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The Answer Was Floating In The Wind; Danotek Finds Its Calling In Wind Power
Thomas Lee During my brief time here in Michigan, I’ve heard a familiar prediction: The state is poised to become a cleantech powerhouse because of its expertise in manufacturing and automobile...
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3D Biomatrix Hopes To Break Into Drug Discovery Market With 3D Testing Devices
Thomas Lee High-octane action movies and sci-fi thrillers are not the only images best viewed in 3D. Just ask Laura Schrader, a onetime medical device consultant who recently joined 3D Biomatrix as...
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Margarita Barry Leads Army Of Young Entrepreneurs To Detroit
Jillian Berman [Corrected 7/12/11, 4:05 pm.See below.]Margarita Barry is throwing a party. Who: Entrepreneurial, creative people in their 20s or 30s Where: Detroit When: Now RSVP:...
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Outbrain Pushes Must-See Content, Attracts Venture Capitalist to its Ranks
João-Pierre S. Ruth News links in the social era get swapped much like baseball cards of old. Readers repost and Like topics they expect their friends to share an interest in. New York startup...
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Michigan Informatics Startup Intervention Insights Raises $7M+ Series B Round
Thomas Lee Intervention Insights of Grand Rapids, MI has raised $7.2 million in venture capital to help commercialize software that helps doctors identify the proper drugs to treat a patient’s...
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Qrious Seeks to Crack Smartphone App Market, Capture Data on Folks You Meet...
João-Pierre S. Ruth Conferences and other business events offer the chance to make new professional contacts, but wading through the masses of attendees can be a nightmare. Marching around with a...
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Avalon Leads $3M Nanigans Deal, M/A-COM Seeks IPO, Bluesocket Bought by...
Erin Kutz IT companies dominated New England deals this week, with word of acquisitions, financings, and potential IPOs. —M/A-COM Technology Solutions, a Lowell, MA-based wireless chip maker, said in...
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Pulmatrix Snags $14M, Embera Adds for $4.5 Addiction Drugs, Daktari Gets...
Erin Kutz This week was dominated by financing news from younger, privately held New England drug developers and diagnostics and devices firms. —Waltham, MA-based Proteon Therapeutics inked a $15.2...
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EcoSynthetix Raises $100M in TSX IPO
Sarah Schmid On August 4, Lansing, MI- and Burlington, ON-based renewable chemical company EcoSynthetix announced it had closed its initial public offering priced at $9 per share in Canadian dollars,...
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FDA Clears Portable Insulin Pump from San Diego’s Tandem Diabetes
Bruce V. Bigelow The FDA has cleared the first commercial product from San Diego’s Tandem Diabetes Care, a wearable insulin pump, according to a statement today from the medical device startup. Tandem...
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Boston-Power Adds $30M to Bring Venture Funding Pot to $346M
Erin Kutz Anyone who says cleantech companies are having a tough time raising money should take a look at Boston-Power. The Westborough, MA-based advanced lithium-ion battery maker is announcing today...
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Smart Destinations Out to Make Big City Tourist Travel Family-Friendly
Erin Kutz Boston has a pretty well-known cluster of tech companies—young and old—that are focused on aspects of travel like booking flights and hotels. Kayak, TripAdvisor, and ITA Software (now part...
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Xconomy is Looking for a Digital Media Intern to Join Our Cambridge Offices
Erin Kutz Hey intern hopefuls, have you been on the hunt for a sweet media gig for the new semester? You’re in luck. Xconomy is looking for a rockstar intern to help out with a mix of editorial,...
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FirstFuel Software Selected for DoD Energy Efficiency Initiative
Erin Kutz Lexington, MA-based FirstFuel Software is among a crop of experimental energy projects picked to help the Department of Defense curb its energy output across military installations, the...
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Par8o, from Sermo Founders, Aims to be Patient-Physician Matchmakers
Erin Kutz [Updated 1/11/12 5:15 pm. See below.] “Sermo has been my baby, my blood and tears,” its former CEO Daniel Palestrant told me in a phone call last week. So it was pretty shocking last week...
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Quiet Logistics’ Robotics Service Grows As Luxury E-Commerce Booms
Erin Kutz Not long ago I wrote about how luxury retailers’ increased willingness to sell online has helped foster a new generation of fashion-focused Internet startups (particularly from Harvard...
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AisleBuyer, Crashlytics, Cymfony, & More Boston Dealmakers
Erin Kutz The world is atwitter over the big Facebook-Instagram acquisition, but Boston companies have been proving their muster with deals of their own this week. —Cambridge, MA-based mobile gaming...
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Nexamp Unit Purchase Helps Retroficiency Inflate its Energy Efficiency Footprint
Erin Kutz 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...
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Abroad101 Aims to Be TripAdvisor for Study Abroad, Seeks Series A
Erin Kutz 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...
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VoltServer Adds $250K to Build “Internet Protocol of the Electricity World”
Erin Kutz Earlier this week, Rhode Island-based Slater Technology Fund announced that it had backed VoltServer, a new startup out of the Ocean State, to the tune of $250,000. Charlestown, RI-based...
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