Co-Founder and CEO, Arena Pharmaceuticals
Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research
CEO and Founder, oneforty, Inc.
Founder & Chief Medical Officer, Vidacare Corporation
Managing Director, TechStars
Co-Founder and CEO, Arena Pharmaceuticals
Co-Founder and Director of Mobile, Detroit Labs
Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics, UCSF
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[Updated: 10:45 am ET] When Third Rock Ventures and Genzyme joined a group of investors in 2010 pooling $35 million into a nearly two-decade old gene therapy company known as Genetix Pharmaceuticals, this turnaround was likely what they had... Read more »
A smattering of fundraising news from companies and investors around the Boston area, and beyond:
—Covestor, a Boston-based online investing marketplace, has raised $12.75 million in private investment. The Series B round came from Union Square Ventures, Spark... Read more »
Time travel. Invisibility cloaks. Quantum supercomputers?
QWave isn’t doing any of that stuff. But it’s a good way to begin a story that involves investments in quantum physics and materials science companies.
QWave, aka Quantum Wave Fund, is a young... Read more »
Google was back on the stump Tuesday, trying to convince enterprise software buyers that it really, truly cares about their business.
Amit Singh, the president of Google’s enterprise business, took the stage at the E2 conference in Boston to talk about... Read more »
Civitas was spun out of Alkermes (NASDAQ: ALKS) two years ago based on technology that can deliver a precise, high dose of a drug through an inhaler. With a new round of cash from the Michael J. Fox Foundation and... Read more »
Richard Douglas has long-standing ties to the University of Michigan. He went there for his undergrad degree in honors chemistry before getting his PhD at UC Berkeley and a job with the Boston-based life sciences company Genzyme, where he eventually... Read more »
It has been a busy morning for Nina Nashif.
The CEO and founder of Chicago-based Healthbox is in town for the accelerator program’s second “innovation day” in Boston. Nine health IT startups will present their pitches this afternoon to a crowd... Read more »
We do it once a year. And every year, it’s one of the big highlights of the day.
I’m talking about the “Startup Xpo,” a showcase of some of the most intriguing young companies around Boston. It’s all part of XSITE,... Read more »
By the end of next year, Cambridge, MA-based OvaScience will likely begin selling its first product. It’s a system called Augment, designed to boost the success rate of in vitro fertilization.
Normally, that would be a milestone that any life sciences... Read more »
After the dot-com crash in 2001, the tech world needed a few years to regroup. But starting around 2004, the year Facebook was founded and Google went public, the winds of innovation in consumer- and business-facing technology began to pick up... Read more »
Unless they’re insanely lucky, pretty much every worker bee out there has a horrifying tale of a despicable boss.
They rule through threats, intimidation, and political gamesmanship. They’re unpredictable. And when they’re on the rampage, nobody’s job is safe.
If you... Read more »
Two things you were able to count on this week if you live in New York: rain, rain, and more rain, and another Beantown biotech entering the IPO queue. We’ve got that and more in this week’s roundup:
—Cambridge, MA-based Agios... Read more »
Here’s some potentially big news in the world of Internet TV. This tech sector is dominated by giants—think Comcast, Verizon, Cisco, Microsoft, Netflix—but that doesn’t mean a smaller company can’t play with the big boys.
That company would be Azuki Systems,... Read more »
Dyn is one of those boring-but-important players that make the online economy possible.
Big names like Twitter, Tumblr, and Netflix rely on it to connect millions of users with their digital services, in the blink of an eye and without... Read more »
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Some interesting bits of fundraising and buyout news from around the Boston-area innovation scene:
—Boston Celtics CEO and co-owner Wyc Grousbeck is starting a new investment fund focusing on sports and sports media. Reports of the new... Read more »
A busy morning for Series B tech financings already…
—Cambridge, MA-based CustomMade has pulled in $18 million led by new investor Atlas Venture and previous investor Google Ventures. That brings the company’s total raised to more than $24 million, by my... Read more »
Agios Pharmaceuticals turned heads in 2010 when it reeled in $130 million from Celgene still years away from testing one of its drugs in human beings. Three years later, on the verge of its first clinical trial, Agios hopes to have... Read more »
The mysterious Wayne Chang won’t tell me much these days, but he’s got a message for Boston-area startups: Talk about distribution.
If you’re a software startup, he says, your product is obviously important. But equally important is figuring out how to... Read more »
Summer’s here, but that doesn’t mean the focus on schooling stops—at least not in the Boston area, where education is big business and a driving force in regional culture.
Today, a few entrepreneurs hoping to leave their mark on the system... Read more »
Partner, Advanced Technology Ventures
Managing Director, Project 11
Founder and CEO, Acme Packet
Executive VP of R&D, Biogen Idec
Dean, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Managing Director, Mobile Ecosystem
Founder and CTO, Heartland Robotics
CEO and Managing Partner, Flagship Ventures
Founder and CTO, Shopximity
General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners
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