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52 Boston Startups Net $1.5 Billion+ In May

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Boston’s biotech industry raised more than $1.5 Cohere Capital Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm focused exclusively on middle-market growth companies, closed its initial fund at $200 million, and Founder Collective raised $85 million for its newest fund, BostInno reported. LaunchPad Medical of Lowell received a $2.5

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Amazon To Build $40M Robotics Innovation Hub Near Boston

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Amazon is planning to build a $40 million state-of-the-art robotics innovation hub near Boston that will result in the creation of 200 tech and manufacturing jobs, Amazon announced in a press release Wednesday (Nov. The 350,000-square-foot facility will be located in Westborough, Massachusetts, which is 35 miles west of Boston.

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Perficient WIT Group Shares Advice for Women Taking a Job in Technology

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Hiral Shah , lead technical consultant, recently shared her thoughts on advocating for your work with BuiltIn Boston and Laura Kenny , Talent Acquisition Coordinator , wrote about in the article How Perficient Employees Slay Impostor Syndrome , a topic that everyone has the potential to experience. Lisa Sherwood , senior agency manager.

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Uber Eats Says Customers Donated $3M To Help Unemployed Workers

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Uber Eats said it will send its matched portion to the National Restaurant Association’s Restaurant Employee Relief Fund. As reported in early April, the National Restaurant Association created the fund to support U.S. Two days later, it expanded citywide and then was introduced over the next week to the rest of the nation. “We

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Groupon Teams Up With Redeam To Expand Worldwide Experiences

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The attraction and activity operators it serves include Walt Disney World, BigBus Tours, Boston Harbor Cruises, National Geographic Encounter: Ocean Odyssey and the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. Hundreds of resellers are part of the Redeam global platform, including popular attractions, theme parks, museums and more.

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Amazon Sidewalk Eyes IoT Beyond The Connected Home

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In terms of potential use cases for Sidewalk, the enhanced connectivity would allow users to find lost keys or other items, or to manage appliances while away from home but still local. But he noted that Sidewalk would “struggle to match 5G’s national coverage.”

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Alphabet-Backed Healthcare Startup, One Medical, To IPO

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One Medical is backed by technology and management firm 1Life Healthcare and will trade under the symbol “ONEM.” According to the filing , One Medical has nine locations — Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix, San Diego, the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle and Washington, D.C. One Medical was valued at about $1.5