Chief of Genetics, UC San Diego School of Medicine
Director, Neurobiotics Laboratory, University of Washington
Managing Director, GlobalSmartEnergy
VP of Strategic and Emerging Business Development, Microsoft
Chairman, EDventure Holdings
Chairman and CEO, Digital Chocolate
Founder, Social Media Classroom
Co-Founder and CEO, Arena Pharmaceuticals
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A smattering of fundraising announcements involving Boston-area companies and investors, along with a student entrepreneurship program in this collection of local news tidbits:
—Skyword, a Boston-based marketing company that links freelance copywriters with advertisers and other clients, has raised... Read more »
For cities to truly thrive in this economy, fresh ideas must be cross-pollinated from beyond their borders—and New York offers its share of honey to lure in startups. This international gateway can be the place for companies to break into the... Read more »
I was pretty slow about getting around to reading Thinking, Fast and Slow. The career-capping book by Princeton psychologist Daniel Kahneman, one of the founders of behavioral economics, spent months on all the bestseller lists back in 2011. I finally... Read more »
Few could accuse XBiotech CEO John Simard of failing to think big.
The Austin, TX-based startup he founded in 2005 is testing a novel biological drug candidate that is aiming to treat the persistent inflammation that makes cancer patients feel so... Read more »
The Boston area’s best-known startup hub is taking another big step in its national expansion plans.
The Cambridge Innovation Center, an all-in-one office space and services provider that houses some 500 companies near the MIT campus, is opening a branch... Read more »
First of all, the company is no longer called the Daily Grommet. Now it’s just The Grommet.
“We still execute daily,” says CEO Jules Pieri, “but we dropped the word because it seemed to be superfluous.” She adds, “We love... Read more »
When Tel Aviv, Israel-based PrimeSense came out with its first depth-sensitive, near-infrared camera-on-a-chip in 2010, nobody could have predicted how many uses hardware makers would dream up for the technology within a few short years.
The first and most famous was... Read more »
After much clamor about becoming a sanctuary for startups, New York faces the “now what?” stage of its growth as a tech hub.
Plans have been laid down to fill the streets with engineers—in another decade or two. But... Read more »
Matrix Genetics is one of those startups that never really got off the ground in its early days, but never died, either. While the Seattle-based company lived on fumes at various points over the past four years, it saw other contenders... Read more »
Less than a decade after being hatched out of a Texas university, Houston-based Bellicum Pharmaceuticals is in the midst of clinical trials on two innovative cancer therapies that, if successful, could result in new ways of attacking and killing off harmful... Read more »
It’s been almost two years since Paul Grayson was named as CEO of San Diego’s Anaphore—more than enough time for the former Fate Therapeutics CEO to put a new strategy in place.
The company unveiled the first element of its new... Read more »
Kiva Detroit, Kiva’s first domestic microlending initiative—and the country’s first community-led microlending program—spent its first year focused on expanding the social network of lenders and community volunteers on the ground actively recruiting small businesses in need of a loan.... Read more »
[Corrected on 5/16/13, 9:11 a.m., see below] Fresh off raising $265 million to bankroll its ninth fund, Atlas Venture has forged strategic partnerships with Amgen and Novartis to help supply the bigger companies with innovative new drug candidates. The... Read more »
Just a little over a month to go before our fifth annual flagship conference, XSITE 2013 (Xconomy Summit on Innovation, Technology, & Entrepreneurship) at Babson College. The date is June 19, the theme is “Boston’s Tech Revival,” and the agenda is... Read more »
Gradalis today revealed early details of a study indicating that its personalized cancer vaccine could delay recurrences of ovarian cancer in advanced stage patients by at least a year.
The Dallas-based startup, founded in 2005, presented results of a phase II... Read more »
Carlsbad, CA-based Sorenson Media CEO Peter Csathy tells me he’s left Sorenson to become CEO of Manatt Digital Media Ventures, a venture fund and digital media business created by the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips law firm in Los Angeles.
The venture... Read more »
In a city where people know people who know people, Richard Blakeley sits at the heart of a web that connects New York’s tech community.
That enviable position stems in part from his annual Webutante Ball. While preparing for next Thursday’s... Read more »
Updated 10 a.m. with new item
Some news on VC fundraising, startup investment, corporate layoffs, and student entrepreneurship in this midweek rundown of items to catch up on:
—Matrix Partners, based in Waltham, MA, has confirmed that it’s... Read more »
A prominent leader in the tech-startup community is moving on.
Walt Doyle, the longtime CEO of Where, which was acquired by PayPal in April 2011, has left the company as of today. Doyle served as general manager of PayPal Media... Read more »
CEO, Next Great Place
Managing Director, DaggerBoard Advisors
Dir., Mt. Sinai Institute for Genomics and Multi-Scale Biology
Distinguished Lecturer, Sloan School of Management at MIT
Vice Provost, TechTransfer, University of Washington
San Francisco · 6/3/13
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