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Making Moves
Inside the people, companies and organizations making moves in Boston.
Lucy: Fullbridge, a Boston-based company providing education and training programs to prepare the workforce for next-gen, rapidly evolving jobs, is downsizing its Boston presence. The eight-year-old company confirmed it made employee cuts in its technology department, a move that will reduce its U.S. staff from 15 to nine people in December. CMO Steve Brazell added that the board of directors chose to replace CEO Roger Berry, who stepped in as chief executive at the end of May 2016. At that time, Berry announced plans to build a “Fullbridge 2.0” that left the company with fewer than 30 employees following a series of 2016 layoffs. Read more: Edtech Company Fullbridge Cuts Boston Employees, Will Replace CEO
Sri: Pillo Health, a Boston-based health care startup that provides an in-home digital care management platform, launched a voice-activated in-home companion called Pillo. Pillo is equipped with facial recognition and will help users take their medication on time, remind them of dosages and provide care plans.
Lucy: Tough times for food tech startups. In the past month, we said goodbye to Just Add Cooking and we confirmed the news that another company in the food tech space had to shut down: Nomsly, which shut down in July this year. Born as a food delivery service of healthy lunches for children, the startup changed its mission and started providing companies with snacks for employees. Read more: Boston Startups That Were Acquired or Shut Down in November
Sri: More electric scooters: Cambridge-based Superpedestrian, famous for the ‘Copenhagen Wheel,’ announced that it plans to make a foray into electric scooter ridesharing. But it won’t compete with Bird and Lime, no. Instead, it will make the scooter hardware that could be used by these company for its fleet.
New Money
Your daily funding roundup.
Sri: Digital health care startup, Lumeon, that provides care pathway management secured $28M in a new round of funding led by LSP, one of Europe’s largest healthcare investment firms. The company will use the funds to grow its U.S. team and Boston headquarters.
Player Personnel
Who’s moving where.
Lucy: Cambridge-based Devo Technology added three security executives to its employee roster. Julian Waits, who joins Devo from SAIFE, is the new GM of the Devo Security Business Unit. Matt Mosley, who joins Devo from Symantec, is the new VP of products, cybersecurity. Fred Wilmot, who joins Devo from PacketSled, is the new VP of security engineering.
In The Community
The events and happenings to know about tonight and this week.
Lucy: Opportunity alert: Harvard Extension School and workforce accelerator Trilogy Education announced the launch of an intensive web development program that will teach the front-end and back-end skills necessary to develop dynamic end-to-end applications. The part-time, 24-week program begins March 11, 2019. Tuition is $12,995; the application period opens today and it’s rolling admissions until the class fills.
Sri: In September, 20K marketers and sales professionals from all over the world descended on Boston for HubSpot’s INBOUND conference. Two of the most popular talks at Inbound (about ‘Avoiding Analysis Paralysis’ and ‘The New Role of Intent in SEO’) will be repeated at a free HubSpot event tomorrow, Dec. 5, at 5:30 p.m. Register here. Want more events? Read more: BostInno Approved: December’s Top Tech & Startup Events in Boston
Random
The fun stuff.
Sri: If age is just a number, why not reduce it?, asks Dutch motivational speaker Emile Ratelband who argued with the Dutch court that he didn’t “feel like” 69 and that 20 years of his life be shaved off. In response, the court was happy for him that he felt young and and healthy but rejected his request to amend his date of birth. It said, “Mr. Ratelband is at liberty to feel 20 years younger than his real age and to act accordingly… But amending his date of birth would cause 20 years of records to vanish from the register of births, deaths, marriages and registered partnerships. This would have a variety of undesirable legal and societal implications.”
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