Meet the VCs: Underscore VC

*Applications close April 13th.

The Harvard Grid Meet the VCs Series launches with Underscore VC, a Boston-based early stage firm focused on supporting technical founders from idea to company.

This session will be a small group dinner and discussion rather than a formal talk. The goal is open conversation. Attendees will meet investors and founders working in AI and healthcare and learn how venture investors evaluate early teams, research-driven ideas, and emerging technologies.

Underscore invests at the pre-seed and seed stage and works closely with academic founders and technical builders. The firm emphasizes long-term relationships and often meets founders well before they are raising capital. This is an opportunity to ask questions you would not normally ask in a public event and to understand how investors think about risk, timing, and early traction.

You do not need a startup or a pitch deck to attend. Curiosity and thoughtful questions are encouraged.

Participating founders

Attendees will also meet founders from Underscore’s network who are currently building companies in AI and healthcare:

Ari Chadda — Transyr Bio

 Building the API layer for science to improve how scientific innovations reach real-world use. Previously a Senior Data Scientist at In-Q-Tel working on autonomous physical and digital systems. A.B. in Computer Science, Dartmouth College.

Dan Freeman — terraFlow

Founder and CEO of terraFlow, which connects biomedical data to published research to surface biological insights that influence treatment outcomes in clinical trials.

Selected participants will receive location details in advance.