Groft Consulting Founder, Eric Groft, lead Innoventures U this week, which was focused on helping start-ups learn about some valuable features of the Google Apps suite for communicating and collaborating with their teams, customers and partners — without having to spend much money.
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Secretary Solis and Congressman Tierney with NSIV CEO Martha Farmer North Shore InnoVentures CEO, Martha Farmer, Ph.D., was invited to a discussion hosted by Massachusetts Congressman John Tierney regarding “Women in the Workforce.” U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Hilda Solis – along with the congressman and Massachusetts Labor and Workforce Development Secretary Joanne F. GoldsteinRead more
North Shore Technology Council will be hosting its monthly First Friday Bioscience Seminar on September 7th. This month’s program will be taking place in Woburn, MA. Read more
SBH Sciences – an innovative preclinical contract research organization (CRO), focused on anti-cancer and anti-inflammation and based in Natick, Massachusetts – recently celebrated its 15th Anniversary. One of the highlighted accomplishments was its partnership with the North Shore InnoVentures (NSIV) member company, Cell Assay Innovations (CAI). SBH is working with CAI in using their ClariCELL™ technology.Read more
Sharp Edge Labs announced Monday that the company has been awarded a $156K grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop biosensor technology for measuring the levels of molecules involved in cancer. The Phase 1 SBIR grant will allow the NSIV graduate to explore the feasibility of developing immunosensors that combine antibodies for specific recognitionRead more
The October InnoVentures® University class was led by Doug Leaffer and Andrea Wagner of UpSell Strategy, Inc. North Shore InnoVentures companies from both the biotech and cleantech disciplines received an overview in the sales process as well as specific suggestions to help them sell better to both customers and investors.Read more
Attention NSIV Members, Mentors, Advisors and Affiliates: Announcing the first of a special series of programs to help your company identify, apply for and secure federal government funding. The first program is specific to NIH but a subsequent program in early December with Tiber Creek Partners will address DoE and DoD opportunities.Read more
Here are some of the recent Headlines being made by NSIV companies over the last couple of weeks: Cleantech member company Sol-Solution took part in the innaugrual “Shop for a Cause” event in hosted by vineyard vines on September 27th. Another Cleantech member company – Save Energy Systems – was a northeast regional finalist at this year’s CleantechRead more
New NSIV member company Cellanyx is starting off with a bang. The emerging cancer diagnostics company was named one of Mass High Tech’s “Five You Should Follow” for Oct. 29th – Nov. 2nd. This comes on the heels of being one of three NSIV companies to make the final 26 in the 2012 Mass Challenge.Read more
Thursday’s InnoVentures ® University session was held to help entrepreneurs in residence with North Shore InnoVentures to understand the different roles played by their core team members, a Board of Advisors and a Board of Directors. The panel discussion was led by Mitch Tyson, Jim Poe and Clark Waterfall who each shared their experience in teamRead more