Boston Venture Investment Map
March 23rd, 2007by Sean Gorman
About the Author: Sean Gorman founded FortiusOne in 2005 to bring location based analytics to the mass market. Sean brings over 10 years of experience at the forefront of the geospatial revolution as a researcher, practitioner, and entrepreneur at FortiusOne. Through both academic and entreprenurial efforts he has been working to make geographic data more accessible to the public since 1997 culminating in the creation of GeoCommons – a crowd-sourced repository of statistical data and social feeds that can be easily mapped, remixed and reused by non-technical users.
Sean has been featured in media such as, Wired, Der Spiegel, ABC, Washington Post, Business 2.0, MSNBC, CBS and CNN. He also holds a PhD. From George Mason University in Public Policy where he was the Provost’s High Potential Scholar and was the recipient of the Fischer Prize. He has published dozens of articles on geographic data sharing and analysis, and authored the book Networks, Complexity and Security: The Role of Public Policy in Critical Infrastructure Protection. Read more from this authorWe had a request for a map of VC investments in Boston from the Rob Finn data we posted up and could not pass up the opportunity to make more heat maps.
Some interesting patterns going on in Boston with a good chunk of activity happening in the central business district and Route 128 , which has been the classic case study of regional economic advantage ( see: Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 by AnnaLee Saxenian ). The start ups are not stopping at 128 and you can see the dispersed activity in Framingham, Westborough, and even out to Lowell.
Always happy to fill requests, but we are burning the midnight oil to get this out of beta so you can fill your own requests. We’ve been getting some great feedback and have a cool new user interface being built out that will make it super simple to make your own map with a new world of geospatial data (at least new outside the stuffy confines of GIS). Also a kick ass new architecture to make the sometimes byzantine world of geospatial data as easy as local search.
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March 26th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
thanks Sean this is super, the concentration around Waltham and Burlington does not surprise me. They are both big tech towns.
March 27th, 2007 at 8:23 am
A very nice piece of analytics Sean. I’d love to be able to drill into if for more detail.
August 30th, 2007 at 4:09 am
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