Recent TechStars grad Kinvey, has just announced a strategic partnership to provide seamless integration between a mobile app’s data backend on Kinvey and Urban Airship’s push notification capabilities on iOS and Android mobile platforms. The partnership will allow mobile app developers a streamlined...
Read more Category: BostInno, Kinvey, Sravish SridharUpon receiving word that Cambridge- based Shareaholic was launching deals, I almost fainted. How could a startup with an impressive early track record be moving into the online deals space crowded by the likes of Groupon and LivingSocial? Well, the long and the short of it is that, they are, but it’s not what you think...
Read more Category: BostInno, ShareaholicWhen Krishna Ramchandran started playing golf three years ago, it didn’t take him long to realize what his problem was. I realized I was really bad,” he says, very matter-of-factly. Most golfers are, when they get started, but Ramchandran wasn’t happy with his lot and set out to change it. “The iPhone...
Read more Category: BostInno, Krishna Ramchandran, UberSenseWhat was originally intended to be 100 people sitting around Harvard’s new Innovation Lab, turned into an event with 800 RSVPs and at least 300 attendees in the University’s Burden Auditorium. Modeled after the NY Tech Meetup, that takes place monthly on New York University’s campus and has grown...
Read more Category: BostInno, Harvard i-lab, Harvard Tech MeetupIt is no surprise that RunKeeper is up to something big. Even though the South End-based company has been quietly building the future of digital health tracking and assessment, they are starting to make some serious waves in and outside of Boston. According to sources close to the deal, RunKeeper...
Read more Category: BostInno, Jason Jacobs, RunKeeper, Spark CapitalAs mentioned last night I spent some time chatting with serial entrepreneur and angel investor Jason Calacanis at the unConference on Friday. Calacanis is the founder of Open Angel Forum (which was also in Boston last week), the Launch conference, and Mahalo. Before founding these...
Read more Category: BostInno, Jason CalacanisLast Friday I attended MassTLC’s unConference with over 800 of Boston’s finest innovation enthusiasts. At first I had planned to attend at least 4 sessions and provide writeups for the BostInno audience, but immediately got off track because of some incredible conversations, ones that had me...
Read more Category: BostInno, Jason Calacanis, Jason Jacobs, RunKeeperMost funded startups never make it past the initial seed round. What is stopping them? Three of Boston’s top investors – TechStars’ Katie Rae, Matrix Partners’ Antonio Rodriguez, and Eric Paley of Founder Collective – gave a bit of insight into what can make or break a startup aiming to make it to the next...
Read more Category: Antonio Rodriguez, BostInno, Eric Paley, Katie Rae, MassTLC unConferenceThis summer AngelList took Boston startups by storm. We were constantly hearing success stories and questions on how to get on the site and more importantly how to raise money on it. For those that don’t know, AngelList is an online community of startups and investors [read: Facebook for...
Read more Category: BostInno, Matt Thazhom, PoewrInboxBoston based Gemvara has been making serious waves in the past few months. After raising $15 million back in March, the company has gone on a hiring spree and added some impressive names. Recently, they brought on Corinne Grousbeck, wife of Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck, as VP of Brand Marketing...
Read more Category: BostInno, Gemvara, Jen Falconer, Matt Lauzon