The BBJ's Five Things: SimpliVity's hiring boom; Walsh talks tech; QD's vision; Patrick to MIT
Lexington-based QD Vision, a maker of optical technology for dramatically improved color quality in television sets, said it recently raised $28 million in funding from existing investors that included North Bridge and Highland Capital, among others. As the BBJ's David Harris has learned, the MIT spinoff, which has developed a type of semiconductor crystal, known as quantum dot, which allows for a wider gamut of color in a displayed picture, has now raised about $101 million in total funding to hire more materials engineers in Lexington and increase its sales and marketing workforce.