by william.brah | Dec 19, 2017 | Incubators
A lucky place is somewhere that people believe helps them to be successful. And in March 2012, an otherwise bleak time for biotech venture capital, after we announced the 2nd Series A financing (Valerion) in nine months, a lucky place is what Micah Rosenbloom, CEO of...
by edelfreitas | May 20, 2015 | Focus On Founders, General, Incubators, Innovation, Internships, Mentoring, News and Events, Startups, Tech transfer
As most incubators do, we always like to catch up with our graduates to see how they have been doing since they have “left the nest” of the Venture Development Center (VDC). I got a chance to see how Dr. Jill Macoska, director of the Center for...
by edelfreitas | Apr 17, 2015 | Focus On Founders, Fundraising, Incubators, Innovation, Marketing and Selling, Mentoring, R & D, Startups
Research labs spend more than $35 billion a year on laboratory equipment and supplies. But as big companies restructure their research and development to reduce costs and risks, they rely more and more on research done by smaller companies. These smaller labs are a...
by edelfreitas | Apr 2, 2015 | Focus On Founders, General, Incubators, Innovation, R & D, Startups, What's Offered
In a recent interview with one of our companies, Bioarray Therapeutics, I got an inside look at how founder, Marcia Fournier, made use of the Venture Development Center’s supercomputing facilities. The supercomputer was developed by another VDC company,...
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...
