VC firm Spark Capital adds Stanford alum as newest investor
Boston-based venture firm Spark Capital’s newest investor is John Melas-Kyriazi, who was previously chief financial officer of Silicon Valley-based StartX, an educational nonprofit that accelerates the...
View ArticleCoin Demoes The Tech That Scored A $15.5M Round
People haven’t shut up about Coin since the credit card replacement debuted in November, yet we’ve never seen the tech demoes in real life. Today, that all changes.
View ArticleUnlimited Messaging Therapy Startup Talkspace Raises $2.5M From Spark Capital...
Therapy startup Talkspace has changed the model for those seeking help, providing an affordable alternative typical weekly talk therapy sessions. It’s just raised $2.5 million from Spark Capital and...
View ArticleQuantopian enters open beta, invites the world to “come hack Wall Street with...
For the last year, Quantopian has been a playground for quantitative stock traders. Today it’s about to become a place of business.
View ArticleTextual healing: are apps the future of therapy?
“It’s crazy that some people don’t have access to therapy today,” says Frank, who founded the company with his wife, Roni Frank, in 2012. “Our vision together was to turn a product that caters to the 1...
View ArticleSpark Capital Raises $375 Million for Later-Stage Investments
The firm has closed on its first-ever growth capital fund, raising $375 million that will be overseen by a newly built team. The fund, raised over several months, is the latest for Spark, which has...
View ArticlePostmates launches its ‘anything delivered’ service in Boston and Cambridge
The on-demand delivery model is getting a different spin in Boston and Cambridge starting tomorrow, as Postmates launches a service that promises to let users get deliveries from any local store or...
View ArticlePhoto Storage Company Picturelife Is First To Bring Power Of Cloud Computing...
The New Smart Home for PhotosPicturelife Announces 8 GB Free Cloud Storage, Unlimited Storage and Family Plans
View ArticleAlex Mittal on building an online venture capital firm
Accessing venture capital funding can be a major pain point for startups. This is something that Alex Mittal aims to address with FundersClub.
View ArticleThe Boston-Based Education Payments Company Quietly on Track to Process $1...
The international side of the payments industry is still unfair, and it’s a problem Mike Massaro joined the peerTransfer team to try and fix.
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