How I Work: Jeff Fagnan of Atlas Venture on 4am Espresso Shots & More
Inspired by a great post by Brad Feld about how he structures his day, we decided to ask a number of folks in the Boston startup community a simple question: How do you work? We've heard from Bijan...
View ArticleChris Lynch's First Investment as a VC: sqrrl, A Big Data Play by Former NSA...
Ex-Vertica CEO turned big data angel turned Atlas Venture investor Chris Lynch has made his first investment as a VC. The company's name is sqrrl, and it announced today that it has raised $2 million...
View ArticleHow I Work: Chris Lynch on Becoming a VC & Emails at 5AM
Editor’s Note: We’ve been asking Boston business and tech leaders how they work, meaning how they structure their days and how they stay productive. Click here to read answers from Jason Jacobs, Bijan...
View ArticleTechStars Graduate docTrackr Launches With $2 Million in Tow
docTrackr, a 2012 Boston TechStars graduate working on a system that offers more robust control over shared documents, has officially launched today. The company also announced that it has raised $2...
View Article"A City of Builders": Inside Entrepreneurship with Atlas Venture's Fred...
Last week, we heard from HubSpot's David Cancel and Izhar Armony of Charles River Ventures on hiring, startup success, and the unique advantages the Hub has to offer. In this fourth video of the New...
View ArticleBoston Startup Culture: The Entrepreneur’s View
The excellent C.A. Webb at NEVCA pushed through a survey that looks at the relative attractiveness of Boston as a startup market. Hold that yawn: the results are interesting. Not that I am...
View Article#ScotchOClock with Jeff Fagnan of Atlas Venture (@atlasventure)
Everywhere you turn you hear about some organization or company that Jeff is involved with. In fact, Jeff might also be the VC media darling of Boston. If you are a frequent reader of BostInno you...
View ArticleFlashnotes Raises $1.8 Million, Proving Studying Does Pay
The saying, “Two heads are better than one” is cliché for a reason—it’s true. Just ask the team behind Flashnotes, an online student-to-student marketplace for buying and selling class material. The...
View ArticleAisleBuyer Founder Raises $1.25 Million for New Startup Lookout Gaming
Back in April, we reported that AisleBuyer had been sold to Intuit, and it didn't take founder and CEO Andrew Paradise to find his way back into the startup grind. Today, Paradise announced that his...
View Article(Wine) Partying for Social Entrepreneurship--It's Back!
It's Back! Boston tech's biggest social fundraiser, the Seventh Annual New England Tech Charity Wine Party, is set to descend upon South End's Cyclorama on Thursday, January 31st. Party kicks off at...
View ArticlePlastiq Raises $6 Million to Help Users Maximize Credit Card Rewards Online
Plastiq, a Boston-based payments startup and a 50 on Fire finalist in Tech, has raised $6 million in Series A funding, according to a release from the company. Plastiq allows users to pay various...
View ArticleGizmox Raises $7.5 Million Led by Atlas, Moves From Israel to Boston
Gizmox, a company that was, until now, headquartered in Israel, has raised a new $7.5 million round, led by Atlas Venture. Gizmox is focused on helping enterprises shift to cloud-based HTML5 apps. The...
View ArticleAtlas Venture Raises $265 Million for Ninth Fund
Atlas Venture has closed its ninth fund, having raised $265 million, according to a report today by Dan Primack. The oversubscribed fund will continue Atlas's current trajectory of aggressively...
View ArticleInsightSquared Raises $8M in Series B Funding Led by West Coast Based DFJ
InsightSquared, the top small and midsize business (SMB) Salesforce Analytics provider, announced that it has raised $8 million in Series B funding from California based Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ...
View ArticleCustomMade Raises $18 Million for its Craft Marketplace
Online marketplace CustomMade announced this morning that it has raised $18 million in new funding, led by Atlas Venture and by previous investor Google Ventures. The round was joined by Schooner...
View ArticleThe Boston Marathon Victims Still Need You: Two Opportunities to Help Next Week
In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing, Boston’s startup community was absolutely awe inspiring in the swiftness and unity it provided in helping those injured both directly and indirectly. Your...
View ArticleSkillz Raises $5.5 Million Led by Atlas to Monetize Gaming
It's been seven months since Skillz, a startup aimed at mobilizing mobile games, announced its seed round. Back then, it was under the stealth name Lookout Gaming. Today, the Boston Business Journal...
View Article44 Major Milestones in Boston Venture Capital
Did you know that tomorrow marks the 44th anniversary of the Moon landing? That's right, Apollo 11 landed on the Moon on July 20th, 1969, and Neil Armstrong made history when he became the first...
View ArticleBoston Tech Goes Big...And Bald To Support Childhood Cancer Research
This Thursday, the nonprofit big data community studio hack/reduce will host Boston Big Data: go BIG and go BALD for Child Cancer Research. All proceeds will go toward the St. Baldrick's Foundation, a...
View ArticleFlashnotes Secures $1.5M to Scale Student-to-Student Studying Platform
Flashnotes, an online peer-to-peer platform for buying and selling class study materials, announced Wednesday it has raised $1.5 million in a seed round extension. New investor Nicole Stata of Boston...
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