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Ed Kania Ed is Managing Partner and Chairman at Flagship Ventures. Prior to co-founding Flagship Ventures, he spent 14 years as General Partner of OneLiberty Ventures and of its predecessor firm, Morgan, Holland Ventures. Previously, he served as an Investment Officer at First Capital Corporation of Boston, the venture capital subsidiary of Bank of Boston, and, previously, as Research Associate at Harvard Business School and as General Manager at J. Cunningham, Inc. He is a frequent speaker on venture capital and entrepreneurship. Throughout his professional career, Ed has operated both as an investor and as an active partner to entrepreneurs in company building. His direct investment experience covers over 100 companies. In addition, he has been intimately involved in the launch and development of more than a dozen companies as the founding, lead or co-lead investor, and on occasion has assumed operating roles in support of management. Several of these companies are now publicly traded while others have been acquired by significant publicly-traded companies. Ed also serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Harbinger Partners, a non-profit organization that provides information technology solutions for other non-profits. | 