Archive for March 2021

With a freshly inked deal with Pfizer and an additional $152 million in its pocket, Cambridge startup Pyxis Oncology is prepared to get its drugs into the clinic. Read More

Boston-based company Hycu Inc. (pronounced "haiku"), which has 200 worldwide employees including 25 in Massachusetts, has been privately funded since its launch in 2017, when it started as Comtrade Software. So-called "super-sized" Series A rounds have been increasing in frequency and size in recent years. Read More

Circe, whose name is derived from the phrase "circular industries with cellular factories," engineers microbes to product triglycerides, a type of fat that constitutes most of human body fat as well as body fat in other vertebrate animals and vegetables. Read More

Good morning, Boston. Here are the five most important things you need to know today in Boston business news, plus improv, the USS Constitution, the Final Four, and cashierless merchandise shopping at TD Garden. Read More

Entrepreneurship is "under threat," and the health of the state’s startup sector depends on building a diverse and inclusive ecosystem, according to a new report. An increase in entrepreneurs of color is needed to boost the Mass. economy, the report says. Read More

Harvard University and MIT’s Sloan School of Management have tied for fifth place in the 2022 ranking of best business schools put together by U.S. News & World Report. Read More

The pandemic has brought out experts in just about everything. Well, except the stuff that would be really helpful to me. Read More

Acting Boston Mayor Kim Janey has appointed a longtime city employee as the city’s chief of operations as the current chief heads to Suffolk, the construction company. Read More

The city of Boston’s chief financial officer is returning to the nonprofit Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard after three years in Boston City Hall. Read More

Shares of the Boston company reached their lowest point since its IPO in September despite the widespread reliance on telehealth during the pandemic. Analysts attribute the drop largely to concerns about post-pandemic growth. Read More