Steve Herrod

We develop an entrepreneurial mindset and skillset among Tufts students, alumni, and community members. We help them take idea to action and change the world for the better. This helps them succeed wherever their professional journeys take them, whether it’s in a startup, large corporation, non-profit, or in government.

Prosimo delivers simplified multi-cloud infrastructure for distributed enterprise cloud journeys. Companies innovate faster and remain in control with the Prosimo integrated stack. This stack combines cloud networking, performance, security, observability, and cost management—all powered by data insights and machine learning models with autonomous cloud networking to reduce complexity and risk. Cloud-forward enterprises, including F100, have adopted Prosimo to successfully roll out revenue-generating applications, improve operational efficiency, and accelerate positive business outcomes. Prosimo is venture-backed by marquee investors such as General Catalyst and WRVI Capital. For more information, visit https://www.prosimo.io.

Securiti is the pioneer of the DataAI Command Center, a centralized platform that enables the safe use of data and GenAI. It provides unified data intelligence, controls and orchestration across hybrid multicloud environments. Large global enterprises rely on Securitis Data Command Center for data security, privacy, governance, and compliance. Securiti has been recognized with numerous industry and analyst awards, including "Most Innovative Startup" by RSA, "Top 25 Machine Learning Startups" by Forbes, "Most Innovative AI Companies by CB Insights, "Cool Vendor in Data Security" by Gartner, and "Privacy Management Wave Leader by Forrester. For more information, please follow us on LinkedIn and visit Securiti.ai.

Corelight transforms network and cloud activity into evidence so that data-first defenders can stay ahead of ever-changing attacks. Delivered by our open NDR platform, Corelight’s comprehensive, correlated evidence gives you unparalleled visibility into your network. This evidence allows you to unlock new analytics, investigate faster, hunt like an expert, and even disrupt future attacks. Our on-prem and cloud sensors go anywhere to capture structured, industry-standard telemetry and insights that work with the tools and processes you already use. Corelight’s global customers include Fortune 500 companies, major government agencies, and research universities. Get started >> https://www.corelight.com/contact

Hi, were Armorblox! We help organizations communicate more securely over email and other cloud office applications with the power of Natural Language Understanding (NLU). The Armorblox platform connects over APIs and analyzes thousands of signals to understand who users are, what they do, and how they communicate. With this context, Armorblox can stop advanced email attacks like business email compromise, and also help organizations stay compliant by protecting their sensitive data from falling into the wrong hands. Security teams also become more proactive after using Armorblox because the platform automates away most of the manual and repetitive tasks involved in responding to user-reported email threats. We create the VERY BEST People-first Company Culture through thoughtful programs that elevate and engage our People. We are proud to have an industry-leading product, a gender score that ranks in the top 20%, and a diversity score that ranks in the top 30%. We are honored Armorblox was awarded Great Place to Work, Omni Award for Outstanding Wellbeing and Benefits, Best Company Leadership, Best CEOs for Diversity, Best Company Compensation, and was featured in the 2019 Forbes AI 50 list and was named a 2020 Gartner Cool Vendor in Cloud Office Security. Founded in 2017, Armorblox is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA and backed by the very best investors in Silicon Valley including General Catalyst and Next47. Armorblox was acquired by Cisco in July 2023.

SignalFx enables real-time cloud monitoring and observability for infrastructure, microservices, and applications by collecting and analyzing metrics and traces across every component in your cloud environment. Built on a massively-scalable streaming architecture, SignalFx applies advanced analytics and data science-directed troubleshooting to let operators find the root cause of issues in seconds. SignalFx was acquired by Splunk in October 2019. With Splunk’s market-leading log analytics technology, SignalFx and Splunk provide the industry’s first enterprise-grade, end-to-end observability platform.

