Today is the 225th anniversary of a milestone in the history of American innovation. On January 9, 1790, the 35-year-old secretary of the Treasury of the United States sent the House of Representatives a 40,000-word blueprint for the new nation’s financial system. The report was produced just four months after Congress commissioned it. Proposing the … Continue reading “Milestones of Innovation 1: Hamilton’s 1790 Report on the Public Credit”
Category: Boston
Boston Tech Roundup: Kanojia, NetProspex, Jana, Erecruit, & More
A new year means a bunch of new deals to catch up on around the Boston-area innovation sector, including secretive new companies from notable executives, an acquisition, and fundraising for several private companies: —Chet Kanojia, the founder and CEO of defunct video-streaming startup Aereo, is apparently looking for his next gig. News comes via Re/code, which reports … Continue reading “Boston Tech Roundup: Kanojia, NetProspex, Jana, Erecruit, & More”
Surface Oncology Receives $35,000,000 Series A Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=44863074-74c1-4737-87d2-109278f37d7e Date 1/9/2015 Company Name Surface Oncology Mailing Address Undisclosed Cambridge, MA 02139 USA Company Description Surface Oncology was created to advance next-generation approaches to cancer immunotherapy based on proprietary insights about novel immunotherapy targets and emerging areas of cancer immuno-biology. Website Undisclosed Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $35,000,000 Transaction Round … Continue reading “Surface Oncology Receives $35,000,000 Series A Round”
Scratch Receives $600,000 Seed Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=13bb479d-5d9b-48af-b275-5e6c19e801a9 Date 1/9/2015 Company Name Scratch Mailing Address 196 Broadway Cambridge, MA 02139 USA Company Description You want your place to feel finished and your wardrobe to bring out your best. You like sending thoughtful gifts. You love discovering unique products and shops. But with work, family and life, you have less … Continue reading “Scratch Receives $600,000 Seed Round”
Par80 Garners $10,500,000 Series A Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b2d9e0f5-98b5-4a50-914a-bb286bb3bb08 Date 1/9/2015 Company Name Par80 Mailing Address 1340 Centre Street Newton, MA 02459 USA Company Description The current healthcare crisis is a uniquely American challenge and ultimately will be solved with a uniquely American solution. The most simple of solutions has yet to be attempted. We believe healthcare is best managed … Continue reading “Par80 Garners $10,500,000 Series A Funding”
Dun & Bradstreet Acquires NetProspex for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2780ce42-0674-4b76-b414-56967102e9d5 Date 1/9/2015 Company Name NetProspex Mailing Address 300 Third Ave . Waltham, MA 02451 USA Company Description Get accurate, targeted contacts for your sales and marketing needs. Find the right person, or people, at a target company who will respond to your message. NetProspex was founded with the mission to provide … Continue reading “Dun & Bradstreet Acquires NetProspex for Undisclosed Sum”
Dun & Bradstreet Acquires NetProspex for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2780ce42-0674-4b76-b414-56967102e9d5 Date 1/9/2015 Company Name NetProspex Mailing Address 300 Third Ave . Waltham, MA 02451 USA Company Description Get accurate, targeted contacts for your sales and marketing needs. Find the right person, or people, at a target company who will respond to your message. NetProspex was founded with the mission to provide … Continue reading “Dun & Bradstreet Acquires NetProspex for Undisclosed Sum”
Dun & Bradstreet Acquires NetProspex for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2780ce42-0674-4b76-b414-56967102e9d5 Date 1/9/2015 Company Name NetProspex Mailing Address 300 Third Ave . Waltham, MA 02451 USA Company Description Get accurate, targeted contacts for your sales and marketing needs. Find the right person, or people, at a target company who will respond to your message. NetProspex was founded with the mission to provide … Continue reading “Dun & Bradstreet Acquires NetProspex for Undisclosed Sum”
Xconomy Forum: Robo Madness Boston
It’s a critical time for robotics and artificial-intelligence companies. While iRobot paved the way for commercial robots, tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Facebook are harnessing the technology in new ways. From self-driving cars to automated warehouses to drone-delivery systems, machines that move and think could remake some of the world’s biggest industries. Meanwhile, startups … Continue reading “Xconomy Forum: Robo Madness Boston”
