[Updated throughout 8/30/12 2:00 pm.] Sticking with a lean business model has paid off big for San Diego’s Elevation Pharmaceuticals, which has agreed to a buyout offer from Marlborough, MA-based Sunovion Pharmaceuticals that could eventually be worth as much as $430 million. With the deal, Sunovion (a subsidiary of the Japanese drug maker Dainippon Sumitomo) … Continue reading “Sunovion Targets Respiratory Drug in $430M Deal for Elevation Pharma”
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Vecna Designs Mobile Health Systems for Rural Care
How do you design an electronic health records interface for people who are computer illiterate? And for use in locations where electricity is scarce? Vecna Technologies, the Cambridge, MA-based healthcare IT and robotics company, is taking a crack at this problem with the Global Health Initiative, which it runs with the non-profit Vecna Cares Foundation. … Continue reading “Vecna Designs Mobile Health Systems for Rural Care”
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Wins FDA Approval For Constipation Drug
[Updated 3:23 pm ET] Ironwood Pharmaceuticals CEO Peter Hecht is fond of saying he wants to build the next great pharmaceutical company, and now he’ll have a chance to prove it. The company was cleared today by the FDA to start selling its first drug in the U.S. Cambridge, MA-based Ironwood (NASDAQ: [[ticker:IRWD]]) was given … Continue reading “Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Wins FDA Approval For Constipation Drug”
OvaScience, Founded by Sirtris Vets, Plans IPO
Boston-based OvaScience, which is developing infertility treatments based on stem cell science, filed documents with the SEC announcing its plans to go public. According to the filing, the company intends to register 7.6 million shares that have been sold to private investors and to trade on the over-the-counter exchange. OvaScience was founded on technology developed at … Continue reading “OvaScience, Founded by Sirtris Vets, Plans IPO”
Evelo Aims to Tap into Burgeoning Electric Bicycle Commuting Trend
What do peer-to-peer car sharing and electric bicycles have in common? They represent a shift in consumer attitudes towards transportation, says Boston-area entrepreneur Boris Mordkovich. “It’s really interesting to see the perceptions people have about car ownership,” Mordkovich says. “Years ago, owning a car meant freedom and flexibility. Right now people are looking for a … Continue reading “Evelo Aims to Tap into Burgeoning Electric Bicycle Commuting Trend”
Trefis Secures $1,405,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3ef6d90c-1b7d-44c5-a62c-2825ada67c87&Preview=1 Date 8/30/2012 Company Name Trefis Mailing Address 100 City Hall Plaza Boston, MA 02108 Company Description The company operates a website that allows users to access financial content for publicly traded companies. Website http://www.trefis.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,405,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. … Continue reading “Trefis Secures $1,405,000 New Financing”
SimpleTuition Garners $5,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3990aff5-a68f-4c00-be66-31231c2c4863&Preview=1 Date 8/30/2012 Company Name SimpleTuition Mailing Address 268 Summer Street Boston, MA 02210 Company Description SimpleTuition helps simplify the process for students to achieve higher education financing. Website http://www.simpletuition.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $5,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes The funds provided to SimpleTuition will support its continued growth. M&A … Continue reading “SimpleTuition Garners $5,000,000 New Financing Round”
MIT Startup Flyberry Capital Emerges with Big-Data Hedge Fund
In the good old days—say, the early ‘90s—math and physics PhDs who wanted to make lots of money became quantitative analysts, or quants, on Wall Street. Now, they just start their own hedge funds. It isn’t that simple, of course, but here’s a case in point: Flyberry Capital, a one-year-old startup in Cambridge, MA, founded … Continue reading “MIT Startup Flyberry Capital Emerges with Big-Data Hedge Fund”
Ziopharm Awaits Cancer Drug Data as Wall Street Withholds Judgment
Jonathan Lewis, the CEO of New York-based Ziopharm (NASDAQ: [[ticker:ZIOP]]), was stunned earlier this year when he ran across a commercial on YouTube produced by his company’s biggest investor, Fidelity. In the video (see below), a young man makes a bold prediction: “Within 50 years we could have more life forms invented in the lab … Continue reading “Ziopharm Awaits Cancer Drug Data as Wall Street Withholds Judgment”
Xconomist of the Week: Josh Linkner On Detroit “Getting Back Its Mojo”
Detroit Venture Partners CEO and managing partner Josh Linkner, with his success as a serial entrepreneur, venture fund backed by Quicken Loans founder and chairman Dan Gilbert, and unwavering commitment to nurturing Motor City startups, has become an icon of the city’s revitalization. He’s the kind of guy other investors all over the country—and I … Continue reading “Xconomist of the Week: Josh Linkner On Detroit “Getting Back Its Mojo””