The pioneer in deploying machine learning into clinical workflows, Curai Health is an AI-powered virtual clinic delivering primary care to more people at a fraction of the cost. Easy-to-use and convenient, Curai Health partners with insurers and health systems to keep patients engaged in their care over time, improving health outcomes and reducing costs. Curai Health has been combining the expertise of clinicians with the efficiencies of artificial intelligence since its founding in 2017. We’re building a diverse, world-class team across multiple disciplines. If you’re interested, we’re always looking for the best kind of people.

Arrcus is a leading provider of high-performance routing and switching solutions, enabling organizations to achieve superior scalability and reliability. Its ACE platform, powered by the ArcOS network operating system, offers an agile alternative to traditional monolithic systems for datacenter, core, and edge environments. To meet the distinct demands of AI, Arrcus delivers specialized ethernet fabrics. For training, its scale-out and scale-across solutions handle massive data synchronization and high-bandwidth requirements. For inferencing, the company recently launched the Arrcus Inference Network Fabric (AINF), a policy-driven approach spanning edge, datacenter, and cloud. By reducing token latency and improving throughput, AINF lowers the cost per token and enables sovereign AI, helping global enterprises modernize connectivity for the AI-driven era. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. For more information, go to https://www.arrcus.com or follow @arrcusinc

Zugata was founded in December 2014 with a vision to use data to understand employees and to use those insights to empower employees to reach their fullest potential. Organizations collect a staggering amount of data about their customers, competitors, market trends and even their data centers to optimize their operations. But it is amazing how little they know about their most important assets, their own employees. Without really understanding their employees, organizations cannot effectively develop their employees and offer them a rewarding career. We are setting out to fix that by building an employee-centric, data-driven company at the intersection of data, human psychology and organizational behavior.

Espressive delivers enterprise-ready digital workplace assistance that reduces costs while boosting employee experience, productivity, and satisfaction from day one. Espressive Barista, our virtual support agent (VSA) for the enterprise, combines the perfect blend of digital experience, intelligence, and automation to deliver employee self-help that exceeds human capability to elevate the experience of getting help at work. Barista takes on the role of the service agent, bringing the best of human experience with the best of artificial intelligence. Leveraging a proprietary and domain-specific large language model (LLM), the Employee Language Cloud, as well as integration with generalized LLMs, Barista automates resolution of employee questions, issues, and requests with personalized experiences that result in employee adoption of 80 to 85% and reduced help desk call volume of 50% to 70%.

Contrast Security is the world’s leader in Runtime Application Security, embedding code analysis and attack prevention directly into software. Contrast’s patented security instrumentation disrupts traditional AppSec approaches with integrated and comprehensive security observability that delivers highly accurate assessment and continuous protection of an entire application portfolio. The Contrast Runtime Security Platform enables powerful Application Security Testing and Application Detection and Response, allowing developers, AppSec teams, and SecOps teams to better protect and defend their applications against the ever-evolving threat landscape. Application Security programs need to modernize and Contrast empowers teams to innovate with confidence.

Catalina Labs is a Silicon Valley based company that empowers digital businesses understand, optimize and expand their interconnected world. The companys connected home management platform, Wixi, connects a software agent/app, a cloud-based insights engine, and an informative enterprise customer portal. The solution not only enables the diagnosing and repairing of consumer connectivity issues, but also delivers rich context-aware insights to enterprise customers, enabling them to deliver better support and enhancements to their products and services.

Preempt secures all workforce identities to accelerate digital transformation. Since 80% of all breaches involve compromised credentials, Preempt unifies security visibility and control for on-premises and cloud identities. Threats are preempted and IT policy enforced in real-time using identity, behavioral, and risk analytics. Preempt protects 4M+ workforce identities across 400+ enterprises. Customers have reduced the cost required to stop advanced threats and accelerate Zero Trust and Conditional Access initiatives. Founded in 2014, Preempt is headquartered in Silicon Valley, with R&D in Israel and sales offices worldwide.

