Startups

Inequalities in the industry persist, and large multistate operators continue to dominate the cannabis market, even in the face of several Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission programs designed to give certain groups of people a leg up in entering the industry.

On Wednesday, The Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce announced 12 startup companies who have been selected to participate in the 2021-2022 StartUp Worcester cohort.

When Becker College in Worcester announced it will be closing its doors in August, the Massachusetts Digital Games Institute had a big question to answer. The statewide center for video game entrepreneurship, known as MassDiGi, had been based at the college since its start a decade ago. Where would it go now?

Massachusetts marijuana regulators are concerned about a recent significant uptick in reports of potential industry investors who targeted economic empowerment and social equity program entrepreneurs with unfair contract terms.

The North Central Massachusetts Development Corp. on Wednesday announced it had approved a $35,000 loan to the owners of Black Hydra Tattoo in Fitchburg: Emily Shortsleeves, Matt Gallagher, and Brad Touchette. 

In summer of 2020, Price was spending time with those closest to him, watching the Black Lives Matter movement expand in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police and trying to figure out what he should do next.

Coworking spaces and the coronavirus pandemic were never going to be a great match.

The Gov. Charlie Baker administration is issuing $333,989 in grants to Central Mass. collaborative workspaces, to help them expand and safely reopen, according to a Tuesday press release from MassDevelopment, which is administering the funds.

Technocopia, a Worcester Polytechnic Institute alumnus-founded nonprofit makerspace and incubator in Worcester’s downtown, is recruiting for new board members as part of a board expansion, the organization announced on Tuesday.

The Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce announced the 27 members of its upcoming Leadership Worcester class of 2021, on Wednesday.