Verenium (NASDAQ: [[ticker:VRNM]]), the biofuels developer that sold its cellulosic biofuels business to BP last summer, says CEO Carlos Riva plans to retire at the end of March, as the Cambridge, MA-based company consolidates its operations in San Diego. In a statement today, Verenium says Executive VP and CFO James Levine will succeed Riva as … Continue reading “Verenium Names New CEO as it Consolidates in San Diego”
WEST: Inside Venture Capital—Panel Discussion
At this event, put on by Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology, investors will discuss they look for in companies, and best ways for entrepreneurs to pitch. Speakers hail from firms such as MedImmune Ventures, Hercules Technology Growth Capital, and Sanofi-Aventis. Register here.
Google, Khosla Money Rains on WeatherBill, A Startup Actually Doing Something About the Weather
You don’t often hear the words “technology” and “insurance” in the same sentence. But at a press event today, a high-tech weather insurance startup called WeatherBill announced that it has received a big infusion of Series B cash from some serious Silicon Valley investors, including Google Ventures and Khosla Ventures, for its automated system of reimbursing … Continue reading “Google, Khosla Money Rains on WeatherBill, A Startup Actually Doing Something About the Weather”
MIT Sloan BioInnovations Conference
Executives, investors, and academics the Massachusetts biotech field will gather at this all-day event. Speakers come from firms including Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Philips Healthcare, and Ariad Pharmaceuticals, and panels will cover topics such as the R&D process, regulatory challenges, and emerging markets. Register online here.
MIT Enterprise Forum March Startup Clinic with Media Armour and The Immersion Project
This installment of the MIT Enterprise Forum’s Startup Clinic series of events has a big mobile focus. Media Armor, an analytics firm tracking the effect of mobile banner ads on consumers, will be represented alongside The Immersion Project, a mobile platform for sharing travel experiences. Sign up for this event here.
Vivus to Try Again By Year’s End
Vivus (NASDAQ: [[ticker:VVUS]]), the Mountain View, CA-based developer of an obesity drug, said today it hopes to resubmit its new drug application to the FDA for phentermine and topiramate (Qnexa) by the end of the year. The first application from Vivus was shot down by the FDA in October, when the FDA asked for an … Continue reading “Vivus to Try Again By Year’s End”
MIT Sloan Business in Gaming Conference
This full-day event will take a look at the slice of the Massachusetts economy driving by gaming, including console, online, social, and mobile games. Panels topics include gaming entrepreneurs, analytics, educational games, and the state’s role in supporting the industry. Register here.
Clickatell Raises $12M
Sequoia Capital and DAG Ventures have contributed $12 million to a Series B venture round for Clickatell, a Redwood City, CA-based startup offering software that helps wireless operators deliver SMS messages across different networks in hundreds of countries and territories. The company also introduced a new SMS marketing service for small businesses called Communicator 2; … Continue reading “Clickatell Raises $12M”
Former RealNetworks Leaders Jump Into Non-Creepy Video Chat Arena With SocialEyes
Another company trying to leapfrog the inappropriate-lurker element of online video chat is starting its public beta test today at the DEMO conference in Palm Desert, CA. SocialEyes, a new San Francisco-based startup, is led by a couple very familiar names here in Seattle’s tech scene. The chairman is Rob Glaser and the chief executive … Continue reading “Former RealNetworks Leaders Jump Into Non-Creepy Video Chat Arena With SocialEyes”
CriticalMass, a Venture-Backed Co-Working Space for Startups, to Open at CIC
Boston has MassChallenge. Now Cambridge has CriticalMass. If nothing else, this will help fan the flames of the budding Boston-Cambridge startup incubator/real estate rivalry. (OK, we’ll keep an eye on New York and Silicon Valley, too.) The New England Venture Capital Association (NEVCA) and five Boston-area VC firms have banded together to organize what they … Continue reading “CriticalMass, a Venture-Backed Co-Working Space for Startups, to Open at CIC”
