We seek to liberate knowledge workers.

Who we are

  • Shawn Carolan
    Shawn Carolan

    CEO of H&L and Managing Director, Menlo Ventures. Investor in Roku, Siri (Apple), PlaySpan (Visa), IMVU, YuMe, TeleNav and PlayPhone. Former software engineer.

  • Jonathan McCoy
    Jonathan McCoy

    Serial entrepreneur, tech polymath. Director of SW engineering. Rails, javascript hack. Background in semantic knowledge modeling, process modeling

  • Blake Mills
    Blake Mills

    Rails enthusiast. Founder, 15 Minute Calls, theHelmetLock. Senior Software Developer, Airwave Wireless, Aruba Networks, 4anything.

  • Greg Tomei
    Greg Tomei

    Rubyist, JS hackr, and TDD practitioner.Senior Software Engineer. Blurb, Web System Studio, Carbon Five.

  • Brian Tobin
    Brian Tobin

    Full stack engineer, UX kvetch. Previously a senior developer at Meraki, Inc.

  • Ian McDowell
    Ian McDowell

    Code junkie, UX enthusiast, startup convert. Past lives range from customer support to interaction design at Google and Salesforce.

  • Liron Yahdav
    Liron Yahdav

    Rails junkie. Rubyist. XP practitioner. Senior Full-Stack Engineer. Previously Software Engineer at Manilla.

  • Kurt Snyder
    Kurt Snyder

    Ruby fan, Rails fan, TDD advocate, workflow optimization, document databases, risk management. Founder, Cadenza Inc.

  • Wolfram Arnold, Ph.D.
    Wolfram Arnold, Ph.D.

    Physicist turned rails afficionado, consultant/trainer. VP Engineering, Papercheck. Founder, RubyFocus & WTA Consulting

  • Rodrigo Vanegas
    Rodrigo Vanegas

    Veteran startup junkie and devoted rubyist. Senior Engineer, Glam Media, Sportgenic, SuccessFactors

  • Vineet Mehta
    Vineet Mehta

    Techie turned VC turned techie again. Senior Associate, Menlo Ventures. Focus on mobile and web apps, advertising, infrastructure

  • Yvette Ma
    Yvette Ma

    Finance maven, Jill-of-all things G&A. Start-up CFO, Syfto, mywaves, Questra. Senior Finance & Sales Ops, ONI Systems.

  • Doan Truong
    Doan Truong

    Quality assurance guru, rails enthusiast. Senior QA, Glam Media, Sportgenic, Sonic Solutions, Roxio

About us

We're building a web app to transform the way knowledge workers operate. We're backed by $1.5M from Menlo Ventures.


"Engaged customers are the key to a successful startup. In H&L's case, I can't wait to be the first customer"

Steve Blank, Lecturer Stanford and UC Berkeley, Cofounder E.piphany, Cofounder Rocket Science


"H&L will revolutionize human productivity, it will give us back billions of lost human hours of life. Hours we can spend living rather than being drowned in a sea of bits"

Shervin Pishevar, Managing Director Menlo Ventures, Former GM Mozilla, Former CEO SGN


"SRI has studied knowledge work for over a decade and H&L is one of the most compelling approaches we've seen that can change the game"

Norman Winarsky, PhD, Norman Winarsky PhD. VP, SRI Ventures, Board member of Siri

Career Opportunities

We use bleeding edge technology and seek amazing people to join us. While we watch our burn rate carefully, we value our people and know how to reward them. Our open positions are list below. If you don't see something that interests you, email us at jobs@handl.it and let us know you can make a difference.