Meet the Squad

RapDev.io

  • Wayfair alumni: Tameem Hourani (Founder)

  • Description: We're focused on helping customers adopt DevOps practices and technologies, ranging from CI/CD pipelines to Containers and modern-cloud strategies.  We are a Certified Datadog implementation partner, as well as a ServiceNow DevOps partner.

EcoSoul Home

  • Description: EcoSoul Home Inc. brings to you a signature collection of products that are 100% bio-based, organic, and durable. Our products are free of harmful toxins, BPA, chemicals, and formaldehyde products.

  • Investors: Wayfund members, Singh Capital Partners, TiE Chapters (SoCal, Silicon Valley, Boston)

Wonderment

  • Wayfair alumni: Wes Abbey (Co-founder)

  • Description: A better way for e-commerce merchants to grow and scale their business.

  • Investors: Wayfund members & Charles River Ventures (CRV)

 

Shimmy

  • Wayfair alumni: Ashley Harmeling Wayman (Founder)

  • Description: Shimmy has developed the first touchless dispenser designed specifically for the home and a custom-branded B2B product.

  • Investors: Wayfund members, Jenn Hyman (CEO of Rent the Runway), David Fialkow (General Catalyst), Stuart Landesberg (CEO/Founder Grove Collaborative), Dan Nova (Highland Capital), the Founder of Plated, the Founder of Casper Mattresses & others

Warpfy

  • Description: Warpfy buys, operates, and scales e-commerce businesses, aka 3rd party sellers and private labels on Amazon FBA, Amazon FBM, Shopify, Walmart marketplace, Wayfair, Rakuten, and others.

  • Investors: Wayfund members, YC

Alleviate

  • Wayfair alumni: Rick McMullen (Founder), Virginia Chan (Head of Product & Digital Content)

  • Description: We develop approachable, “one-stop-shop” solutions to common musculoskeletal pathologies where existing solutions are poor, fragmented, or inaccessible. Our debut product is a holistic program and physical product kit for Plantar Fasciitis.

  • Investors: Wayfund members

 

OneScreen.ai

  • Description: The world's first market network for real-world media. From big billboards to TVs in your favorite cafe you can discover, buy, analyze, and optimize marketing campaigns in the real world as easily as you can online.

  • Investors: Wayfund members, Dharmesh Shah & Brian Halligan (HubSpot Co-Founders), Kipp Bodnar (CMO @ HubSpot), Mike Volpe (CEO @ Lola), Jim O'Neill (Co-Founder & CTO @ SaaSWorks) and more…

Silvertree

  • Wayfair Alumni: Dan Josebachvili (Co-founder & CEO)

  • Description: Silvertree is on a mission to empower the world’s aging population. We are developing next-gen wearable technology that provides the right form of safety and connection for active older adults. Aging is a personal experience, yet aging with dignity and independence so often includes the caring involvement of family and loved ones.

  • Investors: RRE, Red Sea Ventures, Bling Capital

NIPTAYA

  • Wayfair alumni: Andrew Hench (Co-founder)

  • Description: NIPYATA! - The premier online personalized gifting marketplace for beverage alcohol. Boozy. Brilliant. Fun. We partner with beverage brands to design, produce and sell the most ridiculously fun and memorable personalized gifts.

  • Investors: Wayfund members

 

Dott

  • Wayfair alumni: Maxim Romain (Co-founder)

  • Description: Dott is a European startup based in Amsterdam and specialised in shared micro-mobility. Its mission is to free cities with clean rides for everyone. After 2 years, it operates in 15 European cities with a fleet of 30,000 vehicles and has raised 50MEUR to date.

  • Investors: Prosus (Naspers), EQT, DNCapital, Expon, Felix Capital or FJLabs

Vibe Bio

  • Wayfair alumni: Joshua Forman (Co-founder)

  • Description: Vibe Bio is a community of patients, scientists, and partners committed to identifying, funding and developing promising treatments to rare diseases and empowering patient communities with unprecedented ownership over the process.

co:rise

  • Wayfair alumni: Jacob K. Samuelson (Co-founder)

  • Description: co:rise is an education technology company focused on professional reskilling and upskilling. Our marketplace of courses are month-long, taught by industry professionals working in the field today, project-based, and designed for a working professional’s schedule. We raised our seed round from Greylock, GSV Capital, and Cowboy Ventures this fall and launched our first courses in the data vertical in November.

 
 

Coworkly

  • Wayfair alumni: Dan Gilligan (Co-founder)

  • Description: A SaaS platform, giving clients the scale of a freelance marketplace and the support of a creative agency. It provides a fresh way for brands to collaborate on their creative strategy and projects, with curated project roadmaps, expert teams, and a suite of tools for one streamlined experience from brief to final delivery.

