Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=51a6c00e-3a70-4f4e-afdb-3f781006397c&Preview=1 Date 10/5/2011 Company Name ioRevolution Mailing Address 129 Franklin Street Cambridge, MA 02139 Company Description The company has developed PowerInbox that allows any notification email from an outside website like Groupon or Facebook to be seen inside the body of your email, instead of having to click on a link in … Continue reading “ioRevolution Lands $1,900,000 Seed Round”
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Incentive Targeting Obtains $1,629,172 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=32a3bdf7-f8b6-4090-80ae-8da1e3d940d7&Preview=1 Date 10/5/2011 Company Name Incentive Targeting Mailing Address 196 Broadway First Floor Cambridge, MA 02139 Company Description Incentive Targeting partners with retail chains to provide a targeted marketing service to manufacturers of grocery and consumer products. Using our service, manufacturers market directly to individual shoppers across our entire retail network—based on … Continue reading “Incentive Targeting Obtains $1,629,172 New Funding”
ezCater Secures $630,000 Seed Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7dba80f7-02b4-4896-b994-8d221deea976&Preview=1 Date 10/5/2011 Company Name ezCater Mailing Address 19 Plymouth Road Weston, MA 02493 Company Description ezCater: The easiest, most reliable way to find and order food from local caterers. Website http://www.ezcater.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $630,000 Transaction Round Seed Proceeds Purposes This round of funding is all about sales … Continue reading “ezCater Secures $630,000 Seed Round”
NitroSecurity Snapped Up by Intel’s McAfee Amid Escalating Cyber Threats
Lots of action in computer security, especially around New England. On the same day IBM said it’s acquiring Q1 Labs of Waltham, MA, the security firm McAfee, a recent subsidiary of Santa Clara, CA-based Intel (NASDAQ: [[ticker:INTC]]), said it has agreed to buy NitroSecurity of Portsmouth, NH. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. NitroSecurity specializes … Continue reading “NitroSecurity Snapped Up by Intel’s McAfee Amid Escalating Cyber Threats”
IBM Acquires Q1 Labs, Forms New Division Around Software Security
N-n-n-n-n, n-, n-, n-, n-n-n-n-n-nineteen. Anyone remember that song from the golden age of music and movies? In any case, IBM has made its 19th acquisition of a Massachusetts software company since 2003. Today Big Blue (NYSE: [[ticker:IBM]]) announced it is acquiring Waltham, MA-based Q1 Labs, a 10-year-old security software firm that helps businesses see … Continue reading “IBM Acquires Q1 Labs, Forms New Division Around Software Security”
Join Us at 1 pm Eastern/10 am Pacific for RNAi “Tweetchat” with Alnylam’s John Maraganore
Here’s just a quick reminder that we’re doing the live Tweetchat today with Alnylam Pharmaceuticals CEO John Maraganore. This chat, which anyone with a Twitter account is free to join, will be held today at 1 pm Eastern/10 am Pacific. The best way to follow the questions and answers will be to follow the live … Continue reading “Join Us at 1 pm Eastern/10 am Pacific for RNAi “Tweetchat” with Alnylam’s John Maraganore”
InnoCentive Receives $3,432,277 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=fa9c6731-6f44-41fe-9644-9999bd9143fa&Preview=1 Date 10/4/2011 Company Name InnoCentive Mailing Address 610 Lincoln St. Waltham, MA 02451 Company Description InnoCentive is an exciting new web-based community matching top scientists to relevant R&D challenges facing leading companies from around the globe. Website http://www.innocentive.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $3,432,277 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds … Continue reading “InnoCentive Receives $3,432,277 New Funding Round”
Startwire Obtains $3,250,000 Series A Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ec8cc318-7e91-4247-bcbb-286a13a941e1&Preview=1 Date 10/4/2011 Company Name Startwire Mailing Address 10 Water Street 3rd Floor Lebanon, NH 03766 Company Description StartWire is powered by a team of recruiting industry veterans, job search experts, world-class technologists, and forward thinking investors all unified by a simple mission: to radically improve job search. Website http://www.startwire.com Transaction Type … Continue reading “Startwire Obtains $3,250,000 Series A Funding”
IBM Acquires Q1 Labs for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8dd9a7bc-592f-4abf-88da-e5041e45b0ef&Preview=1 Date 10/4/2011 Company Name Q1 Labs Mailing Address 890 Winter Street Waltham, MA 02451 Company Description Q1 Labs is a network security management company. Website http://www.q1labs.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount Undisclosed Transaction Round Proceeds Purposes M&A Terms Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed by the parties.
