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| Nov 13, 2017 | First Star Ventures Pushes Deeper Into Genomic Data & Blockchain | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
First Star Ventures might be Boston’s most interesting early-stage startup investor you’ve never heard of.
The venture firm has flown somewhat under the radar since it launche... |
| Jul 23, 2017 | ShutterStock, AdaFruit, MailChimp и другие компании, которые добились успеха без инвестиций Статьи редакции | Обзор представителя фонда Founder Collective Джозефа Флаэрти.
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| Jul 11, 2017 | Slack Just Invested in a Kayak Vet's Job Referral Startup | Quite a lot has changed in the past year for Drafted, the Boston-based job referral startup founded by Kayak vet Vinayak Ranade. Two of the biggest changes? It doesn't have an app anymore and cash rewards are no longer required for suc... |
| Jul 1, 2017 | Invisible unicorns: 35 big companies that started with little or no money | Joseph Flaherty Contributor
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| Jun 20, 2017 | Localytics Replaces Founding CEO After Becoming Cash-Flow Positive | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Localytics, one of Boston’s prominent mobile analytics and marketing software companies, has replaced its founding CEO Raj Aggarwal with Jude McColgan, a veteran mobile softwa... |
| Apr 10, 2017 | Yale spinout raises $1.5M to help physicians match patients with the right antidepressant | Koh described the growth stage company’s technology as part behavioral health screening tool and part clinical decision support for primary care physicians. Physicians administer a tablet-based questionnaire to patients with 25 questions to... |
| Mar 14, 2017 | Boston Tech Watch: Harmonix, Whoop, Brand Networks, VentureApp & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 3/14/17, 4:09 p.m. See below.] Since you might be snowed in today, it seems like a good time to hunker down with some recent Boston-area tech news. Here is the latest... |
| Mar 8, 2017 | NVBots Spinout Digital Alloys Raises $5M for Metal 3D Printer | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
There’s a new 3D printing company in town, but it’ll feel familiar to those who follow the Boston-area 3D printing sector.
New Valence Robotics, which goes by NVBots, has spun... |
| Oct 6, 2016 | MIT Startup Authess Is Raising $1.5M for Its Real-World Assessment Tools | Authess, a Boston startup co-founded by an MIT professor that develops educational assessment tools, is currently raising $1.5 million in capital, according to a Form D filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. So far, the co... |
| Sep 30, 2016 | Boston Tech Deal Roundup: Akamai, Cengage, Mautic, Skedaddle, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 9/30/16, 3:34 pm. See below.] September was a busy month for tech startup funding and acquisition news in the Boston area. Here are a few of the latest deals that you... |
| Jul 7, 2016 | Biotech execs in search of human guinea pigs find eager subjects: themselves | When physicist Alex Zhavoronkov looked in the mirror one day and saw alarming swelling around his eyes, he guessed it was an allergic reaction to a drug he’d taken. But he couldn’t just ring up his doctor and ask — the drug was one his own ... |
| Jul 6, 2016 | BevSpot, With Harvard & MIT Roots, Grabs More Cash For Bar Software | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 7/7/16, 9:19 a.m., with information from BevSpot press release and CEO interview.] BevSpot, a Boston-based startup that makes software that helps bars and restaurants... |
| Jun 29, 2016 | Can you diagnose disease from the sound of a voice? | There’s long been talk in medicine about the need to listen more to the patient voice — and now that mantra is being taken literally.
Academics and entrepreneurs are rushing to develop technology to diagnose and predict everything from mani... |
| Jun 9, 2016 | Techstars Alum Netra Nabs Funding, Customers After Strategy Shift | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Computer vision might one day enable things like completely autonomous cars, but for now, companies are more frequently applying such technology to more tractable (and lucrati... |
| Jun 8, 2016 | Inside the sci-fi world of growing human tissue and organs in the lab | Inside a North Carolina lab, row upon row of plastic bioreactor bags pulsate gently to the beat of an artificial heart. Within each bag, a lab-forged blood vessel slowly expands, feeding off a primordial cocktail of vitamins and proteins.
