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Get your marketing emails into customer inboxes with Kirim Email
SPONSORED JOBS: Email marketing has been around just about as long as email itself has. Ever since there has been an inbox,...
Sonic the Hedgehog marks 30th birthday with an encyclo-speed-ia and other merch
Sonic the Hedgehog is celebrating his 30th birthday next year, with 2021 marking the milestone anniversary of his 1991 debut for...
Idriverplus raises over $14.6 million for autonomous street cleaners and cars
Beijing-based self-driving startup Idriverplus raised $14.6 million in funding to further develop its autonomous robot and...
Boston Dynamics CEO talks profitability and the company’s next robots
Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter discusses profitability; Spot, Pick, Handle, and Atlas; the company's broader roadmap,...
Nvidia researchers detail AI-powered clinical speech transcription system
In a new paper, Nvidia researchers describe a system that automatically transcribes speech from clinical patients and maps it to...
August 2020 NPD: Madden and UFC supercharge U.S. game sales
Consumers spent $3.3 billion on video game hardware, software, and accessories in August, according to industry-tracking firm...
The promise of voice AI in game development
AI voices are sounding more realistic today than ever before in the history of synthetic voice technology -- and this could be a...
Conductive VC raises $150 million for (mostly) enterprise software and hardware startups
Conductive Ventures has raised $150 million for its second venture capital fund with a focus on funding enterprise software and...
Airtable raises $185 million to grow its low-code app platform
No-code development platform Airtable raised $185 million at a $2.5 billion valuation, which the startup plans to use to expand...
NPA News
Big manufacturing investments
Has it stopped raining yet? I am digressing, here is some good US news!
Need funding, look at these Solo GPs
Hi all!
Come and meet the NPA team at the FORGE Spring Startup Showcase on Apr. 13 at 3DEXPERIENCE Lab at Dassault Systèmes in Waltham, MA.
Let’s get past the SVB drama
Hi all!
Given all the SVB hype over the past few days, let’s focus on what we can control and celebrate the Boston Startup Ecosystem for what it is. It’s incredible, it’s resilient, and they want to make the world a better place!
Top 10 Hardware VCs and excellent Startup Accelerators
Hi all!
… did you miss us in January? We were changing our newsletter setup a bit and decided to start in February.
Mass beats California for IPOs this year.
We hope you all had some fantastic Holidays and are like us now, preparing to party well into 2023 tonight. What a great year at NPA!
Boston produces the most startup founders
Boy, are we late this month, but we were pretty busy. Keep a lookout for some very exciting NPA news. We have been working on this for ~12 months, and it’s finally coming all together.
Lots of fresh dough for Boston startups
If you like tech and independent journalism, you might already have heard of Nicholas Thomson, the CEO at The Atlantic.
Showtime, Awards and Parties- you in?
Join us at the Massachusetts Manufacturing Mash-Up on Friday, Sept. 16th, at Polar Park in Worcester, MA.
Climate-tech startups keep on thriving
Even with the decrease in VC funding in 2022, climate-tech startups raised more in the first six months of this year than they did in the first half of 2021.
Over $3B in new startup funding
Hi all, and happy summer!
I wish you all lots of sunshine and great fun.
Remember IPOs? Companies have raised just $4.9 billion via US IPOs this year, less than 6% of the record sum raised in the first half of 2021.
