Forager, the Portland-based startup that has built an online marketplace to connect grocers and local farms, has raised $625,000 of an $800,000 offering to…
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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0Justin Hafner, KinoTek CEO, makes national list of rising stars in the sports business
Justin Hafner, co-founder and CEO of KinoTek, a Portland-based digital health technology company, has been named to a prestigious list of rising stars in…
Maine Venture Fund taps Joe Powers to be its next managing director
Maine Venture Fund, the state’s quasi-governmental venture capital fund, announced this week that it has chosen its internal candidate, Joe Powers, to be its…
BluShift Aerospace, building an ‘Uber to space,’ launches equity crowdfunding campaign
Coming in the wake of an historic rocket launch earlier this year, BluShift Aerospace, a startup rocket company based in Brunswick, recently launched an…
LaunchPad names five finalists who will compete for $50K prize
Gorham Savings Bank this morning announced the finalists for its eighth annual LaunchPad small business competition. From a pool of nearly 150 applicant businesses,…
Five Questions for Lars Perkins, the inaugural director of The Roux Institute Techstars Accelerator
Techstars in late April picked Lars Perkins, founder of Picasa and a former exec at Google, to become the inaugural director of the Roux…
DAVO Technologies acquired by Seattle firm
DAVO Technologies, a software company based in Westbrook that helps small businesses automate the collection and payment of sales tax, has been acquired by…
Techstars hires Lars Perkins to lead Portland accelerator
The Roux Institute Techstars Accelerator has named Lars Perkins, a veteran tech founder and software executive, as its first managing director. Perkins, who has…
Q&A with John Burns, Maine Venture Fund’s outgoing director
John Burns has led Maine Venture Fund for 20 years, growing it from a small, unknown quasi-governmental organization mandated with investing in early-stage Maine…
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Maine Center for Entrepreneurs launches biotech accelerator The Maine Center for Entrepreneurs has launched a new business accelerator program specifically for…