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Carson Ortolani

Operations Associate at Techstars

Boston, Massachusetts

Overview 

Carson Ortolani is an Operations Associate at Techstars in Boston, Massachusetts, with a background in early-stage ventures and entrepreneurship. Highlights of his career include serving as Investment Director at IDEA: Northeastern University's Venture Accelerator and as a Founder of Huddle, showcasing his expertise in project management and creative entrepreneurship.

Work Experience 

  • Operations Associate

    2024 - Current

Techstars is an accelerator that provides pre-seed investment and mentoring for various early stage startups.

Raised $108,919,999.00 from SVB Financial Group and Foundry Group.

  • Associate

    2023

    Facilitating venture capital investment in Northeastern-affiliated startups.

Huntington Angels Network is a student-run venture capital organization that connects ventures with investors.

  • Investment Committee Board Observer

    2024 - 2024

  • Investment Director

    2023 - 2024

    Selected by Northeastern's Entrepreneurs in Residence to lead a 10 person analyst team and manage the Northeastern University Gap Fund with an annual distribution of up to $250,000 writing 10-30k non-equity checks into Northeastern student founders and alumni. Investments: Slate Milk, Tatum Robotics, Rooted Living, Alia, ScaleTrade, Foreign Resource

  • Investment Analyst

    2022 - 2023

  • Business and Operations

    2023 - 2023

Inrupt is delivering Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s original vision of a web of shared benefit, for everyone.

Raised $46,444,960.00 from Accenture Ventures.

  • Investment Analyst

    2022 - 2022

    Early stage VC firm investing in enterprise SaaS across AI/ML and frontier tech startups.

Glasswing Ventures is an early-stage VC firm investing in next gen AI and frontier technology startups enabling the intelligent enterprise.

  • Board of Directors

    2021 - 2022

  • Accelerator Director

    2021 - 2022

  • Founder

    2021 - 2021

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