Archive for February 2022

The vet startup recently raised $170 million from Warburg Pincus to fuel its expansion. Read More

Two Boston-area companies, one in air-quality systems and another in the Internet of Things, are joining their products to help restaurants and retailers operate safely now that the pandemic is again waning and restrictions are loosening. Read More

The healthcare giant Mass General Brigham has named as its first chief medical officer a physician who has worked for years to address equity and racial disparities in patients. Read More

The agency is looking for a diverse team of developers to build affordable housing on a Massport-owned parcel on D Street. Read More

The crypto startup didn’t say why the original deal was called off, but noted in a statement that the prior business combination agreement could not be completed by the termination date of April 3 this year "for a variety of reasons outside of the parties’ control." Read More

The Massachusetts life sciences industry is rife with companies developing drugs and devices to tackle serious diseases, inking new partnership deals, raising money, expanding facilities and more. Here’s The Petri Dish, a roundup of news that may get overlooked amid the influx of health care happenings. Read More

Student groups simultaneously filed legal complaints with their states’ respective attorneys general on Thursday to investigate continued investment in the fossil-fuel sector. Read More

Investors continued to snap up homes at a record rate at the end of 2021, buying $49.9 billion in homes in the last three months of 2021 alone. Read More

Jody Rose shared the plans for Hack.Diversity now that it’s spinning out of the NEVCA — including a future expansion into a "second market" outside of Boston. Read More

As a former operations and marketing executive at startups in the edtech and crypto space, Liana Douillet Guzmán is an unconventional choice to lead a health care startup. But she thinks it is precisely that unique background that positions her well as the new CEO of LGBTQ-focused digital health care provider FOLX Health. Read More