RFID SIG: Fashion, Retail & the Supply Chain
This MIT Enterprise Forum event will cover radio frequency identification (RFID) technology and how it can potentially improve the supply chain process in the apparel industry. The event will feature moderator John Greaves, a veteran of the RFID technology space, as well as demonstrations of products and applications in the field. Register here.
From Atrium to Zettapoint: New England Firms Swept Up by Getinge, EMC, and HuffPo
Here a merger, there a merger, everywhere a merger merger… Some small, medium, and large acquisition news today around New England. —Localocracy, a Boston-based online town common and community platform, has been acquired by the Huffington Post Media Group and will join the AOL (NYSE: [[ticker:AOL]]) content unit. The news was first reported by All … Continue reading “From Atrium to Zettapoint: New England Firms Swept Up by Getinge, EMC, and HuffPo”
Lee Davenport, A Technological Hero, Dies at 95: Here are His 7 Rules for Fostering Innovation
Over the weekend, I learned that one of my heroes, Lee Davenport, had just passed away. Lee died of cancer at the age of 95 in his longtime home of Greenwich, CT. That’s where I first met him in 1994, when I was researching a book about the MIT Radiation Laboratory, the World War II … Continue reading “Lee Davenport, A Technological Hero, Dies at 95: Here are His 7 Rules for Fostering Innovation”
A Glimpse in Photos at the Xconomy Xchange: Consumers, the Cloud, and Beyond—New Rules for Innovation
VCs are wrong most of the time—and often it’s because they over-think a deal. That’s just one of the points I took away from our event this past Monday night, Xconomy Xchange: Consumers, the Cloud, and Beyond — New Rules for Innovation. If you want to catch some more themes from the panel—which featured venture capitalists … Continue reading “A Glimpse in Photos at the Xconomy Xchange: Consumers, the Cloud, and Beyond—New Rules for Innovation”
Why Universities Are Key to the Future of Biotech, and How UCSF’s Chief is Showing the Way
These are hard times at universities in America. State support is dwindling, tuition is booming, and federal research dollars are in jeopardy. Morale has taken a beating. But U.S. academic research centers are still the driving force for innovative new medicines, like always. And anyone who cares about U.S. universities should pay attention to what’s … Continue reading “Why Universities Are Key to the Future of Biotech, and How UCSF’s Chief is Showing the Way”
Reinventing the Board
Imagine a world where technology companies are more successful and grow faster because of the strategic help and guidance from their boards of directors. Or, at least imagine a world where they don’t suffer from unhelpful, or worse, problematic boards that consume management’s precious time. Some commentators like Steve Blank, Jeff Bussgang, Brad Feld, and … Continue reading “Reinventing the Board”
Can Crowdsourcing Make a Dent in Unemployment? Ask MobileWorks
Jobs are the single biggest political issue of the day in the U.S., and rightly so. As of August, the official unemployment rate in the United States stood at 9.1 percent. That was down one point from the October 2009 peak of 10.1 percent, but still higher than at any time since the 1930s, with … Continue reading “Can Crowdsourcing Make a Dent in Unemployment? Ask MobileWorks”
RXi Splits Up, Zeo Launches Mobile Sleep-Tracking App, Karuna Licenses Schizophrenia Compounds, & More Boston-Area Life Sciences News
This week’s New England life sciences news spanned companies targeting cancer, schizophrenia, sleep improvement, and genomic analysis. —Newton, MA-based health IT startup Zeo announced it added a mobile app version of its sleep tracking and coaching system. The company hopes the tool, which pushes sleep data gathered from a sensor-laden headband to a user’s mobile … Continue reading “RXi Splits Up, Zeo Launches Mobile Sleep-Tracking App, Karuna Licenses Schizophrenia Compounds, & More Boston-Area Life Sciences News”
