Joe Caruso

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Mr. Joe Caruso serves as Managing Partner at Bantam Group. He is an Angel Investor. He serves as a Board Member at Boston Micromachines. He serves as an Advisor at Folia Health. He also served as an Investment Committee Member at Castor Ventures. He served as Director, Engineering at Butterfly (Educational and Training Services (B2C)). He served as a Board Member at LeasePilot. He serves as an Advisor at Later and Konnecto. He is a prolific investor, an advocate for entrepreneurs, and a Board Member. He served as an Advisor at LAFORGE. For over 20 years, through the Bantam Group (his consulting/investing entity), he has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs from MIT, other schools, and various startups realize their goals and grow their companies. He is currently a director of Boston Micromachines Corp, Cambrian Innovation, and Allyke, and is on the President's Council at Olin College of Engineering. He is also the Founder of BREW, Boston Region Entrepreneur Week. In addition, he is a Catalyst for MIT's Deshpande Center and is well-connected in the MIT ecosystem. Early in his career, he worked at Teradyne and Autex, both legendary MIT spinoff companies. He was then CEO of Cyborg Corporation, a venture-funded company that was a pioneer in the use of PCs in laboratory and factory automation. He holds a BSEE with honors from Northeastern University, an MBA from the Harvard Business School, and has also attended Suffolk Law School.