Seismic Raises $20M in Round Led by Software Growth Equity Fund
After tripling revenues in 2014, Encinitas, CA-based Seismic says today it has closed a $20 million round in Series B funding led by JMI Equity, the growth equity firm that specializes in software and services. Seismic was founded in 2010 to advance what co-founder and CEO Doug Winter calls “sales enablement software” that helps sales … Continue reading “Seismic Raises $20M in Round Led by Software Growth Equity Fund”
GE Ventures, Goldman Sachs Are New Investors in Rethink Robotics
Rethink Robotics is trying to become the preeminent robot company of its generation—and in doing so, reinvent the fields of manufacturing and logistics. The company certainly has interesting technology—a two-armed, dexterous robot named Baxter—but the question is whether it can gain widespread adoption in factories and warehouses, and if so, how quickly. Now the company … Continue reading “GE Ventures, Goldman Sachs Are New Investors in Rethink Robotics”
Par8o Picks Up $10.5M From Investors Moving Into Health IT
Get ready for an influx of venture funding in healthcare software. Especially to startups whose founders have prior experience at well-known companies. A case in point is Boston-area startup Par8o (“par-eight-oh”), which said today it has raised a $10.5 million Series A funding round. The company’s investors include Atlas Venture (the tech side of the … Continue reading “Par8o Picks Up $10.5M From Investors Moving Into Health IT”
One Week Into The New Year, Five Biotechs Reel in $220M Venture Cash
Is everyone in biotech putting out news this week so they won’t be distracted from their partying next week at the J.P. Morgan healthcare conference in San Francisco? That’s a joke, of course, but the news flow of the new year is serious enough to merit an extra round-up from us. We’ll still have our … Continue reading “One Week Into The New Year, Five Biotechs Reel in $220M Venture Cash”
Moderna Forms Latest Venture, Valera, to Fight Infections With mRNA
Moderna Therapeutics has been talking up plans to create a group of separate venture units based on the preclinical drug programs under its roof. That effort started last year with cancer drug developer Onkaido Therapeutics, and it continues today, as the Cambridge, MA-based company announces the formation of what’s being called Valera. Valera is the … Continue reading “Moderna Forms Latest Venture, Valera, to Fight Infections With mRNA”
Surface Oncology Raises $35M to Develop Cancer Immunotherapies
Surface Oncology of Cambridge, MA, announced today a $35 million Series A round led by Atlas Venture, Fidelity Biosciences, New Enterprise Associates, and Lilly Ventures. Surface wants to develop cancer immunotherapies, but acting CEO Dave Grayzel (pictured) says it’s got different ideas than Juno Therapeutics (NASDAQ: [[ticker:JUNO]]), Novartis (NYSE: [[ticker:NVS]]), Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: [[ticker:BMY]]), Amgen … Continue reading “Surface Oncology Raises $35M to Develop Cancer Immunotherapies”
State of the Internet: U.S. Connection Speeds Rank 17th in World
If you think Internet speeds could be faster in the U.S., you’re not imagining things. The latest rankings of global Internet speeds by digital traffic company Akamai have the U.S. once again absent from the top 10 list of countries with the speediest networks. The U.S. has fared better in previous editions of these quarterly rankings, which are part of … Continue reading “State of the Internet: U.S. Connection Speeds Rank 17th in World”
Rethink Robotics Lands $26,600,000 Series D Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=16d4839f-1635-49e1-a7d1-04733a6c8a0c Date 1/8/2015 Company Name Rethink Robotics Mailing Address 27 Wormwood St. Boston, MA 02210 USA Company Description Rethink Robotics is combining the power of computers – embodied in robots – and the extraordinary intelligence of the American workforce, to increase productivity and revitalize manufacturing. Website http://www.rethinkrobotics.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction … Continue reading “Rethink Robotics Lands $26,600,000 Series D Financing”
XRpro Sciences Receives $8,855,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7c793a35-50dd-4f8f-ac22-44b94ffa4be0 Date 1/8/2015 Company Name XRpro Sciences Mailing Address One Kendall Square Cambridge, MA 02139 USA Company Description XRpro delivers more significant data, faster. Whether you need to screen 10,000 ion channel inhibitors, or determine real-time kinetics of ion channel activity on intact cell populations, let XRpro® do it for you. Website … Continue reading “XRpro Sciences Receives $8,855,000 New Round”
