Ben Littauer, Angel Investor

Ben Littauer is an angel investor with expertise in Internet and communications technologies, healthcare IT, as well as the Boston funding ecosystem. Currently an active member of TBD Angels with over 60 investments in a wide variety of startups, he has been a board member of several portfolio companies. Mr. Littauer is a judge for Mass Challenge, CRDF Global, and various academic competitions. He regularly mentors startups about fundraising, product definition, and go-to-market strategies. Mr. Littauer was a Technology Strategist for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where he defined the architecture for PatientSite one of the early patient portals that lets patients communicate securely with their healthcare team and view their medical records. He was a consultant to the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium on healthcare data security projects. Mr. Littauer was co-founder, President, and CTO of Baranof Software, the leading vendor of service-level management software for messaging and Internet applications. Baranof was sold to Tally Systems in 1997. He has worked for Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems, Symantec, Lotus, and BBN. Mr. Littauer was also an analyst with Ferris Research and Baroudi Bloor International.