Alex Laats has had quite a few titles over the past decade: president of Java productivity tools provider ZeroTurnaround, co-founder of video indexing tech company Ramp, venture partner at Commonwealth Capital Ventures and president of the delta division for BBN Technologies, which Raytheon acquired in 2010.
For the past year or so, Laats has had a new one: CEO and founder of a new startup in stealth mode called Rekener, which disclosed in a regulatory filing on Thursday that it has raised a $3.1 million round. Venture capital firm Pillar and its founder Jamie Goldstein, a former North Bridge partner, are listed on the filing.
One of the other officers listed in the filing is Stephanie Fox, who lists herself as CMO of a stealthy project on LinkedIn. She was previously senior director of marketing at Copyright Clearance Center. Other names on the filing are Dave Casion and Alek Mesarovich.
Goldstein declined to comment on the filing. But as BostInno reported earlier this month, Pillar has made five investments so far. Pillar's first publicly announced investment was in blockchain content sharing startup LBRY, for which it led a $500,000 seed round. The four other investments have not been announced yet.
Goldstein officially launched Pillar earlier this year with DraftKings co-founder and CEO Jason Robins, Wayfair co-founders Steve Conine and Niraj Shah, TripAdvisor CEO Steve Kaufer and Rapid7 CEO Corey Thomas and other local executives — all of whom are co-owners and co-founders in the firm.
Correction: This article has been updated to reflect that Laats was president of the delta division for BBN Technologies, not president of BBJ Technologies itself.
