Apptomics Selected to Present at Healthcare Pioneers Conference
Apptomics Selected to Present at Pioneers in Medical Technology Conference Georgia Mitsi, Apptomics CEO, had an opportunity to present her company’s 5-minute pitch to a group of panelists at the Pioneers in Medical Technology Conference in Boston on Wednesday, May 14, at Merck’s Research Laboratory. Out of 30 applicants, Apptomics was among 5 companies chosen to present their business plans in front of a panel of qualified judges.
AdvaStim Enters Neuromodulation Device Market
AdvaStim’s novel hardware and software platform gives developers capabilities to address current and emerging clinical indications. BEVERLY, Mass., April 23, 2014, AdvaStim, Inc., www.advastim.com, a leading developer of advanced technology platforms for neuromodulation therapies, announced today that the Company has entered the research and development market with a new hardware/software solution for neuromodulation therapy developers.
CrowdComfort Is Finalist in Business Plan Competition Sponsored by Salem State University’s Enterprise Center
NSIV is pleased to announce that one of its members, CrowdComfort, has been selected as a finalist in Salem State University’s Enterprise Center “2014 Business Plan Competition.” CrowdComfort and two other finalists will have an opportunity to present their business plans before a live panel of judges and compete for first, second, and third place on Wednesday, April 23, from 3 to 6 pm. (the location TBA). First place winner will receive $5,000; second place winner, $3,000; third place winner, $2,000. For details on the 2014 Business Plan competition, go to www.enterprisectr.org. CrowdComfort is a mobile solution for the modern facility manager. It’s easy-to-use smart phone application lets building owners, operators, and occupants share information about building comfort, maintenance, and safety issues. CrowdComfort streamlines three distinct areas of need, and leverages employee feedback (by means of the app) to report real-time conditions of buildings and facilities. Whether reporting about thermal levels, environmental compliance and inspection issues, or facilities maintenance, the CrowdComfort app uses crowd source feedback as a way of collecting the most up-to-the-minute and accurate reports that benefit employees, owners, and building managers alike! Go CrowdComfort!
Excelimmune, Endicott College & NSIV: The Promise of Partnership
When Endicott College was conceptualizing a new science center in 2012, the college made a critical decision to build a facility that would exploit one of the fastest growing sectors in Massachusetts, particularly on the North Shore – the life sciences. To that end, the college built a 2,000 square-foot laboratory that would accommodate between one and three startup companies as a STEM incubator. In September 2013, The Ginger Judge Science Center opened its doors.
Redefining Early Stage Investments Conference: March 24
NSIV is a proud Bronze Sponsor of the Life Science Nation’s Investor Conference that will be held on March 24, 2014. To register for this event, go to www.resiconference.com. Life Science Nation’s Redefining Early Stage Investments is an all-day event that will feature 16 unique early-stage investor panels that will offer the latest perspective on the state of investments in the industry. The conference offers a full day of partnering for companies looking to connect with service providers and investors.
CrowdComfort Featured in Fast Company’s Co.Exist Section, March 17, 2014
The World’s First Crowdsourced Thermostat Lets You Adjust The Temperature At Work By Ben Schiller People in a building know when they are hot or cold. This device simply asks them, and then adjusts the temperature accordingly.
HR & Best Hiring Practices
NSIV presents an InnoVenutures U program: Ready, Aim, Hire! What Every Startup Needs to Know about HR Benefits & Hiring Practices BeforeYou Make an Offer Thursday, March 13, 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM Where: 100 Cummings Center, Beverly Conference Room 221 E So you’re at that exhilarating stage in your company where you can NOW hire your first round of employees. But as you would expect, hiring is serious (and legalistic) business.This seminar is designed to help small and growing businesses gain an understanding of employee benefit requirements and best hiring practice strategies.
NSIV Newsbrief: 7AC Technologies Raises $1 Million
Congratulations to NSIV graduate 7AC Technologies for raising $1 million in venture financing from 31 investors. Founded in 2009, 7AC develops a highly disruptive membrane-isolated plastic plate technology for use in commercial and industrial liquid desiccant HVAC applications and in air conditioning and cooling. Reportedly, the new technology drastically cuts energy costs for heating and cooling, and radically improves de-humidification performance. For more information, go to www.7AC Technologies.
