Dr. Roberts is the David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology at MIT and the Founder and Chair of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center. For over 30 years he chaired the MIT Sloan School of Management’s Management of Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group. Dr. Roberts is also actively involved as a co-founder, board member and angel investor in many high-tech start-ups. Dr. Roberts co-founded and was CEO of Pugh-Roberts Associates, an international management consulting firm specializing in system dynamics, strategic planning and technology management, now a division of PA Consulting Group. He co-founded and is a director of Medical Information Technology, Inc., a leading producer of healthcare information systems, and also co-founded and is a director of Sohu.com, Inc., a leading Chinese internet firm. In addition Roberts co-founded and was for 20 years a General Partner of the Zero Stage Capital and First Stage Capital Equity Funds, a group of venture capital funds investing in early-stage technology-based firms.

Prior to joining [x+1], Stephano led investments in consumer technology and media for Advanced Technology Ventures, an early stage fund with more than $1.5 billion under management. Before joining ATV, Stephano directed business strategy and development at America Online, Inc. At AOL, Stephano advised executives on marketing, distribution and Internet advertising strategy. He also negotiated and managed key partnerships with global corporations, such as Hewlett-Packard, Sony, Dell, and DoubleClick. Stephano led software and service investments for OCI Ventures Group, the U.S. venture subsidiary of an Asian conglomerate with interests in media, consumer goods and manufacturing. He also co-founded two start-ups: Psylum, a content and community network for video and online gaming which was sold to USA Networks, in 2000; and Blackboard, Inc., the leading provider of e-learning enterprise software and services for which he served as director of operations.

Dave is a venture capitalist and founding partner at 500 Startups, an internet startup seed fund & incubator program headquartered in Mountain View, CA. Dave has been geeking out in Silicon Valley for over twenty years as a software developer, entrepreneur, startup advisor & investor, blogger, and internet marketing nerd. Dave's ominous past includes work at Founders Fund, Facebook fBFund, PayPal, Mint.com, and SimplyHired.

Brian is the founder and CEO of Visible Measures. Brian has co-founded several successful Internet software companies, including web-based collaboration technology vendor Creative Aspects, which was acquired by Medsite Inc. (now WebMD); and The Cambridge Intelligence Agency, a Web-based e-mail response management solution provider that was acquired by marketing services company MSGi. Brian also co-founded technology strategy consulting firm Infraweb, Inc., where he served as President, and was an early member of the team at Allaire Corp. which went public in 1999 and was subsequently acquired by Macromedia.

Prior to HubSpot, Dharmesh was founder and CEO of Pyramid Digital Solutions, an enterprise software company selling to large financial services companies. Pyramid was a three time winner of the Inc. 500 award and an industry leader in providing innovative web applications available to millions of consumers. The company was acquired by SunGard Data Systems in 2005. Dharmesh is the co-author of book "Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media and Blogs" and also runs OnStartups.com, a premier online community for entrepreneurs.

Andy is a serial entrepreneur with over a decade of experience building successful software businesses. He is an investor in several early stage startups including Care.com, Digium, HubSpot and SmartFlix, is co-founder of FanSnap, and advisor to Kayak. Previously, Andy was a principal at Computational Biology Corporation (CBC), which was acquired by Agilent in 2004. Before CBC, he was Founder, President and CEO of Revenio, a venture-funded eMarketing software company he founded in 1999. Prior to Revenio, he was a co-founder and the VP of Technology at Open Market (one of the first eCommerce IPOs), a pioneering developer of Internet commerce application software. He built the company’s development infrastructure and was a co-inventor of the company's commerce architecture and technologies. He also helped bring the company through a series of financings, including a public stock offering in 1996.

Before joining HubSpot, David was the CEO of Performable, a next-generation marketing automation software platform. Before Performable David was the co-founder & CTO of Lookery. Before starting Lookery he co-founded Compete.com, now part of the WPP Group [Nasdaq: WPP], where he was the CTO. Before Compete he was the CTO of BuyerZone.com, now a part of Reed Elsevier [NYSE: RUK]. In the late 90's he was a part of the founding team of Bolt.com & part of Lycos.com.

Rob is co-founder of NextView Ventures, a seed stage investment firm focused on internet enabled innovation. He was previously a venture capitalist at Spark Capital, a leading venture firm focused on the intersection of media, technology, and entertainment. Prior to joining Spark Capital, Rob worked at Ebay, where he was the Global Product Marketing Lead for “Finding”. In this role, he launched over 20 products that significantly enhanced Ebay’s search, browse, and merchandising capabilities. Previously, Rob was a consultant with The Parthenon Group, a boutique strategic advisory. He was a member of the firm's Private Equity Practice, where he focused on the consumer and retail industries. Rob has also held roles at Fidelity Investments and BzzAgent, an early-stage word-of-mouth marketing company. He also helped to found Letslink.jp, one of the first social networks focused on the Japanese market.