Entrepreneurs Club

Receiving a whopping $109 million since 2007, Sheila Lirio Marcelo has been very busy providing the care we need and an iPhone app that’s taking Care.com to the next level. Founded in 2006, Care.com is the largest and fastest growing service used by families to find high-quality caregivers, providing a trusted place to easily connect, share caregiving experiences and get advice.

With over 6.5 million users and roughly 70% of them living outside the U.S. RunKeeper is an all-star mobile app. Receiving over $11 million in funding, RunKeeper is running at quite the pace for success

Mobile Money Maker: Since re-launching its mobile payment and loyalty solution last October, LevelUp has raised $31 million from the likes of Deutsche Telekom, on-boarded 3,600 merchants & eliminated the transaction fees that cost merchants $50 billion each year!

Off the Cuff: Featured on the Today Show, Memory on Hand began as a class project at Babson and has now sold over 70,000 USB flash-drive bracelets. As a MassChallenge competitor, Andrew has raised some money in the past and is in the process of raising much more.

Facing a $100+ million financial meltdown in 2002, The Beth Israel Deaconess Center called on Paul Levy to step in as CEO. Although Paul was new to healthcare, his effective leadership transformed the hospital into one of the best in the Northeast.

A Harvard business grad, Russ Wilcox invented electronic paper. Developed in the MIT Media Labs, E-Ink is found in the display of the Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader, and Motorola Cell Phones. After 13 years, Wilcox sold the company in 2010 for $250 million.

A January 2011 TechStars company (#1 startup accelerator in the world), HelpScout is transforming the way businesses handle customer service. As CEO, Nick did all of the front-end web development after he graduated from school in Tennessee in 2004. The team of 5 works right down the street from NU in the south end.

21 year old Spencer Bramson dropped out of Bentley as a sophomore after starting a fast growing college marketing company, Buzz University. Now a marketing whiz, Spencer is committed full-time to making influencers@ one of the strongest marketing firms around that connects brands with the 18-30 demographic.

Gradating from NU in 2009 in Electrical Engineering and Tech Entrepreneurship, Jason is the co-founder of GreenhornConnect.com, the #1 resource in Boston for entrepreneurship... jobs, events, you name it. Jason is also an expert on customer development and lean startups, which he led in his role at oneforty prior to their acquisition by Hubspot.

With humble beginnings in Boston's very own Newbury Street, Newbury Comics was founded in 1978 by two determined MIT students. Not very long after starting, Newbury Comics found its way to the forefront of Comics and music retail in New England with over 29 locations.

With over 16 locations and another one coming soon, John Pepper has built Boloco into a Boston burrito empire. After starting out on Wall Street and realizing it sucked, Pepper decided to take advantage of the need for quality burritos in Boston. Raising over $75,000 to benefit various charities in New England, Boloco has built itself an extremely strong brand & some of the most loyal customers around. Be sure to check out the Boloco location in NU's Marino Center!

Ryan Durkin runs a tight ship at Campus Live and does so with passion and drive. Graduating from UMass Amherst in 2008, Ryan paid his entire way with scholarships and hard work. His company raised $3,500,000 in VC funding and is used by over 100,000 college students across the U.S.