COMPANY PROFILE COMPANY: SQZ Biotech HEADQUARTERS: Boston, MA FOUNDERS: Armon Sharei, 28 YEAR FOUNDED: 2013 MONEY RAISED: $6 M EMPLOYEES: 25 WEBSITE: sqzbiotech.com/ Inc.‘s 11th annual 30 Under 30 list features the young founders taking on some of the world’s biggest challenges. Here, meet SQZ Biotech. When Armon Sharei was a chemical engineering PhD student at MIT in 2008, he joined a team toiling to transfer compounds into living cells–a difficult task, but one that could help scientists research diseases or discover new drugs.… Read more

The business of offering consumers virtual visits with physicians is booming even as questions about the quality of care and cost effectiveness of those services remain unresolved. American Well, a Boston-based telehealth firm, raised $81 million in December. Dallas-based Teladoc, which offers access to doctors through voice or video, raised $50 million in September.… Read more

The total market for cybersecurity technology implemented by U.S. hospitals will expand at a compound annual growth rate of 13.6 percent between now and 2021, according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan. But health organizations need more than mere security tools. As near-constant cyberattacks become the new reality, hospitals are realizing it’s not just patient data at risk – they’re seeing that ransomware and other viruses that compromise their IT systems could cause actual patient harm, the study, U.S.… Read more