Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7ab3d8b1-8ace-49ff-b4ba-eeba50683320 Date 10/23/2013 Company Name Pronutria Mailing Address 840 Memorial Drive 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02139 Company Description Pronutria created a revolutionary platform for identifying protein nutrients from within the human diet that have potent pharmacological effects, opening a vast untapped source of safe, breakthrough medicines. Website http://www.pronutria.com Transaction Type Venture Equity … Continue reading “Pronutria Secures $10,800,000 Series A Funding”
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Handybook Lands $10,000,000 Series A Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2f9402a2-090b-4fde-a5e9-f293ee627ada Date 10/23/2013 Company Name Handybook Mailing Address One Broadway 16th Floor Cambridge, MA 02142 Company Description Handybook is quite simply the easiest way to get stuff done around the house. Within a couple of minutes, you can book a pre-approved cleaner or handyman for whatever time you like. All you have … Continue reading “Handybook Lands $10,000,000 Series A Financing Round”
Sideris Pharmaceuticals Receives $32,000,000 Series A Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7b66d272-7554-4988-8bc1-ffa3665e8e5d Date 10/23/2013 Company Name Sideris Pharmaceuticals Mailing Address 200 Clarendon Street 54th Floor Boston, MA 02116 Company Description Sideris Pharmaceuticals is an independent biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of treatments for diseases of iron overload, including conditions involving maintenance transfusion therapy. Sideris’ lead clinical candidate, SP-420, has the potential to … Continue reading “Sideris Pharmaceuticals Receives $32,000,000 Series A Funding”
NetSuite Acquires TribeHR for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2c31e016-7d82-46ea-82ce-02145e452018 Date 10/23/2013 Company Name TribeHR Mailing Address 101 Main St 14th Floor Waltham, MA 02142 Company Description TribeHR is an exciting development in the world of human resource management: our innovative features will allow your company to focus more on what you do best and less on things that get in … Continue reading “NetSuite Acquires TribeHR for Undisclosed Sum”
Future Forward 2013
Information and registration/invitations here. What technologies and business trends will have the biggest impact in the year ahead? What changes will most impact the world of startups, high-growth companies, and early-stage investors? Future Forward 2013 will present a series of 10-minute briefings on shifts that matter most. We’ll focus on topics like wearable computing, mobile … Continue reading “Future Forward 2013”
Aereo CEO: Broadcasters “Profiteering” with a Doomed Business Model
Chet Kanojia wasn’t surprised when the multi-billion dollar broadcast industry sued him. In fact, he was planning on it. As the CEO of Aereo, a New York-based startup that streams broadcast TV over the Internet, Kanojia met with plenty of expensive lawyers before starting his brazen attempt to shake up the industry. Their verdict, he … Continue reading “Aereo CEO: Broadcasters “Profiteering” with a Doomed Business Model”
Flagship’s Pronutria Emerges to Make Medicines and Medical Foods
Sometimes there may be good protein drugs lurking in your lunch and you just don’t know it. There may be a business in there, too. That’s one way to look at the latest concept being cooked up at Flagship VentureLabs in Cambridge, MA. The young company, Pronutria, is emerging from stealth mode today after more … Continue reading “Flagship’s Pronutria Emerges to Make Medicines and Medical Foods”
Gazelle, Apple, and Amazon: The Future of “Recommerce”
At some point, most successful startups run into this problem: a tech giant moves into their sector and threatens to wipe them out. It’s a sign that the startup is on to something big—but it’s also a major existential challenge. Meet Gazelle, a Boston-based company that has built a business around buying used smartphones and … Continue reading “Gazelle, Apple, and Amazon: The Future of “Recommerce””
