Tim Rowe

Tim Rowe is the Founder and CEO of Cambridge Innovation Center. CIC houses approximately 185 startups, and is perhaps the densest collection of startups anywhere in the world. The Boston Globe has described CIC as “what may just be the most important building in Greater Boston.” Tim is also a Founder and Venture Partner with New Atlantic Ventures, an $115M early stage technology fund based in Kendall Square.

Previous adventures included four years with Boston Consulting Group in Boston, Madrid, and Singapore; a two-year stint as a lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management; and a role in organizing the “Woodstock of the Web” at CERN.

Tim is a graduate of the MIT Sloan School of Management and Amherst College.

Tim has been named one of Boston’s “40 under 40” young business leaders, and currently serves as President of the Kendall Square Association.

Recent posts and comments

• Thank You, Microsoft

  This article was written with Michael Greeley, general partner at Flybridge Capital Partners and chairman of the New England Venture Capital Association.

  Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer is here in Cambridge this morning... Read more »

• As Legislators Ponder Non-Compete Agreements, A Look at Massachusetts’ Innovation History

  This article was written with Geoff Mamlet.

  Today, some of our legislators will hold a hearing at the State House to discuss changes in Massachusetts’ non-compete laws. They would do well... Read more »

• How “Place” Matters in Innovation

  There has been a lively debate following Scott Kirsner’s Innovation Economy blog “Why Waltham Doesn’t Matter.” One of the threads is whether it matters if entrepreneurs and VCs are... Read more »

• Tragedy of the Commons: It’s (Really) Time to Ban Non-Compete Agreements

  On snowy days in certain neighborhoods of our great city it is not unusual for someone to put an old trash can in an on-street parking space that they have recently... Read more »

• The Long Game

  Old places can accomplish new things.

  Boston and Tokyo are both about 400 years old. Yet we’re different when it comes to planning for the future. Not long ago, Tokyo finished... Read more »