Enterproid Wins QPrize
San Diego Wireless Giant Qualcomm (Nasdaq: [[ticker:QCOM]]) today named New York-based Enterproid as the winner of its second Qualcomm Ventures QPrize international venture investment competition. Enterproid, which won $100,000 as a finalist, has been developing Android-based technology to enable professionals to consolidate their work and personal life onto a single enterprise-grade device. As the QPrize … Continue reading “Enterproid Wins QPrize”
Box.net Nabs $48M, BookRenter Books $40M, Transphorm Absorbs $20M, & More Bay Area BizTech News
Even though last week was a short one thanks to the Presidents’ Day holiday, there was a storm of tech news in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a few major funding announcements taking top billing. Alas, hopes for a different kind of storm didn’t pan out—snow reached only the uppermost elevations in San Francisco … Continue reading “Box.net Nabs $48M, BookRenter Books $40M, Transphorm Absorbs $20M, & More Bay Area BizTech News”
New Crimson Hexagon CEO Looking to Expand Analytics Services to Mobile, Target Life Sciences and Financial Services Clients
Cambridge, MA-based Crimson Hexagon is looking to new leadership to find additional markets for its sentiment analysis technology, which is designed to help companies get a better understanding of what’s being said about them in real-time on the Web. On Wednesday, the 15-person company announced it had brought on a new president and CEO, Patricia … Continue reading “New Crimson Hexagon CEO Looking to Expand Analytics Services to Mobile, Target Life Sciences and Financial Services Clients”
UCSF Nabs $48M Gift
UC San Francisco has received a $48 million donation from the estate of Nina Ireland, a longtime donor to the university who died in October. UCSF said the money will be put toward lung disease research and care, particularly strengthening the university’s research into complex pulmonary conditions such as interstitial lung disease and idiopathic pulmonary … Continue reading “UCSF Nabs $48M Gift”
UCSF Cuts Deal With Zcube
UC San Francisco has found a sponsor to support its research into delivering pills filled with microscopic drug-laden adhesive patches. Zcube, the corporate venture arm of Italian pharmaceutical company Zambon, has agreed to sponsor UCSF research over a two-year period as part of a new license agreement, the university said today. The work will initially … Continue reading “UCSF Cuts Deal With Zcube”
CHiL Semiconductor Acquired for $75M by International Rectifier
OK, this deal wins the award for clunkiest company names—but it’s an important exit for a Boston-area startup in a tough market. CHiL Semiconductor, based in Tewksbury, MA, confirmed today it is being acquired by International Rectifier (NYSE: [[ticker:IRF]]), based in the Los Angeles area, for $75 million in cash. The deal is expected to … Continue reading “CHiL Semiconductor Acquired for $75M by International Rectifier”
Diagnostics For All Gets $3M from Gates, UK
Boston-based nonprofit firm Diagnostics For All announced today that it has nabbed a $3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK’s Department for International Development, to put toward developing three diagnostic tests for the agriculture space. The firm will use its diagnostics platform to develop a test for detecting milk … Continue reading “Diagnostics For All Gets $3M from Gates, UK”
Software Company Valuations Are Rising, Michael Robertson Launches DAR.fm, & More San Diego BizTech News
What started as a quiet week for San Diego technology news got busy at the end. We wrapped it all up for you here. —San Diego’s Software Equity Group released its annual software industry equity report, showing the annual median valuation of 161 companies in its main index at the highest valuation since 2007—2.3 times … Continue reading “Software Company Valuations Are Rising, Michael Robertson Launches DAR.fm, & More San Diego BizTech News”
What Happened to the Smart Cars? Ford’s Efforts to Impress NYT Columnist Evidently Fall Short