Alnylam, OmniGuide, Ginger Software, and More from the Boston Deals Roundup
New England software makers, biotech companies, and startup incubators have been pumping out deals news in the last week. —Westford, MA-based RiverMeadow Software, whose technology helps migrate servers to the cloud, raised $5 million of a targeted $10.7 million equity-based offering, according to an SEC filing. —Ginger Software, a Lexington, MA-based maker of proofreading software, … Continue reading “Alnylam, OmniGuide, Ginger Software, and More from the Boston Deals Roundup”
RiverMeadow Software Garners $4,999,994 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=6c2b5aea-df42-418b-b8e8-daad70bb5532&Preview=1 Date 8/29/2012 Company Name RiverMeadow Software Mailing Address 239 Littleton Road Unit 4D Westford, MA 01886 Company Description RiverMeadow Software, Inc.TM is a privately held company founded in October, 2009 just outside of Boston, Massachusetts. Today, the company has offices on both the east and west coasts, with Engineering and R&D … Continue reading “RiverMeadow Software Garners $4,999,994 New Funding Round”
The iRobot Q&A: Colin Angle on the Next Robotics Inflection Point
It is a time of change at iRobot. Ten years after the landmark release of Roomba, the robotic vacuum cleaner, the Bedford, MA-based company (NASDAQ: [[ticker:IRBT]]) could be considered the most successful robotics firm in history, even as it is trying to reinvent itself with new product lines. This reinvention comes amid big uncertainties in … Continue reading “The iRobot Q&A: Colin Angle on the Next Robotics Inflection Point”
Alnylam Inks $29M Deal With Monsanto for New Bio Tools for Farmers
Cambridge, MA-based Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: [[ticker:ALNY]]) said today it has formed a 10-year strategic alliance with St. Louis-based agricultural giant Monsanto (NYSE: [[ticker:MON]]) to develop biotech solutions for the farming industry. Under the terms of the deal, Monsanto will receive exclusive worldwide rights to Alnylam’s RNAi-based technology for agricultural use, in return for $29.2 million in upfront … Continue reading “Alnylam Inks $29M Deal With Monsanto for New Bio Tools for Farmers”
Zafgen Secures $3,000,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=eec2aaf9-5f58-4533-9eb1-0704947e9e85&Preview=1 Date 8/28/2012 Company Name Zafgen Mailing Address 1 Cambridge Center Cambridge, MA 02142 Company Description The company is developing novel therapeutics for the treatment of obesity. Website http://www.zafgen.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $3,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. SEC regulatory filing. M&A Terms Venture Investor … Continue reading “Zafgen Secures $3,000,000 New Funding”
OmniGuide Garners $35,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=87c59a3f-94be-414b-9939-8304566ef4f1&Preview=1 Date 8/28/2012 Company Name OmniGuide Mailing Address One Kendall Square Building 100 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02139 Company Description OmniGuide, Inc. develops and manufactures disposable cutting tools for minimally invasive surgery, based on a unique fiber technology for guiding high power laser light. Website http://www.omni-guide.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $35,000,000 … Continue reading “OmniGuide Garners $35,000,000 New Financing Round”
If You Can’t Stand the Heat, Get Out of the Kitchen
I recently took a vacation in Italy, and in my quest to eat everything not nailed down in the Lake Como region, I had the good fortune to participate in an amazing private cooking class in the resort kitchen of the Villa d’Este Hotel. The sous chef, a charming Italian man (duh) took my family through … Continue reading “If You Can’t Stand the Heat, Get Out of the Kitchen”
9 Takeaways from Rock Boston Demo Day: Health IT Firms Up
San Francisco-based accelerator Rock Health had its first Boston Demo Day here in Cambridge, MA, on Friday. I came away with some thoughts, which I will share here. As usual, I was looking more for emerging themes in the field, and not so much trying to figure out exactly what each company is doing, or … Continue reading “9 Takeaways from Rock Boston Demo Day: Health IT Firms Up”
Genentech, ImmunoGen Breast Cancer Drug Extends Lives
Genentech’s new souped-up antibody drug for breast cancer was the star of the show at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s big conference in June, even though the clinical data wasn’t yet fully baked. But now the data is in, and confirms what most everybody thought it would show—that the drug is extending lives. South … Continue reading “Genentech, ImmunoGen Breast Cancer Drug Extends Lives”
Wikets Targets Mobile Shopping with Social Recommendation App
