Three new items offered by the Foley Hoag law firm this month
include their comprehensive Calendar App, their latest report on Seed, Series A
and Later Round Financings in New England, and TEC@FoleyHoag)
– a new collaborative located in the heart of Boston’s Innovation District focusing
on providing educational and informational resources to tech companies,
entrepreneurs and investors.
Download the App
For technology entrepreneurs, angel investors, venture
capitalists, business leaders, and state employees, networking events provide
access to invaluable contacts that can help turn brilliant ideas into
blossoming businesses. That’s why Foley Hoag LLP this month unveiled a new
calendar app that will help Boston’s burgeoning technology startup community
identify and track relevant educational and networking events.
The free app, called TEC Calendar, offers users the
convenience of Metro Boston's most comprehensive and up-to-date calendar for
technology-related business educational and networking events, in an easily
accessible mobile format. The app is available for the iPhone®, iPad®, BlackBerry® and
Android™ devices.
For downloading links and instructions click right here.
The underlying technology for the TEC Calendar was
developed by Hard Data Factory, the second venture of Johnny Monsarrat, founder
and first CEO of Turbine, Inc. With two patents for collecting data from public
websites, Hard Data Factory is also developing the world's largest arts
calendar.
Monsarrat had described his calendar technology (but
not the Foley Hoag connection) at the EntreTech Forum recently. When you
start a company,” Monsarrat said, “incremental growth is not good enough. You
need to find an ally with the power to jumpstart your business. The TEC
Calendar app lets you find not just some event, but the event you need for your
business to leap forward.”
TEC@FoleyHoag
The launch of the TEC Calendar app coincides with
the launch
event for Foley Hoag’s Technology & Entrepreneurship Collaborative
(TEC@FoleyHoag) – a new collaborative located in the heart of Boston’s
Innovation District that is focused on providing educational and informational
resources to tech companies, entrepreneurs and investors.
“Foley Hoag has been a leader in the Boston
entrepreneur community for more than 40 years, providing first class legal
counsel on everything from setting up a corporation and securing venture
capital, to building business partnerships, all the way to successful exits,”
said Gil Arie, Co-Chair
of the firm’s Technology Industry Practice and TEC@FoleyHoag. “Between the TEC
Calendar app and the TEC@FoleyHoag series of networking events, we are taking
our efforts a natural step further by supporting the industry with our own
events and offering a virtual ear to the ground on other events they should
know about in our community.”
Venture Perspectives - New England Edition: Fourth
Quarter and Year 2012
Earlier this week, Foley Hoag released a Quarterly Review of Seed, Series
A and Series B/Later Round Financings prepared
under the direction of David Pierson,
a partner in the Business Department who
chairs the firm’s Venture Capital/Emerging Companies Practice Group.
This report
draws on data provided by the usual suspects (1). Consequently, most angel
investments are not included in the report and the number of seed financings in
the region is very much understated. The report is clearly much more valuable
in analyzing latter stage transactions.
Download the report from here.
1.
the
Pricewaterhouse Coopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree TM
Report, Thomson Reuters, the National Venture Capital Association, and DowJones
VentureSource.
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