By Eli Chavez PayByCar Lets Drivers Pay for Gas Using E-ZPass Sometimes being stuck in traffic sparks innovation. For Kevin Condon, founder and CEO of PayByCar, a traffic jam on the Northeast Expressway inspired a service that allows drivers to pay for gas using their E-ZPass. The system works two ways: a device installed on gas […]
Hannah Green Foghorn Therapeutics Moves Headquarters from Kendall Square to Watertown Biotech company Foghorn Therapeutics Inc. is relocating its headquarters from Cambridge to Watertown. In a recent securities filing, the company announced it will terminate its lease in Kendall Square early and lease 72,850 square feet at 99 Coolidge Avenue in Watertown for executive offices, […]
Eli Chavez A startup co-founded by a Harvard dropout and his childhood friend is bringing personal AI agents to life science workers. LogicFlo, based in Boston and New York, was founded by Arun Ramakrishnan, who previously led deep-learning projects at Intuitive Surgical, and Udith Vaidyanathan, who left Harvard Business School to pursue the venture full-time. […]
Gary Higgins In its fifth annual Massachusetts Talent and Competitiveness Survey 2025, McKinsey & Co., working with the Massachusetts Business Roundtable, identified three main obstacles to doing business in the Commonwealth: high costs of doing business, high living expenses, and aging infrastructure. Business leaders met Thursday to review the survey results and discuss strategies for […]
Gary Higgins A stretch of Dudley Street in Dorchester’s Uphams Corner is among the areas that will see new opportunities for restaurants to serve alcohol. Dorchester is set to receive seven of the 21 new liquor licenses recently approved by the Boston Licensing Board as part of the city’s effort to expand alcohol service in […]
By Grant Welker Everett Sees Rapid Residential Growth Everett’s residential market continues to expand with the opening of two new apartment complexes: Jade (325 units) in the Commercial Triangle and Artemas (396 units) just north of Santilli Circle near local breweries and businesses. The city of roughly 52,000 has experienced rapid growth due to its proximity […]
By Scott Kirsner Raibert Opens Pop-Up Robot Lab to Inspire and Educate Marc Raibert, founder of Boston Dynamics and current executive director of the Robotics and AI Institute (RAI), has launched a temporary Robot Lab at CambridgeSide mall. The pop-up isn’t selling robots; instead, it gives the public hands-on experience with robotics to show what they […]
Paul Bubny $40.1 Million Renovation Underway at Boston’s Eva White Apartments The Castle Square Tenants Organization (CSTO) and WinnDevelopment have launched a $40.1 million modernization project at Eva White Apartments, a 102-unit low-income housing community serving seniors and people with disabilities in Boston’s South End. The property is located adjacent to the 500-unit Castle Square […]
By Hannah Green – Reporter, Boston Business Journal Boston Lab Market Sees Second Quarter Uptick Despite High Vacancies Boston’s life sciences real estate market showed signs of recovery in Q2 2025, with 19 lab leases signed, more than doubling the eight leases recorded in Q1, according to JLL. Notable deals included Mariana Oncology adding 30,000 square feet […]
By Lucia Maffei – Reporter, Boston Business Journal AI Insurtech Startup Quandri to Open Boston Office, Expanding U.S. Presence Quandri, a British Columbia-based insurtech company using AI to streamline insurance agency operations, plans to open a Boston office to expand its presence in North America. Founded in 2021 by brothers Jackson and Jamieson Fregeau, the company’s platform […]
