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Northshore October 2025
Brick-and-mortars might just be the hardest hit group of businesses during this COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent economic downtown—and Salem-based MainVest is here to help. The new company, launched in 2018, recently began their Main Street initiative, aimed at helping brick-and-mortars impacted by COVID-19. MainVest cofounder Nick Mathews, a Topsfield native, founded MainVest after a six-year stint at Uber in Boston, training him in building local marketplaces. Mathews never intended to start a company designed to help businesses during a crisis, “but we do find that we end up being a pretty strong solution,” he said, “and now we
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