InSITE fellow Marshall Cox wins $200,000 MIT Clean Energy Prize
Marshall Cox, an InSITE Fellow, Startup Leadership Fellow, and PhD metformin 1000 mg pill candidate of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, won the $200,000 Grand Prize at the MIT Clean Energy Prize competition, and with it the chance to compete in the 1st annual National Clean Energy Business Plan Competition held at the White House in mid June. Cox’s company, Radiator Labs, is a venture he started in his apartment two winters ago to solve the overheating and efficiency problems associated with steam heat. The low-cost radiator retrofit that he is...
read moreInSITE partners with IBM for the NY SmartCamp on May 24
InSITE, as part of its Always Be Closing (“ABC”) series, has been working hard partnering with IBM to find early state entrepreneurs to participate in IBM’s Smart Cities SmartCamp in New York on May 24th. Through the Smart Cities global initiative and the Smart Camps program IBM is looking to bring together entrepreneurs, investors and experienced mentors to help build a Smarter Planet. Does your company address problems the world is facing in energy, healthcare, telecommunications or any of the other areas of Smarter Planet? If that...
read moreAlex Ferrara receives InSITE’s Alumni Achievement Award
InSITE’s Board Member Alex Ferrara (Columbia Business School and InSITE fellow, 2004) has been this year’s recipient of the Alumni Achievement Award. Alex is a Partner at NYC-based venture capital firm Millennium Technology Ventures and focuses on investments in software and internet companies and the intersection of financial services and technology, including market structure-related investments and capital markets technologies. He is a Director at Shopify, Director at OMGPOP and Director at SelectMinds. At Millennium, Alex led...
read moreNew InSITE officers elected
Tonight the InSITE fellows and board members gathered at P.J. Clark for our traditional end-of-year annual dinner and elections. One of the sentences that we heard over and over again in the candidates’ speeches was ‘InSITE has been the best thing that’s happened to me in business school…’. Many of us feel this way and are very excited to make this organization even stronger in the months to come. Everyone will have the opportunity to take on leadership roles next year, even those who didn’t win a formal...
read moreInSITE’s Spring Pitch Event Celebrates A Year of Growth
It’s no secret that New York City’s startup ecosystem is booming. The City recently passed Boston to become the second largest venture capital investment hub, early stage investment in New York based companies has reached an all time high, and the City is now home to an ever-increasing roster of tech success stories. As the New York startup community continues to mature and evolve, so has InSITE. This year we worked with startups in an unprecedented number of industries, broadened our services to serve increasingly later-stage...
read moreFinding legal help as a start up
If you are like me, the only thing you know about the law is that you should plead the fifth when you did something wrong and don’t want to admit it … not that I’ve ever done anything wrong though . When my team and I began creating ThreadMatcher, we realized that this was something we would be investing all of our time to. In order to get it started right, we knew that we needed legal help. (DO NOT get a lawyer unless you are going to follow through with your idea). Unfortunately, neither of my cofounders knew a ton about the...
read moreInSITE Fellow attends the SXSW Festival in Austin
The average MBA student will use spring break as an opportunity to learn how business is conducted in a different part of the world. In true entrepreneurial fashion, I decided to take a less traditional path with my break. For the last few years I have been interested in attending SXSW, so for my spring break I opted out of an overseas experience and flew down to Austin, Texas. SXSW is an interactive festival with tons of speakers, panels, parties, and people. There are literally 20-30 different interesting things taking place at any point of...
read moreThe Rise of the Healthcare Accelerator: NYC’s Blueprint Health
Blueprint Health, a somewhat unique element of New York’s growing entrepreneurial ecosystem, is one of the few healthcare focused incubators/accelerators in the country. On March 29th, the nine companies in the inaugural class pitched their companies to a standing-room-only audience. Based on these presentations, the companies seem ready to tackle the next phase of their development. Blueprint Health, founded by Brad Weinberg and Mathew Farkash, is a healthcare-focused accelerator with a large network of mentors and partners in the...
read moreInSITE fellows have breakfast with Spark Capital’s Mo Koyfman
What do 6 guys, 5 of whom are from Jersey, all have in common? Well, aside from being unafraid to consume most of InSITE fellow Brian Ballan’s delicious hot sauce with our breakfasts, a truly rare opportunity to sit down for an intimate conversation with Mo Koyfman, General Partner of Spark Capital this past Wednesday. After discussing the subtleties and nuances of hot sauce flavor, Mo was kind enough to let us pick his brain on a variety of topics regarding his experiences and forging careers as budding entrepreneurs and early stage...
read moreInSITE company BRANCH closes $2M round
On March 6th, former InSITE company Branch (previously Roundtable) announced that they had closed a $2M round led by Obvious Corp, Lerer Ventures and SV Angel. As part of the deal, Obvious will “join forces [with Branch] on the technology, the product design, the branding, the marketing, and several other aspects of this interesting new product bursting with potential.” Led by Josh Miller, Hursh Agrawal, and Cemre Güngör, Branch launched last summer as a “group blogging/debate platform.” Of their time with InSITE, Josh said “When...
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