Soft Tissue Regeneration Garners $1,250,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=83be025b-a923-42a2-b9b2-d28d0dd5f18c&Preview=1 Date 9/30/2011 Company Name Soft Tissue Regeneration Mailing Address 142 Temple Street New Haven, CT 06510 Company Description Soft Tissue Regeneration has developed and preliminarily tested a potential breakthrough technology for soft tissue regeneration of the anterior cruciate ligament of the knee. Website http://www.softtissueregeneration.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $1,250,000 Transaction … Continue reading “Soft Tissue Regeneration Garners $1,250,000 New Funding”
Tippr’s Federal Patent Lawsuit: 14 Daily Deals Players Targeted, Now All Quietly Settled
It’s been a wild few months for companies peddling daily deals. As market leader Groupon faces criticism for its accounting and turmoil in its executive ranks, bigger competitors continue to expand or kill their efforts, while smaller fish get gobbled up in a spree of consolidation. If that’s not enough churn, you can also add some … Continue reading “Tippr’s Federal Patent Lawsuit: 14 Daily Deals Players Targeted, Now All Quietly Settled”
Three Companies to Watch: BetterLesson, Wikets, and PeerApp Raise Funds
On a dismal day in Boston, here are a few tech-related company financings worth mentioning (one in mobile/social, one in video, and one in education): —BetterLesson, a Cambridge, MA-based startup that helps teachers organize and share lesson plans and curricula online, has closed a new $1.6 million financing round from Highland Capital Partners, General Catalyst … Continue reading “Three Companies to Watch: BetterLesson, Wikets, and PeerApp Raise Funds”
Knome Moves Beyond the Mega-Rich With Genome Analysis Service
There just aren’t that many rich people who want to do scientifically adventurous things like fly in outer space or get their entire genomes sequenced. Fortunately for Cambridge, MA-based Knome, it has found a way to keep its genomic analysis business alive by doing something more than appealing to the curiosity, or vanity, of the … Continue reading “Knome Moves Beyond the Mega-Rich With Genome Analysis Service”
Excerpt from “The Body Politic: The Battle Over Science in America”
No particular group, right or left or somewhere else, is immune from the sense that change is accelerating at an ever faster pace with each passing year. The experience of too-rapid change, whether trivial or profound, is a characteristic of modernity. Information technologies are perhaps the sentinel sources and examples of what Alvin Toffler called “future shock” in 1970, right … Continue reading “Excerpt from “The Body Politic: The Battle Over Science in America””
The Polaris Express: Dogpatch Labs Says Goodbye Pier 38, Hello Palo Alto and Dublin
It’s official: Waltham, MA-based Polaris Venture Partners is announcing a couple of moves related to its network of Dogpatch Labs startup incubators. One bit of news involves the fate of the original Dogpatch in San Francisco. The other piece is about a brand new (and long-awaited) international site that is opening today. (Dogpatch Labs already … Continue reading “The Polaris Express: Dogpatch Labs Says Goodbye Pier 38, Hello Palo Alto and Dublin”
Xconomist of the Week: Pfizer’s Barbara Dalton to Speak at Our NY Life Sciences 2031 Forum
As Pfizer’s vice president of venture capital, Barbara Dalton will bring two valuable perspectives to Xconomy’s Life Sciences 2031 panel discussion on October 13: that of a VC and that of a pharma executive. Dalton, who was trained in immunology and virology at the Medical College of Pennsylvania, began her career as a research scientist … Continue reading “Xconomist of the Week: Pfizer’s Barbara Dalton to Speak at Our NY Life Sciences 2031 Forum”
Sage Science Lands $2,032,203 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5409eb0e-6170-46af-ba80-e4a7dfb8e92b&Preview=1 Date 9/29/2011 Company Name Sage Science Mailing Address 500 Cummings Center Beverly, MA 01915 Company Description Sage Science develops and manufactures convergent instrumentation and consumable products which we sell directly to scientists and through bioscience tools suppliers. We seek to consolidate labor and new engineering and chemistry technologies to create new … Continue reading “Sage Science Lands $2,032,203 New Round”
Netezza CEO Jim Baum Out at IBM, On to New “Non-Competitive” Venture
