Venture Hacks (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Thanks to Charles River Ventures for sponsoring Venture Hacks. After our first post on CRV’s sponsorship, people suggested we make the sponsorship more “real”. We are down with that. So here’s an e-mail that George Zachary from CRV sent me—I’m sharing it with his permission. It gives a good sense that CRV is “open for business”: From: George [...]
Boycott Novell (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Tai informed the Board […] of Transmeta […] that he plans to retire […] fulfill […] commitments at Charles River Ventures, a venture capital firm […]”“Charles River Venture is connected to Intellectual Ventures, which is in turn connected to Microsoft.”Intellectual Ventures is listed under the online identity of Charles River Ventures. Charles River...
Xconomy (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... in parts of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York. Battery Ventures was joined in the round by Charles River Ventures, which also has offices in Waltham and Menlo Park, and Pocket CEO Paul Posner. —Ambient (OTC: ABTG ), which helps electrical utilities use existing power lines to deliver IP-based services, raised $8 million from Vicis Capital Master Fund , bringing Vicis’ total...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
... project to fix cross connections - in other words, to keep sewage from flowing into the Muddy River, and eventually the Charles River and Boston Harbor, on rainy days. Once that work is done, more digging under Beacon, Monmouth, and St. Mary's streets will start, also for drains.Rummage the attic for town views The town is searching for collectors or creators of items that...
MIT Admissions (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
Thanksgiving morning was a groggy smear of coffee, subway, and airport, a rhapsody in grey shattered once by an outburst of sunrise over the Charles river as the Red Line subway torpedoed into Boston at 9 AM or so. Translucent skies were glimpsed through blurring glass, weighted eyelids. 2.5 hours later, while on a plane streaming through this clear ocean of sky, I woke up and instantly...
pricy-spicy (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
... condominium community. Units will feature floor to ceiling windows with breathtaking views of The Charles River and skyline, glass balcony railings, and wonderful, high end finishes. Mandarin Oriental residents and guests will enjoy in building fine dining restaurants, high end retail, in condo spa treatments, room service, concierge services, dry cleaning, and preferred reservations...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
Battery Ventures Leads $100M Equity Investment in Pocket Communications WALTHAM, Mass. & MENLO PARK, Calif.--(, a venture capital and private equity firm investing in technology and innovation worldwide, today announced that it led a $100M equity investment in Communications Northeast, a provider of flat rate, unlimited use wireless voice and data services. Pocket CEO Paul Posner and Charles...
bizjournals (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
... Jon Auerbach, a general partner at Waltham, Mass.-based , will join Pocket’s board of directors. Charles River participated in the round of funding.
The Street (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
... includes the development of 4 million to 5 million square feet, covering over 200 acres across the Charles River in Allston, Mass. In the Ivy League, in Boston and elsewhere, Harvard is not alone. In October, Boston University instituted a hiring freeze and a moratorium on all construction projects that are not already under way, and last week, Dartmouth College said that it was trimming...
Business Opportunities Weblog (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
... ways to use the Internet and mobiles. 4. Strike while there is less competition William Tai, Charles River Ventures, sees opportunity in going forward, and is most excited about Internet technologies, mobile and open source. “Everything is bigger and happens faster when stuff hits in this environment,” he said. In the environment of a few years ago, you’d have 20-50 competitors; in...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
... is the first privately financed defensive patent service. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Buyers and Charles River Ventures financed RPX. In the last decade, NPEs have raised over $6 billion in private capital to acquire patents to use offensively against companies that manufacture and sell technology products and related services. Offensively initiated lawsuits by NPEs grew nearly 300...
GigaOM (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
... Texas for the two-year-old PCS operator. Pocket Northeast raised the money from Battery Ventures, Charles River Ventures and Pocket’s CEO, Paul Posner. Posner, a entrepreneur who has done several things from selling billboard space to operating a paging company, created Pocket in 2006 using AWS spectrum purchased at auction. Posner started the Pocket network build out in San Antonio,...
the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
... Cisco Systems and IBM have already signed up.RPX is funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Charles Rivers Ventures. Its two chief executives, John Amster and Geoffrey Barker, previously served as vice presidents of Intellectual Ventures, another company in the business of purchasing patents.So far the company has bought 150 US patents and has submitted 60 patent applications...