Ford wants to build “smart” cars that can communicate with each other and the road to boost safety, an aim we can all presumably get behind. But when it comes to cars facilitating human to human communication…well, that’s another story. In her Sunday column, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd said she feared that Ford’s … Continue reading “What Happened to the Smart Cars? Ford’s Efforts to Impress NYT Columnist Evidently Fall Short”
SeaGen Turns in FDA Application
Seattle Genetics (NASDAQ: [[ticker:SGEN]]), the developer of targeted cancer drugs, said today it has submitted an application to the FDA for clearance to start selling its first product in the U.S. The company is attempting to bring brentuximab vedotin (SGN-35) on the market as a treatment for relapsed forms of Hodgkin’s disease, and relapsed forms … Continue reading “SeaGen Turns in FDA Application”
Big Pharma’s Hardball Tactics Won’t Kill Biotech, But They Could Kill Off Some Pharmas
Few people in biotech have the guts to stir the pot the way Kevin Kinsella did in an interview with Xconomy’s Bruce Bigelow earlier this month. Kinsella, a venture capitalist with a 30-year track record of biotech investing, delivered a blistering analysis of what he sees as the pharmaceutical industry’s bad-faith negotiating habits, predatory behavior, … Continue reading “Big Pharma’s Hardball Tactics Won’t Kill Biotech, But They Could Kill Off Some Pharmas”
LawPivot: The Google-Backed, One-Stop Shop for Startup Legal Advice
For startups, getting good legal advice can be costly and time-consuming. And for new lawyers, building up a client list also takes a big time commitment. Now there’s a Web Q&A site backed by Google Ventures that aims to solve both problems at once. It’s called LawPivot, and it recently set up shop right on … Continue reading “LawPivot: The Google-Backed, One-Stop Shop for Startup Legal Advice”
PhotoRocket, Led by Amazon and aQuantive Vet Scott Lipsky, Uncloaks its “Not Another Photo Sharing Service”
Sharing your latest digital snapshots with family, friends, coworkers and the rest of the world is nothing new. But Scott Lipsky, a veteran of some of Seattle’s biggest tech success stories, thinks it’s still way too annoying. His proposed cure is PhotoRocket, the startup photo-sharing utility that’s finally making its full public debut at Monday’s … Continue reading “PhotoRocket, Led by Amazon and aQuantive Vet Scott Lipsky, Uncloaks its “Not Another Photo Sharing Service””
Swipely Shifts Social Shopping Business, Turning Credit Cards Into Loyalty Cards
Providence, RI-based Swipely is announcing today that it’s making a move in how its technology enables consumers to interact with their credit cards. Last summer the startup launched a service that allowed consumers to tell their social networks about and review the purchases they made on their credit and debit cards, but CEO and founder … Continue reading “Swipely Shifts Social Shopping Business, Turning Credit Cards Into Loyalty Cards”
DynamicOps Garners $11,000,000 Series B Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b955101a-3588-4713-a195-936c6a31a5d0&Preview=1 Date 2/28/2011 Company Name DynamicOps Mailing Address One Wall Street Floor 2 Burlington, MA 01803 Company Description DynamicOps solutions transform the way cloud and virtual desktop infrastructure environments are managed so that organizations can quickly respond to and capitalize on market changes. Website http://www.dynamicops.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $11,000,000 … Continue reading “DynamicOps Garners $11,000,000 Series B Financing Round”
International Rectifier Acquires CHiL Semiconductor for $75,000,000
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=809e4ca8-9659-4416-bc80-9f6327738768&Preview=1 Date 2/28/2011 Company Name CHiL Semiconductor Mailing Address One Highwood Drive Tewskbury, MA 01876 Company Description CHiL Semiconductor Corp. is a fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops and markets intelligent mixed-signal semiconductors for the power management market, implementing unique digital control and striving to create energy efficient solutions. Website http://www.chilsemi.com Transaction … Continue reading “International Rectifier Acquires CHiL Semiconductor for $75,000,000”
