Erin Kutz
Erin Kutz joins Xconomy with a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.
Recent posts
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Former Massachusetts secretary of energy and environmental affairs Ian Bowles thinks energy efficiency isn’t all that engaging for consumers.
But he’s betting that rewards points are one way to get them excited... Read more »
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Drugs, devices, and nonprofits showed up in this week’s New England life sciences news.
—Promedior, a maker of treatments for tissue damage known as fibrosis, is moving its headquarters from Pennsylvania to Boston... Read more »
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It’s been an eventful 24 hours for MIT.
The university held the finale of its $100K Entrepreneurship Competition last night, naming CloudTop the grand prize winner.
The company comes from the Web/IT track... Read more »
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Chris Lynch, the tech exec who said venture capital was not for him, is the newest member of the technology team at Atlas Venture, the Cambridge, MA-based firm announced today.
In March,... Read more »
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[Updated 5/16/12 at 5:30 pm. See below]We saw deals this week for companies working on database, business intelligence, credit card processing, and security technology.
—Hopkinton, MA-based data storage giant EMC... Read more »
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Startup accelerators like Y Combinator and TechStars are known for producing the latest and greatest in Web startups. But there’s a set of established and accomplished companies—like ZipCar (NASDAQ: ZIP), Xenogen, and... Read more »
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News of financings, clinical developments, hires, and IPO moves came out of New England life sciences companies this week.
—Cambridge, MA-based Vertex Pharmaceuticals revealed promising data showing it could potentially reach... Read more »
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Plenty of deal activity this week in New England mobile, biotech, Internet, and IT startups.
—Newton, MA-based sleep management technology startup Zeo added another $2 million to the $1 million debt financing... Read more »
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“I’m not a big believer in just technology for the sake of technology.”
At an event covering the intersection of fashion and technology, you may expect this quote to come from a designer. But... Read more »
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Hospitals typically check patients in with one system, track their healthcare with another, and process insurance claims with yet another. Boston-based Kyruus is looking to pull together all these different data... Read more »
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Microsoft Research announced today that it’s adding a 13th site to its fold, with the creation of Microsoft Research New York City. Jennifer Chayes, managing director of Cambridge, MA-based Microsoft Research New... Read more »
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New England clean energy, life sciences, and Internet startups pulled in funding this week. Plus there was some big acquisition news.
—Hologic (NASDAQ: HOLX), a Bedford, MA-based maker of women’s health... Read more »
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There’s a matchmaking startup in town that’s in the midst of raising its Series A round. I’m not talking about an online dating service, though.
“We’re like an eHarmony for study abroad programs,” says... Read more »
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There was a set of startup presentations happening in the Boston area this week, and unlike the demo day events for incubators like TechStars or MassChallenge, the goal wasn’t to get money.
“Don’t... Read more »
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We’ve seen clinical trial, funding, partnership, and IPO news from local drug developers this week.
—Genzyme, the Cambridge, MA-based unit of Sanofi (NYSE: SNY) shared more positive data about its experimental... Read more »
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Looks like you had to be doing something innovative with data in order to get in on the Boston deals this week.
—Media reports have pegged Hopkinton, MA-based EMC (NYSE: EMC)... Read more »
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For Jie Zheng and Rie Yano, the options for selling used clothing were just not cutting it. Consignment stores were picky, thrift shops paid virtually nothing for their wares, and eBay... Read more »
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Partnerships and funding news came out of New England biotechs, particularly a few working on antibody technology.
—Newton, MA-based Alcresta, a startup developing nutritional supplements from enzymes, nabbed $10 million from Third Rock Ventures,... Read more »
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It’s not often that a two-year-old company acquires part of another startup, but it looks like a recent purchase for Boston-based Retroficiency is paying off.
Last November the energy auditing software maker closed $3.3... Read more »
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We saw a number of early stage investments in the past week in New England cleantech, Web, and life sciences startups.
—Harvest Power, a Waltham, MA-based developer of technology for converting organic waste to... Read more »
