By Lucia Maffei Women are increasingly joining the ranks of angel investors, and now make up almost half of angel investors nationwide, according to a new report. Last year, women angels represented 46.7% of the angel market, marking the third year in a row of increased participation. Women angels accounted for 39.5% of the market in […]
By Lucia Maffei Shares of HubSpot Inc. plunged in Wednesday afternoon trading after Bloomberg reported that Google parent company Alphabet put the brakes on its rumored acquisition of the Cambridge-based marketing firm. On Wednesday HubSpot’s stock (NYSE: HUBS) closed down 12.22%, giving the company a market capitalization of $25.06 billion. When rumors of a potential deal first emerged in April, the markets were valuing […]
By Hannah Green Eli Lilly and Co. is buying a Waltham biotech in a deal valued at around $3.2 billion. The startup being acquired is Morphic Holding Inc. (NASDAQ: MORF), a Waltham company working on treatments for chronic diseases such as types of inflammatory bowel disease. Indianapolis-based Lilly (NYSE: LLY) plans to acquire all outstanding shares of […]
By Greg Ryan Boston University has agreed to pay $19.8 million to purchase a site on the edge of its campus that has city approval for a 17-story tower with more than 250 residences. The property is next to the planned future home of West Station, a new transit hub featuring commuter-rail service. The transaction means that […]
By Mitchell Parton As retailers push into new cities and brands lean hard into brick-and-mortar as a strategy, it has become incredibly difficult to find space for a new storefront. Financing constraints due to elevated interest rates as well as zoning and infrastructure restrictions in some jurisdictions have limited construction of retail developments, limiting the amount of space on the […]
By Grant Welker A planned food market in East Cambridge amid a series of major new developments has its first tenant, and it’s a restaurant from a well-known restaurateur in the neighborhood. Chef Will Gilson will open AMBA this summer, a Mediterranean-inspired café that’ll be part of the new First Street Market just a few blocks from other […]
By Grant Welker It’s not just inflation, and it’s not just a matter of perception: the cost of buying a home in Boston has far surpassed the increase in wages in the past 50 years, according to a new analysis. In Boston, a typical wage in 1970 was $9,133, according to a report this spring by […]
By Ashley Fahey The outlook for the U.S. office market remains bleak, with the national vacancy rate hitting another high in the first quarter of this year and losses continuing to mount on loans backed by towers across the country The vacancy rate reached 19.8% in Q1, a new record by Moody Analytics Inc. standards and a rate that’s 50 […]
By Aaron Pressman Amazon unveiled its largest facility in Massachusetts on Monday, a staggering five-story warehouse in North Andover with almost 4 million square feet of space to hold everything from books and DVDs to cans of soup. The fulfillment center on the site of a former telephone company factory cost about $400 million to […]
By HIAWATHA BRAY Woburn-based battery maker Alsym Energy has raised $78 million in Series C venture round led by India’s Tata Limited, along with General Catalyst Thrive Capital and Thomvest. That brings total investment in the company to $110 million. Alsym, cofounded by veteran entrepreneur Mukesh Chatter and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Kripa Varanasi, […]
