Archive for September 2020

One has helped create an underwater robot that gleans information about deep-sea climates and food chains. Another is rescuing medical supplies from landfills, donating them to communities in need instead. Still another is creating a digital community around afro-textured hair. Read More

Polaris Partners’ new startup continues to add some of the life science industry’s biggest names to its roster. Read More

Helen Greiner, who co-founded Bedford-based iRobot Corp. in 1990, has a new gig at a local startup making gardening robots. Read More

Silversmith Capital Partners, a Boston growth equity fund that earlier this year moved to a new office in Back Bay, has closed on an $880 million fund that will keep fueling healthcare and technology companies. Read More

Wellforce has let go of hundreds of employees as a result of coronavirus-induced slowdowns that triggered operating losses across its network. Read More

Good morning, friends. Here are the five things you need to know to get your day started, and what the next month will look like as the state approaches an Oct. 31 deadline to approve a fiscal 2021 budget. Read More

The new location is one of five that the Pittsburgh-based banking giant has planned in the region for 2020. Read More

Health care employers in Massachusetts added more workers between 2008 and 2018 than any other industry, nudging the field’s share of statewide employment upward to nearly one-fifth, according to a new report. Read More

Once verified on the platform, users can provide information about their company, very similar to how Glassdoor works right now. They can indicate whether a workplace is LGBTQ-friendly, has a motivated team or takes initiative on racial equality, for example. They can rank the company out of five stars. At the moment, they cannot write…

For years, hundreds of thousands of Alzheimer’s or dementia patients like local entrepreneur Mark Tepper’s late mother have relied on a drug with a modest benefit. Tepper thinks his new company can broaden its impact. Read More