In his last column, Scott Kirsner looks back on a quarter-century of reporting on Boston startups, funding, and tech leaders — and considers what the changing times mean for the future.
Local companies are developing technologies that they hope could replace a painful poke with something that feels more like having Velcro against your skin for a few minutes.
HubSpot cofounder Dharmesh Shah is betting that artificial intelligence advances will go far beyond the basic question-and-answer functions of ChatGPT or DeepSeek.
Skky Partners, which plans to invest in up-and-coming consumer brands, has maintained a very low profile, given that its cofounder has more than 350 million followers on Instagram.
A group of coffee experts rated each java on a scale of 0-10, with zero being “how dare you serve this to me” and ten being “best coffee I’ve ever had.”
“The Sound we Travel at," a series of 11 grass-covered, wave-like mounds of earth, can be found in Kendall Square — though there's no sign installed to tell you what you're looking at.
Angle is raising a first round of funding for Familiar Machines & Magic, a Boston-area company that will develop a new kind of home robot focused on health and wellness.
Angle is raising a first round of funding for Familiar Machines & Magic, a Boston-area company that will develop a new kind of home robot focused on health and wellness.
Economic development in this new era is about making the case to individuals that your state is the best place to work, start a company, buy a house, or raise a family.
No one would argue that we’re living through a golden age of manufacturing in Massachusetts, but you might be surprised what actually gets made here these days.
Flux Marine has developed a clean, quiet battery-powered outboard motor that it hopes will convince boaters to give up their gas guzzlers. But electric boats face many of the same challenges as electric vehicles.
Even for Amy and Pierre Villenueve, a couple hardened by years of starting, running, and working in tech startups, winemaking presented a new set of risks.
Applied Invention is working on mind-boggling initiatives such as a mechanical clock designed to last 10,000 years, or torpedo-like underwater drones to gather data from the ocean.
