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Out-of-towner Amory Lovins drew a packed audience to Kendall Square last Thursday for a chat about his vision for our energy future—and how it can be achieved with better economics, no new acts of Congress or government regulation, and no major shift... Read more »
The world of car-sharing just got more interesting. Zipcar (NASDAQ: ZIP), the Cambridge, MA-based pioneer in the sector, said today it has led a $13.7 million Series A investment in Wheelz, a Palo Alto, CA-based car-sharing startup that targets college students. Detroit-based... Read more »
VC, cleantech, and biotech players populated the New England deal news this week.
—Cambridge, MA-based coal-to-natural-gas company GreatPoint Energy formed a $1.25 billion partnership with China Wanxiang Holdings, according to a report in Dow Jones VentureWire. The deal also included $420... Read more »
Here in Boston we can get a little provincial. It’s us against them, East Coast vs. West Coast, Boston vs. New York, the list goes on. This focus on local applies to the tech community as much as anything else: Who’s leading... Read more »
Watertown, MA-based Enanta Pharmaceuticals just took a step ahead in the hepatitis C drug development derby.
Enanta said today it has secured an exclusive deal with Novartis to co-develop an experimental hepatitis C drug, dubbed EDP-239, that’s designed to work by blocking a protein called... Read more »
In a strategic play to be closer to existing investors, potential backers, and her own personal support system, Danielle Weinblatt, the CEO of Take the Interview, has moved her startup from Cambridge, MA, to New York City and is on the hunt... Read more »
[Updated and corrected, 10:15 am PT] Steve Jobs used to love being on stage, getting the audience in the palm of his hand. Famously, he’d say, “Oh, and one more thing,” to build suspense right before delivering some stunning... Read more »
Founding Director, Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center
Co-creator, TEDMED
President and CEO, Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company
Managing Dir. of Life Sciences, Hercules Technology Growth Capital
President and Founder at Co-Flow Investing
Chairman and CEO, Nanobiosym Diagnostics Inc.
Partner, Nixon Peabody LLP
Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP
Visiting Scholar, MIT
Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
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