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Boston Innovation Leaders Turnout to Support Immigrant Entrepreneurs
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...
Founder Interviews: Fanyu Lin, founder of Fluxus LLC
The interview is prepared by Matthew Furlong, UMass Boston MBA student graduating in May 2017. Fanyu Lin, Fluxus LLC Where are you from? China Educational background I received Master of Science degree in Advanced Architecture Design from Columbia University in the...
Want to Understand a Distributed Ledger Revolution?
Chetan Manikantan, our very own Global EIR at the VDC, UMass Boston, and a Serial Entrepreneur, Design Thinker and a Polymath writes about the latest technological revolution taking over the world - in his simple yet powerful article titled "Mahatma Gandhi's...
Founder Interviews: Srinath Vaddepally, founder of RistCall LLC
The interview is prepared by Maryalice Gill, UMass Boston MBA student, graduating in May 2019. Srinath Vaddepally, RistCall LLC, www.facebook.com/ristcall What is your Educational background? Masters in Engineering Technology Innovation Management (E&TIM) and...
Founder Interviews: Thomas Ketchell, founder of Sutori
The interview is prepared by Matthew Furlong and Chengyi Tao, UMass Boston MBA students, graduating in May and Summer 2017 (respectively). Thomas Ketchell, Sutori Where are you from? I was born in St Leonards on Sea in the UK. My father is British and mother is French...
Foreign entrepreneurs like Paulo create jobs in Massachusetts
MIT grad Paulo Melo (pictured with UMass Boston honors college students), co-founder of doDOC, received an H-1B visa through the Massachusetts Global Entrepreneur-in-Residence Program at the University of Massachusetts. doDOC, a software company which participated in...
Companies in the cloud: Digitizing lab operations
(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 entire...
The Robots Are Coming for Wall Street
(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 executive on...
Robo-Furniture Makes The Most of Tiny Apartments
(Ori Systems joined the Venture Development Center in November 2015.) "Ori is a new line of furniture that its founder, Hasier Larrea, describes as robotic, intelligent, and dynamic. That’s not how you usually talk about tables and shelves. But then again, most tables...