Superpedestrian Lands $2,100,000 Series A Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0ff81e30-f8f4-4863-8cae-87d77bfa4c77 Date 10/22/2013 Company Name Superpedestrian Mailing Address 84 Hamilton Street Cambridge, MA 02139 Company Description Superpedestrian brings together a team of designers and engineers with one vision: transforming urban mobility. Our first idea? Pedal power. With an exclusive license of MIT’s Copenhagen Wheel, we are now working round the clock to … Continue reading “Superpedestrian Lands $2,100,000 Series A Funding Round”
Panorama Education Garners $4,000,000 Seed Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0917666a-66d0-48b2-85bd-f75314bc086e Date 10/22/2013 Company Name Panorama Education Mailing Address 101 Main Street 15th Floor Cambridge, MA 02142 Company Description Based in Boston, MA, Panorama Education is a data analytics company focused on K-12 education. We help school districts, charter networks, and state governments conduct surveys of students, parents, teachers, and staff. Our … Continue reading “Panorama Education Garners $4,000,000 Seed Funding Round”
Ovuline Secures $1,100,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=56fe44d4-f79e-48a5-800d-207aa30ca440 Date 10/22/2013 Company Name Ovuline Mailing Address 10 Magaine Street Cambridge, MA 02139 Company Description Ovuline helps couples conceive faster. Going way beyond fertility calendars and period trackers, Ovuline tells couples when they are fertile and exactly what to do each day to maximize their chances of getting pregnant. Ovuline can … Continue reading “Ovuline Secures $1,100,000 New Financing”
Xconomy Healthcare Summit: The Photos
It was a beautiful fall day in Lincoln, MA. The leaves were turning, panels were churning, ideas were burning in our brains. Which is to say our inaugural Healthcare Summit was a smash hit. From Bill Sahlman’s apocalyptic view of the industry to Mark Levin’s notion of a big-data knowledge network across disease states, from … Continue reading “Xconomy Healthcare Summit: The Photos”
21 Red Flags to Watch for in a Biotech Company
Nutty things are happening in biotech. Irrational exuberance has returned. Generalist investors with lots of money are suddenly buying these stocks first and asking questions later. Companies can fire off meaningless press releases, and be rewarded. I heard a big-time money manager talk the other day about a recent biotech IPO being one of the … Continue reading “21 Red Flags to Watch for in a Biotech Company”
VCharge Obtains $1,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=924625e8-52fe-4930-8295-5567318c78de Date 10/21/2013 Company Name VCharge Mailing Address 235 Promenade Street Providence, RI 02908 Company Description VCharge uses decentralized, market-based principles to enable residential electric heaters, electric cars, and other transactive loads with embedded storage to engage in rapid demand response. VCharge technology brings real value to utilities, grid operators, and end … Continue reading “VCharge Obtains $1,000,000 New Financing Round”
Sqrrl Garners $5,200,000 Series A Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ee865ace-aab2-444a-9ff6-72bd49e63bd6 Date 10/21/2013 Company Name Sqrrl Mailing Address 130 Prospect St 1st Floor Cambridge, MA 02139 Company Description Sqrrl is a Big Data company that provides products for Apache Accumulo. We are focused on Big Data challenges both in terms of scale and analytic complexity where data is constrained by legal, regulatory, … Continue reading “Sqrrl Garners $5,200,000 Series A Financing Round”
Mitokyne Garners $45,000,000 Series A Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7afecdce-17db-49c7-9f12-c92bc5c0643d Date 10/21/2013 Company Name Mitokyne Mailing Address Undisclosed Boston, MA 02109 Company Description Mitokyne is a biotech company focused on mitochondria-related drug discovery and development. The company is utilizing its innovative screening platform to identify and develop novel drugs that improve mitochondria function and provide treatments for genetic, metabolic and neurodegenerative … Continue reading “Mitokyne Garners $45,000,000 Series A Financing Round”
PSivida, Alimera Shares Fall as FDA Rejects Eye Drug for Third Time
It looks like pSivida’s (NASDAQ: [[ticker:PSDV]]) and Alimera Sciences’ (NASDAQ: [[ticker:ALIM]]) drug for an eye disorder related to diabetes will never see the light of day in the U.S. Watertown, MA-based pSivida reported today that the FDA has rejected the drug—a treatment for diabetic macular edema (DME) sold in Europe as Iluvien that it co-developed … Continue reading “PSivida, Alimera Shares Fall as FDA Rejects Eye Drug for Third Time”