T... |
| May 23, 2016 | Localytics Pushes Toward Profits After Layoffs and Market Slowdown | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The tech startup maxim of putting growth before profits has started to reverse itself, as the venture capital boom of the past few years slows down and public investors reward... |
| May 16, 2016 | CarGurus CEO on Profitable Tech Startups, and Why Uber Is Road Kill | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
CarGurus might be the biggest Boston-area consumer tech company you’ve never heard of, but founder and CEO Langley Steinert is ready to change that.
Based in Cambridge, MA, th... |
| May 4, 2016 | Apple hires Google X founder and former Nest technology VP for health projects | Apple's Jeff Williams announces CareKit in March.
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| Apr 25, 2016 | Threat Stack Founder’s New Startup, Komand, Pushes Security Automation | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Threat Stack co-founder Jen Andre, who left the company last year, is back with another Boston-area cybersecurity startup called Komand.
The Cambridge, MA-based company formed... |
| Apr 14, 2016 | Verizon Fios, New Digs, Pink Slips & More in Boston Tech Watchlist | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 4/14/16, 1:06 p.m. See below.] There’s a lot of news to recap this week in Boston’s tech scene. We’ve got C-suite shakeups, staff expansions and contractions, and com... |
| Mar 17, 2016 | Life sciences investors ARCH Venture Partners raising $400M for ninth fund | ARCH Venture Partners maintains offices in Austin, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, and Dublin, Ireland. With its first eight funds, it has two $2 billion in assets under management and has invested in some 180 companies.
Some of its more n... |
| Mar 16, 2016 | Robot Tidbits: Toyota, Amazon, Humatics, Franklin, 6 River, More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
As we gear up for our Robo Madness conference at the end of the month, it’s worth noting a slew of recent developments at robotics companies around town:
—Toyota Research Inst... |
| Mar 15, 2016 | Boston Tech Watch: Accelerators, Acquisitions, Hiring & Firing, More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This week in Boston tech, we’re tracking the latest news about local accelerators, company acquisitions, office expansions, and more. Read on for details.
Accelerators rise an... |
| Mar 9, 2016 | What’s in a biotech name? How drug startups choose their brand | Kendall Squared brings you dispatches from the world’s epicenter for biotechnology and drug discovery.
The intellectual property is secure. The science is sound. You’re about to make your pitch for funding.
The scary next step for a biotech... |
| Mar 7, 2016 | Boston Tech Watch: Uber Bill, Noncompetes, Layoffs, & Expansions | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This week in Boston, we’re tracking the latest tech legislation on Beacon Hill, layoffs at startups and big companies, and announcements of new companies, products, and office... |
| Feb 27, 2016 | Apple Shareholders Resoundingly Voted No to Diversity while Jesse Jackson Applauded Apple's Fight against the FBI
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| Feb 26, 2016 | 12 Boston Machine Learning Startups to Watch | Machine learning is still in its infancy, according to tech pioneer Tom Siebel, who made the statement in a Thursday interview with Fortune and plans to make it a big part of his Internet-of-Things analytics business, C3 IoT. But if that is... |
| Feb 21, 2016 | Why investors love spin-off startups | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The difficulty in identifying the next hot startu... |
| Feb 19, 2016 | From Funding to “Failure,” Boston Tech’s Roller Coaster Week | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The past week in Boston demonstrated the range of emotions that people can experience working at a tech company. From the highs of snagging millions of investment dollars and ... |
| Feb 18, 2016 | Jana Grabs $57M to Bring Mobile Internet to India and Rest of World | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Increasingly, U.S. tech companies aren’t battling for users on their home turf—they’re competing in the developing world.
The latest reminder of that is Jana, a Boston-based s... |
| Feb 17, 2016 | Cancer research moves to the cloud to improve patient care | Kendall Squared brings you dispatches from the world’s epicenter for biotechnology and drug discovery.
