Startups

A new program will provide a year of free space in Worcester to entrepreneurial college graduates seeking to open their own businesses in the city.

There's a great deal of energy and resources being directed today toward startups and fostering startup cultures....

The entrepreneurial spirit in the U.S. is thriving, and women enjoy ample opportunity among developed countries, according to a joint report by Babson College in Wellesley and New York City's Baruch College.

Although many face obstacles entering the United States, immigrants are launching their own businesses at a higher rate than those started by native American citizens.

David Crouch had been looking to join a business incubator ever since he launched a digital services...

In the first quarter of this year, venture capital investment reached its highest point in more than...

The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) has awarded $980,000 to Acton biotechnology startup Excellims Corp., which will provide the company with working capital to fund commercialization efforts, the MLSC said.

TechSandBox, the MetroWest innovation center for science- and technology-based startups, said it has received a $25,000 planning grant to develop a new accelerator program from the Westborough-based Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. As part of its efforts to strengthen regional innovation and entrepreneurship across the state, The Innovation Institute at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative is providing the six-month grant to TechSandBox to design what it deemed a “new effort aimed at boosting high-potential entrepreneurs and startups in MetroWest.”

Officials at Framingham State University will celebrate the opening of the school's new Entrepreneur Innovation Center with a ceremony on site this afternoon. The incubator provides office space for area entrepreneurs, as well as internship opportunities for FSU students. It opened in January in FSU's Maynard Building on Framingham's Vernon Street, becoming the second incubating space to open in MetroWest in the last year. TechSandBox, a technology incubator in Hopkinton, launched in May 2013.

A Massachusetts Biotechnology Council (MassBio) report released April 3 found that an intense focus on reducing health-care...