Hambleton Lord

Software Entrepreneur

📍 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 24 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2016
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May 2016
Netra is an automated content comprehension platform providing context and brand safety for video and image-based content using computer vision and AI. Netra delivers comprehension at scale for stored video and live stream/real time content (within milliseconds). Netras API creates a narrative of video content and identifies activities, objects, places and other features and delivers this comprehension to customers for a myriad of use cases. Netras customers include online video platforms, SSPs, media owners, CTV vendors, Data and AI platforms, and surveillance systems. Netras customers leverage the firms flexible APIs to build can capture value for their own customers. Netra is easy to integrate and offers its service at significantly lower costs than existing offerings. Netra was born out of MIT CSAIL research and has multiple issued and pending patents on its technology.
Board Observer
Aug 2014
Repsly, Inc. is a B2B software as a service (SaaS) company providing retail execution software that empowers CPG teams to make data-driven insights and achieve peak performance in the field. Repsly’s powerful manager’s dashboard equips teams with the data they need to uncover opportunities at retail, and the tools they need to deploy their team to take the right action in the store. Repsly’s best-in-class mobile app empowers retail execution specialists to have the biggest possible impact on sales, while equipping reps with the customizable data collection tools they need to report real-time insights from the field. Repsly is the only retail execution solution to centralize brands’ sales, field activity, and in-store data, connecting store-level activities with their impact on sales. More than 650 field teams in over 80 countries drive execution and sales in the field with Repsly. Awards: Repsly was selected as the best in “Sales operations” category on Under the Radar 2011 conference in Mountain View, California both by judges and audience choice. We were also selected as one of the 10 best European startups on Startup Week 2011 in Vienna, Austria and nominated for Europas 2011 award. In May 2012, we received Microsoft ISV award as "The most innovative startup"​. Founded in 2008 in Zagreb, Croatia, Repsly is headquartered in Boston. If you are a CPG or Retail Service organization operating in Latin America, you can visit our partner website here: repslylatam.com
Board Member
Aug 2011
Qstream is the leading enterprise microlearning and knowledge reinforcement solution proven by science and in practice to boost learner performance. Hundreds of organizations rely on Qstream to build high-performance teams by delivering a personalized and agile learning experience that delivers the highest levels of retention, engagement, and efficiency along with analytics that provide precision insights and expose a real-time view of performance readiness.
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Jul 2002
Building Engines, a JLL company, improves net operating income across the world’s most successful commercial real estate (CRE) portfolios. Our customers increase revenue, deliver the best occupant experience, and reduce operating costs with Prism – the industry’s most innovative and powerful building operations platform. Founded in 2000 with offices in Boston (HQ) and New York City, Building Engines is committed to helping CRE companies solve long-standing operational problems. Our market-leading solutions support today’s properties in a variety of key areas, including work order management, preventive maintenance, tenant experience, space visualization, and vendor lifecycle management. Put simply, it’s our mission to create exceptional experiences for everyone in every building. Today, more than 1,000 customers—including Beacon Capital Partners, Brixmor, and SL Green—rely on Building Engines to manage critical operational needs across more than three billion square feet and 35,000 properties worldwide.
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2016
Board Member
May 2016
Netra is an automated content comprehension platform providing context and brand safety for video and image-based content using computer vision and AI. Netra delivers comprehension at scale for stored video and live stream/real time content (within milliseconds). Netras API creates a narrative of video content and identifies activities, objects, places and other features and delivers this comprehension to customers for a myriad of use cases. Netras customers include online video platforms, SSPs, media owners, CTV vendors, Data and AI platforms, and surveillance systems. Netras customers leverage the firms flexible APIs to build can capture value for their own customers. Netra is easy to integrate and offers its service at significantly lower costs than existing offerings. Netra was born out of MIT CSAIL research and has multiple issued and pending patents on its technology.
2014
Board Observer
Aug 2014
Repsly, Inc. is a B2B software as a service (SaaS) company providing retail execution software that empowers CPG teams to make data-driven insights and achieve peak performance in the field. Repsly’s powerful manager’s dashboard equips teams with the data they need to uncover opportunities at retail, and the tools they need to deploy their team to take the right action in the store. Repsly’s best-in-class mobile app empowers retail execution specialists to have the biggest possible impact on sales, while equipping reps with the customizable data collection tools they need to report real-time insights from the field. Repsly is the only retail execution solution to centralize brands’ sales, field activity, and in-store data, connecting store-level activities with their impact on sales. More than 650 field teams in over 80 countries drive execution and sales in the field with Repsly. Awards: Repsly was selected as the best in “Sales operations” category on Under the Radar 2011 conference in Mountain View, California both by judges and audience choice. We were also selected as one of the 10 best European startups on Startup Week 2011 in Vienna, Austria and nominated for Europas 2011 award. In May 2012, we received Microsoft ISV award as "The most innovative startup"​. Founded in 2008 in Zagreb, Croatia, Repsly is headquartered in Boston. If you are a CPG or Retail Service organization operating in Latin America, you can visit our partner website here: repslylatam.com
2013
CEO & Co-Founder
Aug 2013
Seraf offers a streamlined deal flow and portfolio management platform for investors in early stage companies. Our solution enables venture funds, angel groups, impact funds, accelerators, family offices, and individual investors to efficiently track, value, analyze, optimize, and report on their investment portfolios. We believe investors in early stage companies should have access to best practices and professional tools to support the entrepreneurial community worldwide and achieve superior outcomes. Insights and education, combined with powerful portfolio management tools, allow investors to understand their investing better, learn faster and make necessary adjustments to select the highest quality opportunities and drive superior returns.
2012
Board Member
May 2012
Cambridge Trust is a private bank that creates custom financial solutions to build, grow and protect wealth for the needs of today’s individuals, families, businesses, private partnerships and nonprofit organizations. Each of our clients has a dedicated private banker who understands their needs and priorities and provides direct access to personal banking, residential lending, commercial banking and wealth management expertise. We have a legacy of financial strength and credibility, always staying true to our core value of doing what’s in the best interest of our clients. Our aim is to deliver the most important return of all – trust. Member FDIC. Equal Housing Lender Investments are not FDIC Insured • May Lose Value • Not Bank Guaranteed • Not a Deposit • Not Insured By Any Government Agency © 2023 Cambridge Trust Company. All Rights Reserved.
2011
Board Member
Aug 2011
Qstream is the leading enterprise microlearning and knowledge reinforcement solution proven by science and in practice to boost learner performance. Hundreds of organizations rely on Qstream to build high-performance teams by delivering a personalized and agile learning experience that delivers the highest levels of retention, engagement, and efficiency along with analytics that provide precision insights and expose a real-time view of performance readiness.
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