Andrew Hogue

Grow your network, grow your career. Mentorship is the most effective way to build your network and career. Not everyone has the same access, so we built Merit for the under-networked tech worker to grow their craft, career, and confidence. Merit connects tech talent to grow their craft, career and community. Its is as simple as picking a topic, person and time. We connect curious, eager members with mentors who want to impact the tech industry for the better. Our vision is a real meritocracy for the tech industry, and we’ll get there, one conversation at a time.

Grow your network, grow your career. Mentorship is the most effective way to build your network and career. Not everyone has the same access, so we built Merit for the under-networked tech worker to grow their craft, career, and confidence. Merit connects tech talent to grow their craft, career and community. Its is as simple as picking a topic, person and time. We connect curious, eager members with mentors who want to impact the tech industry for the better. Our vision is a real meritocracy for the tech industry, and we’ll get there, one conversation at a time.

For five decades, Kleiner Perkins has partnered with intrepid founders to build iconic companies that made history. Today, Kleiner Perkins continues that legacy, investing in founders with bold ideas that span industries and continents, partnering with them from inception to IPO and beyond to maximize the potential of their ideas and make history across consumer, enterprise, health care, financial services, and hardtech. Our portfolio includes Google, Amazon, Figma, Glean, Harvey, Rippling, TogetherAI, OpenEvidence, Waymo, and Anthropic. For more information, visit http://www.kleinerperkins.com and follow us @kleinerperkins.

Hudson River Angels (HRA) is an early-stage investment group for technology companies. HRA focuses on seed-round internet startups that are looking for guidance, advice and capital to accelerate the process from idea to viable company. HRA leverages decades of product and engineering experience from top technology companies like Google, Microsoft and IBM. This experience allows a unique perspective on how technology can disrupt industries and create tremendous value. HRA focuses on technology-leveraged companies that are industry transforming. We look for companies that use advanced technologies to solve the most difficult, and therefore, most valuable problems.

The MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory – known as CSAIL ­– is the largest research laboratory at MIT and one of the world’s most important centers of information technology research. CSAIL has played a key role in the computer revolution and developments such as time-sharing, massive parallel computers, public key encryption, mass commercialization of robots, and much of the technology underlying the ARPANet, Internet and the World Wide Web. CSAIL’s focus is developing the architecture and innovative applications for tomorrow’s information technology. Our research yields long-term improvements in how people live and work. CSAIL members (former and current) have launched more than 100 companies, including 3Com, Lotus Development Corporation, RSA Data Security, Akamai, iRobot, Meraki, ITA Software, and Vertica. The Lab is home to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Wireless@MIT, BigData@CSAIL, Cybersecurity@CSAIL and the MIT Information Policy Project (IPP). Connecting to CSAIL CSAIL Alliances is your organizations pathway to CSAIL connections and serves as a gateway into the lab for industry and governmental institutions seeking closer engagement to the work, researchers and students of CSAIL. The program provides organizations with a proactive and comprehensive approach to developing strong connections with all CSAIL has to offer. Leading organizations come to CSAIL to learn about our research, to recruit talented graduate students, and to explore collaborations with our researchers. Through this program, we are able to better provide our members with access to our latest thinking and our deep pool of exceptional human and informational resources. For more information, please visit: http://cap.csail.mit.edu/