Charles River Ventures, a venture firm with offices in Waltham, MA, and Menlo Park, CA, has recruited F—edCompany.com creator Philip Kaplan to be an entrepreneur-in-residence at the firm, VentureWire reports. Kaplan, aka “Pud,” tells the VC news service that he plans to evaluate tech companies in the context of venture investing rather than slamming them on his former website, F—kedCompany.com, which gained a strong following during the dot-com bubble in the early 2000s. More recently, Kaplan founded online advertising firm, AdBrite, according to VentureWire.
Author: Ryan McBride
Ryan is an award-winning business journalist who contributes to our life sciences and technology coverage. He was previously a staff writer for Mass High Tech, a Boston business and technology newspaper, where he and his colleagues won a national business journalism award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers in 2008. In recent years, he has made regular TV appearances on New England Cable News.
Prior to MHT, Ryan covered the life sciences, technology, and energy sectors for Providence Business News. He graduated with honors from the University of Rhode Island in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in communications. When he’s not chasing down news, Ryan enjoys mountain biking and skiing in his home state of Vermont.
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