East Coast Biotech Roundup: Schenkein, PureTech/JDRF, Sage, & More
(Updated, 7:42 a.m. ET) This week’s East Coast biotech news runs the gamut. A career profile, and disappointing (and encouraging) clinical trial results. A new partnership structure, a new financing round, and a big FDA panel setback—even a Chapter 11 case to boot. Those stories and more below: —You might know that David Schenkein is … Continue reading “East Coast Biotech Roundup: Schenkein, PureTech/JDRF, Sage, & More”
Please, Keep Paying $80 a Month for Cable So I Can Enjoy Cheap TV
Dear Cable TV Subscriber, I don’t think I’ve ever told you how grateful I am. I haven’t paid a cent for cable television since 2009. Yet I have on-demand access via the Internet to a growing cornucopia of great shows like Game of Thrones, Homeland, Mad Men, and Breaking Bad, at reasonable à la carte … Continue reading “Please, Keep Paying $80 a Month for Cable So I Can Enjoy Cheap TV”
VC Funding for Software Jumps in MoneyTree Report, and Top 10 Deals
Venture capital firms invested $7.8 billion in 1,005 deals throughout the United States during the three months that ended September 30, according to the MoneyTree Report being released today. It was a 12 percent increase in dollars and a 5 percent rise in deals compared to the second quarter of 2013, when VCs invested close … Continue reading “VC Funding for Software Jumps in MoneyTree Report, and Top 10 Deals”
NBD Nanotechnologies Lands $1,208,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=909bf7f8-ab40-4df7-a4fd-aeb5c1b23c4c Date 10/18/2013 Company Name NBD Nanotechnologies Mailing Address 8 St. Mary’s Street Boston, MA 02113 Company Description NBD makes use of a nano-scale surface to enhance water condensation. Mimicking the Namib Desert Beetle, our nanotechnology can be used to collect water in the most arid regions of the world. Website http://www.nbdnano.com … Continue reading “NBD Nanotechnologies Lands $1,208,000 New Financing Round”
NBD Nanotechnologies Secures $1,208,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=909bf7f8-ab40-4df7-a4fd-aeb5c1b23c4c Date 10/18/2013 Company Name NBD Nanotechnologies Mailing Address 8 St. Mary’s Street Boston, MA 02113 Company Description NBD makes use of a nano-scale surface to enhance water condensation. Mimicking the Namib Desert Beetle, our nanotechnology can be used to collect water in the most arid regions of the world. Website http://www.nbdnano.com … Continue reading “NBD Nanotechnologies Secures $1,208,000 New Financing”
Betterment Acquires ImpulseSave for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2518065a-0c2e-4c28-ac71-50ab09a04aaf Date 10/18/2013 Company Name ImpulseSave Mailing Address PO Box 425307 Cambridge, MA 02142 Company Description Our goal is to make saving money as fun and rewarding as spending it. How? By giving you the ability to save anytime, anywhere, to any of your savings goals, into a secure savings account. So … Continue reading “Betterment Acquires ImpulseSave for Undisclosed Sum”
Xconomy Forum: D²—The Future of Data and Devices
The field of “big data” has rapidly morphed from visionary hype to economic reality. As more companies and industries try to make sense of ever-expanding worlds of information, a few key sectors are winning mindshare and investment: product design and development in the cloud; connected devices and hardware for health, energy, and social applications; and … Continue reading “Xconomy Forum: D²—The Future of Data and Devices”
New D2 Speakers: Sandy Pentland, Wayne Chang, Katie Rae on Nov. 21
November 21 is shaping up to be special. We are convening top experts from Boston and beyond for a half-day technology conference called “D2: The Future of Data and Devices.” It’s all happening at the Fidelity Center for Applied Technology in Boston, near South Station. Tickets have been going fast, but you can still register … Continue reading “New D2 Speakers: Sandy Pentland, Wayne Chang, Katie Rae on Nov. 21″
Thing5 Receives New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=29f88d78-8c3b-4eee-9d22-208d19b0b312 Date 10/17/2013 Company Name Thing5 Mailing Address 1000 W Columbus Ave Springfield, MA 01106 Company Description Thing5 provides hoteliers with powerful, modern solutions that enable unparalleled control over the voice channel. Thing5’s fully integrated technology and business process solutions streamline operations, enhance revenue and reduce costs. Website http://www.thing5.com Transaction Type Venture … Continue reading “Thing5 Receives New Round”
