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NORTH ADAMS — Keva Health, of Lexington, bested five other firms, including a company from Stockbridge, to finish first Friday in the Connect Tech Innovation Challenge produced by the startup accelerator and innovation network Lever. It was the fourth and final event in a series of COVID-19 challenges produced by Lever that focused on state companies developing products to help stop the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Edgi Learning, of Stockbridge, was one of the six companies that had...

PITTSFIELD — Like most businesses, the Berkshire Innovation Center had to pivot quickly in 2020. About two weeks after the $13.8 million facility’s grand opening ceremony took place at the end of February last year, the COVID-19 pandemic caused the state’s economy to shut down. “We were thrown right into the water,” said BIC Executive Director Ben Sosne. The center’s first year didn’t go the way anybody thought it would. But, Sosne believes that, still, the fi...