Jan. 28 Program: Lessons Learned from the Mass Challenge
Entrpreneurs & Investors: You’re invited to a panel discussion featuring two winners from the 2013 Mass Challenge 7:30 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. = Breakfast/Networking 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. = Program Massachusetts has entered into a new business revolution. The changing economy and rapid rise in technology has led to an entrepreneur boom in the Bay State. With the growing boom comes a host of questions for new entrepreneurs: Whether to Participate in Accelerator Programs? How to secure investors? What is the best business model? How to protect innovative intellectual property? McLane invites entrepreneurs and investors to a panel discussion featuring three winners from the 2013 Mass Challenge. The winners, Noam Josephy, Co-Founder and Director of AMS-Qi, and Sean Kevlahan, CEO, Quad Technology will share their experiences creating a start-up organization and their experiences in the Mass Challenge, including: •Benefits and lessons learned from the Mass Challenge •Challenges faced in building a start-up •How to gain funding •Selecting the best form of a business organization •Protecting core intellectual property This event has limited space and is open on a first come, first served basis. Location: 300 TradeCenter Suite 7600 (For GPS: 100 Sylvan Road) Woburn, MA 01801 Contact: Phone: 781-904-2700 Email: Click here to start an email Website: www.mclane.com
NSIV Member, CrowdComfort, Raised Seed Funding
CROWDCOMFORT ANNOUNCES $273,000 ROUND OF SEED FUNDING CrowdComfort platform crowdsources building maintenance and comfort reporting Beverly, MA – December 4, 2013—CrowdComfort, a sustainable clean energy technology company that helps facilities managers make faster decisions by crowd-sourcing geo-located building maintenance and environmental compliance data in real time, has raised $273,000 seed round led by CrowdComfort’s founding team. Investors include several angel investors and one corporate investment.
Quad Technologies Headed for the Space Station
Don Seiffert BioFlash Editor- Reprinted from Boston Business Journal, Nov 5, 2013 Cell separation startup to have experiments done on space station A Beverly startup working on an improved way to isolate cells for research is planning to do its next experiment more than 200 miles away – straight up. Quad Technologies LLC, a MassChallenge company founded last year, has received a grant worth about $1 million to study the effects of microgravity on the manufacture of its separation technology on the International Space Station.
Tom Kinneman Wins First Place in Ironman Competition
Tom Kinneman has proven (again) what he’s made of…100% iron. On Sunday, November 3, Tom won first place at Ironman Florida in his age group of 64 triathletes, finishing in 10:40:27 (impressive stats: 1:12 for the swim; 5:28 on the bike; 3:46 for the run).
Quad Technologies Is Top Finalist in MassChallenge 2013 Competiton
What an extraordinary achievement…Quad Technologies has been nominated as one of the top 26 finalists in the MassChallenge 2013. Imagine making the final cut in a global competition in which 128 finalists were selected out of a pool of more than 1,200 candidates. NSIV is so proud to have Quad Technologies as a biotech member.
North Shore InnoVentures Announces Graduates and Adds New Cleantech Startup to Its Portfolio
North Shore InnoVentures Graduates Two Cleantech Companies and Adds a New Cleantech Startup to Its Incubator Portfolio Beverly business accelerator also receives $70,000 in grants from Mass. Clean Energy Center and City of Beverly BEVERLY, Massachusetts, October 10, 2013. North Shore InnoVentures, (NSIV) one of New England’s leading technology incubators and business accelerators, announced today that two of its portfolio companies in the cleantech sector, Energy Compression and Save Energy Systems, have graduated and entered the marketplace. In addition, cleantech startup Crowd Comfort has joined NSIV, for a total of 19 companies now in the incubator. To date, NSIV has graduated ten startups – six in cleantech and four in life sciences.
Tom Kinneman Races to the Finish LIne in PruHealth World Triathlon Competition
NSIV’s COO Tom Kinneman is proof that the grueling training that goes into conditioning for triathlons pays off. On Sunday, September 15, Tom crossed the finish line, placing 9th in the world (in his age group) in the PruHealth World Triathlon Grand Final in London. The PruHealth World Triathlon Grand Final is considered to be the pinnacle of triathlon competitions across the world (www.worldtrilondon.com/event_info). Congratulations, Tom!
Quad Technologies Evaluates Nanocomposite Production
NSIV member, Quad Technologies (www.quadtechnologies.net), has been selected as a subcontractor to evaluate the commercial potential of nanocomposite production. This project has been made possible through the National Science Foundation award for the grant, “Continuous, Large-Scale Nanocomposite Production via Micellualar Electrospray.”
Entrepreneur Colin Davis Strikes Again with Something Gud
Colin Davis, one of NSIV’s very first members to join the incubator with his company kWhOURS, Inc., has founded a new venture called Something Gud. The company is a consumer portal service that delivers 100% locally sourced food directly to your home or office. You may say that Something Gud is the Farmers Market gone virtual.
Roger Nassar of RAN Biotechnologies Wins YEi Competition
We are proud to announce that Founder & CEO of RAN Biotechnologies Roger Nassar has been selected as a Regional Laureate from the YEi’13 competition.