Former Netezza chief executive Jim Baum has left IBM, Xconomy has learned. Baum was the CEO of Marlborough, MA-based Netezza since early 2009 and oversaw the “big data” analytics company’s $1.7 billion acquisition by IBM almost exactly a year ago. Baum was not reachable for comment, but a spokesperson for IBM (NYSE: [[ticker:IBM]]) confirmed that … Continue reading “Netezza CEO Jim Baum Out at IBM, On to New “Non-Competitive” Venture”
Stealthy Karuna Licenses Schizophrenia Drugs from Vanderbilt
When Xconomy first reported the launch of a new biotech company called Karuna Pharmaceuticals in January, the Boston startup declined to reveal much about what it was working on, except to say it had two drug-development initiatives in schizophrenia. Last week, Karuna unveiled one of those programs: a group of compounds that it has licensed … Continue reading “Stealthy Karuna Licenses Schizophrenia Drugs from Vanderbilt”
CustomMade, With New Bucks Under Its Belt, Revamps Online Model for Customization
First of all, please don’t call CustomMade a “mass customization” startup. That phrase refers to the cluster of companies, many of them in the Boston area, that specialize in offering consumers personalized goods online—everything from clothing to jewelry to artwork. No, CustomMade is different. At least that’s what co-founder and CEO Mike Salguero would have … Continue reading “CustomMade, With New Bucks Under Its Belt, Revamps Online Model for Customization”
Seed Funding, .300 Batting Averages, Overthinking Investments, & More Takeways from Xconomy’s Consumers, the Cloud, and Beyond
Here’s a good cure for the Mondays: an evening panel of venture capitalists whose collective portfolio includes companies like Zynga, DataXu, Backupify, HubSpot, Grockit, and more. I’m talking about our Xconomy Xchange: Consumers, the Cloud, and Beyond—New Rules for Innovation, held this past Monday night at WilmerHale in Boston. The panel featured Jeff Fagnan of … Continue reading “Seed Funding, .300 Batting Averages, Overthinking Investments, & More Takeways from Xconomy’s Consumers, the Cloud, and Beyond”
Xconomy Tweetchat with Alnylam CEO John Maraganore
Join Xconomy’s national biotech editor Luke Timmerman on Twitter @ldtimmerman for a real-time chat on the future of RNA interference with John Maraganore, the CEO of Cambridge, MA-based Alnylam Pharmaceuticals—@alnylam. This chat will be held at 1 pm Eastern/10 am Pacific. The hash tag will be #rnaichat
Join Us for a Live ‘Tweetchat’ on the Future of RNAi, With Guest John Maraganore of Alnylam
Usually when I want to chat with someone, I still pick up that 19th century contraption called the telephone or sometimes meet in person. Each of those communications methods has its merits, but you can bring a lot more voices to a conversation through a real-time chat like the ones happening now on Twitter. So … Continue reading “Join Us for a Live ‘Tweetchat’ on the Future of RNAi, With Guest John Maraganore of Alnylam”
TechStars Pins Down $24M, Visible Measures Gets $13M Series D, Yesware Announces Seed Funding, & More Boston-Area Deals News
The IT space accounted for most of the deal-making we tracked in New England over the last week. —Boulder, CO-based TechStars said it pulled in $24 million in new funding, which will go to giving each company in its startup incubator programs (in Boulder, Boston, Seattle, and New York) another $100,000 in the form of … Continue reading “TechStars Pins Down $24M, Visible Measures Gets $13M Series D, Yesware Announces Seed Funding, & More Boston-Area Deals News”
CustomMade Lands $2,006,668 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=61e9647c-446e-4fef-8a71-13f6093dab20&Preview=1 Date 9/28/2011 Company Name CustomMade Mailing Address 99 1st St. Cambridge, MA 02141 Company Description CustomMade is the first online marketplace to focus on connecting buyers of custom made furniture, cabinetry, and other products with the skilled artisans who create them. For consumers and members of the design trade, CustomMade is … Continue reading “CustomMade Lands $2,006,668 New Round”
Achievers Secures $24,500,000 Series C Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7902eda8-1a36-48e8-8afa-48cbbf30ff84&Preview=1 Date 9/28/2011 Company Name Achievers Mailing Address 1 Broadway 14th Floor Cambridge, MA 02142 Company Description Achievers (formerly I Love Rewards) is passionate about employee rewards and Social Recognition. Our software helps engage employees and inspire performance globally. Achievers’ customers include Deloitte, 3M and Microsoft. The Social Recognition platform provides performance-based … Continue reading “Achievers Secures $24,500,000 Series C Funding Round”
