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Takeda Is Cutting 250 Jobs in Cambridge. It’s the Third Time in Two Years

There is a pattern worth naming here. In 2024, Takeda announced a major restructuring that cut hundreds of Massachusetts jobs. In 2025, the Japanese pharmaceutical giant eliminated more Cambridge positions after shutting down its cell therapy program entirely. And this week, the company filed a WARN Act notice with the state of Massachusetts confirming that […]

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Boston’s Empty Office Buildings Are Becoming Apartments. 1 State Street Is Next

Business News, Real Estate Market

There is a 14-story office building at 1 State Street, in the heart of Boston’s Financial District, that has been quietly emptying out for years. It sits one block from Faneuil Hall, two blocks from the waterfront, steps from three MBTA lines. By almost any measure, it is exactly where people should want to live.

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The Boston Startup That Wants to Replace Ozempic’s Needle With a Patch Just Raised $50 Million

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Fifty million dollars is a serious amount of money for a company that started as a vaccine project in Harvard’s Innovation Lab. But then again, Ozempic is a serious amount of market — and Terrestrial Bio, the Boston-based company that just closed a $50 million Series C round, is betting it has figured out something

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Boston’s Most Successful Female Founders — And What They Actually Built

Boston Business Stories

Here is a number that should bother anyone who follows the startup world: in 2024, all-female founding teams received 2.1% of all venture capital deployed in the United States. Two percent. For context, that figure was 2.4% a decade ago. A full decade of “diversity initiatives,” panel discussions, and LinkedIn posts about closing the gender

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What $500K, $1M, and $3M Buys You in Boston Right Now

In-depth Analysis, Real Estate Market

Let’s start with the number that explains everything else. The median sale price for a home in Boston in February 2026 was $802,000. That is 89% above the national average. To afford that median home comfortably — using the standard 28% debt-to-income rule, with a 20% down payment at current mortgage rates hovering around 6.5%

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A $75 Million Bet on South Boston Just Went to Foreclosure Auction

Business News, Real Estate Market

There is a six-acre stretch of land in South Boston, sitting between two Red Line stations, with approved permits for a 1.1-million-square-foot life sciences campus across the street. By almost any measure, it should be one of the most valuable undeveloped parcels in the city. On March 17, it went to foreclosure auction. The property

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VentureWell Is Closing: It Took 30 Years to Build and a Stop-Work Order to End

Business News

Thirty years is a long time to build something. VentureWell — the Massachusetts-based nonprofit that has funded, trained, and connected tens of thousands of science and technology entrepreneurs since 1995 — announced this week it is shutting down. The organization that helped launch student-founded companies across nearly 400 universities, that put $7 billion in investor

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The Boston VC Ecosystem: How Venture Capital Actually Works in Massachusetts

In-depth Analysis

Here is something worth sitting with for a moment. In 2025, Massachusetts startups raised $16.7 billion in venture capital. That is a 12% jump from 2024, the strongest gain since the pandemic. The state has more venture capital per capita than anywhere else in the country. And yet, by the standard metric everyone uses to

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The Most Expensive Neighborhoods in Boston — And What You Actually Get for the Money

In-depth Analysis, Real Estate Market

Boston is not a city where “expensive” means the same thing in every zip code. A $1.2 million budget will get you a well-appointed two-bedroom condo with harbor views in one neighborhood and a tiny studio with a galley kitchen in another. The difference is not just square footage — it is history, walkability, prestige,

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The Fall of Reebok: How Boston’s Most Iconic Sneaker Brand Went From Beating Nike to Fighting for Survival

Boston Business Stories

There is a photograph that captures better than any statistic what Reebok was at its peak. It is 1986. Michael Jordan has been wearing Air Jordans for two years. Nike is spending millions on advertising. And yet, on the shelves of sporting goods stores across America, the brand selling the most shoes is not Nike.

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