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    1. Qteros Finds Ways Around Funding Pitfalls for Biofuel Startups

      Explore xconomy.com (Jun 10 2010) Energy

      In Qteros’s licensing model, some ethanol producers would incorporate its technology into their existing plants. McCarthy said that retrofitting existing facilities to use his firm’s technology would be less expensive than building new plants from scratch. However, the four-year-old startup has yet to find an ethanol producer willing to fork over cash to license its technology. To gain the confidence of such partners, the firm still needs to generate more proof that its system for making ethanol works on a larger scale than it has shown in its own labs. So the company plans to provide this evidence ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Chicopee   Qteros   John McCarthy

    2. Healthrageous Snags $6M to Combat Unhealthy Behaviors

      Explore xconomy.com (Jun 9 2010) Financial Services , Health Care

      North Bridge Venture Partners, of Waltham, MA, and San Mateo, CA, led the startup’s first-round financing, which also included investments from Boston-based Egan-Managed Capital and Long River Ventures in Amherst, MA. Rick Lee, a veteran managed healthcare executive, is CEO of Healthrageous. (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Amherst   Long River Ventures

    3. LifeImage and EMC Planning New Cloud Storage Service for Medical Data

      Explore xconomy.com (Feb 23 2010) Health Care , Information Technology

      LifeImage and EMC Planning New Cloud Storage Service for Medical Data There are now 20 hospitals or healthcare provider organizations that have either signed on to adopt the startup’s software or are about to sign on, including Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, MA, MGH, and Continuum Health Partners in New York. (We covered the economic argument for the lila software in our initial story about LifeImage last year.) (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Baystate Health   Springfield

    4. Massachusetts Business Development Officials Set Up Outpost at Cambridge Innovation Center

      Explore xconomy.com (Feb 5 2010) Education

      I stopped by the Cambridge Innovation Center this afternoon to welcome a special newcomer to the neighborhood (Xconomy’s headquarters is just three blocks away). It was Jason Schupbach, the creative economy director for the Massachusetts Office of Business Development. Schupbach—who is already a familiar face around the local innovation community, of course—is in the vanguard of [...] (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   MassDevelopment   Massachusetts Office of Business Development   Jason Schupbach

    5. FloDesign Wind Turbine Gets $35 Million and a Danish CEO | Xconomy

      Explore xconomy.com (Jan 20 2010) Energy

      FloDesign Wind Turbine Gets $35 Million and a Danish CEO | Xconomy Wilbraham, MA-based FloDesign Wind Turbine, whose radical jet-engine-like design for a new form of wind turbine has whisked it from the world of student (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   FloDesign Wind Turbine Corp.

    6. lifeimage Raising $2M-Plus in Oversubscribed Round, CEO Says

      Explore xconomy.com (Dec 10 2009)

      lifeimage Raising $2M-Plus in Oversubscribed Round, CEO SaysXconomyLong River Ventures, which has offices in western Massachusetts, is one of two new investors in lifeimage's Series A1 round, Tabatabaie says. ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Massachusetts Technology Development Corporation   Long River Ventures

    7. Patrick Details Plans for Holyoke Computing Center

      Explore xconomy.com (Oct 22 2009) Life Sciences

      Patrick Details Plans for Holyoke Computing CenterXconomyMassachusetts Governor Deval Patrick traveled to Holyoke, MA, yesterday to talk about the next steps for the planned Holyoke High Performance Computing ...and more » (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Governor Deval L. Patrick   University of Massachusetts   Pioneer Valley Planning Commission

    8. High Tech for a Historic City—A 21-Year-Old Web Entrepreneur's ...

      Explore xconomy.com (Jun 15 2009)

      High Tech for a Historic City—A 21-Year-Old Web Entrepreneur's ... By the look on everyone's faces, it was clear that Holyoke had been on their radar for such a project. Western Massachusetts has many valuable resources that would make it an appealing and economically advantageous destination for the tech industry. ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Holyoke