A Westbrook-based company that grows and sells mushrooms has won the Launchpad business plan competition and its $50,000 first-place cash prize. North Spore, which…
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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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0New VC firm raising ‘first-of-its-kind’ fund to invest in Maine
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A new venture capital firm based in Portland is raising a $10 million fund to make seed investments in early-stage, primarily Maine-based companies. It…
MyBodyModel wins Top Gun 2018, $25,000 prize
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Erica Schmitz, founder of a startup that’s developed a web application for clothing designers, walked away from Wednesday night’s Top Gun Showcase event with…
Big Room Studios launches ‘Developer-in-Residence’ program
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A few months ago, a software developer who had collaborated in the past on some open-source projects with Big Room Studios, a software-development firm…
Launchpad names five finalists who will compete for $50K prize
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Launchpad, the statewide business-pitch competition, has named the five businesses that will compete next month for a chance to win $50,000. More than 180…
Eight entrepreneurs picked to compete in Top Gun finals
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After a series of semi-final pitch events around the state on Wednesday, eight entrepreneurs who participated in the Maine Center for Entrepreneurs’ Top Gun…
Maine Center for Entrepreneurs picks seven companies for its food-focused business accelerator
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The Maine Center for Entrepreneurs has picked seven Maine companies for its inaugural Cultivator Food, Beverage & Agriculture Accelerator program. As part of the…
CEI Ventures invests $500k in Biddeford manufacturing startup
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CEI Ventures has made a $500,000 seed investment in Junora Ltd., a manufacturing startup in Biddeford that is developing new technology for the global…
Zephyrus Simulation wins Bangor region’s business-pitch contest
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Zephyrus Simulation, a medical-device startup in Orono, on Tuesday evening won the final event of Big Gig, the Bangor region’s startup-pitch contest. Patrick Breeding, a…
Vets First Choice to go public via merger, expected to become Maine’s largest publicly traded company
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Vets First Choice, one of Maine’s most successful startups of the past decade, on Monday morning announced a merger deal that, if completed, is expected…