Last summer, when Lexington, MA-based Wikets revealed via an SEC filing that it had raised $1.5 million in funding, its website said it was building technology for users to share ideas with people they trust. Late last week the startup announced an update to its now-live mobile social shopping app, so I caught up with … Continue reading “Wikets Targets Mobile Shopping with Social Recommendation App”
U-M Student Startup Fetchnotes Wins TechStars Spot
Fetchnotes, the Ann Arbor, MI-based startup founded by a group of University of Michigan students, announced today that it has been accepted into the national business accelerator TechStars Boston. It’s a prestigious program that accepts only 1 percent of startups that apply to participate, and Fetchnotes is the first U-M student startup to earn the … Continue reading “U-M Student Startup Fetchnotes Wins TechStars Spot”
Xconomy Xchange: Boston Life Sciences 2032
What will the Boston life sciences landscape look like two decades from today? Will this region remain the world’s leader in university, hospital, and corporate research; drug and platform development; and startup activity? Even more, will area companies be shaping a new era in healthcare–and what new advances might make that possible? Four years after … Continue reading “Xconomy Xchange: Boston Life Sciences 2032”
Rock Health’s Boston Demo Day Yields Seven Startups
In case you’ve lost track of Demo Days around here, there’s a pretty interesting one happening today. Rock Health, the grant-giving healthcare accelerator that started in San Francisco, is holding its inaugural Rock Boston Demo Day at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, MA, at 2 pm. You could be forgiven for confusing the various health-tech … Continue reading “Rock Health’s Boston Demo Day Yields Seven Startups”
10 Indispensable Apps for the Back-to-School Season
There’s a reason that George Fox University, Regis College, Chicago State University, Seton Hill, and other colleges and universities are giving iPads to all incoming freshmen this fall. It’s because the Apple tablets are just as good as laptops for many types of educational tasks, such as notetaking, and even better for others, such as … Continue reading “10 Indispensable Apps for the Back-to-School Season”
CIMIT, Best Doctors, Inspiration Biopharma, & More Boston Life Sciences Newsmakers
We’ve seen a mix of drug development and health IT out of New England companies this week. —Best Doctors, a Boston-based company whose database of 50,000 physicians can be called upon to provide second opinions on diagnoses and treatment plans, announced that it had raised $45.5 million in new funding. Brown Brothers Harriman & Co … Continue reading “CIMIT, Best Doctors, Inspiration Biopharma, & More Boston Life Sciences Newsmakers”
EnVivo Forges Ahead With Alzheimer’s Drug
The pharmaceutical world went into shock on August 6, when Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Elan Pharmaceuticals pulled the plug on bapineuzumab (“bapi”), a highly anticipated experimental drug they were co-developing to fight Alzheimer’s disease. The folks at Watertown, MA-based EnVivo Pharmaceuticals were among those watching the drug’s demise with interest. Just a few weeks earlier, … Continue reading “EnVivo Forges Ahead With Alzheimer’s Drug”
With $500K in Tow, Rentabilities Aims to Simplify the Cryptic Equipment Rental Space
Which Boston startup provides you one stop (rental) shopping for Disney-princess-themed bouncy castles, boats for booze cruises, and even a Zoltar fortune-telling machine just like the one from the Tom Hanks movie Big? Rentabilities, the same guys who created all the Twitter fuss last fall with a pirate-themed entrepreneur boat party, and are about to … Continue reading “With $500K in Tow, Rentabilities Aims to Simplify the Cryptic Equipment Rental Space”
The Top 5 Risks Confronting Startups
You might have a great idea for a startup. You may be passionate, driven, and ready to go. But how ready are you to manage your risks? Many startups fail because of ineffective risk management. So how do you avoid a similar fate? It all depends on how well you understand and manage your risks. … Continue reading “The Top 5 Risks Confronting Startups”
LiveClips Garners $800,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=38712da4-a19a-41f3-bb0c-a129232b5084&Preview=1 Date 8/23/2012 Company Name LiveClips Mailing Address 281 Tresser Blvd 12th Floor Stamford, CT 06901 Company Description LiveClips is an innovator and leader in the development and delivery of video content from live sporting events to any Internet-enabled device. LiveClips is a game-changer. Its advanced technology automates the previously time- and … Continue reading “LiveClips Garners $800,000 New Funding Round”
Draker Laboratories Garners $8,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7ea9ef0b-c94e-4522-a94e-dfaafccfefcc&Preview=1 Date 8/23/2012 Company Name Draker Laboratories Mailing Address 431 Pine Street Burlington, VT 05401 Company Description Draker Laboratories provides high performance hardware monitoring and software-as-a-service data management systems for commercial-scale renewable energy systems including: solar photovoltaics (PV), wind, solar thermal and hybrid systems. Website http://www.drakerlabs.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount … Continue reading “Draker Laboratories Garners $8,000,000 New Financing”
