Posts filed under 'Startup Job'
New Mass Challenge announced by Gov Patrick
Massachusetts has just announced a initiative to fund start up activities here in our state. $ 25 million dollars will be allocated to catalyze growth and stimulate innovation.
Check it out http://masschallenge.org/
1 comment June 10, 2009
Cadio
Genotrope Record: Cadio Currently Hiring
Funding Status: Seed Round
Investors: MIT
Founders or Execs past companies: MIT PHD Students
Industry: Wireless/Mobile Analytics
Offering Description: Cadio analyzes GPS data from mobile phones to better understand consumer interests and habits. Using a privacy-aware opt-in model, Cadio’s algorithms create Tag Clouds for Consumers™ to generate brand-relevant inferences about where people go and what they do. Cadio offers market research services and enables lifestyle-relevant advertising.
Add comment May 6, 2009
Nasuni
Genotrope Record: Nasuni
Funding Status: Series A
Investors: Sigma, North Bridge
Founders or Execs past companies: Archivas
Industry: Storage
Offering Description: Storage as a Service
Add comment March 24, 2009
Bluefin Lab
Genotrope Record: Bluefin Lab
Funding Status: Seed
Investors: ?
Founders or Execs past companies: Another Andy Palmer mentored company. MIT
Industry: Consumer Web, Video Search
Offering Description: cutting edge video search technology applied to the exciting world of consumer media.
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Add comment March 24, 2009
Shotput Ventures: new startup accelerator in Atlanta
Shotput Ventures of Atlanta has recently launched with their first session this summer. Using the by now familiar formula of $5,000 per team plus $5,000 per founder in exchange for 5% – 10% of equity on entrepreneur friendly terms.
The team is a strong group of successful entrepreneurs with backgrounds in web and software technology. Certainly a viable candidate when you are applying to the list of startup accelerators built on the mold of Y Combinator. If they have a winter program, they will be even more attractive to the snow bound Boston teams.
The un-answered question is who will be the audience for “demo day”? Will Ron Conway or Sequoia be there? Ultimately the test is how many successful companies will be spawned by the program.
They are off to a good start and we look forward to seeing the companies that spring forth under the guidance of Shotput Ventures.
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Add comment March 5, 2009
Democamp Boston February 25 6:30pm – 9:30pm
If you are interested in new and up and coming startups, make sure to go to Democamp Boston next Wednesday evening. The format is Ignite style (5 minute presentation). The presenters are a mix of established startups and bootstrapped web applications. Sign Up Here
The presenters they have lined up are:
7:10 Raj Aggarwal, Localytics
7:25 Fraser Kelton, AdaptiveBlue
7:40 Allen Smith, Wherephone
7:55 Dan Lambright, Mideo Factory
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8:30 Rachel Segal, B5Media
8:45 Greg Raiz , Raizlabs
9:00 Mark Bao, Ramamia
9:15 Wrap-up
9:30 Networking at Lingo bar and restaurant (at bottom of building)
Add comment February 20, 2009
uTest
Genotrope Record: uTest
Funding Status: Seris A
Investors: Egan, Longworth
Founders or Execs past companies:
Industry: Saas Web Testing, B2B
Offering Description: uTest is the SaaS marketplace for software application testing – providing software companies with on-demand testing services by a global community of professional software testers (the “uTester Community”).
Add comment February 13, 2009
Amp Idea
Genotrope Record: Amp Idea
Funding Status: Seed
Investors: ?
Founders or Execs past companies: Consultant at Upstartle
Industry: Wireless, Consumer Advertising
Offering Description: providing clients with innovative and affordable means of advertising through digital signage. Amp Idea specializes in providing digital advertising in taxis for business owners in the Boston Area.
Add comment February 13, 2009
Venture Investment is down, new Startups pay no attention
You can’t read a publication that covers startups without coming across an article about the Venture Capital market tanking.
In spite of this, there have been some really interesting companies recently closing their series A here in Boston. The group is a good mix of seasoned founders and first time entrepreneurs.
The Search Marketing, Lead Generation or Inbound Marketing space is heating up with several new players entering the field.
Wordstream Serial CEO and new founder.
JazD Markets Seasoned VP of engineering, CEO proven executive in turnaround and high growth environments.
Data Center Solutions have been a strong field for Boston and these new players are seeking to continue that trend.
Cloudswitch Founders coming off big exits.