iJento Garners $8,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=515b2a82-38bb-4bed-9962-582d41af27ed&Preview=1 Date 9/28/2011 Company Name iJento Mailing Address 40 Richards Ave 3rd Floor Norwalk, CT 06854 Company Description iJento Datamart delivers a true open architecture platform, that allows you to integrate different data sources to facilitate a single customer view. You can then use your own business intelligence tools or iJento Intelligence … Continue reading “iJento Garners $8,000,000 New Funding Round”
BetterLesson Garners $1,600,000 Series A Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d2924aca-5ed1-41f1-a8a8-5c66a35c4056&Preview=1 Date 9/28/2011 Company Name BetterLesson Mailing Address 1 Camp Street Cambridge, MA 02140 Company Description BetterLesson was founded by a group of teachers from Atlanta and Boston public schools to connect educators and help them create, organize, and share their curricula. We are focused on aggregating and scaling the most innovative … Continue reading “BetterLesson Garners $1,600,000 Series A Financing”
From the Kinect to AIDS Vaccines: Rick Rashid Reflects on 20 Years of Microsoft Research
How many top-level Microsoft executives have been in the same job for 20 years? By Rick Rashid’s count, he’s the only one. That sort of continuity says a lot about Microsoft Research, the in-house invention factory that Rashid was recruited from Carnegie Mellon to run in 1991. It’s still growing—up to about 850 PhDs and … Continue reading “From the Kinect to AIDS Vaccines: Rick Rashid Reflects on 20 Years of Microsoft Research”
Yesware Talks About Hiring Plans and Seed Funding from Google Ventures, Foundry Group
Yesware, the Cambridge, MA-based developer of e-mail plug-ins for salespeople, announced today that its $1 million first-round funding came from Google Ventures, Foundry Group, Golden Venture Partners, and angel investors Geoffrey Hyatt, Colby Wood, Mike Baker, David Cohen, Mike Dornbrook, and Will Herman. The money will go toward developing Yesware’s technology for helping salespeople contact … Continue reading “Yesware Talks About Hiring Plans and Seed Funding from Google Ventures, Foundry Group”
Unlimited Abilities: A View from the MedtechVision Conference
We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision. —Ralph Waldo Emerson In a world thick with healthcare conferences, MedtechVision, held September 15-16 at the Rosewood Hotel in Menlo Park, CA, stood out, both for its quality of content and for its participants. “I hadn’t given any thought to the fact that it … Continue reading “Unlimited Abilities: A View from the MedtechVision Conference”
Backed by Eclectic Financiers, Acetylon Begins Trials of Cancer Drug
When Boston-based biotech startup Acetylon Pharmaceuticals began operations in 2008, it grabbed attention for having attracted a big-named backer: the Kraft Group, the Foxborough, MA, holding company founded by New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft. Acetylon ultimately raised nearly $40 million from Kraft, a group of unnamed individuals, and, most recently, the Leukemia & Lymphoma … Continue reading “Backed by Eclectic Financiers, Acetylon Begins Trials of Cancer Drug”
Affectiva Opens Silicon Valley Office, Tracks Consumers’ Emotions Via Webcam
A Boston-area tech startup with a pretty bold vision is announcing its expansion to Silicon Valley today. Waltham, MA-based Affectiva, an MIT Media Lab spinout, is opening an office in Santa Clara, CA, where its CEO Dave Berman is based, along with other key members of the team. Affectiva, which has about 25 employees (most … Continue reading “Affectiva Opens Silicon Valley Office, Tracks Consumers’ Emotions Via Webcam”
Sequoia Capital’s Greg McAdoo on Consumer Web and Cleantech Trends, Boston Vs. New York, and Recruiting at MIT
Is there anything worse than a Silicon Valley VC coming to Boston to poach talent from the startup ecosystem? OK, that’s not really what Greg McAdoo is about. The Sequoia Capital partner was in town last weekend, in part for the Startup Bootcamp event at MIT (and related meetups), which featured talks by a number … Continue reading “Sequoia Capital’s Greg McAdoo on Consumer Web and Cleantech Trends, Boston Vs. New York, and Recruiting at MIT”
