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For Canada's tech to thrive, startups must grow up
When Microsoft Corp. offered to buy his software startup for more than $10-million (U.S.), Carl Rodrigues agonized about the decision for three days.
It was 2006 and his firm, SOTI Inc., had nine employees and $800,000 in revenue. Friends and family urged him to sell, convinced the giant from Redmond, Wash., would crush him if he said no. Saying yes would have made the Pakistan-born Canadian immigrant a multimillionaire – but he wanted to keep building.
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Three key things every health care startup should know
Sky Ventures Group has high hopes when it comes to health care innovation, saying that its members are bullish on how innovation might change health care for the better.
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TV tech firm QD Vision lands $28M in funding, adds former Lenovo CEO as executive chairman
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.
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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.