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.
NSIV Graduate Akrivis Technologies Develops Nanomedicine Platform for High Payload Targeted Drug Delivery
Akrivis Technologies and CEA-Leti announced their collaboration to develop an extremely adaptable, efficient and highly targeted drug delivery platform for chemotherapy and other treatments that require a high concentration of powerful drugs to be delivered precisely to targeted cells. The new platform will be based on Akrivis Technologies’ proprietary Z–TECT™ technology that targets and detects unusually low levels of proteins and molecular targets and Leti’s Lipidot® nanovector delivery capability. Developed by Akrivis Technologies, LLC, a biopharmaceutical company based in Cambridge, Mass.
June 17 MA Representatives Discuss Regional Economic Development
From left is Representative Joe Wagner, Michael Kerr of New England Hydropower, Representative Ann-Margaret Ferrante, and Representative Jerry Parisella as they discuss NSIV’s impact on local economic development.
InnoVentures U Program on Marketing and Social Media
Thursday June 12th Paul Sagan of KCSA Strategic Communications gave an InnoVentures U presentation on branding for startups and how to build visibility inexpensively.
New Podcast Interview with Apptomics’ CEO Georgia Mitsi
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Dr. Georgia Mitsi discuss the following: Sometimes companies are started due to a personal crisis or fundamental underlying capability. What promoted the formation of Apptomics? What kinds of patients can benefit from Apptomics technology? How do the tools that Apptomics is developing help patients with chronic diseases better manage their care? Are these tools just for patients? What is your vision for the company and how it can help patients?
White House Datapalooza Video Showcasing CrowdComfort and New England Hydropower
For your viewing pleasure please check out the video of Eric Graham and Michael Kerr in their presentations at the White House Energy Datapalooza! White House Energy Datapalooza 2014 from Hannah Beinecke on Vimeo.
June 12: InnoVentures U Program on Marketing and Social Media
Integrated Marketing & Social Media: What You Need to Know about Building Your Startup’s Visibility and Brand Thursday, June 12, 2014, 8 AM to 10:00 AM Where: 100 Cummings Center, Beverly — Conference Room 221 E As you know all too well, building your startup’s brand and visibility (with customers, investors, and potential business partners) can be daunting and overwhelming, especially when funds are tight and resources are scarce. Take Heart! An integrated marketing approach focused on social media is a great place to start. With well over one billion users worldwide, platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and YouTube are proven marketing tools for brands of all shapes and sizes. Cost efficient, these channels can quickly build Internet presence for your new venture and help you position yourself in front of the right eyes.
Two NSIV Members Go to the White House for Datapalooza Presentation
CrowdComfort and New England Hydropower Company were two of twelve companies chosen to present at the White House for a “Datapalooza” event on Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Sponsored by the White House, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the General Services Administration, the 2014 Energy Datapalooza recognizes private-sector innovators that are harnessing the power of data to build the clean energy economy. Martha Farmer, CEO of North Shore InnoVentures (NSIV), was pleased that the organization had such a strong presence at the event: “The fact that one-sixth of the speakers were NSIV members reflects our continuing efforts to attract innovative startups that are poised for success.”
CrowdComfort in the 2014 Energy Datapalooza at The White House
Beverly, MA – May 28, 2014—CrowdComfort, a sustainable technology company that helps facilities managers improve operational and energy efficiency by crowd-sourcing geo-located building maintenance and environmental compliance data in real time, will be participating in the 2014 Energy Datapalooza, sponsored by the White House. The event will take place on Wednesday, May 28th, 2014 from 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. and will include a “Technology Showcase” of over 30 innovative uses of energy data.
Martha Farmer Receives Honorary Degree from Endicott College
We are delighted and honored to announce that Martha Farmer received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Endicott College on Saturday, May 24. True to form, Martha broadens the context of this degree to include NSIV’s members, graduates, and affiliates for creating a vibrant and rich entrepreneurial community that embodies the mission of NSIV.
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