Heiliger and Skok to exit North Bridge Venture Partners
Jonathan Heiliger and Michael Skok are both leaving the VC firm to pursue their own, separate, efforts.
Already going strong, SaaS adoption keeps on growing
According to North Bridge Venture Partners latest numbers, SaaS and PaaS adoption continue to grow while concern about data security and vendor lock-in continue to dog cloud uptake.
Acxiom snaps up LiveRamp and its data onboarding smarts for $310M
The combined companies’ tech wherewithal could mean more effective, targeted data-driven marketing.
North Bridge closes new half-a-billion-dollar fund
New fund targets established tech companies with “tens of millions” in revenue but little outside capital.
Structure Show: Top VCs decry data obesity and Lew Cirne on what’s next from New Relic
Two top VCs talk about the big data analytics opportunity and Lew Cirne talks about doing more with the data New Relic already collects.
Hey Boston, if you want to keep startups close, loosen up and stay up late
If you want world-class startups to stick around, you need to make sure public transit and entertainment venues run late, say two Boston-area entrepreneurs.
Salsify snags $8M to digitize and distribute product content for manufacturers
Digitizing and custom publishing product pricing lists, manuals, and documentation for different audiences is a huge — if unsexy– problem that Salsify is taking on.
8 ways Boston can nurture — and keep — more startups
Startups do not live by meetups alone. If the Boston-Cambridge area really wants to attract and keep more young tech companies, here are some things that need to happen.
VC sets up shop at Harvard to help promising entrepreneurs stay put
A tough mission for The Experiment Fund: Help the next Facebook or Microsoft put down roots in Boston/Cambridge instead of out West.
The Structure Show: Who will win in cloud and whether SDN is for real
This week’s topics: Can VMware make a dent in cloud? What’s all this we keep hearing about Yarn? Plus, a chat with Paul Santinelli.