Your Gmail is there, and so are documents that colleagues share with you in Dropbox, not to mention movies that studios send to Netflix. ... |
| Feb 15, 2016 | New Money: Jana Lands $57M Round Led By Verizon, Constant Therapy Gets $1.9M, BetterLesson Raises $6M | Get a daily dose of Boston startup funding news in The Beat. Sign up here. New Money is BostInno's report on all the tech funding deals this week. Check back for updates.
Jana (Boston)
Amount: $57 million Series C
Investors: Verizon Ve... |
| Feb 12, 2016 | RunKeeper acquired by sportswear giant Asics | Popular GPS fitness-tracking company RunKeeper has been acquired by Japanese sportswear giant Asics.
RunKeeper is one of a number of fitness platforms that have been picked up by sports clothing makers in recent times. Indeed, today’s news ... |
| Feb 12, 2016 | RunKeeper acquired by sportswear giant Asics | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Popular GPS fitness-tracking company RunKeeper has been acquired by Japanese sportswear giant Asics.
RunKeeper is one of a number of fi... |
| Feb 12, 2016 | Asics Buys Runkeeper as Apps & Athletic Gear Continue to Merge | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 2/12/16, 3:32 p.m., to include deal price and details from Asics’s press release.] Japanese shoemaker Asics just acquired one of Boston’s best-known consumer tech com... |
| Feb 11, 2016 | Boston Tech Watch: Disney, DraftKings, Carbon Black, MassChallenge | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 2/11/16, 10:52 a.m., to include the DataCamp announcement.] This week, we’re tracking the latest news about DraftKings, Disney’s local research lab, startup funding a... |
| Feb 10, 2016 | Hexadite Nabs $8M as Cybersecurity Urgency Grows | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This week brought more reminders that cybersecurity remains top of mind for leaders from the White House to boardrooms everywhere.
President Barack Obama grabbed headlines wit... |
| Feb 9, 2016 | Hot New Trend in Startups: Layoffs | This article first appeared in the BostInno Beat newsletter. Subscribe.
In the Beat a few weeks back I mentioned how Mixpanel, a West Coast competitor of Localytics, had done some layoffs. Then for #BostonPride I threw in a boast about how ... |
| Feb 3, 2016 | Misfit Vets Out to Debug Science Experiments With Elemental Machines | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
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 sens... |
| Feb 3, 2016 | Boston Tech Watch: Localytics, Walt Doyle, Flyp, NuTonomy & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
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 d... |
| Jan 29, 2016 | This MIT Spinoff Wants to Be the ‘Intel Inside’ of Self-Driving Cars | At an office in Kendall Square, an MIT spinoff called Nutonomy is working on technology that could very well power many of the self-driving cars we’ll start seeing in the next decade or so. Even a year after being co-founded by MIT research... |
| Jan 28, 2016 | MassChallenge launches Israeli outpost; plans to foster 100 startups over next two years | This is MassChallenge’s third program, having launched another in London last year that has grown to house 90 startups. It plans to place accelerators in 10 cities by 2019.
Jerusalem has become a nexus of technology innovation, with more th... |
| Jan 25, 2016 | DataXu Gets $10M From Sky As Pay TV Giant Buys Into Programmatic Ad Tech | DataXu, a Boston-based startup that provides analytics and other tools for programmatic ads, has picked up another round of funding. Sky, the UK-based pay-TV provider part-owned by 21st Century Fox, has made a $10 million investment in the ... |
| Jan 24, 2016 | We Found Every 'Uber for X' Startup in Boston — It's a Long List | Whether we like it or not, Uber has become synonymous with the gig economy and any kind of business that uses an online platform to deliver on-demand services. We call it “Uber for X” because it’s all about applying all or some of the compa... |
| Jan 22, 2016 | Grapes, oranges, and chicken feet: 5 low-tech ways surgeons have trained | Before surgeons had lifelike mannequins and custom models of individual patients’ hearts to practice on, they had grapes. And chicken feet.