CIMIT, Induct Software Roll Out New Collaboration Platform for Healthcare
Collaboration is all the rage. So is innovation management. Throw in “cloud-based platform,” “improving quality of patient care while reducing cost,” and “translational research,” and it sounds like the perfect storm of IT-meets-healthcare buzzwords and memes. So here’s the news. Boston-based nonprofit CIMIT, the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology, has teamed up … Continue reading “CIMIT, Induct Software Roll Out New Collaboration Platform for Healthcare”
Locately, MoFuse, Care.com, & More Names from the Boston Deals Roundup
Health IT, mobile, database, and biofuel tech companies in New England have been making deals this week. —Locately, the Boston-based mobile location analytics startup, was bought by the Service Management Group, a Kansas City, MO-based market research firm, for an undisclosed cash sum. —Sqrrl, a Washington, DC-founded maker of secure database software, nabbed $2 million in … Continue reading “Locately, MoFuse, Care.com, & More Names from the Boston Deals Roundup”
Ginger Software Garners $5,400,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=74a9b0bb-1306-400f-90e6-ce41eb15df90&Preview=1 Date 8/22/2012 Company Name Ginger Software Mailing Address 405 Waltham St Lexington, MA 02421 Company Description Ginger Software is the leading contextual grammar and spell checker on the market today. Based on a full sentence context, Ginger can automatically correct severe spelling and grammatical mistakes at an unmatched success rate. It … Continue reading “Ginger Software Garners $5,400,000 New Funding Round”
Bride Meets Blog: Abby Larson on Style Me Pretty’s Explosive Growth
When people try to defend Boston’s validity as a consumer tech startup hub, they point to the success of brands like TripAdvisor, RueLaLa, and Wayfair. But there’s another that’s managed to stay pretty under the radar, pulling in 18.6 million page views per month, and serving as the 12th biggest source of traffic on the … Continue reading “Bride Meets Blog: Abby Larson on Style Me Pretty’s Explosive Growth”
On Our New Mobile Site, You’ve Been Upgraded to Xconomy Class
Visiting Xconomy.com on a smartphone should be like flying first class in the Pan Am heyday: a chance to listen in on the conversations of some of the day’s biggest movers and shakers in state-of-the-art surroundings with the minimum of aggravation or delay. That’s why we’re excited to announce the arrival of a dramatically upgraded version … Continue reading “On Our New Mobile Site, You’ve Been Upgraded to Xconomy Class”
Best Doctors Raises $45.5M for Second-Opinion Service
Boston-based Best Doctors, which was founded by Harvard physicians in 1989, has brought in $45.5 million in new funding, according to an SEC filing. Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. provided the funding, vice chairman Evan Falchuk told VentureWire. The company previously raised $20 million. Best Doctors maintains a database of 50,000 doctors, who can be called … Continue reading “Best Doctors Raises $45.5M for Second-Opinion Service”
An Insider’s View on Raising Money from Life Sciences VCs
The life sciences venture capital industry is undergoing rapid change. Although many innovative ideas have been taken from the bench to scientific discovery to treating patients, funding today to develop new products and services is getting more difficult to attain. Getting a product to market involves not only a long scientific process, but a carefully … Continue reading “An Insider’s View on Raising Money from Life Sciences VCs”
Best Doctors Obtains $45,518,448 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1c6c1e94-bc51-4c3d-b37c-92fb0904c621&Preview=1 Date 8/21/2012 Company Name Best Doctors Mailing Address 100 Federal Street, 21st Floor Boston, MA 02110 Company Description Best Doctors is an international company serving hundreds of insurers, employers and health plans, covering more than 10 million people in 30 countries. We are proving to them every day that the best … Continue reading “Best Doctors Obtains $45,518,448 New Funding Round”
MoFuse Receives $525,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=38fb7a83-adc4-4bf3-ac87-c1650cb50cc9&Preview=1 Date 8/21/2012 Company Name MoFuse Mailing Address 566 Smith St. Providence, RI 02908 Company Description MoFuse gives content publishers, like bloggers, the ability to publish their content to the mobile web. You don’t have to be a content publisher to use MoFuse though, anyone can create a mobile website in just … Continue reading “MoFuse Receives $525,000 New Funding”
Sqrrl Lands $2,000,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=392f1053-5798-4b4a-a4b8-d9aafccd2c21&Preview=1 Date 8/21/2012 Company Name Sqrrl Mailing Address 275 Third Street Cambridge, MA 02142 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, or other … Continue reading “Sqrrl Lands $2,000,000 New Funding”
