Two local companies – PillPack and Sqrrl – acquired by Amazon; Carbon Black’s $100 million IPO; the $500 million check from SoftBank landing in the hands of Cambridge Mobile Telematics: Definitely, Boston’s innovation economy had a lot to celebrate in 2018.
And 2019 only brings more things to look forward to and keep an eye on. Chief among them are tracking the stealthy health care initiative by Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett and Jamie Dimon that will call Boston its home, watching how Tim Berners-Lee’s startup Inrupt takes shape and the projects that come out of MIT’s billion-dollar bet on artificial intelligence.
And as you can imagine, this flurry of news has kept the BostInno team very busy in 2018. But as we bring you news about mega funding rounds, major exits, mergers and acquisitions and stealthy startups, we are compelled to take a step back and indulge in some crystal ball gazing about trends we are likely to see in 2019.
We reached out to experts in Boston tech to make predictions for the upcoming year and this is what we heard: