Archive for November 2020

DataRobot, the Boston-based enterprise AI company that hit unicorn status last September after a $207 million Series E round, has brought in another massive fundraise: $270 million in what the startup is calling a "pre-IPO round" led by Altimeter Capital. Other participating investors include T. Rowe Price, Blackrock, Silverlake, NEA and Tiger. Read More

After selling her drug-prescription startup, ZappRx, to a publicly traded health IT company last year, Boston entrepreneur Zoë Barry planned to take a year off. She made it two months before filing incorporation papers for her next company. Read More

The closings including 26 Massachusetts locations. They are set to begin in January. Read More

The pandemic has exposed a supply problem and an affordability crisis in Boston’s child care sector, a critical part of the economy, according to a new report. With the closure of child care centers, “we lose an entire infrastructure that has proven itself to be critical to the sectors of education, public health, social services,…

The company eeked out a profit last quarter on a strong summer rebound that’s fueled its latest — and now final — IPO effort. Read More

After all this time at home, the words we use at work may never be the same. Read More

Restaurateur Jason Santos has signed a lease for 3,000 square feet in the mixed-use development, with plans to open a second Buttermilk & Bourbon restaurant there. Read More

Home Depot made a major move into the maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) marketplace with a deal to purchase HD Supply Holdings Inc. Read More

A former Harvard fencing coach is being charged with bribery after receiving more than $1.5 million in bribes from a Maryland businessman who wanted his two sons admitted into the prestigious university, federal authorities said. Read More

A new deal between a life science firm and a Massachusetts drugmaker could extend gene therapy’s potential in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park. Read More