This week one of my favorite podcasts, WNYC’s Note to Self, is featuring a project called Infomagical. Every day the show is sharing new challenges designed to help listeners cope with information overload. We all know that feeling of being so far behind on the e-mails, texts, articles, and all the other stuff our digital … Continue reading “One Writer’s Strategy for Avoiding Information Overload”
Category: Boston
Elemental Machines Receives $2,500,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=bcd4159a-652b-47c5-b7af-14e5b1ecbde9 Date 2/5/2016 Company Name Elemental Machines Mailing Address 411 Mass Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139 USA Company Description Scientists working to cure diseases, find life-saving therapies and develop new materials have sophisticated instruments. What they don’t have is the metadata about the physical environment they’re working in and its impact on their … Continue reading “Elemental Machines Receives $2,500,000 New Round”
Notarize Obtains $2,400,000 Seed Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4f0c3963-15f4-4c74-a91a-4f873268eb65 Date 2/5/2016 Company Name Notarize Mailing Address Undisclosed Boston, MA 02108 USA Company Description Notarizing documents may not come up very often, but when you need it done there’s really no way to cut corners. Website http://www.notarize.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $2,400,000 Transaction Round Seed Proceeds Purposes Notarize said … Continue reading “Notarize Obtains $2,400,000 Seed Funding Round”
Affinivax Obtains $2,500,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8d59a54a-5f99-404b-b591-d80325b65fa0 Date 2/5/2016 Company Name Affinivax Mailing Address Undisclosed Cambridge, MA 02139 USA Company Description Affinivax is a biotechnology company developing a novel conjugation technology with the goal of designing vaccines that provide broad protection against challenging diseases afflicting children and adults in both the developing and developed worlds. Website http://www.affinivax.com Transaction … Continue reading “Affinivax Obtains $2,500,000 New Funding Round”
MIT Tech Conference
The Rise of Artificial Intelligence (information and registration here). From the website: The MIT Tech Conference is an annual event hosted by the MIT Sloan Tech Club at the Media Lab. Open to the general public, this conference features interactive expert panels, keynote speakers from the biggest names in tech and an MIT-wide competition showcasing … Continue reading “MIT Tech Conference”
IRobot Sells Defense Business to Focus on Connected Home Robots
Over the past few years, iRobot’s business has been shifting away from military applications and towards home robots and other areas. Today the company is making a clean break. The Bedford, MA-based robotics giant (NASDAQ: [[ticker:IRBT]]) says it’s selling off its defense and security business to private equity firm Arlington Capital Partners. The deal, expected … Continue reading “IRobot Sells Defense Business to Focus on Connected Home Robots”
Improving Odds for Women in Tech? Take Notes from Biotech
At our entrepreneurial support organization, the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED), we often joke about adhering to the proper dress and catering code for our networking events: jeans and beer for tech; suits, wine and cocktails for life sciences. But there is more to these superficial differences between the two networks serving 1,200 entrepreneurial companies … Continue reading “Improving Odds for Women in Tech? Take Notes from Biotech”
Polaris Partners Unveils New Startup Notarize with $2.4M Funding
The market for notarizations may not strike you as a booming industry, but it accounts for billions of transactions annually, according to Polaris Partners’ Pat Kinsel. Kinsel, a venture partner at the Boston-based firm, says there are an estimated 1 billion to 2.5 billion documents notarized each year, making it a $30 billion market. Even … Continue reading “Polaris Partners Unveils New Startup Notarize with $2.4M Funding”
Blood Simple? Grail’s Cancer Screening Quest Faces Tough Questions
[Corrected, 2/4/16, 2:05pm. See below.] Three weeks ago the world’s biggest genomic sequencing company, Illumina (NASDAQ: [[ticker:ILMN]]), unveiled a spinout called Grail to make blood tests that could spot all kinds of cancer in seemingly healthy people, perhaps as soon as 2019. If you know anything about the history of screening healthy people for cancer, … Continue reading “Blood Simple? Grail’s Cancer Screening Quest Faces Tough Questions”
ViaCyte Reports on Stem Cell Diabetes Trial, Absorbs BetaLogics
[Corrected 2/8/16, 11:20 am. See below.] In a deal that consolidates its position as a leader in developing a stem cell-derived treatment for diabetes, San Diego’s ViaCyte says today it is absorbing its chief rival, New Jersey-based Janssen BetaLogics. [Clarifies that the packet is filled with engineered stem cells, not embryonic stem cells] The asset … Continue reading “ViaCyte Reports on Stem Cell Diabetes Trial, Absorbs BetaLogics”