Reddo Secures $4,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=85d66a21-bb73-4f3a-9016-a2e77f334029 Date 1/8/2015 Company Name Reddo Mailing Address 2067 Massachusetts Avenue 5th Floor Cambridge, MA 02140 USA Company Description Reddo Mobility helps businesses realize the true value of enterprise application mobility by delivering their existing desktop apps to employees’ mobile devices quickly and without the cost and complexity of rewriting. Website http://www.reddomobility.com … Continue reading “Reddo Secures $4,000,000 New Financing Round”
Trevi Therapeutics Secures $15,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=09bbd27d-d471-4e6f-aaa4-d58be5beef07 Date 1/8/2015 Company Name Trevi Therapeutics Mailing Address 195 Church Street 14th Floor New Haven, CT 06510 USA Company Description Trevi Therapeutics, Inc. is a drug development company founded in 2011 focused on developing T111 for the severe chronic itching condition known as pruritus. Pruritus is manifested in various dermatological, metabolic, … Continue reading “Trevi Therapeutics Secures $15,000,000 New Funding Round”
The Man Behind SiteSpect’s Rise in Digital Marketing
In a world of Uber financings and 800 percent revenue growth curves, one startup founder won’t talk sales numbers, company valuations, or IPOs. He says his market opportunity is a billion-plus, not $10 billion. He takes $13 million from investors, not $100 million. And that’s after being self-funded and profitable for a decade, building a … Continue reading “The Man Behind SiteSpect’s Rise in Digital Marketing”
Amid Robotics Buzz, Rethink Retools With $27M More
Building a robotics company is expensive, but it could pay off in a big way. Just ask Rethink Robotics, which has added $26.6 million in venture funding to its war chest, which has totaled at least $100 million over several rounds. Rethink Robotics’ investors include Highland Capital Partners, Sigma Partners, CRV, Bezos Expeditions, and DFJ. … Continue reading “Amid Robotics Buzz, Rethink Retools With $27M More”
With $21M, Retooled Blend Whips up Mini-Smart Bombs For Cancer
Sometimes in biotech, you go in with one plan, and an unexpected discovery changes everything. That’s the case with Blend Therapeutics, which has morphed into a company trying to use nanotechnology to create a new type of cancer therapy. Watertown, MA-based Blend is announcing today that it has raised $21 million in new equity and … Continue reading “With $21M, Retooled Blend Whips up Mini-Smart Bombs For Cancer”
CART + CRISPR = 1st-Of-Its-Kind Biotech Deal From Novartis, Intellia
Novartis has already invested in Intellia Therapeutics. Now it wants to use Intellia’s cutting-edge gene-editing tools on one of the world’s most promising new kinds of medicine. In a deal that brings together two of the highest-profile fields in biotech, healthcare giant Novartis (NYSE: [[ticker:NVS]]) has negotiated with tiny Intellia for exclusive rights to the … Continue reading “CART + CRISPR = 1st-Of-Its-Kind Biotech Deal From Novartis, Intellia”
Even When Money is Easy, Rules of Biotech Finance Still Apply
Last month Juno Therapeutics closed a $250 million IPO, bringing the total raised since it was founded in Seattle in 2013 to close to $600 million. The money is earmarked to support more than ten clinical trials over the next 12 months. Last year, 133 biotech companies around the world raised $11 billion in initial … Continue reading “Even When Money is Easy, Rules of Biotech Finance Still Apply”
SiteSpect Lands $13,000,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e789f8a7-f093-43bd-a0d9-0dec2170583b Date 1/7/2015 Company Name SiteSpect Mailing Address 10 Milk Street Boston, MA 02108 USA Company Description At SiteSpect, we approached the challenges of web and mobile site optimization with a clean slate, years of technological and marketing know-how, and the freedom to build a digital optimization solution from the ground up … Continue reading “SiteSpect Lands $13,000,000 New Round”
CampusTap Obtains $500,000 Seed Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=76c5e714-e0b0-47ae-a253-24088a017050 Date 1/7/2015 Company Name CampusTap Mailing Address Undisclosed Boston, MA 02113 USA Company Description Here at CampusTap we understand students and know that software in higher education has been lacking in design and innovation. We are raising the bar in these categories to provide students, faculty and administrators with great user … Continue reading “CampusTap Obtains $500,000 Seed Funding”