Winter Newletter 2015
North Shore InnoVentures News Roundup: Winter 2015 WINTER 2015: News Roundup “Now is the winter of our discontent.” (no kidding!) But while it may be frightful outside, Inside the incubator,we’re teeming with good cheer. On that note… Q: “How do you know if you are an entrepreneur?” A: If your GPS only shows the road less traveled. (Source: Kirchner Private Capital Group). Click here to see how NSIV members responded to this question. NSIV Achieves New Milestones $90M raised in grants, awards, and investment 21 companies in the incubator 14 graduate companies 200 people employed NSIV Welcomes New Member Companies MCC Global Labs Develops, manufactures, and distributes innovative surface biological decontamination technology to worldwide healthcare, life sciences, and biodefense markets. David Bertoni, CEO; Gina Bandar-Kachou, COO; Loutfi Kachou, CTO;Michele Giovenelli, Director of Finance (website under construction) IVIVA Medical, Inc. Develops bioengineered autologous dialysis grafts, an “implantable artificial kidney.” Dr. Harald Ott, MD, President & CEO; Charles Klassen, Research Scientist (website under construction). Member Companies Welcome New Hires & Interns CrowdComfort’s staff continues to grow. John Massie joined the company as Strategy & Marketing Analyst; Jeff Chizmas is Head of Sales; Rui Jiang is User Experience Leader. HepatoChem welcomes two new interns, Julie Jouguelet and John Riccio. Julie is being sponsored by the French company, Triacys. She graduated in 2014 from Lyon, France, with a PharmD and an M.S. in management. John graduated in 2014 from the University of South Carolina with a B.S. in biology. Quad Technologies’ team grows stronger, beginning with Jeff Zonderman, COO. More recent hires include Steven Wells, Research Scientist, and Andrea Armstead, Technical Marketing Specialist. Quad continues to tap Northeastern University’s intern well, with Steven de Bakker as the company’s third intern. Steven is a junior studying chemical engineering. RAN Biotechnologies welcomes Jordan Stinson, an intern from Tufts University. Jordan is in the combined five-year degree program and will receive an M.S. in biomedical engineering this summer. NSIV NewsAn Interview with Martha Farmer: “The Accidental Entrepreneur” Click here to read the full interview of NSIV’s CEO published by Citybizlist NSIV Acquires New Lab Equipment We’re beginning to see the fruit of our $1.65M equipment grant award from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center. Our new equipment purchases include: Illumina MiSeq Gene Sequencer BioTek Cytation 3 Cell Imaging Reader Guava Flow Cytometer MALDI Mass Spec BioTek Plate Waster News from Another Graduate Windgap Medical is the proud recipient of highly competitive $1M accelerator award from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center. New Sponsors: We are pleased to welcome four new sponsors to to NSIV’s Wall of Honor: Alert Scientific; Prevare LLC; Robbins Gioia; New England BioLabs Click here for breaking news on Robbins Gioia. Member Companies News Grant Adeptrix is the recipient of an SBIR Phase II grant ($750K) from the National Science Foundationfor dual mass spectrometry and fluorescence microarray platform for proteomics. Congratulations, Vlad, for reaching an important milestone in the growth of your company. Award William Bardosh, CEO of TerraVerdae BioWorks, Wins Young French Entrepreneurs Initiative Award. Bardosh comments on his fully funded trip to France this past January: “[I] learned firsthand about market opportunities in France, connected with local startups, and explored possible synergies and partnerships.” Bardosh is the fifth NSIV member to have received this award. Click here for info. New Patents AdvaStim: patent #US 8,948,880 B2. This is the company’s second patent. Navolta: patent #8875981 fora microreactor system design. The company has also entered into a licensing agreement with University of Massachusetts. Click here to read other news. Copyright © 2015 NorthShore InnoVentures, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: North Shore InnoVentures, Inc. 100 Cummings Center, Suite 438N, Beverly, MA 01915
Beverly Cleantech Founder Wins French Young Entrepreneurs Award
Five Startup Entrepreneurs of North Shore InnoVentures Technology Incubator Have Been Past Winners
A Conversation with Martha Farmer, President & CEO of North Shore InnoVentures
Martha Farmer: An Entrepreneur’s Entrepreneur 1/29/15 By Carolyn Stinson, Editor-at-Large, Citybizlist: Boston Martha Farmer, CEO, North Shore InnoVentures
Grantsmanship 201: Think Like a Reviewer
Learn how to ACE the grant application process! You are invited to attend an InnoVentures U Program Grantsmanship 201: Think Like a Reviewer
You Know You’re an Entrepreneur If…
Here’s how NSIV members completed this phrase: “You know you’re an entrepreneur IF….”
Windgap Medical Awarded Nearly $1M Loan from MLSC
Investing in the State of Innovation Massachusetts Life Sciences Center Board Approves New Round of Accelerator Program Loans Windgap Medical Is an NSIV Graduate
Dec. 11 InnoVentures U: Digital Media Marketing
You are invited to attend: Building Your Brand & Connecting to Your Audience through Digital Media
NSIV Graduates Share What It’s Like to Be on Their Own
We were delighted to welcome back two NSIV graduates for November’s InnoVentures U program, “Life Beyond NSIV.” Joel Berniac of Akrivis Technologies and Scott Sneddon of Sharp Edge Labs are shining examples of entrepreneurs who have made a successful transition from the NSIV incubator to their new roles as company spokesmen. Special thanks to NSIV Chairman Harry McCoy for moderating this panel discussion.
Navolta Issued Patent For Microreactor System Design
Beverly, MA- November 12, 2014- Navolta was issued patent 8875981, “System and method for a microreactor”
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