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News for the Week of March 31, 2009 |
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Startup Watch: Five you should follow
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As part of each week’s Startup Report, Mass High Tech highlights five startup companies, and their business goals, that are profiled in the New England Tech Directory. Included in this week’s Startup Report: 2N+1, Biorasis, FlagSuit, Mix&Meet anf SnapYap.com.
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JOIN MHT for a morning of networking and lively discussion at our annual Clean Tech Forum. Panelists will offer an outlook on 2009 given our current economic situation and what the public and private sectors are doing to generate jobs and promote partnerships. Technology Showcase: Come see a selection of interesting new technologies being developed by local clean tech/alternative energy companies.
REGISTER TODAY! April 9, 2009 7:30-9:30am | Seaport Hotel
Platinum Sponsor: Bingham
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Life sciences startups pitch at tech transfer conference
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Despite the hard times, a dozen medical device and biotech company executives and researchers made their pitch to raise funds to get to market at the Early Stages Life Sciences Conference on Monday.
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| 6th Annual RoboBusiness Conference & Exposition (April 15-16, 2009 | Boston, MA)
The must-attend event for business, technology and investment professionals interested in the personal, service and mobile robotics industry. Attend RoboBusiness to understand which emerging technologies and applications represent today’s greatest opportunities for commercial development and success. New Stimulus Pricing Announced! $95 Colleague Conference Pass and $25 Expo Pass. Use Priority Code STIMULUS. Visit www.RoboBusiness.com for information and registration.
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TechStars bursts onto the Boston scene
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In its first few weeks of life, TechStars Boston, the Massachusetts branch of the Boulder, Colo.-based tech incubator that Brad Feld helped found in 2006, might look an awful lot like the dozen or so ventures it plans to nurture here. To the companies it incubates, the firm hopes to look like a founder.
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InStream Media lands $2M from local VCs
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CommonAngels Inc. and Stage 1 Ventures LLC have invested about $2 million in inStream Media Inc., a Waltham-based maker of software that prints targeted ads on store receipts, according to inStream officials.
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Report: Biotech startup said to close on $5M financing
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Boston-based biotech startup TargAnox Inc. has closed a $5.1 million Series A round, with Partners Innovation Fund LLC, the venture capital unit of Partners HealthCare Inc. in Boston, putting up $250,000.
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Nominations for the Green Awards
The Boston Business Journal is accepting nominations for the Green Business Awards in the following categories: Innovation, Invention, Design and Workplace.
On May15th, the winners will be honored at the 2nd annual Green Business Summit, a gathering of top executives and thought leaders driving the “green” efforts in the community.
Nominations close on April 10th. Nominate your company today!
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UNH: 2008 angel investment dollars down 26 percent
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The Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire has found that angel investments dropped in 2008, with lower amounts of individual funding, despite a nearly equal number of investments last year over 2007.
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PowerToad shares meeting tools
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PowerToad makes information sharing and collaboration office hardware and software intended to be used in conference rooms and other meeting areas. Now it's looking to raise $4 million over three rounds.
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EpigenDX targets ovarian cancer discovery
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Molecular diagnostic services company EpigenDX Inc. is taking steps to establish itself in the relatively untouched field of epigenetics, creating a test platform for ovarian cancer. Liying Yan, founder and CEO of the company, sees this as an ideal market for a small company to start penetrating now, before other competitors emerge.
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icon indicate news first reported in the print edition.
