Phenomenon , a Los Angeles company that develops marketing and entertainment concepts, nearly doubled its revenue this year on the strength of four new clients. Marketing software company HubSpot , based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has raised $32 million from the likes of Sequoia, Google, and Salesforce.com and acquired two companies. MORE >>

Bill Gurley’s excellent piece on Silicon Valley IPO Anxiety inspired me to take a companion look at the East Coast, particularly Massachusetts and New York, and evaluate the health of the local IPO economy and prospective pipeline. Today, I'll cover Massachusetts; tomorrow, New York. Massachusetts. 2009 Revenue (mn). MORE >>

Those accounts wound up bringing in $250,000 in new revenue. His business—Barrett Distribution Centers, a Franklin, Massachusetts, provider of outsourced warehousing and distribution services—had been spared much of the pain of the recession. Revenue, which hit $5 million in 2008, was down to $1.4 By acting quickly. MORE >>

SCVNGR earned $1 million in revenue in 2009 when the game was still text-based, Guardian reported. Massachusetts-based SCVNGR was founded in 2008. By Erin Griffith, Contributing Editor. That's on top of its prior $4 million and $825,000 rounds, made in December 2009 and December 2008. Price per share increased from $26.75 MORE >>

Soren Harrison, from Boston, Massachusetts, presented SolSolution , a solar electricity venture whereby his company places solar panels on the roofs of schools, generates electricity, sells it to the schools, as well as back to the grid, and takes advantage of the federal rebates, incentives, etc. You can't tell what the company does. MORE >>