John Harthorne

John is the Founder & Managing Director of Two Lanterns Venture Partners, a seed fund investing in AI software startups in the US and Israel. Prior to launching Two Lanterns in 2020, John was the Founder and 10-year-long CEO of MassChallenge, the most startup-friendly accelerator on the planet. While John was CEO, ~3,000 MassChallenge alumni raised well over $8.5 billion of funding, generated over $3.5 billion of revenue, and created over 200,000 jobs. The World Economic Forum elected John as a Young Global Leaders, and Ernst & Young selected John as Social Entrepreneur of the Year in New England. John earned his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. While at school, John won Grand Prize in the MIT $100K Business Plan Competition and received the Patrick J. McGovern Award for impact on quality and visibility of entrepreneurship at MIT. John holds a BA from Bowdoin College, an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, an Honorary Doctorate from Suffolk University, and certificates for Leadership and Innovation from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.