Energy Points, Biogen, Navinet, & More Boston Dealmakers

Acquisitions are in the air in New England. Here’s what happened in the past week.

—Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: [[ticker:AKAM]]), the Web content and delivery giant of Cambridge, MA, made a move to tackle Web performance at the browser level, with the acquisition of Ottawa-based Blaze Software. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

—Boston-based Acetylon Pharmaceuticals pulled in a $15 million investment from biotech behemoth Celgene (NASDAQ: [[ticker:CELG]]), which has recently done deals with other New England biotechs like Avila Therapeutics, Acceleron, Foundation Medicine, and Agios.

—Cambridge-based Energy Points emerged with new software enabling businesses to measure their sustainability across different resources. The startup is funded with $3 million from Plan B Ventures.

—Former Biogen Idec head of research Michael Gilman is making a return to the Weston, MA-based drugmaker. Gilman’s Cambridge-based startup Stromedix, founded in 2007 within Atlas Venture, is being acquired by Biogen (NASDAQ: [[ticker:BIIB]]) for $75 million, with potential milestone payments of up to $487.5 million.

—Navinet, the Boston-based provider of real-time communications technology for doctors, hospitals, and health insurers, will be acquired by the health IT firm Lumeris in partnership with three Blue Cross Blue Shield health plans. The deal, whose price tag was undisclosed, is expected to close in 30 days.

Author: Erin Kutz

Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.