Silk Therapeutics Secures $6,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=233221fb-6c9d-4874-b62b-b26ba374e219 Date 2/4/2016 Company Name Silk Therapeutics Mailing Address 196 Boston Ave. Medford, MA 02155 USA Company Description The founders of Silk Therapeutics are world-renowned for pioneering silk science to improve human health. Dr. Greg Altman (CEO) and Dr. Rebecca Horan (COO) have worked together for more than 15 years developing silk-based … Continue reading “Silk Therapeutics Secures $6,000,000 New Funding Round”
Perosphere Garners $4,089,000 Series B Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b80405c5-ccb7-47c0-bf1f-1357a92b4372 Date 2/4/2016 Company Name Perosphere Mailing Address 20 Kenosia Avenue Danbury, CT 06810 USA Company Description Perosphere is a specialty pharmaceutical company with internationally recognized drug delivery expertise. Perosphere identifies market opportunities where application of drug delivery technology to a drug already on the market can create a new medical use … Continue reading “Perosphere Garners $4,089,000 Series B Funding”
BeON Home Obtains $2,900,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=cce7405b-6c5c-48b6-a966-186ee6e1ea4b Date 2/4/2016 Company Name BeON Home Mailing Address 125 Cambridge Park Drive Cambridge, MA 02140 USA Company Description BeON emerged during a conversation between friends Alexei Erchak and Arvind Baliga. Alexei had just purchased a new house and was disappointed with lack of simple technology options for managing his new home. … Continue reading “BeON Home Obtains $2,900,000 New Financing Round”
scPharmaceuticals Garners $3,600,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=871adc98-d522-447d-ab15-c4422ec13492 Date 2/4/2016 Company Name scPharmaceuticals Mailing Address 131 Hartwell Avenue Lexington, MA 02421 USA Company Description scPharmaceticals is creating innovative and important new therapeutic options by administering drugs subcutaneously using a convenient two component delivery system suitable for patient self-administration. Website http://www.scpharma.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $3,600,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed … Continue reading “scPharmaceuticals Garners $3,600,000 New Funding”
BioDirection Scoops Up $4M for 90-Second Diagnostic of Concussions
Whether it’s from advocates shining a spotlight on the underlying dangers of concussions or actors bringing to life the inherent drama of the subject, the foreboding impact of concussions has been top of mind for the last couple of years. That’s what makes new funding for a medical device being developed by Boston-based BioDirection so … Continue reading “BioDirection Scoops Up $4M for 90-Second Diagnostic of Concussions”
Unity Bio Wants To “Lengthen Health Span,” But 1st Goals More Modest
Live longer? How about starting with healthier knees or clearer eyesight? That’s the proposal from Unity Biotechnology, unveiling itself today with drug programs based upon research into a biological process that, when left undisturbed, seems to hasten aging. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Unity wants to interrupt that process—not to tap into a … Continue reading “Unity Bio Wants To “Lengthen Health Span,” But 1st Goals More Modest”
How Scientific Social Work Helps People Flourish
Here’s a question for everyone who wants to change the world: Which of these innovations will have more impact on society—a first-of-its-kind experimental vaccine to prevent HIV/AIDS that’s been developed by a venture-capital-backed biotechnology company, or a big-data research study from a social work scholar that identifies the role that alcohol consumption plays in the … Continue reading “How Scientific Social Work Helps People Flourish”
Misfit Vets Out to Debug Science Experiments With Elemental Machines
You’ve heard of the smart home. You probably haven’t heard of the smart lab. Until now, that is. The idea is analogous to a connected home: you hook up a science lab with sensors and software to track things like temperature, humidity, and which piece of equipment was used when. Why? If you’ve ever spent … Continue reading “Misfit Vets Out to Debug Science Experiments With Elemental Machines”
Time to Ease On Down the Road
It’s been a real pleasure writing my guest op-ed pieces for Xconomy for the past six years. I’ve enjoyed sharing my thoughts about a wide spectrum of biopharma topics, and appreciated the feedback I received whether you agreed with my views or not. However, it’s time for me to move on. I’ve already started posting … Continue reading “Time to Ease On Down the Road”
Boston Tech Watch: Localytics, Walt Doyle, Flyp, NuTonomy & More
This week in Boston, we’re tracking a bunch of funding announcements, trouble at Localytics, additions to the resume of local entrepreneur and investor Walt Doyle, and a new direction for a young co-working space. Read on for details. —Waltham, MA-based advanced battery maker SolidEnergy raised $12 million in a Series B round led by an … Continue reading “Boston Tech Watch: Localytics, Walt Doyle, Flyp, NuTonomy & More”
