Processing Your Payment

Please do not leave this page until complete. This can take a few moments.

Small Business

  • 2024 Power 100: Gloria Hall

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024

    Worcester’s art scene wouldn’t be what it is today, if not for the impact of Gloria Hall.

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Danielle Spring and Julie Toupin-Spring

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Although it is a lesbian bar, Femme is open to everyone and seeks to be a safe space at a time when the LGBTQ+ community is increasingly under fire locally and nationally.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Khalil Guzman-Jerry

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Khalil Guzman-Jerry is a young artist with an agenda. He founded his company, theWorcesterWorkshop, for that purpose in 2020, offering interior and exterior murals, prints and paintings, and graphic clothing for sale.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Valerie Zolezzi-Wyndham

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024

    Valerie Zolezzi-Wyndham gives major Central Massachusetts employers the tools, motivation, and accountability they need to meet the promises they made following the 2020 police murder of George Floyd. She founded Promoting Good as she saw this as an

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Rachel Blessington

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    As outcomes for mothers and newborns worsen, Blessington is striving to revolutionize the way babies are born.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Allie Catlin

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Running a small dairy farm and creamery was something Allie Catlin and her co-owners had to learn, but seven years in, they seem to have the right idea.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Satya Mitra

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    As chairman of the board of the 2,100-member Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce, tax guru, nonprofit leader, and biochemist, Satya Mitra’s influence in Worcester is decidedly multilayered.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Amy Chase

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Chase may be reserved, but her impact as a trendsetter in the Central Massachusetts small business community cannot be overstated.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Adriana Vaccaro

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024

    After founding Culture Redesigned in 2018 in Shrewsbury, Adriana Vaccaro is at the forefront of a small, new wave of entrepreneurs and businesses in Central Mass. helping companies fill their job vacancies amid the ongoing workforce shortage while

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Mike O’Kronley

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Ascend Elements, once a Worcester green technology startup that in the last two years has grown its workforce 500%, appears unstoppable as a leader in recycling elements of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • WBJ names the Power 100, the most influential Central Mass. professionals in 2024

    Brad Kane Updated: April 29, 2024

    In this first-time expansion of the previous power players list, WBJ names the professionals in Central Massachusetts who most effectively wield their power to have an outsized influence on the economy and community.

    Brad Kane Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Clifford Rucker

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024

    It’s fair to say Clifford Rucker has a well-diversified portfolio. As the founder of Rucker Investments, he has his hands in a number of high-profile ventures in Worcester, including the Worcester Railers minor league hockey team, Off The Rails

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: David Bagdon

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024

    As local news outlets are struggling just to stay alive, the Community Advocate excels at the important service of providing Central Mass. communities with the information they need, under the longtime leadership of David Bagdon.

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Eric Busenburg

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    As the Central Massachusetts life sciences industry looks to grow, Busenburg and Euro-American provide an important link to the rest of the world.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Jason Reposa

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024

    Reposa’s innovation stands out in the increasingly competitive and financially strained Massachusetts cannabis industry, where he is one of the few actively working to help other entrepreneurs succeed in the space.

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Stephen Genatossio

    Nancy Campbell Updated: April 29, 2024

    Stephen Genatossio not only talks the talk, he walks the walk, in sneakers. Sneakerama was founded with his father in 1978 in a small storefront in Webster Square.

    Nancy Campbell Updated: April 29, 2024

Sign up for Enews

WBJ Web partners

Today's Poll

Do you think of Worcester as a startup hub?
Choices
Poll Description

This week, the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce and entrepreneurial hub Auxilium will launch StartUp Week Worcester, a multi-day event with tours, workshops, and a collegiate pitch competition. The event is part of the city’s greater effort to bring more attention to its burgeoning startup scene. Worcester incubator Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives has been a leader in bringing more young startups to the region and just saw the opening of the offices of investment firm Conifer Life Sciences at MBI.