Groupon Obtains $16,229,346 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=37130b55-d7b1-4990-9a17-5fa06399da56&Preview=1 Date 2/28/2011 Company Name Groupon Mailing Address 600 W Chicago Ave Chicago, IL 60654 Company Description Launched in November 2008, Groupon features a daily deal on the best stuff to do, see, eat, and buy in a variety of cities across the United States. We have about 40 wonderful people working … Continue reading “Groupon Obtains $16,229,346 New Financing”
MyLikes Lands $5,600,000 Series A Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=d79e119f-05a6-4dec-9b91-3360fdf0b8ba&Preview=1 Date 2/28/2011 Company Name MyLikes Mailing Address 1097 Howard Street San Francisco, CA 94103 Company Description MyLikes is a word-of-mouth advertising platform that allows the long tail of influencers on the web to create endorsements for products and services they like. We are attempting to change the way brand and discovery … Continue reading “MyLikes Lands $5,600,000 Series A Financing”
Intuity Medical Lands $20,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8b69b332-6985-4134-92e2-374400b0daf5&Preview=1 Date 2/28/2011 Company Name Intuity Medical Mailing Address 350 Potrero Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94085 Company Description Intuity Medical was founded with the mission of simplifying diabetes management for persons living with diabetes. We are currently developing the first All-in-One blood glucose monitoring system designed to make testing easy, convenient and discreet. … Continue reading “Intuity Medical Lands $20,000,000 New Financing”
Kidlandia Garners $2,500,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=df2caea2-91f1-4ba0-83cb-9fc0f65d281d&Preview=1 Date 2/28/2011 Company Name Kidlandia Mailing Address 1620 Montgomery St. San Francisco, CA 94111 Company Description Kidlandia grew out of Brian’s 2004 concept to create personalized maps of imaginary kingdoms for children’s rooms. Website http://www.kidlandia.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $2,500,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not … Continue reading “Kidlandia Garners $2,500,000 New Financing Round”
Clickatell Garners $12,000,000 Series B Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=31d127e6-cbb6-483f-982b-c017c62ed205&Preview=1 Date 2/28/2011 Company Name Clickatell Mailing Address 3200 Bridge Pkwy. Redwood City, CA 94065 Company Description Clickatell has been around for more than a decade and is the largest Online SMS mobile messaging gateway provider covering 871 networks in 221 countries and territories, with the potential to reach 5 billion mobile … Continue reading “Clickatell Garners $12,000,000 Series B Funding Round”
Primadesk Lands New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7e25bcc0-51f9-432e-8ac0-ce78d8617685&Preview=1 Date 2/28/2011 Company Name Primadesk Mailing Address 384 Bel Marin Keys Blvd. Novato, CA 94949 Company Description Primadesk makes online life easier to manage, enabling users to search, manage and backup personal cloud data from anywhere, whether it is from a personal computer, tablet or smartphone. Website http://www.primadesk.com Transaction Type Venture … Continue reading “Primadesk Lands New Financing”
WeatherBill Obtains $42,000,000 Series B Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8166d6bb-24ec-4296-ac2e-475fe41ad54d&Preview=1 Date 2/28/2011 Company Name WeatherBill Mailing Address 420 Bryant Street San Francisco, CA 94107 Company Description WeatherBill is the first service to provide affordable and easy-to-use weather coverage to protect revenue and control costs for the millions of businesses impacted by the weather. Website http://www.weatherbill.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount … Continue reading “WeatherBill Obtains $42,000,000 Series B Funding”
Solyndra Secures $75,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c5c6aa64-99c7-4b2f-9f78-8ace45ae29e3&Preview=1 Date 2/28/2011 Company Name Solyndra Mailing Address 47700 Kato Road Fremont, CA 94538 Company Description The company is developing high efficiency photovoltaics for the generation of solar power. Website http://www.solyndra.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $75,000,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes The proceeds from the financing will be used to support … Continue reading “Solyndra Secures $75,000,000 New Funding Round”
