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These neighborhoods account for most of the venture capital funded companies in Massachusetts

These neighborhoods account for most of the venture capital funded companies in Massachusetts

by william.brah | Jun 18, 2019 | General, Innovation, Startups

Venture backed companies in Massachusetts continue to concentrate along the Boston urban area’s transit lines, upon which half or more of their workers depend. Our research shows that during the last ten years, over 1,158 venture-backed companies have located in...
UMass steps up to assist hardtech startups like no other university

UMass steps up to assist hardtech startups like no other university

by william.brah | Jan 31, 2019 | General, Incubators, Innovation, R & D

With all of the technical resources available in the Kendall Square area, why do Cambridge-based Platelet BioGenesis scientists travel to the UMass Boston campus one day per week to use the animal facility and confocal microscope? According to Lea Beaulieu, Platelet’s...
Verbotics AI is Disrupting Medical Billing in Healthcare

Verbotics AI is Disrupting Medical Billing in Healthcare

by aijanisakova | Jul 13, 2018 | Focus On Founders, GEIR program, Innovation, Startups

by Himanshu Agrawal Verbotics AI is building a fully automated medical coding and auditing system. This will bring down the time to encode a medical record from 5-20 minutes to ~200 milliseconds. We aim to not only help hospitals code quickly and more accurately but...
Boston Innovation Leaders Turnout to Support Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Boston Innovation Leaders Turnout to Support Immigrant Entrepreneurs

by aijanisakova | May 31, 2017 | GEIR program, Innovation, News and Events, Reason for Reform

Graduation is supposed to be a happy time. But many of our universities’ most promising entrepreneurial grads from other parts of the world dread it. Why? Because they have to scramble to get a visa to remain in Massachusetts and work for their newly created...

Companies in the cloud: Digitizing lab operations

by william.brah | Feb 7, 2017 | Innovation, News and Events

(LabCloud joined the Venture Development Center in 2013.) “As labs work their way into the IoT and the cloud, more than one company will develop ecosystems. At LabCloud in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Charles Beyrouthy, CEO and cofounder, says, “We want to put the...

The Robots Are Coming for Wall Street

by william.brah | Jan 29, 2017 | Innovation, News and Events

(Kensho joined the Venture Development Center in May 2016.) “In addition to being a customer, Goldman is also Kensho’s largest investor. Nadler, who is 32, spent the rest of the morning checking in with some of the bank’s most regular Kensho users — a top...
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