Goodpath

  • Wayfair alumni: Bill Gianoukos (Co-founder) and Carl Nehme (Co-founder)

  • Description: The way to better health. Finding solutions for chronic health issues is tough. That's why we created GoodPath - the only platform where you can find personalized, curated solutions for back pain, IBS, and insomnia.

  • Investors: GFC, Indicators Ventures, Switch Ventures, Blindspot Ventures

Weven

  • ACQUIRED BY THE KNOT

  • Wayfair alumni: Wesley Ripley (Co-founder)

  • Description: At Weven we build software to help nontraditional wedding venues run their business. Our all-in-one solution allows venues to manage everything in one place, from initial inquiry through a successfully run event. Our marketplace allows couples to browse our unique venues and know that any venue they find comes with a suite of tools to help make their wedding planning experience easy.

  • Investors: Wayfund members, and angels w/in Boston

 

AP Talent Partners

  • Wayfair Alumni: Alyssa Planeta (Founder & Managing Director)

  • Description: We partner with top organizations to recruit high-impact strategy & data leaders who will define their future. Our firm specializes in placing top performers from the following verticals: Strategy & Planning, Business & Digital Transformation, and Data Science & Analytics.

Weekday

  • Wayfair alumni: Ryan Whalen (Founder & CEO)

  • Description: Weekday wines are made from sustainably grown Californian grapes, have no added sugar and are lower in calories and alcohol than average wines, without sacrificing any flavor. Developed by 2 exhausted parents who enjoy an evening drink but have no time for stress or surprise hangovers, Weekday allows wine drinkers to indulge while leaving guilt and anxiety behind.

MockingBird

  • Wayfair alumni: Lauren Thompson (Founder)

  • Physical Location: 219 Main St, Charlestown, MA 02129

  • Description: Mockingbird Baby & Maternity, located in Boston’s historic Charlestown neighborhood, offers unique baby and toddler items for urban families.

 

B3GIN

  • Wayfair alumni: Jeremy Jarry (Founder & CEO)

  • Description: B3GIN develops and optimizes the use of stock options to help businesses attract, motivate and retain their talents. Our secure and intuitive platform, combined with our experience-based training program, (re)aligns the interests of the 3 players - employees, founders and investors - and brings liquidity to stock options making them more valuable for employees.

Findi

  • Wayfairian: Michael Eldridge (Co-founder & CEO)

  • Description: Findi brings financial planning to those who need it most, leveraging optimization techniques to provide actionable insights and compare possible outcomes. Our platform guides customers month by month through life’s choices, empowering users to make the best decisions and steering them toward their goals.

Recruit Pilot

  • Wayfairian: Chris Mannion (Founder)

  • Description: Recruit Pilot is the first talent intelligence platform that lets recruiters and hiring managers quickly align on the perfect candidate profile and generate untapped sourcing pipelines based on competencies, not keywords.

 

Seabird Apps

  • Wayfair alumni: Sean Cann (Co-founder & CEO)

  • Description: Seabird Apps is the startup behind Onespot—a no-code mobile app builder, like Squarespace but for apps. With Onespot, you can make a brand new mobile + web app for your business, community, or organization in 15 minutes, with no code, entirely from your phone.

Stella Talent Partners

  • Wayfair alumni: Elliott Garlock (Founder)

  • Description:  Stella is a talent advisory business that scales web3 teams. They support clients with a blend of organizational consulting and executive search.

Nia

  • Wayfair alumni:  Isabel Plana (Founder)

  • Description: Nia is a digital pet health company that provides at-home care through specialized treatment tracks. They focus on chronic conditions that can be managed using telehealth, an online pharmacy, and behavioral modifications.

 

KettleOS

  • Wayfair alumni: Ryan Donohue (Co-founder)

  • Description: KettleOS is a SaaS platform designed to help teams optimize their time together. The flexibility afforded by hybrid work is amazing, but challenges arise when trying to coordinate with your colleagues and friends in a truly fluid environment. Facilitating meaningful in-person activities helps builds connection and maintains employee engagement while boosting productivity and ensuring an organization can thrive as hybrid work becomes the norm.

AnyQuestion

  • Wayfair alumni: Ryan Durkin (COO), Lanqing Wu (Data Science & Analytics), Tram Nguyen (Business Intelligence)

  • Description: AnyQuestion is a premium social video app that empowers members to ask questions and get answers from world-class Experts, at any time. Whether in sport, hobby, or health, our mission is simple: Connect knowledge seekers with the best information and insight on the planet.

  • Acquired by WHOOP.

Proto101

  • Wayfair alumni: Ashleigh Williams Corker (Founder)

  • Description: Sustainable, comfortable, and stylish men's basics designed for all your adventures.

  • Investors: Wayfund members & Seattle Angels

 
 

LeaseUp

  • Wayfair alumni: Gunnar Bell (Co-founder)

  • Description: LeaseUp is getting companies connected with spaces they love. It is a workflow optimization platform for brokers to increase transparency and streamline communication with tenants.