Daiichi Sankyo Acquires Plexxikon for $935,000,000
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=9d3a1345-38bc-4304-af0f-3b7fce475788&Preview=1 Date 2/28/2011 Company Name Plexxikon Mailing Address 91 Bolivar Drive Berkeley, CA 94710 Company Description Plexxikon is a leader in the discovery and development of novel, small molecule pharmaceuticals. The company has utilized its proprietary discovery platform to successfully develop a portfolio of clinical and preclinical stage programs in a number … Continue reading “Daiichi Sankyo Acquires Plexxikon for $935,000,000”
SciFluor Life Sciences Lands $5,000,000 Series A Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=22b2054e-1bc9-4431-8c73-46ec52de571f&Preview=1 Date 2/28/2011 Company Name SciFluor Life Sciences Mailing Address 33 Arch St. Boston, MA 02110 Company Description The company’s late-stage fluorination technology is licensed exclusively from Harvard University. SciFluor’s technology enables end-stage or any-stage fluorination of a wide variety of organic compounds. Our technology and our library of fluorinated analogs are … Continue reading “SciFluor Life Sciences Lands $5,000,000 Series A Round”
MineralTree Receives $1,500,000 Series A Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5a46a882-9f1f-48ac-8639-a8424815d9d0&Preview=1 Date 2/28/2011 Company Name MineralTree Mailing Address 470 Atlantic Avenue 12th Floor Boston, MA 02210 Company Description MineralTree is a venture-backed software company based in Boston, Massachusetts. The company’s leadership team has a long track record of creating innovative new technology-based solutions to long-standing problems in banking and financial services. Website … Continue reading “MineralTree Receives $1,500,000 Series A Funding Round”
ProspX Obtains $8,000,000 Series B Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=72e0f8ff-06d8-4929-b50e-0cdf935e0da5&Preview=1 Date 2/28/2011 Company Name ProspX Mailing Address 7600B N Capital of TX Hwy Austin, TX 78731 Company Description ProspX was founded in 2005 by industry veterans that saw a unique opportunity to improve many of the inefficiencies that exist in today’s $500 billion dollar a year commercial insurance industry. Since its … Continue reading “ProspX Obtains $8,000,000 Series B Financing Round”
Celmatix Obtains Series A Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4d55eb1e-0ce1-4075-9b91-331cd77f32c4&Preview=1 Date 2/27/2011 Company Name Celmatix Mailing Address 7 Hubert Street New York, NY 10013 Company Description Celmatix, Inc. is a New York City-based biotechnology company targeting the reproductive medicine sector with products designed to improve reproductive technologies and outcomes. Our lead product under development is FertilArrayTM, an in vitro genetic diagnostic … Continue reading “Celmatix Obtains Series A Funding”
CardioFocus Finds $30.6M for Atrial Fibrillation Treatment
[Updated—03/01/11, 8:30 am ET] Investors have been getting behind a Marlborough, MA-based firm that is working on a potentially better way to treat an irregular heart rhythm known as atrial fibrillation. CardioFocus has raised $30.6 million in private financing, according to a press release. CardioFocus says that the round included new investors First Alliance & … Continue reading “CardioFocus Finds $30.6M for Atrial Fibrillation Treatment”
TinyCo Wins Big $18M Investment
San Francisco-based TinyCo, which makes the mobile games Tiny Chef and Tap Resort Party for the Apple iPhone, said on its blog today that it has collected $18 million in Series A financing, in a round led by the usual suspects—venture fund Andreessen Horowitz and individual investors Ron Conway, Keith Rabois, and others. “With the … Continue reading “TinyCo Wins Big $18M Investment”
DynamicOps Grabs $11.3M
DynamicOps, a Burlington, MA-based company spun out by Credit Suisse in 2008 to commercialize its software for virtualizing IT environments, has brought in $11.3 million in equity-based funding from three investors, according to an SEC filing. The startup, which has distribution agreements with Dell and HP, builds public and private cloud infrastructures and virtual desktop … Continue reading “DynamicOps Grabs $11.3M”
