Akita Innovations custom synthesizes novel materials and chemicals. Akita develops and sells high-value materials for companies that want an edge on their competitors and government customers who have unique and demanding requirements. Its chemicals and materials include light-absorbing and emitting dyes, optical polymers and coatings, coating materials to provide desired permeation or wetting properties, and functionalizedRead more
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Adeptrix is creating a microarray research tool for targeted proteomics that employs both affinity enrichment of proteins with mass spectrometry for efficient and sensitive measurement of multiple biomarkers in a single experiment. The BAMS (Bead-Assisted Mass Spectrometry) tool allows biologists to quickly prepare their complex biological samples into a highly enriched form for their proteinRead more
iHope Network, a member of North Shore InnoVentures, was recently featured on The NAMI Radio Hour. Tom Hunter, CEO, joined host Jeff Fladen, Executive Director of NAMI Tennessee to discuss telemedicine and its use in psychotherapy over the Internet. iHope Network is a digital health company that is changing the way mental healthcare is delivered, breakingRead more
Another North Shore InnoVentures member joins the ranks of “Graduate”. Siris Medical CEO Colin Carpenter proudly moved his company logo from “Members” to “Graduates” on February 26, 2018. You first read about Siris in our October newsletter and we will be eagerly following their progress in the years to come and keeping you informed. Congrats andRead more
We couldn’t let the Winter Olympics go unremarked and uncelebrated, so we put our own spin on it. Space (and safety) considerations required us to put the kibosh on some events, like chair hockey, chair luge, 2-person chair bobsled, chair curling, or skating in socks. Discussions around the lunch table yielded three events. The GamesRead more
North Shore InnoVentures was proud to be on hand at the Massachusetts Innovation Day at the State House on January 29, 2018 to see NSIV graduate SolidEnergy Systems of Woburn receive one of the inaugural NextGEN awards. Congrats! You can read more about the event in Massachusetts Technology Collaborative’s press release.Read more
Our most recent addition to the list of NSIV companies is a company based in France. Ai4r, also known as Atlantic Instruments for Research, offers autoradiography imaging solutions based on a new generation of gas detectors that combine speed, precision and sensitivity in locating radiolabelled molecules over a wide field of view. Vanessa Roumilhac isRead more
We briefly introduced you to Spectrus last month and promised more in February. Now from “Team Spectrus”, is an introduction to their company and some entertaining facts about the three partners. “Spectrus, a Massachusetts LLC formed in 2017, is the brainchild of Enrique Arevalo, Ph.D. with the unwavering support of Michael Ziebell, Ph.D. and Andres McKenzie, M.S., the threeRead more
Having heard tales of the JP Morgan Healthcare conference for years, when I was invited by Angus McQuilkin of McDermott Will & Emery to attend all the events they were sponsoring, I finally found the value proposition compelling. After two days of very relevant programs, random interactions with anyone in a suit, and glad-handing atRead more
by Martha Farmer, President & CEO of North Shore InnoVentures When people think of innovation in the Boston metro area, their minds naturally gravitate toward Cambridge. But a Livability.com survey just placed Beverly alongside Cambridge as one of the 100 Best Places to Live out of 2000 like-sized cities. The list also included such innovationRead more