BA in Computer Science from BC.
Jolene Lozano MCAS ‘21
❗️Updates
⏭ What’s happening this month?
SSC Venture Partners: Summer Accelerator program running Jun-Aug
Boston College students on summer break; no club meetings
🐝 What else is going on in BC’s tech community?
Wealthsimple, a Canadian fintech giant offering financial tools to help investors grow and manage their money, raised $610M at a post-money valuation of $4B. The company was co-founded by COO and BC alum Brett Huneycutt, who graduated first in his class at BC. More: TechCrunch on Wealthsimple raise
Natalie White, CSOM ‘20, launched Moolah Kicks, a women’s basketball sneaker brand fighting for equality. The company’s goal is to make sure every detail of the product and brand is a reflection of women’s basketball. More: Footwear News
Any other BC tech news or asks? Please reach out: jack@jackmcclelland.com
💼 Featured jobs
Highlighted jobs at startups founded or led by Boston College alumni
💡 Internships
This month is light on internships as we’re at the start of summer internship season!
Accelerant: Data Science Intern (Irvine, CA)
Pond5: Sales Operations Intern (New York, NY)
💸 Full-time
Alegeus: Network Administrator (Remote)
Indivior: Commercial IT Systems Analyst (Richmond, VA)
M&T Bank: Software Engineer – Java (Buffalo, NY)
Syniti: Head of Cloud Operations (Remote)
Winmark Corporation: Software Developer (Minneapolis, MN)
📚 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/
Soaring Startup Circle (SSC) – https://www.sscventurepartners.com/
Thanks for reading!
If you have any feedback, suggestions, or tips (startups, people, updates, or jobs to profile), please reach me (Jack McClelland – CS + Finance @ BC MCAS ‘22) at jack@jackmcclelland.com or (650) 863-8151. Find me on Twitter | LinkedIn | Website
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