Incubator TechStars Boston launches its first class of startups
See, you really can launch a startup outside Silicon Valley.
Tech incubator TechStars has been demonstrating this with its Boulder, Colo., program for three years now, but this year it expanded into Boston with nine companies that launched today. (Y Combinator, the best-known of the incubators, previously alternated between Boston and Mountain View, Calif., but recently decided to just stay put in Silicon Valley.) The Boston startups were chosen from more than 600 applicants, more than… Continue Reading
Ten new TechStars companies are ready for their close-up
August may normally be a slow month for tech news, but it has become a busy time for startup incubators.
Launchbox Digital launched its second batch of companies on Wednesday, Berkeley Ventures announced its first four investments, and Y Combinator has a demo day coming up in a couple of weeks. Add Boulder, Colo.-based TechStars to that list — it just held an Investor Day where it announced its latest batch of startups.
TechStars puts companies through… Continue Reading
Berkeley Ventures kicks off with four new startups
Berkeley Ventures, the new Bay Area incubator for early-stage tech startups, has announced its first four portfolio companies — all set to take up residence in the firm’s 8,400 square-foot office space. The firm says it handpicked each of the recipients based on their disruptive potential in each of their sectors.
Power2Switch, for example, aims to set up the first retail marketplace for electricity online — an innovative idea that fits roughly in the cleantech space…. Continue Reading
SocialThing launches — another social aggregator, and not my favorite one
SocialThing is another site that lets you aggregate information from social sites, so that you can track your friends. It pulls you and your friends’ activities from eleven other social sites, including Twitter, Flickr, Last.FM and Facebook.
But is SocialThing’s way of summing up all of these sites better than using each one alone?
To get started, you create an account, add your login credentials from the other sites you use. Then you get a running stream… Continue Reading
Eventvue, a social network for conferences, raises angel round
Eventvue provides conference organizers with web-based social networking software, designed to help attendees meet each other and network before and after the actual conferences.
Still in private beta, the company plans to make money by helping to attract additional participants to conferences, then take a cut of these additional ticket sales. It is being used by two upcoming local conferences on social networks: CommunityNext and Graphing Social Patterns.
The company (its blog here) is a part of… Continue Reading