*Applications close April 13th.

The Harvard Grid Meet the VCs Series welcomes 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.

Underscore Verticals

• Enterprise

• Supply Chain

• Web3 / Blockchain

• Commerce

• Vertical SaaS

• AI / ML

• Fintech

• Insurtech

• Healthtech

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.