Viridity Software Second time around.
Cloudant First time founders, PHD’s from MIT. VC that funded Series A has not been announced. If you have info, let us know.
Mobile Applications and Wireless is an active market for Boston
SCVNGR 19 year old founder quit school to give startup a go.
I look forward to following each company on their journey.
Add comment January 29, 2009
Who Do You Think Should be on this List? Best of Boston Web 2008
We are really just putting this out there as a starting point in hope that readers will add to the list. Of course it is nowhere comprehensive and totally subjective. Let us know your choices. Oh, and don’t nominate yourself, spread the kudos around.
Networking Event:
WebInno was founded and is currently led by David Beisel of Venrock. It is the stalwart networking event for mobile and web technology startups in the Boston area.
Started informally in the fall of 2005 it has grown to the present day where up to 800 people gather to schmooze and review the latest crop of services from bootstrapped or seed funded companies.
Open Coffee Wednesdays, 8:30 am – 10:30 am: Andala Coffee House
286 Franklin Street
This is the Cambridge version of the concept that originated in London by Saul Klein of Index Ventures. The idea was to organise real-world informal meetups to chat, network and grow. The Cambridge group was started by Nabeel Hyatt of Conduit Labs and Bijan Sabet of Spark Capital, and meets every wednesday morning. It is well worth attending to meet the next generation of entrepreneurs and have lively discussions about what everyone is doing.
CoWorking:
BetaHouse Jon and Brian have created a workplace that caters to pre funded startups as well as individuals looking for office space. If you are looking for a great environment to crank some code, go check it out. They host a good party too.
VC Funded 2008:
If you want to watch a startup and learn how to market in the online world, you could have no better example that Hubspot. They are building a business teaching companies how to attract potential customers without using the less effective traditional means of interruption and expensive advertising. Follow along as they ride the wave of marketing based upon permission, organic search traffic and the use of social media, that is inbound marketing.
Angel Funded 2008:
Tipjoy Y Combinator launched and Angel funded, Tipjoy has been generating a lot of interest with it’s new Auto Twitter integration, see an example of how it is being used by @Pistachio for the WellWishes campaign. They also deserve kudos for returning to the Boston area rather than base the company in Silicon Valley.
Flipkey After building a useful initial site and ramping user acquisition, they landed a strong group of angel investors including Nick Beim of Matrix Partners. Then soon afterward, TripAdvisor took a majority ownership position in the company, validating the team and concept.
MyPunchbowl is a prime example of building a business through executing on the fundementals. Incremental and steady improvement of the product and continually acquiring users lead to a recent follow on investment.
Bootstrapped:
One of our readers turned us on to Editme. Nice product and business, no VC and a healthy dose of excellent customer service, makes Editme a winner.
JobVent This simple concept continues to gain momentum and users by providing a platform for users to get off their chest feelings about their work environment.
VC:
North Bridge Venture Partners deserves recognition for diversifying a portfolio that has been very successful in the traditional domains of Boston VC’s, namely communications and enterprise software. Recent investments in a variety of categories of web offerings from a career site, virtual goods market, social media infrastructure, financial communities and mobile photo blogging have set them apart in 2008 as a growing participant in the Boston Web scene.
Angel Investor:
YCombinator the seminal Advisor/Investor firm that has spawned many copycat endeavors. While some may have the advisory chops, fewer still have the connections and none have Paul Graham. Hats off to the idol of hackers around the world and the gadfly to Boston VC’s.
Bantam Group We first heard about this angel investor only a few months ago. After some research, it was clear that Bantam Group may be the best Boston Angel investor you’ve never heard off. One look at their investments will tell you that they are supporting new Web companies more than any other local angel.
Entrepreneur Blogger:
Furquan Nazeeri started blogging about his experience as an EIR at Softbank in 2007. Always insightful and even more interesting now that he has started his own company Virid.us. Bringing perspectives from both sides of the table, Altgate is a must read for anyone interested in entrepreneurship and investing in startups.
Most Influential Blogger:
Scott has been promoting two big issues that are important for Boston area starups. The elimination of non-compete agreements and pushing for an organized effort to keep our best graduating students in the Boston area and engaged with the Emerging Technology community.
Social Mediaologist:
Don’t even try to keep up with this guy. There is a lot of fluff in the S M crowd, but Chris puts the hype into action.
8 comments December 22, 2008
