In The Know
The Inno stories you need to read today.
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Stories from around the Inno network we think you'll dig.
Making Moves
Inside the people, companies and organizations making moves in Boston.
Rowan: Boston-based Cerevel Therapeutics is relocating its headquarters to Cambridge Crossing, an office that will give the neurological disease drug developer room to quadruple its headcount in the coming years.
Sri: Crunchbase News reports that in terms of venture capital funding, Greater Boston has had its slowest July since 2014.
New Money
Your daily funding roundup.
Sri: Cambridge Crops raised $4M in seed funding. Led by The Engine, the venture capital firm launched by MIT in 2016 to invest in early-stage "Tough Tech" companies, the round includes participation from Refactor Capital, Closed Loop Ventures, Bluestein & Associates, SOSV and Supply Chain Ventures. (We profiled Cambridge Crops in May.)
Rowan: Ally Therapeutics, a Cambridge-based gene therapy company and a project of George Church, raised $10M in an $11M funding round, according to an SEC filing.
Sri: RailPod, a Boston-based company that inspects railroads to get better track infrastructure data, raised $8.4M in a funding round, according to an SEC filing.
Rowan: Cambridge-based cell therapy startup Cellino Biotech raised $4M in equity and debt, according to two separate SEC filings.
Player Personnel
Who’s moving where.
Rowan: Boston-based IT resilience company Zerto hired Emily Weeks as the director of sales for east Americas and Eric Barnhart as the director of channel sales in the Americas.
Sri: Karen Hebert-Maccaro has been named the CEO of Babson Executive Education.
Rowan: Boston-based digital health company CompanionMx appointed Dr. Carl D. Marc to the position of chief medical officer.
In The Community
The events and happenings to know about tonight and this week.
Emma: Astronomy After Hours: Who doesn’t love the dinosaurs and electricity show at the Museum of Science? Well, did you know they have after-hour events? Join the museum for an astronomically fun night, full of space-themed activities. If weather permits, telescopes will be available. Viewings, times and locations will be finalized on the day of the program. Find out more here.
8:30 p.m., 1 Science Park, Boston, free
Opportunities
Do you know when to open the door?
Rowan: Applications are open for the Insight Data Science Fellows program. It consists of a seven-week curriculum, after which fellows interview with mentor companies and are offered jobs. The amount of time it takes each fellow to receive and accept an offer varies, but after completing all the interviews, five to eight weeks after the end of Insight, each should have one or more job offers from companies and be ready to start their career as a data scientist, the company says. Applications for the winter session close Monday.
From Our Partners
AWS New England Community: Innovation Expo & BBQ – August 15 – 4pm-9pm
Pinnacle Tech Partners: This is a FREE event, with exciting keynote speakers from AWS, Aviatrix, Ingram Micro and more, as well as an Innovation Expo, where you can meet some key cloud players and demo some cool stuff. PLUS, there’s a BBQ party with Blue Ribbon BBQ, a craft beer garden, live music and competitive games. Don’t miss it! More info & registration here
Read This Right Now
Insight and analysis from the community and beyond.
Sri: April Glaser writes in Slate that the techlash has come to Stanford. "The dream of starting a company in your dorm room to solve the world’s problems and make billions in the process is still thriving on campus. But a competing dream, perhaps just as old, appears to be growing in fervor now, too: to use technical skills as an insurance policy against dystopia. Students have not failed to notice the unflattering headlines that have dogged Silicon Valley over the past several years—the seemingly unending scandals in which the biggest technology companies in the world have mishandled user data, facilitated the spread of misinformation, and sold software to the agencies enforcing the Trump administration’s harsh immigration agenda. All of this has sparked new conversations inside and outside the classroom, and there are signs that the once-reliable pipeline between Stanford and Silicon Valley is narrowing—at least a tiny bit."
Random
The fun stuff.
Rowan: People keep stealing the “old town road” signs in Wellesley.
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