Dr. Donald Bae, an orthopedic surgeon at Boston Children’s Hospital, shared five of the low-tech tra... |
| Jan 19, 2016 | With iPhone apps, your doctor can read your bathroom scale | Pulse of Longwood takes you inside one of the nation’s largest hubs of hospitals and biomedical research.
Patients with heart failure could soon start beaming their body weight from bathroom scales right to their doctor’s office, as Beth Is... |
| Jan 14, 2016 | Boston Tech Watch: DraftKings, HubSpot, New Balance, Zagster, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This week, we’re tracking the latest news from the daily fantasy sports industry, what’s happening inside HubSpot, new money for several local startups, and a pair of wearable... |
| Jan 13, 2016 | Zerto, Led By Two Brothers and Data Storage Vets, Scoops Up $50M | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
One of Boston’s most heavily funded data-recovery software companies just took in another pile of cash.
Zerto said Wednesday it raised $50 million in a Series E round that bri... |
| Jan 13, 2016 | Why Apple and Google are good for healthcare… and Uber is not. | When discussing Silicon Valley’s entrance into the healthcare landscape, the consensus was that Apple’s, and particularly Google’s, presence is a good thing.
“They’ll push interoperability, and if they’re successful, there will be a rising ... |
| Jan 11, 2016 | Two years on, Dell shows going private was a smart move | reader comments 119 with 81 posters participating
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| Jan 5, 2016 | Boston Tech Watch: EMC, DraftKings, RapidMiner, NaviNet, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This week, we’re tracking new funds for Boston-area software companies, looming job cuts at the state’s biggest tech company, the latest on the clashes between daily fantasy s... |
| Jan 5, 2016 | Toast raises $30 million for Android-powered point-of-sale system to challenge Square | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Toast announced today that it has raised a $30 mi... |
| Jan 5, 2016 | Toast raises $30 million for Android-powered point-of-sale system to challenge Square | Toast announced today that it has raised a $30 million Series B funding round to support its Android point-of-sale (POS) system for restaurants. This latest investment was led by Bessemer Venture Partners and will be used for hiring talent,... |
| Jan 5, 2016 | Toast, From Endeca Vets, Orders Up $30M For Restaurant Software | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Don’t underestimate seasoned software developers who come highly recommended—even when they’re building a product for an industry in which they have little experience.
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| Jan 4, 2016 | Make Your City a Hub for Social Entrepreneurship | Iconic cities are not born, they are made. It was never a sure thing that New York would become more influential than Philadelphia or that San Francisco would birth more startups than anywhere in the world. Rather, the cities that become gr... |
| Dec 24, 2015 | Flying Cars, Robots, Virtual Doctors, & More Boston Tech Headlines | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Before everyone checks out for the holidays, let’s take a look at a few recent headlines in the Boston-area tech world:
—Soft Robotics raised $3 million in a Series A round ex... |
| Dec 24, 2015 | 3 people to watch in Kendall Square in 2016 | As the year winds down, STAT reporters are taking a look at the stories they’re most eager to track in 2016. We’ll be running these daily through Dec. 31. Look for more New Year’s predictions here.
Kendall Square — the Cambridge, Mass., hub... |
| Dec 23, 2015 | Ventureburn’s top 5 tech startups in South Africa of 2015 | There’s no doubt that 2015 has been an exciting year for South African innovation. Out of the hundreds of companies building exciting new products and services, five stand out for their innovative solutions, impact, and sustainability as bu... |
| Dec 23, 2015 | Ventureburn’s top 5 tech startups in South Africa of 2015 | There’s no doubt that 2015 has been an exciting year for South African innovation. Out of the hundreds of companies building exciting new products and services, five stand out for their innovative solutions, impact, and sustainability as bu... |
| Dec 16, 2015 | How to win a healthcare hackathon before it starts (and after it’s over) | What Happened?
