by william.brah | Apr 4, 2017 | Fundraising, GEIR program
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...
by christianvialva | Jul 16, 2015 | Focus On Founders, Fundraising, General, Startups
by Brian O’Connell I’ve had something of a backwards career trajectory. I started out as an investor at a US venture capital fund before moving to the ‘other side of the table’, founding a company and raising venture financing. Whilst its been...
by edelfreitas | Jan 14, 2015 | Incubators, Innovation, Mentoring, Startups
“Paint them a picture of nirvana; of how beautiful it is going to be and how their problems will be solved.” – John Hamilton Recently, I got the opportunity to sit down with accomplished sales executive and Venture Development Center (VDC) Entrepreneur in...
by william.brah | Oct 19, 2014 | Fundraising, Marketing and Selling
The funds have started rolling into Parabase Genomics from its new round of financing. The company, which launched from the UMass VDC, offers a rapid, non-invasive genetic test for newborns for hundreds of inherited disorders. What’s surprising isn’t that...