FashionPlaytes Obtains $1,686,193 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=202da431-eca9-460c-bdef-9d1d5a68241b Date 10/17/2013 Company Name FashionPlaytes Mailing Address 500 Cummings Center Beverly, MA 01915 Company Description The company has created a website that allows girls to create their own fashions and purchase them. Website http://www.fashionplaytes.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $1,686,193 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. SEC … Continue reading “FashionPlaytes Obtains $1,686,193 New Financing Round”
BioAnalytix Secures $3,750,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=35f03509-32c9-402c-8b6e-bda32d343ee6 Date 10/17/2013 Company Name BioAnalytix Mailing Address 110 Mugar Building Boston, MA 02115 Company Description BioAnalytix LLC, a spinout from the the Barnett Institute of Chemical and Biological Analysis which analyzes and characterizes large-molecule biologic drugs and biosimilars. Website http://www.bioanalytixinc.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $3,750,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds … Continue reading “BioAnalytix Secures $3,750,000 New Financing Round”
Anaqua Garners $25,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=a7ef8ba0-01e5-47aa-b472-c6632ac602f7 Date 10/17/2013 Company Name Anaqua Mailing Address 745 Boylston Street Boston, MA 02116 Company Description Anaqua provides intellectual asset management software and maintenance services to patent and trademark holders worldwide. Anaqua’s software helps leading companies grow and protect company value with an advanced, flexible IAM solution used by more than 20,000 … Continue reading “Anaqua Garners $25,000,000 New Financing”
Scratch Wireless Garners $5,000,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1434037d-500f-4cd5-970d-d869ef1c8f5e Date 10/17/2013 Company Name Scratch Wireless Mailing Address One Broadway 14th Floor Cambridge, MA 02142 Company Description The company offers free, unlimited text messaging and internet and data usage, and up to 100 minutes per month of free domestic voice calls, via WiFi, according to the company’s website. The company offers … Continue reading “Scratch Wireless Garners $5,000,000 New Funding”
Sage Therapeutics Nabs $20M Series B From Third Rock, Arch
(Corrected, 10/17/13, 1:21 pm ET) It’s been a busy 2013 for Sage Therapeutics. First, it fine-tuned its strategy. Then it got a $10 million grant and hired its first, full-time management team. Now, the Cambridge, MA-based startup has landed a big $20 million Series B round and a new investor to help drive its first … Continue reading “Sage Therapeutics Nabs $20M Series B From Third Rock, Arch”
David Schenkein, Cancer Doc Turned CEO, Aims to Build New Genentech
David Schenkein is a kid from Queens. An underdog. The kid who barely eked his way into medical school. The one who had to work day and night as a young doctor to keep up with those who went to the glitzy Ivy League schools. That same kid from Queens ended up running the cancer … Continue reading “David Schenkein, Cancer Doc Turned CEO, Aims to Build New Genentech”
Akamai: Indonesia Top Source of Internet Attacks; DDoS Reports Jump
Malicious hackers have a new favorite country. Indonesia was the source of the most Internet attack traffic in the second quarter of 2013, pushing China out of the top spot in the quarterly “State of the Internet” report from Akamai (NASDAQ: [[ticker:AKAM]]). The Cambridge, MA-based company, which handles about a third of global Internet traffic, … Continue reading “Akamai: Indonesia Top Source of Internet Attacks; DDoS Reports Jump”
CounterTack Adds $12M Series B to Stop IT Attacks at the Front Door
It’s an immutable law of the Internet: if you’ve got a valuable network, someone’s going to attack. The tricky part is how to defend yourself. The way Neal Creighton sees it, the IT industry has not spent nearly enough time watching the “endpoints”—servers and individual computers—that can serve as a front door for malicious hackers. … Continue reading “CounterTack Adds $12M Series B to Stop IT Attacks at the Front Door”