The first day of the Hack, I gravitated towards Suelin Chen – a former consultant with an engineering doctorate who already had a startup in the works. Her concept, MyExitStrategy, centered around simplifying end-of-life plan... |
| Dec 14, 2015 | New Money: Octopus-Like Robotics Startup Raises $3M, TVision Gets $2.5M | Get a daily dose of Boston startup funding news in The Beat. Sign up here. New Money is BostInno's report on all the tech funding deals this week. Check back for updates with more new money.
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| Dec 14, 2015 | As Whoop Whips Up More Cash, A Look at the Wearables Market | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The hype over wearables may be in decline—which means it’s time for some real companies to get built.
On Monday, Indian tech giant Infosys said it invested $3 million in Whoop... |
| Dec 9, 2015 | Apple Maps Now More Popular Than Google Maps For iOS Users, Processes 5 Billion Requests Every Week | Quinten Plummer, Tech Times 09 December 2015, 03:12 am
With over five billion map-related requests per week, Apple Maps is used three times more frequently than Google Maps, according to Apple. As far as reasons on how the iOS app was able ... |
| Dec 8, 2015 | Boston Tech Watch: Keurig, Codeship, Twine, Ve Interactive, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This week, we’re following new funding rounds and acquisitions in industries ranging from drones to coffee, plus a look at technologies that are helping authorities respond to... |
| Dec 8, 2015 | Not your grandma’s pills: 7 intriguing new ways to deliver drugs
An expanding ring
3-D printing
Implanted devices
Remote-controlled delivery
Microneedle patch
Cell squeezing
Tumor implant | The quest to develop the next miracle pill commands the biggest bucks and the most attention in biotech. But out of the spotlight, there’s growing interest in finding better ways to deliver existing drugs into the body.
Academic researchers... |
| Dec 7, 2015 | Apple Maps is now used three times as often as Google Maps on iPhone and iPad | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Apple Maps is now used “three times as often” as Google Maps on iPhones and iPads, according to a report Monday from the Associated Pre... |
| Dec 3, 2015 | Daily funding roundup - Dec. 3, 2015 | True North Therapeutics bagged $40M; Allocadia raised $16.5M; Younity received $8M funding
Younity, an iOS app for streaming media from your Mac, today announced an $8 million Series A round of funding led by venture capital firm Marker LLC... |
| Dec 1, 2015 | Here Are 10 Hot Boston Startups That Just Launched This Year | It’s December, which for newswriters is not primarily about holiday shopping. For us, December mostly means looking back at the past year and churning out ultra-astute assessments about how things went.
So here’s my first offering: 2015 was... |
| Nov 24, 2015 | Boston Tech Watch: Startup Deals, Robots, & Patent Lawsuits | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This week in Boston, we’re tracking new funds for software companies, the latest happenings in the local robotics sector, and an update in an Akamai patent lawsuit. Read on fo... |
| Nov 24, 2015 | 7 Boston E-Commerce Startups to Watch | Yes, we declared that Amazon won e-commerce last week, but we know that Boston startups aren't going let the Seattle tech giant make any moves without a fight.
Outside of Boston's larger e-commerce companies like Wayfair and Rue L... |
| Nov 19, 2015 | Daily funding roundup - November 19, 2015 | PresenceLearning raised $25M; UrbanClap scored $25M; Cinematique closed $3.5M funding
Touchable video platform Cinematique, announced on Thursday that it has closed $3.5 million in a funding round led by Pumori Capital, an investment adviso... |
| Nov 10, 2015 | IBM's Watson And The Boston Children's Hospital Are Teaming Up To Cure Rare Diseases | Christian de Looper, Tech Times 10 November 2015, 10:11 pm
IBM and the Boston Children's Hospital will be teaming up to use the Watson software to focus on studying and curing rare illnesses in children.
