Highland Leads $9M InXpo Deal

Highland Capital Partners of Boston led a $9 million first round of financing for InXpo, the Chicago-based startup announced. Founded in 2004, InXpo creates virtual events and virtual business environments for corporate clients including  AAA, Cisco, Procter & Gamble, and SAP as well as publishers such as Forbes Media, PennWell, TechTarget, and Ziff Davis. “In two years time, there will not be a single physical meeting or event that does not have a virtual component to it,” predicts the startup’s CEO, Malcolm Lotzof.

Author: Rebecca Zacks

Rebecca is Xconomy's co-founder. She was previously the managing editor of Physician's First Watch, a daily e-newsletter from the publishers of New England Journal of Medicine. Before helping launch First Watch, she spent a decade covering innovation for Technology Review, Scientific American, and Discover Magazine's TV show. In 2005-2006 she was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. Rebecca holds a bachelor's degree in biology from Brown University and a master's in science journalism from Boston University.