InSITE fellow Marshall Cox wins $200,000 MIT Clean Energy Prize
Marshall Cox, an InSITE Fellow, Startup Leadership Fellow, and PhD metformin side effects 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 developing with his team aims to carefully...
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 sounds like your company and it is less than 5...
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 the investment in HootSuite. Previously, Alex...
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 position. Fellows can start a new initiative,...
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 companies, partnered with Sony and IBM to host the...
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