RiskRecon, a Mastercard Company, enables you to easily achieve better risk outcomes for your enterprise and your supply chain. RiskRecon’s cybersecurity ratings and assessments make it easy for you to understand and act on your risks, delivering accurate, risk prioritized action plans custom tuned to match your risk priorities. As a leading provider of cybersecurity ratings, RiskRecon continuously monitors the cybersecurity risk of over 15 million companies across even the most highly regulated industries from finance and insurance to aerospace and healthcare. RiskRecon provides deep, risk-contextualized, data-driven insights into the security risk performance across a customer’s entire ecosystem and helps pinpoint specific gaps in any organization’s security programs and performance. With a 99.1% accuracy rating of its data, as certified by a third-party, customers can confidently rely on RiskRecon’s data-driven insights. Customers that leverage RiskRecon’s platform can transform traditional, manual methods of managing cyber risk into automated and streamlined processes – enabling them to build a highly efficient, scalable third-party risk management program. According to findings of the 2021 Total Economic Impact study conducted by Forrester Research, organizations using RiskRecon realize an average ROI of 147% over a three-year period.

Anomali delivers the leading AI-Powered Security and IT Operations Platform. Only Anomali integrates ETL, SIEM, Next-Gen SIEM, XDR, UEBA, SOAR, and TIP into one powerful platform. At the center is the Anomali Copilot that navigates a proprietary cloud-native security and IT data lake to drive first-in-market speed, scale, and performance at a fraction of the cost. Modernize security and IT operations to protect and accelerate your organization with better analytics, visibility, productivity, and talent retention. Be Different. Be the Anomali. Learn more at www.anomali.com.

Juxtapose is an investment firm that partners with experienced entrepreneurs to build category-defining technology companies. We work slowly, focusing on multi-decade opportunities in complex industries that leverage our expertise in human-centered design, commercial strategy, executive talent assessment, and technology. The Juxtapose partnership has participated in the development of over twenty companies in the last twenty-five years.

We develop an entrepreneurial mindset and skillset among Tufts students, alumni, and community members. We help them take idea to action and change the world for the better. This helps them succeed wherever their professional journeys take them, whether it’s in a startup, large corporation, non-profit, or in government.

Prosimo delivers simplified multi-cloud infrastructure for distributed enterprise cloud journeys. Companies innovate faster and remain in control with the Prosimo integrated stack. This stack combines cloud networking, performance, security, observability, and cost management—all powered by data insights and machine learning models with autonomous cloud networking to reduce complexity and risk. Cloud-forward enterprises, including F100, have adopted Prosimo to successfully roll out revenue-generating applications, improve operational efficiency, and accelerate positive business outcomes. Prosimo is venture-backed by marquee investors such as General Catalyst and WRVI Capital. For more information, visit https://www.prosimo.io.

Securiti is the pioneer of the DataAI Command Center, a centralized platform that enables the safe use of data and GenAI. It provides unified data intelligence, controls and orchestration across hybrid multicloud environments. Large global enterprises rely on Securitis Data Command Center for data security, privacy, governance, and compliance. Securiti has been recognized with numerous industry and analyst awards, including "Most Innovative Startup" by RSA, "Top 25 Machine Learning Startups" by Forbes, "Most Innovative AI Companies by CB Insights, "Cool Vendor in Data Security" by Gartner, and "Privacy Management Wave Leader by Forrester. For more information, please follow us on LinkedIn and visit Securiti.ai.

Corelight transforms network and cloud activity into evidence so that data-first defenders can stay ahead of ever-changing attacks. Delivered by our open NDR platform, Corelight’s comprehensive, correlated evidence gives you unparalleled visibility into your network. This evidence allows you to unlock new analytics, investigate faster, hunt like an expert, and even disrupt future attacks. Our on-prem and cloud sensors go anywhere to capture structured, industry-standard telemetry and insights that work with the tools and processes you already use. Corelight’s global customers include Fortune 500 companies, major government agencies, and research universities. Get started >> https://www.corelight.com/contact