  • Investors: Wayfund members & others​

Trova

  • Wayfair alumni: Jon Parsons (Co-founder & Head of Engineering)

  • Description: Trova is focused on the idea that stronger relationships build stronger companies. Our platform helps employees bring their whole selves to work and connect with peers who share their interests and backgrounds. Whether it's leveraging our automated introductions, affinity groups, or events calendar, we want Trova to be the tool employees turn to when they turn work off.

 
 

Founding Early Employees

Lantern

  • Wayfair alumni: Meredith Mahoney (President & 1st employee) and Pat Baker (Director of Growth Marketing & early employee)

  • Description: Shop Lantern to get cannabis delivered right to your door.

  • Investors: Drizly

 

The Good Face Project

  • Wayfair alumni: Boris Yovchev (Early member)

  • Description: The Good Face Project helps consumers discover the best clean beauty products for them with the first of its kind science-backed, AI-powered recommendation engine for cosmetics, based on its proprietary ontology of 100k+ individual ingredients graded across 15 dimensions of efficacy and safety.

  • Investors: Wayfund members, Raptor Group, EvoNexus, Founder Institute, and others

SidelineSwap

  • Wayfair alumni: Alex Goldman (Early employee)

  • Description: Buy and sell sports equipment: Hockey, Lacrosse, Baseball, Ski and more. This is where athletes buy and sell their gear. Find great deals on new and used equipment, or list your gear for free in seconds.

  • Investors: Global Founders Capital, with participation from NBA legend David Robinson’s Admiral Capital, Peak6 Sports, RiverPark Ventures, FJ Labs and The Player’s Impact

 
 

Up & Comers

manakii

  • Wayfairian: Sowmya Pelluru (Founder)

  • Description: A social and sustainably conscious women's underwear company on a mission to do good. We are built off the simple idea that a woman's time and purchasing power can now be used to uplift themselves and other women. Our buy one, donate one model allows the dignity of clean products to empower women all women, so they can focus on contributing to the world.

Cobble

  • Description: Cobble is on a mission to build a platform where inspired individuals come together to create unique dining experiences.

MyCancerDB

  • Wayfairian: Andrew Popp (Co-founder)

  • Description: MyCancerDB is a technology company that is enabling the future of cancer treatment. Founded to serve cancer patients frustrated by the treatment programs they find are available to them, the company is re-envisioning the patient/healthcare/health provider paradigm. The result is an in-the-cloud platform focused on individual patients, prioritizing agency, privacy and smarter and more useful management of personal health data.

 

Krio

  • Wayfairian: Tony Johnson (Founder)

  • Description: Krio offers easy to use, plant-based skincare solutions for dry skin, while bridging the gap between self-care and self-discovery, through the lens of Sierra Leone's history and culture.

aLiveShow

  • Wayfairian: Ruben Cagnie (Founder)

  • Description: aLiveShow is a one of a kind, livestream show app platform for comedians to perform, produce, and promote from anywhere. As the performance space continues to move into a live streamed world, aLiveShow is the tool to host multiple daily open mics, produce booked stand up shows, produce booked improv shows, and allow comedians to network with ease.

 

The Finish

  • Wayfairian: Kaitlin Madden Armon (Co-founder)

  • Description: The Finish offers on-demand interior design help booked by the hour, so you choose the number of hours you need. Our designers can take on those little projects you've never gotten around to, like choosing drapery, or finding the perfect throw pillows for your living room. Or, if you need more help than that, our designers can create moodboards, furniture schemes, and design plans for an entire room. We have no minimum project budget, but we aren't scared off by the big stuff, either.

 

Ian Squared

  • Wayfair alumni: Ian Eshelman (Co-founder) and Ian Kilburn (Co-founder)

  • Description: A new approach to direct response TV commercials. We focus on strong strategies, memorable hooks, and less expensive fluff. Instead of focusing on one hit wonders, we're a small agency built to plug in directly with brands and produce long-term home runs.

 

 Past Companies

Perch

  • Wayfair alumni: Chris Bell (Founder)

  • Description: Buying and running great e-commerce companies, creating value through technology and operational excellence

  • Investors: Softbank, Spark, angels

3XR

  • Wayfair alumni: Mike Festa (Founder), Lauren Taylor (Co-founder), Wyatt Bramhall (Early employee)

  • Description: We are focused on streamlining the 3D content creation process, for furniture and beyond. 

  • Investors: Wayfund members, UnderscoreVC

Mombox

  • Wayfair alumni: Kate Westervelt (Founder)

  • Description: We're on a mission to take better care of new moms. We pick, pack, and ship a box full of labor and delivery care items (the really good stuff) directly to Mom at home, so she doesn't have to run to the store after giving birth.

  • Investors: Wayfund members, Uber & Facebook angels