A startup finds its footing during the pandemic
By Scott Kirsner Globe Correspondent,Updated May 2, 2021, 1 hour ago
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While quarantining in Chester, Vt., over the winter, Cohere Health cofounder Duncan Reece brought a set of new MacBooks with him to configure and send to new hires.Cohere Health
On the last day of March, Duncan Reece put on an N95 face mask and headed to downtown Boston to meet five colleagues. Their objective was to check out four offices to see if one might be right for their fast-growing startup, Cohere Health.
When the pandemic arrived a year before, Cohere had 16 employees and operated out of a shared office space in Downtown Crossing. By this March, Cohere, which focuses on smoothing out the process of getting âprior authorizationsâ for doctorâs appointments and medical procedures, had grown to 160 people â all of them working remotely. The topic of needing some sort of office space by July or August had come up, leading