Wasabi

Boston Harbor Angels Awards Portfolio Companies at Annual Meeting

Boston Harbor Angels, one of the top three elite angels groups in the US, recognized three portfolio companies at its annual end-of-year general meeting. Exit of the Year Award: Corbus Pharmaceuticals on NASDAQ Biotech Startup of the Year Award: Astrocytes Pharmaceuticals Inc. IT Startup of the Year Award: Wasabi The meeting featured interviews with Yuval Cohen, CEO of Corbus Pharmaceuticals and Mark Tepper, President & Chief Scientific Officer of Corbus Pharmaceuticals; and David Friend, CEO and co-founder of Wasabi. The group also honored Mic Williams,...
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Price, Performance and Scale: Defining the New Possible

A big part of cloud computing is the basic issue of storage. Any data-driven business needs to store data, and these days, the amount of data is much greater than ever before. This is true for just about any industry: healthcare, media, financial services, energy, and of course the ever-important market of software-as-a-service. In any of these verticals, the cost of data storage presents a serious constraint. That’s why David Friend and Jeff Flowers teamed up again recently to form Wasabi,...
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3+ Months after Launch, Wasabi’s Assault on S3 Said to Be on Plan

David Friend comes across as a modest, unassuming fellow who talks about his start-up storage company, Wasabi, and its technology in an understated, commonsensical kind of way. But make no mistake, Friend is pursuing a grand ambition that takes dead aim at a big target: the public cloud storage market, which Wasabi intends to turn on its head. Read more >>
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