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Forge AI, a Cambridge,MA-based startup aiming to decode the world’s mountains of unstructured data for machine learning algorithms, says it has raised $11 million in new funding. Jim Crowley, Jack Crowley and Jennifer Lum founded Forge in 2017, and it’s kept relatively quiet in the time since. The company reads and digests unstructured data. Such […]

This holiday season, Massachusetts robotics startups proved they’ve quickly become a crucial cog in the e-commerce machine. Is that enough for a sustainable future for the industry?

David Chang is ready for a new adventure. The former head of PayPal’s Boston office has been named CEO of Gradifi, a Boston-based provider of student loan and college saving employee benefit. Announced on Thursday, the appointment is effective immediately. Chang will replace Tim DeMello, Gradifi’s founder and CEO, who left earlier this year. As an angel investor, Chang

One graduated from Harvard Medical School but never practiced medicine, deciding at age 26 to develop a device to fight obesity. Another graduated from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and promptly joined the drug industry, recently helping to engineer the sale of a Cambridge startup in a deal worth up to $775 million. A

Verizon Tuesday unveiled plans for a major expansion in Boston, including building out its cellular and Fios high-speed networks across the entire city, and bringing 2,000 employees to a building atop North Station. That office will anchor a new $540 million, 31-story building — the tallest office building built in Boston in nearly 20 years

When Botkeeper founder and CEO Enrico Palmerino was in college, he started a business to automate the design of lighting systems. It began as a class project, but the business ended up growing quickly. Ultimately, he just couldn’t keep up with the logistical day-to-day busywork of accounting, and Palmerino’s business actually ran entirely dry of

Airfox, a Harvard-born startup that last year held the largest public cryptocurrency sale in Boston, has agreed to pay $350,000 in penalties to state and federal financial regulators as part of a settlement related to the sale. As part of the settlement, Airfox will also allow investors in its cryptocurrency sale, which raised $15 million,