The "cognitive computer&qu... |
| Nov 5, 2015 | Daily funding roundup - November 5, 2015 | Coveo raised $35M; Macat secured $30M; Semantics3 launched $1.55M funding
doDOC, a Boston, MA- and Coimbra, Portugal-based web-based platform that allows pharmaceutical companies to accelerate regulatory and compliance processes, recently r... |
| Nov 4, 2015 | With $50M Funding, Handy Focuses on Existing Markets | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
For New York-based Handy, which offers on-demand cleaning and other home contract services, density has been key to its growth.
The company thinks of that density in two ways:... |
| Nov 2, 2015 | New Money: Cogito Gets $5.5M to Alter Phone Behavior; Eager Raises $1M CRV-Led Round | New Money is BostInno's report on all the tech funding deals this week. Check back for updates with more new money. Or, get a daily dose of Boston funding news via email in The Beat. Sign up here.
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| Oct 30, 2015 | Ukrainian grocery delivery service enters US market | Earlier this week Zakaz.ua, Ukraine’s leading online grocery delivery operator, launched its service in Boston, USA, under the CartFresh brand. Russo’s, a family-run market known for its fresh fruits and vegetables and cheese selection, has... |
| Oct 27, 2015 | New Money: KICVentures Is Raising a $20M Fund; QD Vision, Desktop Metal & ArtLifting Raise $$ | Get a daily dose of Boston funding news in The Beat. Sign up here. New Money is BostInno's report on all the tech funding deals this week. Check back for updates with more new money. KICVentures (Malden)
Amount: $300,000 in debt, accor... |
| Oct 27, 2015 | E-Mail Testing Company Litmus Nabs $49M in First VC Round | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Mobile apps might represent the future for brands selling their wares, but e-mail remains a crucial tool for digital marketers.
At least, that’s the bet that Spectrum Equity m... |
| Oct 9, 2015 | Daily funding roundup - October 14, 2015 | Area 1 Security raised $15M
eMMs, Inc. secured over $2 million in company's Series-A round of funding from private South African individual investor to build the cyber data protection fortress, FortKnoxx. Patent pending, FortKnoxx Fort... |
| Oct 7, 2015 | Censio announced $10 million in funding | Only last month Censio startup announced its partnership with Progressive to track and reward good drivers. Today the company announced it raised $10 million in venture capital. In one sentence: Censio is an app that measures drivers’ habit... |
| Oct 6, 2015 | Matrix Partners Gets A New General Partner: Hardi Meybaum | Matrix Partners, the 38-year-old, early-stage venture capital firm, has just added a 10th general partner to its roster: Hardi Meybaum, an Estonian entrepreneur who sold his computer-aided design company to GrabCAD to the 3D printing giant ... |
| Oct 1, 2015 | Boston Tech Roundup: IBM, Flywire, Workable, Alignable, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This week, we’re tracking funding rounds and acquisitions in Boston edtech, payments software, IT infrastructure services, social networks, and more. Here are the details:
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| Sep 29, 2015 | Tech.Co Deals Roundup: Medium Raises $57M, Business Insider Gets Acquired | Today's Tech.Co Deals Roundup is brought to you by National Coffee Day. Drink responsibly.
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| Sep 29, 2015 | Tech.Co Deals Roundup: Medium Raises $57M, Business Insider Gets Acquired | Today's Tech.Co Deals Roundup is brought to you by National Coffee Day. Drink responsibly.
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| Sep 23, 2015 | Fancred Video Lets Every Sports Fan Be A Live Commentator | Fancred, the social network for sports fans wants to move beyond pure social into media. Today it announced an update that lets fans post-Periscope style videos from the stadium or their couches.