1366 Technologies Receives $15,000,000 Series C Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1fdc616a-22d9-413f-823a-418bb1ef9774 Date 10/16/2013 Company Name 1366 Technologies Mailing Address 6-8 Preston Court Bedford, MA 01730 Company Description 1366 Technologies is making silicon solar cells competitive with coal. Our goal is to build on the success of multi-crystalline solar cells and manufacturing capacity to accelerate the transition to solar. Our products and technologies … Continue reading “1366 Technologies Receives $15,000,000 Series C Funding”
Fancred Secures $1,500,000 Seed Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=fbcf270a-a602-4a36-870f-507179ecb2fa Date 10/16/2013 Company Name Fancred Mailing Address Undisclosed Boston, MA 02108 Company Description The Fancred score is a 1 – 100 point system that measures your activity and engagement as a sports fan. Increasing your Fancred is as simple as being asports fan. Share your sports takes, check-in togames, participate in … Continue reading “Fancred Secures $1,500,000 Seed Round”
Mobiquity Garners $1,631,805 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b766e1f6-b8c9-4e13-a357-b74a19e08d4e Date 10/16/2013 Company Name Mobiquity Mailing Address 16 Laurel Ave Wellesley Hills, MA 02481 Company Description Mobiquity is a strategy-led, implementation driven Mobile Computing professional services firm focused on architecting, developing and deploying custom mobile solutions for the Global 2000. Mobiquity offers a broad range of services for clients seeking to … Continue reading “Mobiquity Garners $1,631,805 New Financing Round”
SAGE Therapeutics Receives $20,000,000 Series B Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=95987a93-b9ea-440e-8136-f7fbd64b11a1 Date 10/16/2013 Company Name SAGE Therapeutics Mailing Address 215 First Street Cambridge, MA 02142 Company Description SAGE Therapeutics’ mission is to make life better for patients with nervous systems diseases by discovering, developing, and delivering important new medicines to the market. Website http://www.sagerx.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $20,000,000 Transaction … Continue reading “SAGE Therapeutics Receives $20,000,000 Series B Financing Round”
LaunchAngels Hopes to Consolidate Crowdfunding for Startup Investors
Crowdfunding for startups is starting to attract more professional investment managers. LaunchAngels, a Boston-based fund for individual investors, is seeking its first $1 million pool of cash to invest in early stage and growing companies. The company is a spinoff of Big Idea Group, a Bedford, NH-based business consulting firm. It’s being headed by CEO … Continue reading “LaunchAngels Hopes to Consolidate Crowdfunding for Startup Investors”
1366 Technologies Raises $15M for New Solar-Power Wafer Factory
The future is looking brighter for one Massachusetts cleantech startup. 1366 Technologies, which makes silicon wafers used in solar-power cells, has raised $15 million to help build a full-size factory with output starting at about 60 million wafers per year. That’s enough to generate about 250 megawatts of solar electricity, which 1366 says is adequate … Continue reading “1366 Technologies Raises $15M for New Solar-Power Wafer Factory”
PureTech Ventures, JDRF Team Up to Form Type 1 Diabetes Startup Creator
Disease foundations often give money to startups working on treatments that might help the people they advocate for. But it’s not too often you’ll see a nonprofit foundation join with a venture firm to create their own company, as JDRF and PureTech Ventures are doing today. Boston-based PureTech has secured a $5 million investment from … Continue reading “PureTech Ventures, JDRF Team Up to Form Type 1 Diabetes Startup Creator”
Thinking Phone Networks Garners $10,000,000 Series C Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e8fc9c7f-1837-4857-9093-612014269e26 Date 10/15/2013 Company Name Thinking Phone Networks Mailing Address 54 Washburn Ave Cambridge, MA 02140 Company Description Thinking Phone Networks helps enterprises define their unified communications vision and simplify execution of that vision by deploying collaboration services via its cloud-based software platform, driving dramatic business process improvement and significantly reduced costs. … Continue reading “Thinking Phone Networks Garners $10,000,000 Series C Financing Round”
