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Get your marketing emails into customer inboxes with Kirim Email
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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
AI in Boston and March was great for fundraising
Yesterday was Patriots Day, which in Boston is synonymous with Marathon Day. Every year, it’s a fantastic party and a tremendous show of grit, endurance, and team spirit. I found that many items related to training for and running such distances have remarkable similarities in business.
The first unmanned, autonomous passenger flight
According to data analyzed by New York-based SpareRoom, a platform to search for roommates, Boston is the second-best city to find people interested in tech.
Massachusetts business confidence is up and so are funding options
It’s snowing here in greater Boston, and we are having a great time! Since you are probably goofing off…kill some time and give us a review here.
The Robot Summit & Expo is back, and it looks better than ever. We will be there and hope to see you. (Early Bird pricing is still available.)
$800M in funding, Ocean freight delays
I hope your 2024 has started as great as ours! Let’s make it a year to remember!
With that said, we ask all of you to give our NPA team some love via a Google review.
Who needs innovative Power ICs or quick wins
I found this overview of the major Power IC leaders created by Matt Lo from Richtek quite insightful.
Great robotics news and events
The team at MassRobotics announced the launch of the MassRobotics Accelerator, powered by Massachusetts Technology Collaborative.
Human Cyber Warriors in the making
What a September it was!
For the 6th time, we spent a fun afternoon with friends at the Mass Robotics Robot Block Party.
Amazing Startup Events
Naah, summer is not over, at least not in New England! September is shaping up to be a fantastic month, with the best startup events of the year. I hope we see you there!
Let’s accelerate clean tech
Hi all!
According to the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC), Massachusetts needs 38,100 workers to transition to a clean energy state.
Their webinar forecasts thousands of new jobs by 2030 to meet the state’s decarbonization goals.
Tiny robots and lots of exciting new startups
I hope all my American friends are enjoying their Independence Day Holiday. We are off to a great barbecue with friends.
Barbecue and beer aside for a moment, this is pretty exciting. A group of MIT engineers are developing new Soft Robots made of fiber-based actuators and magnetic elastomer composite helical structures that move when exposed to unidirectional magnetic fields. I can think of some pretty interesting applications.