Unidesk Secures $5,499,996 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b9951b31-1c03-4ccb-a838-4db6dc50f39e Date 2/3/2016 Company Name Unidesk Mailing Address 313 Boston Post Road West Marlborough, MA 01752 USA Company Description Unidesk is focused on building innovative new software solutions that will dramatically reduce costs, increase IT control, and enhance the end user desktop computing experience for enterprise customers. Website http://www.unidesk.com Transaction Type Venture … Continue reading “Unidesk Secures $5,499,996 New Round”
Bit9 + Carbon Black Receives $13,749,992 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2a30da1c-9eda-404c-9afa-f2c2d197f632 Date 2/3/2016 Company Name Bit9 + Carbon Black Mailing Address 266 Second Ave Waltham, MA 02451 USA Company Description Only the Bit9 + Carbon Black solution provides integrated coverage for every aspect of endpoint threat protection: continuous monitoring and recording for real-time visibility into every endpoint, multiple forms of signature-less threat … Continue reading “Bit9 + Carbon Black Receives $13,749,992 New Round”
CRISPR Hits Wall Street as Editas Bags $94M in IPO
After a few years of explosive hype and no shortage of controversy, the gene editing system known as CRISPR-Cas9 has finally made its way to the public markets. This evening, Editas Medicine, of Cambridge, MA, priced its IPO. When Editas debuts on the Nasdaq tomorrow, public investors will have their first chance to buy into … Continue reading “CRISPR Hits Wall Street as Editas Bags $94M in IPO”
Starry Not Looking for a Fight, but Broadband Vision Draws Skeptics
Starry probably won’t suffer the same fate as its founders’ previous venture, Aereo, which lost a high-stakes legal battle with broadcast television titans that ended at the highest court in the land. But in trying to change the way people access broadband Internet, Starry’s path to success is perhaps equally daunting. The startup, based in … Continue reading “Starry Not Looking for a Fight, but Broadband Vision Draws Skeptics”
Cambridge Blockchain Wins First Santander Challenge for Fintech Startups
A team based out of the Cambridge Innovation Center came down to New York last week and snagged a bit of starting cash at the Santander InnoVentures Distributed Ledger Challenge fintech pitch competition. CEO Matthew Commons said his startup, Cambridge Blockchain, is an identity management platform for blockchain systems (the public ledgers for the Bitcoin network.) Blockchains … Continue reading “Cambridge Blockchain Wins First Santander Challenge for Fintech Startups”
Spero Eyes First Trial, Gets $30M More to Battle Drug-Resistant Bugs
With three different ways of attacking troublesome drug-resistant bacteria in its portfolio, Spero Therapeutics has begun to resemble something of an antibiotics roll-up. And now it’s got another $30 million to continue the work, with its first big clinical test coming later this year. Spero said today it has raised a $30 million Series B … Continue reading “Spero Eyes First Trial, Gets $30M More to Battle Drug-Resistant Bugs”
C4 Therapeutics Names Broad Institute’s Phillips CSO
Cambridge, MA-based C4 Therapeutics has named Andrew Phillips its chief scientific officer. Phillips was most recently an executive at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where he headed development of therapeutics. He was a chemistry professor at Yale University before that.
Early Bird Special Ends Today for New York’s Life Science Disruptors
Most early birds settle for worms, but we’re offering something much better: the chance to save $60. Join us on Tuesday, March 29, for New York’s Life Science Disruptors, where you’ll hear candid stories from some of the funders and founders who are trying to turn New York into the nation’s next great biotech cluster. … Continue reading “Early Bird Special Ends Today for New York’s Life Science Disruptors”
SolidEnergy Garners $12,000,000 Series B Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=ef15428b-47e4-4e8f-9000-2f0cb8cd35f9 Date 2/2/2016 Company Name SolidEnergy Mailing Address 200 West Street Waltham, MA 02451 USA Company Description SolidEnergy revolutionized portable energy storage with the introduction of the anode-free lithium metal battery in 2014. Website http://www.solidenergysystems.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $12,000,000 Transaction Round Series B Proceeds Purposes Strategic investments will help … Continue reading “SolidEnergy Garners $12,000,000 Series B Financing Round”
Flyp Receives $5,800,000 Seed Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=aea8a5a5-d650-428f-8028-301d90168b0b Date 2/2/2016 Company Name Flyp Mailing Address Undisclosed Boston, MA 02128 USA Company Description Flyp, Inc. is a US-based telecommunications company focused on changing the global consumer communications experience. Website http://www.getflyp.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $5,800,000 Transaction Round Seed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed by the company. … Continue reading “Flyp Receives $5,800,000 Seed Funding”
