Archive for June 2021

Advocates logged on from across the state to push for the passage of four bills that would alter the state’s hemp landscape. Read More

Verve Therapeutics, a cholesterol-targeting, gene-editing startup and the first biotech to be incubated by the venture capital arm of Google, is planning to go public in a $100 million IPO. Read More

Marketing software firm Constant Contact recently hired a new CEO, Frank Vella, who started in his role a couple of months before the incident took place. Read More

Ginkgo Bioworks, a synthetic biology company and Affectiva, a human perception AI company both chartered international waters this month. Read More

Fifteen startups gained millions in funding in May (and that’s just based off of what we could count). Read More

While issues like productivity, office space reconfigurations and management strategy are often at the forefront of the work-from-home discussion, experts say businesses also need to take taxes into account to avoid a costly surprise. Read More

Summer is here folks! With the mask mandate officially ending May 29, plenty of events are returning to in-person engagement. Per usual, go with what you’re comfortable with. Regardless, this is your BostInno-approved (online and in-person) events calendar for June 2021. Read More

A Cambridge-based startup says it has a hiring solution that reduces bias and improves the talent acquisition pipeline. Founded in 2014, it uses AI-based technology to provide companies with predictive models for employee success. Read More

Players from the Toronto Raptors, Miami Heat, Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers are leading an investment group committing at least $30 million toward Harvard’s enterprise research campus in Allston. Read More

Now that the marketing software firm has recently spun out and restarted as a standalone business, the Boston Business Journal’s Lucia Maffei talked with new CEO Frank Vella about the advice he received from former longtime CEO Gail Goodman, his desire to re-establish the Constant Contact brand, the company’s diversity initiatives and his No. 1…