Cursory discussions about remote work – and workers – abound (live your life! hire great people! be diverse!) but practical explanations of how, exactly, to translate this virtual promised land into a well-functioning organization are few and far between. Enter Help Scout. Right here in Boston(ish), Converge portfolio company and leading customer support tech company,... Read More
In our experience, organizational change is driven by confident leaders with the will to buck trends. It doesn’t just happen. We congratulate the CEOs and entrepreneurs we work with who, by making good business decisions around talent, have also made Boston one of the best places for women in tech. Read 4 reasons to be Optimistic... Read More
Boston Crypto had its second meetup on October 18th. As co-organizer, we are especially interested in accelerating the collective knowledge within the community around blockchain and the crypto application as this tech offers not only investment opportunities but will also enable entirely new industries. This meetup revolved around the burgeoning Bitcoin/Crypto security space – how... Read More
One of the most transformational trends in computing today is the shift from traditional CPUs to alternative chip designs engineered for emerging use cases like AI. As Moore’s Law tails off, the performance needs of next-generation applications are being met by new approaches that represent a departure from the CPU-dominated status quo. Nowhere is this... Read More
When you’re an entrepreneur moving fast and thinking big, it’s helpful to keep an eye on where the early stage center of gravity is for the space you’re in – and where it might be next. At Converge, we are privileged to interact with fantastic entrepreneurs every day and to hear where they are investing... Read More
Fieldnotes are digests of select aspects of the entrepreneurial landscape and are written by our Investment Team An area of investment interest for us at Converge is “Verticalized AI”: the application of ML, deep learning and robotics to industries that, in our view, are ripe for disruption with AI. Healthcare is one of the several... Read More
Startups are a lot of work punctuated by moments of glory, some big and many small. Those moments keep us all going, fuel the next awesome idea and accelerate the trajectory of the business. We *love* hearing about breakthroughs from the teams on the ground, doing the hard work every day. The Accelerate series details... Read More
Photo Credit: @martinceralde In line with our investments in blockchain, Ash Egan, a Principal at Converge, camped out at Consensus 2017 in NYC last week. The conference’s theme “Making Blockchain Real” and the line up of speakers reflected the huge acceleration we’ve seen in the technology over the past year and expect we’ll continue to see.... Read More
Our thanks to Dylan Martin at Bostinno for listening to and sharing the story behind our new firm, Converge. Read it Here
We had a chance to chat with the Boston Globe’s lovely and talented Shirley Leung yesterday and are pleased to share her article, and take on Converge. Read the Story