Atlas5D Lands $3,000,000 Series A Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=cc7cd388-42f5-4f30-9c51-34108b457a6c Date 2/2/2016 Company Name Atlas5D Mailing Address One Broadway 14th Floor Cambridge, MA 02142 USA Company Description Atlas5D enables a new way to gather real-world information towards patient care and medical research. Website http://www.atlas5d.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $3,000,000 Transaction Round Series A Proceeds Purposes The new money will … Continue reading “Atlas5D Lands $3,000,000 Series A Funding”
Spero Therapeutics Receives $30,000,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=1b5b1612-fee3-4e7e-81a9-3c0f5c874841 Date 2/2/2016 Company Name Spero Therapeutics Mailing Address 400 Technology Square 10th Floor Cambridge, MA 20139 USA Company Description Spero Therapeutics’ vision is to find, develop, and advance groundbreaking therapeutics to meet critical patient needs in infectious disease using a unique business and drug discovery model. Spero Therapeutics is developing first … Continue reading “Spero Therapeutics Receives $30,000,000 New Funding”
Federated Wireless Secures $22,000,000 Series A Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2c94a173-905a-4aea-a865-5ed28b5029fd Date 2/2/2016 Company Name Federated Wireless Mailing Address 33 Arch St. 32nd Floor Boston, MA 02110 USA Company Description Federated Wireless develops technologies that maximize the utilization of spectrum resources, further advancing the wireless revolution. Website http://www.federatedwireless.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $22,000,000 Transaction Round Series A Proceeds Purposes The … Continue reading “Federated Wireless Secures $22,000,000 Series A Round”
Lexumo Lands $4,890,000 Seed Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=692512bd-e99c-4a4e-ade0-74b385766c4d Date 2/2/2016 Company Name Lexumo Mailing Address 1035 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02141 USA Company Description Lexumo helps companies eliminate vulnerabilities from their connected products. Website http://www.lexumo.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $4,890,000 Transaction Round Seed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. M&A Terms Venture Investor Accomplice Venture Investor … Continue reading “Lexumo Lands $4,890,000 Seed Funding”
Draper Spinout Lexumo Looks to Secure IoT With $4.9M From Boston VCs
Get ready for an onslaught of companies peddling security software for the Internet of Things. It’s not for lack of substance: security experts say the spread of Internet-connected devices exposes major vulnerabilities that can be exploited by hackers. One of the more serious efforts to combat these threats is called Lexumo. It’s a spinout company … Continue reading “Draper Spinout Lexumo Looks to Secure IoT With $4.9M From Boston VCs”
Machine Learning Advances Cybersecurity: Battery Ventures’ View
An office worker who usually spends time in programs like PowerPoint suddenly logs into the company expense records system. Data-sifting computers are on the alert for unusual behavior like this across the globe, and Dharmesh Thakker thinks they’ll help thwart criminal hackers who pose a growing threat to companies. Thakker, a general partner at Battery … Continue reading “Machine Learning Advances Cybersecurity: Battery Ventures’ View”
Atlas5D Snags $3M For Sensor Devices That Balance Data & Privacy
For all the hype and investments in wearable devices, they have yet to deliver widespread, meaningful impact on healthcare, outside of narrow applications like measuring blood pressure and the number of steps a person walks in a day. Count Zeb Kimmel among the skeptics, at least when it comes to solving harder problems for patients … Continue reading “Atlas5D Snags $3M For Sensor Devices That Balance Data & Privacy”
PTC Sketches Vision of Augmented Reality for Big Companies
Augmented reality, like its sister technology, virtual reality, is still in its infancy and has yet to live up to the hype. For many consumers, the most salient example of AR to date was a high-profile flop: Google Glass. AR boosts a person’s experience of the surrounding environment through computer-generated elements, like images superimposed on … Continue reading “PTC Sketches Vision of Augmented Reality for Big Companies”
East Coast Biotech Roundup: Editas, Hep C, Akashi, Tarveda & More
January is just about over, and for biotech investors, that’s a good thing. The Nasdaq Biotechnology Index (NASDAQ: [[ticker:IBB]]) has plummeted more than 22 percent in January. Thursday alone the index fell more than 3.6 percent without any clear negative catalyst (see this Fortune article), prompting a series of notes from sell-side analysts trying to … Continue reading “East Coast Biotech Roundup: Editas, Hep C, Akashi, Tarveda & More”
CRISPR: The Path to Clinical Trials
If you have read a newspaper lately, there is a good chance you have heard about CRISPR-Cas9, the versatile gene editing technology. Over the past several months, legal battles over intellectual property, ethical concerns over editing of the human germline, jaw-dropping partnerships with pharma, and talk of IPOs have crescendoed to a steady roar, reaching … Continue reading “CRISPR: The Path to Clinical Trials”