BoardProspects Receives $2,400,000 Series A Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0fb8cbf1-5e7a-4786-acf9-d1df86f4c1ac Date 10/15/2013 Company Name BoardProspects Mailing Address 320 Congress Street 4th Floor Boston, MA 02210 Company Description BoardProspects is the online professional community dedicated to building better boards. Website http://www.boardprospects.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $2,400,000 Transaction Round Series A Proceeds Purposes In addition to the feature updates, BoardProspects also … Continue reading “BoardProspects Receives $2,400,000 Series A Round”
CounterTack Receives $12,000,000 Series B Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c848b713-2ae2-4ab0-a6be-62e43d727069 Date 10/15/2013 Company Name CounterTack Mailing Address 303 Wyman Street Waltham, MA 02451 Company Description CounterTack is the industry’s first and only in-progress attack intelligence and response solution that enables enterprise and government organizations to combat advanced targeted attacks with a new line of defense. Website http://www.countertack.com Transaction Type Venture Equity … Continue reading “CounterTack Receives $12,000,000 Series B Financing”
VMWare Acquires Desktone for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7b9e5b35-d98e-4476-9cc7-03e4c3d4720f Date 10/15/2013 Company Name Desktone Mailing Address 430 Bedford St. Lexington, MA 02420 Company Description The company was founded in 2006 to address market demands for easy-to-implement, low-maintenance enterprise desktops. Website http://www.desktone.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Proceeds Purposes M&A Terms Financial terms of the transaction were not … Continue reading “VMWare Acquires Desktone for Undisclosed Sum”
The $100M Club: Where the Major League Life Sciences Companies Are
[Updated: 1:15 pm PT 11/10/13] People love to rank U.S. biotech clusters. Most of these reports are full of data on venture financing, patents, jobs, and NIH funding. But many are riddled with flawed and biased methodology, and are usually designed to push a political agenda. These rankings, which many people take at face value, … Continue reading “The $100M Club: Where the Major League Life Sciences Companies Are”
Boston Roundup: NextView, Sample6, Nuance, Intelligent.ly, Aereo
A fine selection of venture capitalists and startups raising money, acquisitions, new offices, and court victories in this end-of-the-week collection of news from around the Boston-area innovation scene: —NextView Ventures, an early stage VC firm, is raising its second fund. Paperwork filed with the SEC offers no clues about the fund’s size or investors, but … Continue reading “Boston Roundup: NextView, Sample6, Nuance, Intelligent.ly, Aereo”
East Coast Life Sciences Roundup: Verdine, Ariad, Karyopharm, & More
Though the public markets have recently been cozying up to biotech, in the form of a string of successful IPOs, one company offered a reminder this week that investors’ love for the sector is anything but unconditional. That and the rest of the life sciences news around the East Coast below: —Greg Verdine made big … Continue reading “East Coast Life Sciences Roundup: Verdine, Ariad, Karyopharm, & More”
Here’s How Yummly, the Foodie’s Google, Could Conquer the Kitchen
If you wanted to build a central information hub for the kitchen—connecting consumers with recipe ideas, ingredient lists, shopping assistance, and cooking instructions—you’d probably break the problem down into a few steps. First you’d build the world’s most powerful recipe search engine. Then you’d add filters to help people discover dishes they like, and avoid … Continue reading “Here’s How Yummly, the Foodie’s Google, Could Conquer the Kitchen”
OnePIN Secures $670,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6f702e71-e02d-400b-bc5e-131a3da7c474 Date 10/11/2013 Company Name OnePIN Mailing Address 2200 West Park Drive Westborough, MA 01581 Company Description OnePIN delivers innovative communication and collaboration applications via web and wireless services. OnePIN’s permission-based contact management system enables individuals and organizations to keep their personal contact information current. Website http://www.onepin.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction … Continue reading “OnePIN Secures $670,000 New Funding”