Blend Therapeutics Receives $21,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=db18a491-c4fe-44ed-b942-9830b3de4a41 Date 1/7/2015 Company Name Blend Therapeutics Mailing Address 134 Coolidge Avenue Watertown, MA 02472 USA Company Description Blend is pioneering controlled combination medicines that overcome the limitations of conventional combination therapy through their unprecedented ability to hit distinct disease pathways with multiple drugs in concert—at the desired sites, at the most … Continue reading “Blend Therapeutics Receives $21,000,000 New Financing Round”
CutisPharma Secures New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=bc849ce0-6ac3-46b1-9ee5-ae39ce2a2c38 Date 1/7/2015 Company Name CutisPharma Mailing Address 841 Woburn Street Wilmington, MA 01887 USA Company Description CutisPharma is the industry leader in bringing innovation to the pharmaceutical compounding market. We aim to achieve the transformation of prescription compounding with high-quality products manufactured under strict compliance standards that increase the accuracy, quality, … Continue reading “CutisPharma Secures New Funding Round”
ZeroTurnaround Garners $4,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=04898956-879c-46ce-ad61-c89fe1413ccd Date 1/7/2015 Company Name ZeroTurnaround Mailing Address 399 Boylston Street Boston, MA 02116 USA Company Description Our products help Java teams improve productivity & efficiency – resulting in better code, happy devs, and more reliable releases. Website http://www.zeroturnaround.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $4,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes … Continue reading “ZeroTurnaround Garners $4,000,000 New Financing”
Cytogel Pharma Obtains $2,691,190 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ae1e83fa-767d-4a1b-af66-c915b902272c Date 1/7/2015 Company Name Cytogel Pharma Mailing Address 3 Thorndal Circle Darien, CT 06820 USA Company Description Cytogel Pharma (Cytogel) is a bio-pharmaceutical development company focused on acquiring promising early-stage programs that offer significant potential both as platform technologies and high value product candidates. The company’s portfolio includes novel analgesic product … Continue reading “Cytogel Pharma Obtains $2,691,190 New Funding”
Accion Systems Garners $2,000,000 Seed Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0d90db40-99ac-45b3-8469-d8691a962e00 Date 1/7/2015 Company Name Accion Systems Mailing Address Undisclosed Cambridge, MA 02140 USA Company Description At Accion, we develop advanced technologies for the new space industry. We are striving to become a leader in high-quality, affordable propulsion technologies that enable increased access to space. Our propulsion systems are some of the … Continue reading “Accion Systems Garners $2,000,000 Seed Financing”
Device42 Receives $3,500,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=11222c48-3787-46d6-a570-eeba09dcea6f Date 1/7/2015 Company Name Device42 Mailing Address 760 Chapel St. New Haven, CT 06510 USA Company Description Device42 was founded in November 2010 with a clear vision of making life easier for system, network & data center engineers and IT Managers. Since its founding, we have been listening closely to customers … Continue reading “Device42 Receives $3,500,000 New Financing Round”
Don’t Get Comfortable: 5 Biopharma Flashpoints to Consider in 2015
The annual J.P. Morgan healthcare conference starts this weekend in San Francisco. Pundits are predicting a much higher tally of shoulder injuries than usual. You know, from all the people patting themselves on the back. After a year filled with medical promise and cash raining down from everywhere, the self-congratulation could be thicker than the … Continue reading “Don’t Get Comfortable: 5 Biopharma Flashpoints to Consider in 2015”
SiteSpect Scoops Up $13M After Decade of Bootstrapping
It’s a strategy we’ve seen before, from tech companies like Wayfair. Sign up loyal customers, make them happy, bootstrap yourself to profitability, expand your team—and then, after 10 years, take outside investment so you can grow faster. SiteSpect, a Web and mobile marketing software company based in Boston, is following that model, albeit at a … Continue reading “SiteSpect Scoops Up $13M After Decade of Bootstrapping”
Technology Upgrades: Welcome to My Nightmare (Yours Too?)
