Hello World! : InSITE Boston Chapter Kick Off & Spring 2013 Company Announcement
On February 12th following rapid ramp-up of fellow and company recruitment, InSITE’s Boston Chapter kicked off for the spring of 2013. Through the recruitment period we got to speak with many exceptional people and organizations leaving us even more excited about the Boston entrepreneurial ecosystem and the role InSITE can play in it. We settled on 25 fellows and 5 companies for our spring 2013 program. Thank you to everyone and every company that applied. Our fellows come from different schools at Harvard and MIT. They have an amazingly deep and diverse breadth of professional experiences...
Read MoreInSITE partners with leaders of the NY tech community through ‘Special Projects’
Both InSITE and the New York tech community have matured over the past decade. At InSITE, we have responded by: first, remaining true to our roots serving the most promising early stage tech startups; and, second, expanding to work with later stage tech startups and other members of the New York tech ecosystem–like incubators and venture capital firms–who help these companies flourish. We have dubbed this new line of work “special projects”, and we customize each one to the needs of the individual partner we’re working with. Typically, a special project...
Read MoreInSITE chooses 6 companies for its Fall 2012 Mentoring Program
Last week, InSITE kicked off our Fall 2012 Company Mentoring Program. We spent the summer scouring the city for interesting companies working on cool stuff. We then spent over a month looking through the applications from the founders of these awesome companies. A lot of people don’t appreciate how hard selection processes can be. We left every conversation with entrepreneurs fired up about their businesses. Narrowing down that list was extremely difficult and painful. There are a number of really great people working on really great stuff right now. That’s exciting for the community....
Read MoreInSITE fellow Marshall Cox wins $200,000 MIT Clean Energy Prize
Marshall Cox, an InSITE Fellow, Startup Leadership Fellow, and PhD 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...
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