BostInno is a local online news site and community publishing platform covering "the view from inside" innovation in Boston. It was founded in 2008 as a community startup blog by
Chase Garbarino, CEO and co-founder of Streetwise Media, and Kevin McCarthy, CTO and co-founder. On December 7, 2009, BostInno was relaunched as a news platform profiling local innovation across verticals including tech,
venture capital
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, city news, food, higher education, and sports.
BostInno is operated by Streetwise Media, the online media company founded by
Chase Garbarino, Kevin McCarthy, and Greg Gomer
which seeks to reinvent the model of local news online.
BostInno headquarters are in
Faneuil Hall
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in Boston.
History
BostInno was created in 2008 in
Boston
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, Massachusetts as a blog hosted on
WordPress
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. It later had its time as a wiki and then a
Twitter
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aggregator. BostInno re-launched on December 7, 2009, and became a news platform for the "hub of the universe", Boston, as a flagship property of Streetwise Media, co-founded by Garbarino and McCarthy. Since its creation, BostInno has been dedicated to covering city news in a new way online.
On November 18, 2012, BostInno was acquired by ''
Boston Business Journal
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'' owner
American City Business Journals .
About
BostInno is an online news property focused on covering local innovation across all industries, not just technology. The team at BostInno is made up of an editorial team as well as guest contributors via BostInno's community publishing platform, Channels. BostInno seeks to build and connect a community that engages its audience in discussion about the latest innovation in the city. BostInno receives over 1 million unique visits each month.
BostInno is the first property of Streetwise Media, which also owns InTheCapital, based in Washington D.C. BostInno is the fastest growing news property in New England.
BostInno was voted #1 Startup in Boston by
the Next Web
TNW (The Next Web) is a website and annual series of conferences focused on new technology and start-up companies in Europe. The Next Web company was established in 2006 by co-founders Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten and Patrick de Laive in Amsterd ...
in 2011.
Channels and careers
BostInno provides companies the ability to publish on its platform via Channels - branded pages that reside on BostInno on which a company can share unlimited content. In May 2012, over 200 companies were publishing to the platform.
References
External links
* {{Official website, https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/inno
American news websites