Boston Startup Community News & Content

After social distancing on Cape Cod for 13+ months, I returned to Boston to find a very different tech community than the one I left. Gone were the coffee meetings, the meetups, collaborating at a white board, the conferences, and the after work drinks. Replacing them was Zoom, Zoom, and&

FinTech Sandbox’s new focus includes environmental, social and governance, or ESG, investing — three letters becoming more and more popular with the Fidelitys and State Streets of the world. But executive director Kelly Fryer wants to go beyond that, seeking out entrepreneurs who, through technology, want to make financial services more accessible to underserved populations.

Five years ago, Boston’s fintech scene was barely getting off the ground. Meetups were small, investors were few, and the investors who did write checks to early-stage startups often ended their involvement after that. For husband-and-wife entrepreneurial pair Adrian and Senofer Mendoza, it was a clear gap in the market. The two founded venture capital

We often hear about companies working to improve the customer experience, but for IT their customers are the company’s employees. Nexthink, a late-stage startup that wants to help IT serve its internal constituents better, announced a $180 million Series D today on a healthy $1.1 billion valuation. The firm, which was founded in Lausanne, Switzerland

Castle Island Ventures, the early-stage crypto fund helmed by Nic Carter and Matt Walsh, has raised $50 million for its second fund. “We believe that public blockchains are a transformative technology and will change the way that we interact with money, value transfer, trusted third parties and even the fundamental architecture of the internet itself,”