To this point, Fancred has been a social pla... |
| Sep 17, 2015 | Boston Tech Roundup: Flywire, DraftKings, Blade, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 9/17/15, 3:44 p.m. See below.] There has been a flurry of funding, acquisitions, hiring and firing, and other movement in the Boston-area startup scene over the past ... |
| Sep 16, 2015 | Amazon’s Prime Now Expands To L.A., Ramps Up For SoCal Grocery Deliveries | Following news from earlier this month which saw Amazon testing the waters with a Grubhub-like restaurant delivery service via Prime Now, the company announced this morning its one-hour delivery service is today going live in its 13th marke... |
| Sep 11, 2015 | Airbnb acquires the team at vacation planning platform Vamo | Vamo will no longer be accepting registrations, and will remain operating until next month
Airbnb has successfully disrupted the hotel industry in a way that, I think, very few people could have anticipated. Now the company is potentially l... |
| Sep 8, 2015 | New Money: NetBlazr, Harmonix, Apperian, Grove Labs | Get a daily dose of Boston funding news in The Beat. Sign up here.
New Money is BostInno's report on all the tech funding deals this week. Check back for updates with more new money.
NetBlazr
Amount: $300,000
Investor: Local angel Jeff... |
| Aug 25, 2015 | Еженедельный обзор мировых массмедиа за 17–23 августа 2015 года | Китайский синдром
Финансовые рынки закончили минувшую неделю в панике из-за роста опасений, что мир находится где-то в начале следующей фазы кризиса, начавшегося в 2007 году, пишет Guardian. Тогда проблемы начались в развитых странах, но кр... |
| Aug 21, 2015 | iSpecimen: A next-gen biobank that’s based on the cloud | The company doesn’t work like a typical biobank. It isn’t a repository for excreta. Rather, it’s more of a tech company that sources biological samples remotely from a hospital system or a clinical lab, then arranges for it to be sent to th... |
| Aug 20, 2015 | Gaming On-The-Go: Kids Are Spending Serious Cash On 'Minecraft' And Other Mobile Games | Lauren Keating, Tech Times 20 August 2015, 09:08 am
It's safe to say that most people I know have smartphones, tablets, or even both. But I have noticed that more and more kids – and I'm talking young children – have their hands o... |
| Aug 17, 2015 | New Money: These Local Companies Raised Millions This Week | New Money is BostInno's report on all the funding deals out of Boston tech companies this week. As more news comes out, this post will be updated.
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VisitDays (Cambridge)
Deal: $575,000, according to BetaBoston
Investor... |
| Aug 10, 2015 | New Money: These Local Companies Raised Millions This Week | New Money is BostInno's report on all the funding deals out of Boston tech companies this week. As more news comes out, this post will be updated.
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RIFT.io (Burlington)
Deal: $16 million Series A
Investors: The round ... |
| Jul 23, 2015 | Facebook, Microsoft, and Dropbox team up to make tech more accessible to people with disabilities | Facebook, Microsoft, Dropbox, and several other tech notables are coming together to make technology more accessible to people with disabilities.
Together these companies and educational partners like Stanford and Carnegie Mellon University... |
| Jul 21, 2015 | Daily funding roundup - July 21, 2015 | Bright.md raises $3.5M; Medallia bagged $150M; BrightBytes landed $33M
Bright.md, which makes software that enables communication between doctors and patients, closed a $3.5 million Series A funding round. Oregon Angel Fund led the round, w... |
| Jul 8, 2015 | Dynatrace Wants To Link Performance Monitoring With Customer Experience | Dynatrace released the latest version of its application performance monitoring (APM) product today, which it hopes will shift the company from pure monitoring into the realm of customer experience.
Although this is a major release with man... |
| Jul 7, 2015 | New Money: These Local Companies Raised Millions This Week | We rounded up all the funding deals out of Boston tech companies this week. As more news comes out, this post will be updated.
Thursday, July 9
Chef Nightly (Boston)
Deal: $750,000
Investors: Accomplice
What they do: Chef Nightly, which was... |
| Jun 25, 2015 | Cybersecurity, DraftKings, OBJL, and 24M: A Boston Tech Roundup | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
In the run-up to summer, there have been a bunch of technology deals to catch up on around town. The news spans cybersecurity companies, business software, gaming, and energy—... |