Archive for February 2021

Ben Downing, a former state senator who has worked in the solar energy industry, announced he is running to become the Bay State’s next governor. Read More

Two years after taking the helm of CEO at Cambridge gene therapy firm Editas Medicine, Cindy Collins is stepping down. Read More

The firm has been doing business in Italy since the early 2000s, working with Italian pension funds, insurers and more, according to the statement. Read More

Walpole-based Thrasio Inc. has secured an additional $750 million in venture capital from returning investors Oaktree Capital Management and Boston-based Advent International Corp., according to a PitchBook report on Monday. Read More

With the addition of Matt Pawa, Seeger Weiss LLP is launching an environmental practice group. It has worked on environmental cases before, including representing consumers in litigation over the Volkswagen Group emissions scandal. But with the addition of Pawa, “we expect to take this work to a new level,” said the firm’s co-founding partner, Christopher…

The number of state residents who are on MassHealth has hit the highest point since 2015, according to a new report, and there’s no sign of the trend reversing soon. That has big implications for hospitals as well as the state budget. Read More

Carly Chase is an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. Her work is wide in scope and includes serving as the founding managing director of the MIT NYC Startup Studio (part of the MIT delta v accelerator), running the StartMIT entrepreneurship bootcamp, overseeing the Trust Center’s Membership Program for Organizations and New…

The Cambridge VC firm has shunned investments in cryptocurrencies themselves since it was founded in 2018 by two former Fidelity Investments employees. Instead, it has looked for “picks and shovels,” such as companies providing financial and other services around crypto investments, or something further afield, like a firm using blockchain to fight insurance fraud. Read…

Old Sturbridge Village celebrates the people who l Read More

The declines have staggered hundreds of U.S. schools that have increasingly relied on international students to offset enrollment declines elsewhere, with the financial fallout for affected college and university budgets estimated in the billions of dollars. Read More