SimpliVity Aims to Cut Clutter, Rebuild IT Infrastructure
Nearly two years ago, an SEC filing revealed that a stealthy IT company called SimpliVT had raised $9.2 million in funding. Today that company, with the slightly changed name of SimpliVity, is officially announcing it has launched. And it has just one, oh, minor goal in mind: to “simplify IT infrastructure,” says CEO Doron Kempel, … Continue reading “SimpliVity Aims to Cut Clutter, Rebuild IT Infrastructure”
GrabCAD Shifts to Collaborative Software for Design Firms, Looks to Go Big
A local startup appears to be building something like the “GitHub for CAD.” Does that mean anything to you? Well, GitHub is the open-source software hosting company that raised $100 million from Andreessen Horowitz earlier this summer. CAD is computer-aided design, which the Boston area is famous for (see SolidWorks, Parametric Technology Corporation, and others). … Continue reading “GrabCAD Shifts to Collaborative Software for Design Firms, Looks to Go Big”
Alzheimer’s R&D Isn’t Doomed, it’s Learning From Failure
The biggest hope for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease in a long time just went up in smoke. The next high-profile drug candidate will probably be toast in a few weeks, analysts say. The easiest thing now would be to write off the whole field of Alzheimer’s R&D, and declare that scientists have to go … Continue reading “Alzheimer’s R&D Isn’t Doomed, it’s Learning From Failure”
BioAnalytix Secures $858,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=cb13e533-72c6-4b76-a9f9-5af83d5c5355&Preview=1 Date 8/20/2012 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 Undisclosed Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $858,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds … Continue reading “BioAnalytix Secures $858,000 New Financing”
Harvest Power Obtains $764,070 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=93f2d320-d5b1-4777-bfcd-a3b13dc4a536&Preview=1 Date 8/20/2012 Company Name Harvest Power Mailing Address 221 Crescent St Waltham, MA 02453 Company Description Harvest’s superpowered products and capabilities give us the opportunity to create a new life-cycle for organics. We assist communities with source separation programs, build renewable energy facilities and utilize our best-in-class technologies to produce high-quality … Continue reading “Harvest Power Obtains $764,070 New Financing”
SimpliVity Receives $18,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=984b50a4-11f0-4050-a32c-2e8e1fea7eeb&Preview=1 Date 8/20/2012 Company Name SimpliVity Mailing Address 8 Technology Drive Westborough, MA 01581 Company Description SimpliVity is an exciting high-tech startup, developing radically new IT infrastructure technology for the modern data center and the cloud. SimpliVity is led by a team of veterans with proven track records of building successful companies, … Continue reading “SimpliVity Receives $18,000,000 New Financing”
Punchey Lands $1,700,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=dfa0ad2c-c988-4ac5-bbd6-6f7b126530d6&Preview=1 Date 8/18/2012 Company Name Punchey Mailing Address 31 State Street Boston, MA 02109 Company Description Punchey was founded in 2010 by Nathaniel Stevens who, five years earlier, left the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School to start Yodle.com. He had previously managed the online marketing for his father’s car dealership in New … Continue reading “Punchey Lands $1,700,000 New Funding Round”
The Case of the Tilted Clubhouse: A Geographical Detective Story
Today, technologies like Google, Siri, and Wolfram Alpha can answer virtually any question in milliseconds. So it’s refreshing to come across a mystery that takes a little longer to unravel. I recently found the solution to a minor historical puzzle that’s been gnawing at me for almost two years, ever since I moved to the … Continue reading “The Case of the Tilted Clubhouse: A Geographical Detective Story”
IPOs, Biogen, Northeastern, & More From the Boston Life Sciences Roundup
IPO analysis, drug development partnerships, and new financing deals have emerged from New England’s cohort of life sciences companies. —Three of 2012’s nine biotech IPOs come from the Boston area, and the entire class is performing much more steadily than the new tech big shots on the public market, Xconomy national biotech editor Luke Timmerman … Continue reading “IPOs, Biogen, Northeastern, & More From the Boston Life Sciences Roundup”
Mobile Startup Locately Bought by SMG in “Good Win for Boston”
Locately is one of those startups that I’ve nibbled at around the edges, never fully sinking my teeth into. Now someone else has swallowed the company whole—but that’s not the end of the story. The Boston mobile-tech company said today it has been acquired by market research firm Service Management Group (SMG), based in Kansas … Continue reading “Mobile Startup Locately Bought by SMG in “Good Win for Boston””