from Forbes by Frederick Daso Breaking into venture capital is not easy. Starting a brand new VC fund? Even harder. Potential limited partners (entities that invest in VC firms) judge a firm on the past performance of the firm’s previous funds. The life of a fund is nominally ten years, ...
from BostInno by Adam Smith Meghan McCormick’s road to starting OZÉ – an app-based service to help small businesses in West Africa – was bumpy. Years before the newly-formed company – which just scored a $75,000 Harvard award – was formed, it was the seed of an idea planted in ...
press release Multiply Solar, a partnership of Bright Power, Inc., Solstice Power Technologies, Inc., Sol Purpose Development Company, Green City Force, and Solar One, announced today its intent to construct, subscribe, and manage community solar installations at 27 sites on two New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) developments. The solar ...
from San Jose Mercury News by Seung Lee From South Africa, Finland, Indonesia and more, 28 startups from 27 countries congregated in San Francisco in the “Startup World Cup” on Friday in hopes of winning $1 million. The annual competition to select the best startup outside of the Silicon Valley ...
from BostInno by Lucia Maffei From deciding the appetizers to hiring a photographer, planning a wedding requires a long checklist to be completed – not to mention, a large amount of patience and excellent mediation skills. One of the first decision to make is finding the location, which is the ...
from Government Technology Biobot Analytics, a startup spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that is collecting data from sewage to monitor opioid use, has raised its first round of seed funding. The company pulled in $2.5 million, with the Chicago venture firm Ekistic Ventures acting as the leader. Also participating ...
from Xconomy by Jeff Engel The Thai chicken bowl from Spyce Food’s new restaurant in downtown Boston wasn’t life-changing, but it’s one of the better meals I’ve had from a “fast casual” restaurant—and certainly the best I’ve had that was prepared mostly by robots. OK, it’s the first meal I’ve ...
from MIT Sloan News by Edward Mason Say the word drone, and you’re likely to conjure up images of the latest military technology, the newest e-commerce delivery device, or something you snap a GoPro camera onto for aerial shots of the Grand Canyon. All of that is true. Increasingly, though, ...
from MIT Sloan News by Betsy Verecky In finance or consulting, finding the right expert to weigh in on a problem is sometimes as tough as the problem itself. Just ask Yishi Zuo. While working as a hedge fund analyst, Zuo would ring up subject matter experts to help guide ...
from TechCrunch by Devin Coldewey What if there’s a drug that already exists that could treat a disease with no known therapies, but we just haven’t made the connection? Finding that connection by exhaustively analyzing complex biomechanics within the body — with the help of machine learning, naturally — is the ...
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