Wentworth Technology Receives $625,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c04483c9-ec41-4581-b2f1-4616ea7b1e88&Preview=1 Date 9/27/2011 Company Name Wentworth Technology Mailing Address 77 Industrial Park Road Saco, ME 04072 Company Description Our team of wireless communications professionals have over 60 years of combined experience providing full-featured wireless communications solutions to the most demanding industries. Our company is built on the principles of making quality products … Continue reading “Wentworth Technology Receives $625,000 New Financing”
PeerApp Garners $8,002,794 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3d4e8b40-d4e0-4bdf-b0c7-3179b1094140&Preview=1 Date 9/27/2011 Company Name PeerApp Mailing Address 375 Elliot Street Newton Upper Falls, MA 02464 Company Description PeerApp is a leading supplier of peer-to-peer infrastructure solutions for Internet service providers. PeerApp solutions reduce Peer-to-Peer (P2P) related bandwidth costs without impacting subscriber experience; support service provider network/subscriber growth and enable new revenue-generating … Continue reading “PeerApp Garners $8,002,794 New Financing”
MITEF Innovation Series Event: The New Game: How Technology Innovation is Changing How We Experience Sports
This event from the MIT Enterprise Forum will feature a panel representing Boston’s pro sports, as well as sports-focused startups like Star Street and UberSense, to see how mobile and other real-time tech are changing the game. Register here.
RXi Splits Into Two Public Companies After Adding Cancer Vaccine to Pipeline
Today, Worcester, MA-based RXi Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: [[ticker:RXII]]) announced that it will split into two publicly traded companies. The first, called Galena Biopharma, will focus on developing targeted cancer therapies and will be headquartered in Portland, OR. RXi will be spun off later this year and will continue to work on RNAi-based therapeutics—the company’s original mission when … Continue reading “RXi Splits Into Two Public Companies After Adding Cancer Vaccine to Pipeline”
Crossing Boundaries in Drug Development: Perspectives on Drug Pricing and Reimbursement
This event, put on by the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association Boston, will take a look at healthcare drug costs and reimbursements, as they relate to the pharmaceutical industry. Pfizer’s vice president of US payers and national accounts, Robyn Peters, will kick off the evening discussion. Register here by October 10. On-site registration is also available.
Zeo Introduces Sleep Manager Mobile, Shifting Focus from Hardware to Sleep Management Apps and Integration
There’s no shortage of mobile apps for managing your workout plans or counting calories, but far fewer for managing and improving sleep, says Ben Rubin, co-founder and chief technology officer of Newton, MA-based Zeo. And he has reason to know. The company’s Personal Sleep Coach system has won the support of Regis Philbin (TV endorsement), … Continue reading “Zeo Introduces Sleep Manager Mobile, Shifting Focus from Hardware to Sleep Management Apps and Integration”
Xconomy VC Chat on Consumers, the Cloud, and Beyond, Plus 4 Cool Startups, Takes Place Tonight—Only 6 Tix Left
In one corner: Larry Bohn, General Catalyst Partners. Rich Levandov, Avalon Ventures. Jeff Fagnan, Atlas Venture. In the other corner: Apperian’s David Patrick. Tonight, starting at 6pm in downtown Boston, the VCs and startup CEO square off in Xconomy’s first event of the fall season, a venture chat called Consumers, the Cloud, and Beyond—New Rules … Continue reading “Xconomy VC Chat on Consumers, the Cloud, and Beyond, Plus 4 Cool Startups, Takes Place Tonight—Only 6 Tix Left”
200 Women and 5 Men: How Women in Bio’s Network Could Close the Gender Gap
Women have come a long way in the biotech business the past couple decades, no doubt. But if you have any illusions that the industry is nearing gender balance in 2011, then you haven’t seen what I witnessed a few days ago in a hotel lobby in Seattle. The gender balance issue jumped out at … Continue reading “200 Women and 5 Men: How Women in Bio’s Network Could Close the Gender Gap”