Blog post: April 22, 2021 As another Earth Day dawns, it is both a time for reflection and action. Are we doing enough? MassVentures strives to do its part by supporting deep tech innovators across the Commonwealth who are making significant strides to urgently combat climate change in areas such …
Blog post: April 14, 2021 Investors don’t often understand—or don’t remember—how difficult it is to start a business, or what it’s like to take equity out of a house for startup capital. At MassVentures, we have an investment team that has worked at startups or have been startup founders themselves, …
Blog post: April 6, 2021 Aspiring entrepreneurs are often intellectually curious. They want to know about how to start a business, how to build a team, and how to accelerate growth. Most of all, they want to know how to successfully raise capital. While there is no secret hack or …
Blog post: March 8, 2021 “Is this a lifestyle business or a real business?” Too many women are asked that disheartening question, right out of the box, when pitching their tech business to a venture firm. It can feel demeaning because the implication is that the founder’s ambitions don’t go …
Blog post: February 21, 2021 As an entrepreneur and early-stage investor, I like to think about the contributions of inventors during Black History Month. George Washington Carver, Dr. Shirley Jackson, Marian Croak, and Charles Drew, to name a few. We all know the story of George Washington Carver and his …
Blog post: February 3, 2021 Kytopen co-founder Professor Cullen Buie studied mechanical engineering, first at Ohio State, then at Stanford. After landing a faculty job at MIT in 2009, he turned his research focus from microfluidic pumps for automotive fuel cells, to microbial fuel cells—devices that harness cell metabolism to …
Blog Post: January 14, 2020 With 2020 in the rearview mirror, we at MassVentures are hopeful that 2021 will bring healing, recovery and prosperity to the Commonwealth, and to the nation at large. To help stabilize and grow the Massachusetts economy in the year ahead, our team is rolling up …
