by william.brah | Mar 7, 2020 | General, Innovation, Startups
Economic development planners trying to spread the innovation economy beyond Boston wish more entrepreneurs would follow the lead of Julie Bliss Mullen, CEO of water treatment company, Aclarity. Eschewing Boston, unlike most of her peers, the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
