residents

Cambridge Innovation Center, on the 3rd, 9th, 14th, and 16th floors at One Broadway, houses approximately 45 companies at this time. Most of which are emerging companies or companies connected to the venture world.

A selection of our tenants, past and present, are presented below.

Selected Current Tenants
Selected Former Tenants

Read the descriptions and quotes from our tenants to get a sense for the kinds of companies that choose Cambridge Innovation Center.

Selected Current Industry Tenants

Ambient Devices
Ambient Devices is an MIT Media Lab spin-out company developing wireless devices for everyday use. Ambient's products have recently been featured at Brookstone and Bloomingdales stores, on the cover of Hammacher Schlemmer's retail catalog.

Band and Brown
Band & Brown provides a unique blend of PR and marketing services that combine local knowledge and industry expertise with European flair. The agency believes in doing things differently and in taking a fresh approach. This translates into creatively driven innovative campaigns that influence the target audience and really impact the bottom line. We specialize in the technology and business-to-business sectors with extensive experience in corporate communications, media relations, influencer programs, customer communications, internal communications and strategic consultancy.

BioTeam - Paris Region
Bioteam Paris Region GIE is a Paris Region Life Sciences consortium gathering together the Pasteur Institute, five biotech companies (BioCortech, BioMethodes, BioProtein Technologies, Hybrigenics and UroGene), and two economic development agencies (Essonne Development, Paris Region Development Agency) from the Paris, France region. Our mission is to facilitate interactions between our members and counterparts in the Massachusetts Biotech cluster. Having a permanent office and staff in Cambridge, Massachusetts, since March 2003, has enabled us to forge progressively strong and long term relationships with key companies, universities, investors and non-profit organizations of the Mass biotech Cluster.

Clear Methods
Clear Methods provides enterprises and independent software vendors with advanced Web services technology and solutions that dramatically speed the creation of flexible business software. The Clear Methods Steam XML platform is a pure Web services environment that enables the use of XML throughout the software lifecycle. Steam XML provides a compact, uniform, standards-based commercial product set for the open Water language.

FamaPR
Founded in 2001 by high-tech PR veterans, famaPR partners with growing technology companies to deliver excellence in corporate communications. We can assist you in increasing your brand awareness and revenue while offering an excellent value for your PR dollar.

Groundhog Technologies
Groundhog Technologies offers proprietary mobility management technology that helps wireless carriers save equipment upgrade cost and relieves the network capacity constraint of wireless networks. This technology also enables various kinds of highly accurate wireless services which although eagerly anticipated in the industry have been disappointing so far due to technical constraints.

ThingMagic
ThingMagic's mission is to enable companies in the embedded intelligence space to rapidly transform their ideas into prototypes, products, and knowledge that represents defensible intellectual property. Our primary goal is to make fundamental technical contributions to innovative products and systems in this space.

Venture Investment-Related Tenants

Cambridge Innovations, Inc.
Cambridge Innovations (CI) is a seed stage venture capital company. Cambridge Innovation Center is an operating unit of CI.

Draper Fisher Jurvetson New England, LLC
DFJ New England is an early stage venture capital fund, part of the global Draper Fisher Jurvetson network of venture funds. We partner with leaders of emerging companies building businesses based on infrastructure, telecom, and software technologies, providing capital and hands-on support.

Perpetual Motion Ventures
Perpetual Motion Ventures assists, invents and helps fund startups. Managed by serial entrepreneur Sung Park, Perpetual Motion is affiliated with Polaris Venture Partners.

Ignition Ventures
Ignition Ventures, Inc. is a partnership of world-class business consultants, technology specialists, and financial experts dedicated to providing business, Internet, and technology strategy for established companies; management support and expertise to rapidly jump-start new businesses; and fund-raising support for companies seeking to raise capital.

Selected Former Tenants of Cambridge Innovation Center

Coatue Corp
Coatue has developed microchips utilizing next generation organic semiconductors. Coatue Corp. received venture financing from Draper Fisher Jurvetson New England and other investors, and later was acquired by chip-maker AMD.

Regarding CIC, Coatue Co-Founder Avi Goldberg comments:

"CIC was a fantastic place for a company like ours to get up and running quickly without many of the frustrations affecting small startups. We miss being there.”

Ember Corporation
Ember Corporation, is a fast-growing wireless chip company originally out of the MIT Media Laboratory. It was named by Fortune Magazine in May of 2004 as of the "14 Cool Companies We Love". Ember is creating a wireless embedded networking platform for industrial and commercial applications that will define the networking standard for linking the billions of embedded processors shipped annually. Its patented self-organizing EmberNet™ technology enables networks that are dramatically less expensive and easier to deploy than wired and wireless alternatives. Ember was founded with funding from Polaris Venture Partners and DFJ New England and Stata Venture Partners. While a tenant at CIC, Ember announced two rounds of financings, a $3M round and a $5M expansion round. Lead investors included Polaris Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson New England, and Grand Banks Capital.

See right-hand sidebar quote from Founder Rob Poor.

Foster and Roberts
Foster & Roberts manages, advises and builds early-stage technology companies. Our focus is on the transformation of raw technologies into
market-focused businesses. We have founded or contributed to several companies that have created significant value for customers, founders and investors.

Regarding CIC, Foster & Roberts Founder Mark Foster comments:

"Being here has been instrumental to getting Reify together. The environment here increases the velocity of all of our important transactions with investors, employees, and advisors. It increases the speed of getting stuff done.”

Systinet
Systinet Corporation is a provider of software platforms to create Web services. WASP (Web Applications and Services Platform), Systinet's architecture encompassing WASP Developer, WASP Server and WASP UDDI, is used by more than 10,000 developers worldwide. WASP enables IT architects and developers to build interoperable and compatible Web services using the industry's most comprehensive and flexible platform. Systinet is a member of the Java Community Process, W3C Consortium, UDDI Advisory Group and Oasis Group. Founded in 2000, Systinet is a privately-held company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with offices in London, Palo Alto and Prague. Systinet announced $21 million in financing - one of the largest of any Web services-based company - from lead investor Warburg Pincus, about six months after moving into Cambridge Innovation Center.

Regarding CIC, Systinet President Wendell Lansford comments:

"Thank you for the great services you provided while we "lived" at CIC. It really worked well for us. CIC was a cost-effective solution. We were able to expand into the space incrementally as the company grew, and CIC provided valuable services along the way, enabling us to focus on our core business."

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