mPharma Data Lands $5,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c2a0c144-bc0f-473d-bad0-14361476d9d0 Date 1/29/2016 Company Name mPharma Data Mailing Address 15 Fulton Rd. Lexington, MA 02420 USA Company Description At mPharma, we’re motivated by the belief that everyone should have reliable access to the medicines they need to be healthy. Our transformative data tools leverage the efficiency of internet applications and the power … Continue reading “mPharma Data Lands $5,000,000 New Funding Round”
nuTonomy Secures $3,600,000 Seed Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=04a15d69-c5a8-41a5-a141-1ce7d41d770e Date 1/29/2016 Company Name nuTonomy Mailing Address 115 Jackson Street Cambridge, MA 02140 USA Company Description nuTonomy develops and distributes software and algorithms for self-driving cars and autonomous mobile robots. The company also offers fleet management and consulting and system integration solutions. Website http://www.nutonomy.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $3,600,000 … Continue reading “nuTonomy Secures $3,600,000 Seed Funding”
Insurify Garners $2,000,000 Seed Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=73cb5fa2-2840-474e-82a4-ff4e18c4954a Date 1/29/2016 Company Name Insurify Mailing Address 222 Third St. Cambridge, MA 02142 USA Company Description Insurify is the first online car insurance shopping platform, which instantly verifies your customer data to provide intuitive and integrated user experience. We believe that the only way to help people feel comfortable shopping for … Continue reading “Insurify Garners $2,000,000 Seed Round”
Surface Taps Ex-Infinity Pharma Exec as New CSO
Cambridge, MA-based Surface Oncology has named Vito Palombella its chief scientific officer. Palombella was most recently the executive vice president and CSO of Infinity Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: [[ticker:INFI]]), where he spent almost six years. He held positions at Millennium Pharmaceuticals and LeukoSite before that.
Kanojia Returns With a Starry Plan for Wireless Internet & Smart Homes
Making a fast return to the innovation scene on Wednesday—or rather, he never truly left—CEO Chet Kanojia unveiled Starry, his latest startup, in New York. As we previously reported, Kanojia and other expatriates from Aereo have been developing this project in stealth under the codename Project Decibel. With Starry, Kanojia dives into wireless broadband while … Continue reading “Kanojia Returns With a Starry Plan for Wireless Internet & Smart Homes”
Insurify Races Into Car Insurance Search With Online & Texting Tools
The process of booking a vacation looks a lot different today than it did 20 years ago. Since then, the traditional method of calling a travel agent to book a trip has been largely replaced by websites like Kayak, Expedia, and others that allow users to quickly compare prices and purchase flights, hotels, rental cars, … Continue reading “Insurify Races Into Car Insurance Search With Online & Texting Tools”
Three Things To Know About Doing Business in California
Since the 1849 gold rush, California has had a reputation as a great place to seek—and find—your fortune. The Golden State is home to the Golden Gate Bridge, the Golden State Warriors and, in Silicon Valley, golden opportunities. But, as you might suspect, California sometimes operates like its own country, with laws that aren’t like … Continue reading “Three Things To Know About Doing Business in California”
Setem Technologies Lands $851,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=cc9d9716-82c7-492e-9dfb-d21e3a451c74 Date 1/28/2016 Company Name Setem Technologies Mailing Address 12 Kent Way Byfield, MA 01922 USA Company Description Setem Technologies is a company developing software that separates voice from ambient noise. Website http://www.setemtech.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $851,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. 17 investors … Continue reading “Setem Technologies Lands $851,000 New Round”
The Right Resources Are Key to Growing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
One of the more pressing issues for communities that have built emerging entrepreneurial ecosystems is how they can better support growth stage companies. There are many cities and regional hubs around the U.S. that are producing some great companies, with smart founders and talented employees, but without the right resources (outside capital, peer-to-peer mentoring, a … Continue reading “The Right Resources Are Key to Growing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems”
Blend Rebrands as Tarveda, Raises $38M, and Spins Out Cancer Drug
2015 was a year of change for Blend Therapeutics, led by a new CEO, Drew Fromkin, who was hired in April to lead a different strategy for the Watertown, MA-based startup. And the trend is continuing in 2016 as well: The company has changed its name, raised some cash, and found a new home for … Continue reading “Blend Rebrands as Tarveda, Raises $38M, and Spins Out Cancer Drug”