Startups

The sciences companies in Central Massachusetts that received venture capital funding from 2018 to 2023.

Space and cost issues have begun to creep into Cambridge and Boston, forcing companies, especially startups, to look outside of the Route 128 belt and increasingly more towards Central Massachusetts.

The Massachusetts Biotechnology Council rates the state’s various communities as BioReady based on their ability to host biotechnology facilities.

Developers and brokers are using multiple strategies to bring life sciences companies out past Route 128 in Massachusetts.

Two new grant programs will make $78 million available to Massachusetts small business owners focusing on disadvantaged communities and movie theater owners.

In 2016, Hernandez opened GEM Marketing Solutions and has solidified a stable roster of clients in and around the city. Her small business offers help with getting businesses an online presence, website design, and social media marketing.

The Downtown Worcester Business Improvement District named Electric Haze owner Victoria Mariano as its new program director.

The North Central Massachusetts Development Corp. in Fitchburg approved a $13,000 loan to Beauty Empire, a Leominster beauty salon owned by Nadia Ruiz.

The White Room has made a post-COVID comeback over the past year and is a nexus of cultural and social life in Worcester.

The machines in here don’t look like the old science classrooms or even the classrooms we see in movies. Instead, it’s sterile and more like a command center. These machines aren’t for experimentation; they’re to see if your experiment works.