Startups

🔒WBJ names the recipients of the 16th annual Outstanding Women in Business awards

The Outstanding Women in Business awards have long been one of WBJ’s hardest honors to win.

🔒Recovery: A year and a half after their split, Nikki Bell-Peña and the leaders of Safe Exit Initiative are on their own paths to...

Bell-Peña and the nonprofit she founded are now hard at work again addressing the original core mission: Supporting those exploited by the sex trade.

🔒Q&A: Entrepreneur launches AI medtech startup

Honeycutt is dedicating his new endeavor to helping advance health communication using AI technology with his company MetaScriptMD

🔒Waiting for a lifeline: Social equity cannabis businesses navigate the increasingly difficult industry as they await grants from a $27M fund

Social equity cannabis companies say more support needed.

🔒Acquiring S&G: The road to acquisition for a leading Central Mass. accounting firm centered growth and core values

More than four decades after opening their Worcester accounting firm S&G LLP in 1980, Carl Goldstein and Terry Shepherd knew it was time for a change.

🔒Slideshow: Outtakes from the 40 Under Forty photo shoots around Central Mass.

Each year, these small 40 Under Forty groupings are challenged to top each other to take the best photos, and every year people rise to the occasion.

🔒40 Under Forty: Catch up with 25 alumni for the 25th anniversary

The nearly 1,000 winners of the 40 Under Forty awards from the last 25 years have gone onto great things, and we catch up with 25 alumni for the 25th anniversary.

🔒How WBJ selected the 40 Under Forty, Class of 2024

This year’s winners were chosen from 398 nominations submitted for 221 professionals in 2023 and 2024.

Inc. magazine names 23 Central Mass. companies among fastest-growing in nation

Twenty-three Central Massachusetts businesses made the 2024 Inc. 5000, an annual list of the nation’s 5000 fastest-growing companies compiled by Inc. magazine.