I was having coffee with a friend recently and the subject of word processing software came up. My friend related how he was happily using WordStar. WordStar? I hadn’t thought about it in years, but it was the first computer program I ever used, way back in 1984. I was surprised to find that not … Continue reading “Technology Upgrades: Welcome to My Nightmare (Yours Too?)”
CardioFocus Secures $31,652,646 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=64b90b50-402c-4d86-89f4-0ff193327842 Date 1/6/2015 Company Name CardioFocus Mailing Address 500 Nickerson Road Marlborough, MA 01752 USA Company Description CardioFocus, Inc. is a privately held medical device company based in Maynard, Massachusetts. The company is developing, manufacturing and marketing proprietary, disposable fiber optic catheters for the visualization of the cardiac anatomy and the treatment … Continue reading “CardioFocus Secures $31,652,646 New Funding”
Agrivida Receives $12,348,733 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=a91ceefd-3c09-48ba-93bd-2e7d133bf04d Date 1/6/2015 Company Name Agrivida Mailing Address 411 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge, MA 02139 USA Company Description Agrivida is developing proprietary crops and processes to transform the economics of producing renewable chemicals, fuels, and bioproducts from non-food cellulosic biomass. The company’s patented approach is designed to provide an integrated solution for delivering … Continue reading “Agrivida Receives $12,348,733 New Financing Round”
QD Vision Secures New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3f970ac6-06ac-41fe-a1e0-6eed71ac4e72 Date 1/6/2015 Company Name QD Vision Mailing Address 29 Hartwell Ave. Lexington, MA 02421 USA Company Description Our leading edge solutions will give customers decisive performance and manufacturing advantages in the competitive market for flat panel displays. Because our solutions use standard OLED device structures, customers with installed manufacturing equipment can … Continue reading “QD Vision Secures New Financing Round”
Seres Health Receives $64,999,998 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=acc84a8b-bed7-4b34-829f-851690bd5d60 Date 1/6/2015 Company Name Seres Health Mailing Address 161 First Street Cambridge, MA 02142 USA Company Description Seres Health is a clinical stage biotherapeutic company focused on discovering and developing Ecobiotic therapeutic products to treat important diseases by targeting the underlying biology of the human microbiome. Website http://www.sereshealth.com Transaction Type Venture … Continue reading “Seres Health Receives $64,999,998 New Funding Round”
ModeRNA Therapeutics Receives $450,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=919b3f67-77e8-4bd4-ab6c-a1ab2abb9e6b Date 1/6/2015 Company Name ModeRNA Therapeutics Mailing Address 320 Bent Street Cambridge, MA 02141 USA Company Description At Moderna, we are pioneering the development of a new class of drugs made of messenger RNA (mRNA). This novel drug platform builds on the discovery that modified mRNA can direct the body’s cellular … Continue reading “ModeRNA Therapeutics Receives $450,000,000 New Financing Round”
Inflexxion Secures New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e8bc60e2-01ad-4c63-b38b-c096376fd0a6 Date 1/6/2015 Company Name Inflexxion Mailing Address 320 Needham Street Newton, MA 02464 USA Company Description Inflexxion develops behavioral change programs that reduce health-related risks, improve clinical outcomes and positively influence quality of care and improve public health. Website http://www.inflexxion.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds … Continue reading “Inflexxion Secures New Funding”
With New Apps, Bridj Gets Closer to Vision of Private Bus Network