Terry Cross: Michigan Needs to Break Down Its Proverbial Silos
It’s Oscar weekend folks! Come Sunday, we’ll know if a stammering King outshines a boozy U.S. Marshal or whether a crazy ballerina edges out a lesbian mother. God, I love the movies! But one actor won’t be taking home any hardware because…well, he wasn’t nominated. And that’s a damn shame because he was really good, … Continue reading “Terry Cross: Michigan Needs to Break Down Its Proverbial Silos”
Seven Questions That Will Decide Mobile’s Future-Part Two
To me, one thing seems pretty clear: the changes wrought over the coming 10 years by mobile devices are going to be even more far-reaching than those we’ve seen over the past 20 years from desktop and laptop PCs. The shifts in the ways we communicate, learn, shop, travel, and do business might not be … Continue reading “Seven Questions That Will Decide Mobile’s Future-Part Two”
Bluespec Brings In $1M
Waltham, MA-based Bluespec, a maker of software for designing electronics components, has raised $1 million in an equity offering, an SEC filing revealed. The company was founded in 2003 and had previously raised a total of $17.25 million, from investors Atlas Venture and North Bridge Venture Partners, according to its website. The filing for the … Continue reading “Bluespec Brings In $1M”
Genzyme Rival Fails to Get FDA Approval
The FDA has given a complete response letter to Israel-based Protalix Biotherapeutics for the company’s application for marketing approval of an protein therapy for Gaucher’s disease, the firm announced this morning. Cambridge, MA-based Genzyme currently has the best selling treatment for Gaucher’s disease, which is a rare genetic disorder that causes a fatty substance to … Continue reading “Genzyme Rival Fails to Get FDA Approval”
San Diego’s Software Equity Group Sees Software M&A Deals Ramping Up in 2011
The way some people talk, the annual report from the Software Equity Group is the software industry’s equivalent to “The Baseball Abstract,” the wildly popular report on hitting, pitching, and fielding statistics that Bill James began publishing in Kansas 34 years ago. “Nobody else comes close to capturing the trends and transactions in the software … Continue reading “San Diego’s Software Equity Group Sees Software M&A Deals Ramping Up in 2011”
ImmunoGen CEO Highlights Two New Souped-Up Antibodies Against Cancer
ImmunoGen, in the eyes of Wall Street, is largely defined by one thing—its relationship with industry giant Genentech. That’s because Genentech uses ImmunoGen’s technology to help amp up the antibody trastuzumab (Herceptin) into a more potent breast cancer drug called T-DM1, which has shown significant promise in clinical trials. Yet ImmunoGen chief executive Daniel Junius … Continue reading “ImmunoGen CEO Highlights Two New Souped-Up Antibodies Against Cancer”
Gilead Bets $600M on Cancer, Genentech Gets a Hearing, Jennerex Shows Early Survival Edge, & More Bay Area Life Sciences News
This week we covered a lot of news about cancer, and some of it came from a surprising new source. —Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ: [[ticker:GILD]]), the Foster City, CA-based company that made its name with drugs that turn HIV into a chronic disease, has placed a big new bet for the future on cancer and inflammation. … Continue reading “Gilead Bets $600M on Cancer, Genentech Gets a Hearing, Jennerex Shows Early Survival Edge, & More Bay Area Life Sciences News”
Vertex, Heartland Moves Call Attention To Boston-Cambridge Rivalry
Boston has been vocal about its intent to transform its Seaport District into an “innovation district” for fueling job creation and attracting cutting-edge companies. Just last month, the city’s odds of making this vision a reality seem to improve, with the news that two Cambridge, MA-based companies—Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: [[ticker:VRTX]]) and Heartland Robotics—would be relocating … Continue reading “Vertex, Heartland Moves Call Attention To Boston-Cambridge Rivalry”