Blade, a Boston startup foundry from Kayak co-founder and former CTO Paul English, has made three notable additions to its board of directors. Among them is Kayak CEO Steve Hafner, who is reuniting with English after they spent a decade together creating Kayak—and turning it into a nearly $1.8 billion success story for New England tech.
The other additions are another big name in local tech, Constant Contact CEO Gail Goodman, along with Youngme Moon, a Harvard Business School professor focused on researching innovation.
The three new directors “will provide strategic input for existing Blade companies and help to recruit new entrepreneurs and startups to Blade,” the Fort Point Channel startup hatchery said.
English had this to say in a statement:
We are trying to build the best consumer tech startups in Boston, and the addition of Steve, Gail and Youngme will help us enormously. Gail is one of my favorite CEOs in the world, Youngme is a strategy and innovation dynamo at HBS, and Steve is the guy who made me look good at Kayak.
WiGo, a “who’s going out tonight” app for college students, is among the startups that's launched with help from Blade so far. WiGo recently announced closing a $700,000 seed round with an investment from Tinder co-founders Sean Rad and Justin Mateen.
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