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Meet Shonté Davidson, CEO of Better Together Brain Trust (BT2) Energy

Shonté Davidson is the CEO of Better Together Brain Trust (BT2) Energy, a turnkey contractor for EV charging, energy efficiency [...]

EVident Battery and Growing a Startup in Massachusetts

Meet the Man: In our conversation with Jinqiang Ning, we learned about his path to foundership and how he’s leveraged [...]

MFN Webinar: Safeguarding Your Company’s Most Valuable Assets

Intellectual property (IP) is one of the most valuable assets a startup can develop, but it can be easily lost [...]

Raising Money

Investor POV: Your Deal Room Table of Contents

Seth Masters, Vice Chair of the New York Angels, spoke with MFN to offer some advice about how to best [...]

Investor POV: A Practical Exercise for Your Deal Room

Tom Balderston, Partner at SustainVC, spoke with MFN about how founders should set up their deal rooms and shares a [...]

Investor POV: Sharing Your Deal Room with Investors

Cairn Cross, Co-Founder of FreshTracks Capital, spoke with MFN about the importance of strategically sharing your deal room with investors. [...]
Startup Essentials

Mass Clean Energy Center and Startups: Evolving Support for Sustainable Technologies

MFN recently spoke with Catharina Damrell, Program Manager of Tech-to-Market, and Maddy Zeliff, Senior Program Manager, at the Massachusetts Clean [...]

MFN Webinar Recap: Collegiate Entrepreneurship with Angela Randolph

Angela Randolph, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at Babson College, recently spoke to our startup community as part of the MFN [...]

Develop and Retain your Key Talent: Training Opportunity For Startups

This program is designed to illuminate the essential skills and attributes of effective leadership. Cathy Crosky is an experienced leadership [...]
Viewpoints

Haitham Wahab’s View From Both Sides of the Powerpoint

Haitham Wahab has 25+ years experience helping companies towards success. MFN is excited to partner with Haitham on a new [...]

How Kinto’s Focus Led to a Strategic Acquisition

From idea to acquisition, Duncan Pettigrew helped build Kinto to support dementia caregivers with scalable, tech-driven, human-centered care. [...]

How Startup Founders Can Stay Connected

Founders thrive on exchanging ideas, troubleshooting challenges, and sharing updates in a way that’s both meaningful and efficient. Here's what [...]
Go To Market Resources

Advantages of Offline Ads

John Wall: While digital ads get a lot of the attention—because you put up an ad, you get your results [...]

How to Utilize Paid Search Engine Advertising

John Wall: Paid search is one of the easiest areas to get started in advertising for your product. The thing [...]

How to Use Events and Public Speaking to Grow Your Business

Participating in trade shows and other events related to your industry can be an incredibly cost-effective way to get your [...]

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MFN Deal Rooms are stored on MFN/Lever Google Workspace. Only the following people will have access to your Deal Room:

 

  1. You and any members of your team that you designate. You will have editing privileges, and can add others with editing privileges at your discretion.
  2. MFN/ Lever staff will have administrative access, but we will not give access to any third parties without your consent.
  3. Investors that you select.

 

Your Deal Room will have all of the security protections provided by Google.

Founders are everywhere, but resources aren’t.

That’s a shame, because the next big idea could come from anywhere.

 

The Massachusetts Founder Network aims to bridge the gap, giving startup founders equitable access to resources that will help their companies grow.

 

We support MA founders no matter where they come from, their company’s stage, or their business sector. We want to democratize access to the resources that will help them accelerate—and excel. All founders are welcome to find resources and community at MFN while creating connections, expanding their networks, and learning from one another.

About MFN

The Massachusetts Founders Network is a central hub for all things startups, fostering innovation and collaboration across the state. MFN offers valuable networking, resources, mentorship, and community for startup founders in Massachusetts. 

 

MFN is produced by Lever, a startup accelerator based in North Adams. Our work is supported by funding from and collaboration with the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, based in Westborough.

 

We’ve been advising and connecting with entrepreneurs for years, and we’re using that knowledge and network to launch something new, with the help of an advisory board of successful founders and major players in the startup ecosystem. 

We plan to launch the Massachusetts Founders Network in summer 2023. Sign up for our newsletter to get alerts about our launch, new features, and MFN events!