Anyone who’s driven around Boston quickly confronts its twisting, colliding, narrow streets, an unapologetically old-world system that somehow embodies the city’s charmingly abrasive style. How people got around before GPS, I’ll never know. Transportation startup Bridj is hoping to tap into this generation’s biggest technology platform—mobile smartphone networks—to make commutes in the region a bit easier. … Continue reading “With New Apps, Bridj Gets Closer to Vision of Private Bus Network”
With Massive Venture Round, Moderna Has $450M Reasons to Stay Private
Investment dollars have been pouring into private and public biotechs, but nothing can quite match Moderna Therapeutics. Cambridge, MA-based Moderna says it has raised a $450 million private investment round, the largest ever financing for a privately held biotech company. Moderna has now secured $950 million in venture cash and non-dilutive funding since its inception … Continue reading “With Massive Venture Round, Moderna Has $450M Reasons to Stay Private”
Harvard Spin-off Voxel8 Takes 3D Printing Into Electronics
3D printers give hardware designers a way to convert their computer models into objects they can see and feel. A Boston-area startup has made a desktop printer that goes one step further: by printing wires, it allows designers to make working prototypes of their electronic creations. Voxel8 today launched its website and has begun to … Continue reading “Harvard Spin-off Voxel8 Takes 3D Printing Into Electronics”
Implications of the Oil Price Collapse
Instead of developing a warmed over list of “Top 10 Predictions for 2015,” over the past few months I have been most interested in the implications from the collapse of oil prices around the world. We will see the obvious and direct benefit to the U.S. consumer (November retail sales were up a surprising 0.7 … Continue reading “Implications of the Oil Price Collapse”
How Should the Innovation Community Solve Its Gender and Diversity Problems?
It’s been one of the hottest-button topics of the past year—and it’s not going away anytime soon. The under-representation of women and minorities in technology and innovation jobs is a real issue, particularly at the highest levels of organizations. The question, as I see it, is what to do about it. But not everyone sees … Continue reading “How Should the Innovation Community Solve Its Gender and Diversity Problems?”
CargoMetrics Garners $2,144,550 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5930f55d-adf6-4c3d-8ed8-0b1f3f6e6524 Date 1/5/2015 Company Name CargoMetrics Mailing Address 55 Court Street 2nd Floor Boston, MA 02108 USA Company Description The company operates as a data analytics company. Website http://www.cargometrics.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $2,144,550 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. SEC regulatory filing – amended. Contact … Continue reading “CargoMetrics Garners $2,144,550 New Round”
So You Want to Be an Early Stage Investor?
I absolutely love what I do—running a seed-stage venture fund (Founders’ Co-op) and startup accelerator (Techstars Seattle)—but neither is a job with a well-defined career path. Unlike later-stage or public market investing, where finance and quantitative analysis is a big part of the job, effective early-stage investing requires a combination of human, strategic, and operational … Continue reading “So You Want to Be an Early Stage Investor?”
Teach More Business in School
Science, medicine and information technology have become intimately entangled with business on all levels. Whether in academic settings or business settings, success in these areas increasingly requires involvement with basic business concepts and principles that aren’t taught in college. Undergraduates in science and engineering disciplines graduate from universities and enter positions in biotechnology and technology … Continue reading “Teach More Business in School”