Erik Mellgren

Erik Mellgren is a Swedish journalist who worked for Xconomy Boston in 2008 as part of the Stanford Innovation Journalism Fellowship program. He is a 26-year veteran of Ny Teknik, a leading technology and innovation magazine in Sweden.

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• Boston VCs Beam $13 Million into California Firm Out to Bridge Cellular and WiFi Networks

  Two Boston area venture capital firms, Castile Ventures and Battery Ventures, both of Waltham, MA, have invested big in Agito Networks, a mobile technology company based in Sunnyvale, CA,... Read more »

• Seeding Labs Kickstarts Science in Developing Countries

  Late last year a fire destroyed the biochemistry department at the Southern University of Chile and dealt a severe blow to its researchers. But thanks to Seeding Labs, a non-profit... Read more »

• Consortium to Bring Massachusetts-Style Clinical Research to Italy

  The newly-formed Clinical Research Consortium of Massachusetts has signed an agreement with the government of the Lombardy region in northern Italy to help make the area more attractive to drug companies... Read more »

• Immunogen Sells Stock, Raises $25M

  Biopharma company ImmunoGen, (NASDAQ: IMGN), of Waltham, MA, announced today that it has sold 7.8 million shares at $3.20 per share to Ziff Asset Management. ImmunoGen, which is expected to... Read more »

• $600M More for Evergreen Solar

  Evergreen Solar (NASDAQ: ESLR) has signed two new long-term orders, valued at approximately $600 million, bringing the company’s total contractual backlog up to $1.7 billion. The new orders, combined... Read more »

• Battery Ventures Invests in “Endpoint Virtualization” Company Neocleus

  Battery Ventures of Waltham, MA, together with Gemini Israel Funds, has invested $11.4 million in Neocleus,  a software company based in New Jersey. Neocleus makes software for PC networks... Read more »

• Open-Source Startup Pushes Mail to Millions of Phones

  Castile Ventures of Waltham, MA, together with Nexit Ventures, Walden International, and HIG Ventures, have invested $12.5 million in Funambol, a firm based Redwood City, CA, that... Read more »

• Genzyme Applies for Approval of Stem-Cell Harvesting Drug

  Cambridge, MA-based Genzyme (NASDAQ: GENZ) announced today that it has applied for approval in the United States and the European Union of a new drug, Mozobil, that would aid the... Read more »

• Report Promises Multi-Billion-Dollar Future for New England Clean Energy Cluster

  In four years’ time, New England can get $1 billion more in new cleantech investments, claims a report from the New England Clean Energy Council and the consulting firm Topline Strategy... Read more »

• Headhunter’s Weapon Snares $26 Million

  If you’re both profitable and growing at a rate of 400 percent for three years in a row, do you still need outside financing?

  Yes, says Arthur Papas, CEO and co-founder... Read more »

• Stratus Launches Software for Sky-High Reliability

  Computer users are a seasoned breed, accustomed to less-than-perfect service from their machines. That applications suddenly freeze, forcing you to restart your PC every once in a while, is just a... Read more »

• Third Wave Means Extra Power For Hologic

  Medical device and diagnostics company Hologic (NASDAQ: HOLX) of Bedford, MA, hopes to accelerate its growth in the diagnostics market. To that end, the company today announced an agreement to... Read more »

• The Conscientious Consumer’s Cell Phone Guide to Shopping

  If you’re concerned about global warming, what breakfast cereal should you buy to support the company with the best record on greenhouse gas emissions? Soon, you might be able to make... Read more »

• Ten Cities Drive New England’s Digital Economy

  Ten cities, mainly inside the famous Route 128 belt around Boston, dominate New England’s digital economy, according to a survey released today by MITX, the Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange.... Read more »

• Now That’s Real Cloud Computing: AeroSat Gets $14 Million To Take Broadband Wireless to the Skies

  Soon, transatlantic flights may no longer be a safe haven from the daily grind of e-mail and the Web. AeroSat, an aviation communications company based in Amherst, NH, has developed... Read more »

• VMware Sees Sweet Future for B-hive

  Virtualization software company VMware today announced that it will buy B-hive Networks of San Mateo, CA.

  VMware, a Palo Alto, CA-based subsidiary of Hopkinton, MA, storage giant EMC, makes software for... Read more »

• JumpTap Takes Leap into Europe

  The mobile search and advertising specialist JumpTap, based in Cambridge, MA, says it will open new offices in Madrid, Spain, and Stockholm, Sweden. The expansion is in response to the... Read more »

• Syntonix, Biovitrum Test New Hemophilia Drug

  Specialty pharmaceutical company Biovitrum of Stockholm, Sweden said today that it has begun human clinical tests of its new anti-hemophilia drug, a recombinant form of a blood-clotting protein called Factor IX... Read more »

• Proteomics Company Wins North of Boston Business Plan Prize

  In case you haven’t heard enough about business plans lately (think MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition, the Ignite Clean Energy Competition, and the $200K MIT Clean Energy Entrepreneurship Prize), here’s... Read more »

• Gotuit and Lifetime Let Viewers Call the Shots

  If you think the director got it wrong, well go ahead and change the movie. That is the basic idea behind a new service, offered by cable television channel Lifetime,... Read more »