Archive for September 2021

For Adam Sachs, CEO and co-founder of Vicarious Surgical, a key aspect of the SPAC process was the amount of due diligence that a sponsor can do — something that isn’t typically possible in a conventional IPO. Read More

It is unusual for the Boston-based financial services giant to turn to an outsider to head such an important part of the business. Read More

SmartLabs, which bills itself as a "laboratory-as-a-service" provider, offers flexible lab and office spaces that are customizable to accommodate research groups from fewer than 10 to more than 200 people on the East and West Coasts. Currently, the company operates four locations in Massachusetts in Kendall Square, East Cambridge, Boston Landing and the Seaport District,…

With an anticipated rise in Covid testing and a likely high demand again this year for flu and Covid shots, CVS Health is staffing up. Read More

The Cambridge drugmaker has nabbed an approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a biosimilar that can treat three disorders causing progressive blindness. Read More

Juan Bueno was recently appointed U.S. president of Chicago-based Avison Young USA Inc., where he will also sit on the company’s executive committee and board of directors. Read More

In 2009, an Israeli-born entrepreneur started University of the People as a nonprofit entity serving people around the globe with limited access to higher education. Today the university enrolls 106,000 students from around the world, including 8,000 Syrian refugees. Read More

Mintz, a native of Greater Boston, joins Inno from Politico, where he has been a transportation reporter and author of the enewsletter Morning Transportation. Read More

Judy Habib and Paul Ayoub both raised money door-to-door as kids in West Roxbury for St. Jude. Now the two Boston businesspeople lead the hospital’s national board of governors. Read More