Ocean Renewable Power Co., a Portland-based company focused on generating renewable energy from the world’s oceans and rivers, has raised $7.5 million to fund…
Whit Richardson
Hi, there. I'm a journalist and writer based in Portland, Maine, who's been covering the Maine business landscape for more than a decade. I did my fair share of covering paper mills and lobsters, but naturally gravitated to stories about innovative companies that, while based in Maine, sought to serve national and global markets by leveraging technology.
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0MedRhythms reaches milestone as first medical device enters clinical trials
MedRhythms Inc., a Portland-based medical-device startup, has begun clinical trials of its first product, which combines music, wearable sensors, and artificial intelligence to help…
KinoTek receives $60K MTI grant to accelerate product development
KinoTek, a software startup spun out of research done at the University of Maine, has received a grant of $60,000 from the Maine Technology…
Reflecting on Failure: Why Rapport, the sustainability SaaS startup that won Rise of the Rest, shut down
Rapport, the Portland-based startup that developed software to help businesses track their sustainability efforts, has shut down operations. John Rooks, the company’s co-founder and…
Defendify Pursues Estimated $300B Cybersecurity Market With SaaS Product
Small business owners are notoriously harried, their attention pulled in a dozen different directions—one moment responding to a customer complaint or emailing that key…
Scratchpad Accelerator names four companies to 2019 cohort
Scratchpad Accelerator, a startup-business accelerator in Bangor, has selected four companies for its fall 2019 cohort. The fall cohort, which gathered last week for…
VETRO FiberMap Rides the Wave of Massive Investment in Fiber Networks
This is the age of fiber optics. As people eat up an increasing amount of bandwidth each year, a trend driven by increased and…
HighByte emerges from stealth mode with global beta product
HighByte, a Portland-based industrial software company, has emerged from stealth mode with its first product since being founded in August 2018. Earlier this week,…
Maine Center of Entrepreneurs secures $50K SBA grant
The Maine Center for Entrepreneurs has received a $50,000 grant from the U.S. Small Business Administration to support startups and entrepreneurs researching and developing…
MSI Newsletter #185 — Sept. 21, 2019
Good morning. The third company selected as a 2019 Startup to Watch is the only one I didn’t know much about before it was nominated.…