The Maine Center for Entrepreneurs has selected 24 companies to participate in its 2022 Top Gun business-training program. Top Gun, which launched in 2009…
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Top 15 Maine Startup Stories of 2021
The pandemic has adversely impacted Maine’s economy, but it didn’t slow the momentum of Maine’s tech startups. As I do each year, I dove…
HighByte raises $3.5M seed round with industrial software product
HighByte, an industrial software company based in Portland, today announced the close of a seed financing round that will fuel its next phase of…
Guide to the Roux Institute Techstars Accelerator class of 2021
Here’s a brief guide to the 10 startups that participated in the Roux Institute Techstars Accelerator class of 2021.
MedRhythms adds Bose Ventures, Global Brain Corp. to its Series B round
MedRhythms, a digital therapeutics startup in Portland, announced this week that it has raised an additional $2 million as part of its Series B…
Colby College launches Halloran Lab for Entrepreneurship
Colby College in Waterville announced last week that it will establish the Halloran Lab for Entrepreneurship to provide students with unique opportunities to better…
Reconnect founder steps aside for new CEO
Reconnect Inc., a Cumberland-based company that’s developed software and hardware to improve outcomes for individuals in the justice system, recently announced that it had…
KinoTek raises $2.1M seed round
KinoTek, a digital health startup in Portland, has raised a $2.1 million seed round. The company has developed an easy-to-use platform that uses AI…
What’s behind Waterville’s emergence as Maine’s latest startup hub?
Waterville is a small city (pop. ≈16,000) nestled on the shore of the Kennebec River in central Maine. Like many Maine cities and towns,…