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French Start-ups Win Dynamic Entry to Boston’s Medical Industry

  Two French start-ups have won the ‘Paris Boston MedTech Award’. Awarded by the City of Boston and the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, this award recognizes their innovation and potential for entry to the US market. Part of an extremely successful medical company cluster within Paris, these young companies have achieved an extremely valuable […]

Five things I learned during TechStars

Five things I learned during TechStars

The following is a guest post by Cyrille Vincey, co-founder of Qunb, a platform that helps anyone turn their data into visual stories. You can follow him on Twitter at @cyrvin.  The very day after qunb won LeWeb’12 Paris Startup Competition, I was pressing the team to figure out how to turn this award into […]

Bridging the divide between the Paris & Boston startup communities

Bridging the divide between the Paris & Boston startup communities

Boston and NYC have 3 main rivalries: the Red Sox vs. the Yankees (95 years running), budget deficits, and high-tech startups. The latter is a healthy competition of creating jobs, fueling innovative research, and promoting disruptive technologies. Boston is lagging behind NYC but has recently gained momentum because of VC firms like Spark Capital which […]