| Jay Z-backed private jet startup readies for Boston expansion JetSmarter, a private jet startup backed by investors including rapper and entrepreneur Jay Z, plans to expand its aviation service to Boston in the coming months. Could Boston-area startups be impacted by an Intel Capital sale? Intel Capital's portfolio includes more than 20 Massachusetts-based companies, including NewLans, Terascala, OpenMobile Worldwide, Apperian and Black Duck Software. Bayer to open East Coast innovation center in Cambridge “The U.S. is the center of biotech, and Boston is the capital of the biotech universe,” said Kemal Malik, Bayer’s head of innovation. Self-driving car startups with MIT ties strike deals with GM, Toyota Two auto-technology companies at the forefront of the self-driving-cars movement and with ties to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology landed major deals with auto-manufacturing giants General Motors Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp. this week. | 
