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Growing laundry app startup seeks gig workers, customers in Maine
Updated: September 3, 2021The company, called SudShare, is an on-demand service with a different spin on outsourcing laundry.
Updated: September 3, 2021
Brewing new niches, beer makers and distilleries are targeting more specialized markets
Updated: September 6, 2021In a crowded market that includes 150 breweries, Maine craft beverage makers are getting creative in order to set themselves apart. The results include breakthrough brands and unusual concoctions.
Updated: September 6, 2021
Baby steps: Surging need for child care sparks Maine startup boom
Updated: September 6, 2021The field is vulnerable to economic ups and downs, and has been hit hard by the pandemic. Nevertheless, startup momentum in Maine’s child care sector remains strong, one microenterprise or nonprofit at a time.
Updated: September 6, 2021
Fishing for profit: Specialized seafood handling yields top-quality product, better prices
Updated: September 6, 2021True Fin, a startup from the Gulf of Maine Research Institute’s business development group, is changing the way fishermen handle their catch — which can mean a premium in the marketplace.
Updated: September 6, 2021From the Editor: The pandemic has been fertile ground for startups
Updated: September 6, 2021Working from home, remote operations, mandated closures, layoffs, the Great Resignation — 2020 offered a whole host of reasons why we’re now seeing startups cropping up all over.
Updated: September 6, 2021
How to find funding for your small business
Updated: September 2, 2021Tom Rainey, executive director of the Maine Center for Entrepreneurs, shared financing tips in a videotaped presentation for last week's Mainebiz Small Business Forum.
Updated: September 2, 2021
Biddeford startup may provide farms with unusual field hands — robots
Updated: August 31, 2021The founder started in filmmaking, invented Wi-Fi monitors for beehives and helped develop computer-vision technology for greenhouse monitoring. Now he and his team have a labor-saving prototype robot that can weed farm fields.
Updated: August 31, 2021
Waterville startup hub Dirigo Labs gears up for its own startup with key hire
August 20, 2021The managing director for the incubator and innovation hub, now being organized by the Central Maine Growth Council, comes from a Portland tech startup and has long experience with the Top Gun program.
August 20, 2021
Portland-based renewable energy company gets $25M in growth capital
August 17, 2021ORPC’s RivGen system harnesses river and tidal current energy to generate electricity. Over 2 billion people worldwide have limited access to electricity, prompting bullishness from the new investors.
August 17, 2021
Innovators of farming robots and renewable power win clean energy competition
Updated: August 17, 2021The competition identifies promising technologies to help address the climate and Maine’s clean energy goals. Companies in Biddeford and Wiscasset were each awarded $250,000.
Updated: August 17, 2021
Kittery lactation-support startup launches $1.15M seed round, project with state
August 12, 2021Pumpspotting plans to use the investment to fuel growth in the business-to-business channel. Meanwhile, the company was accepted into the state's new Early Adopter Program, with a roll-out to 31,000 employees.
August 12, 2021
Prominent, 34-year-old Portland restaurant will launch new course as eatery incubator
August 6, 2021Back Bay Grill, a white-tablecloth restaurant in the city's West Bayside neighborhood, will become a pop-up incubator to help develop other dining businesses.
August 6, 2021
Women to Watch: Heather Blease knows how to make a comeback
Updated: August 9, 2021The owner and CEO of customer support company SaviLinx has learned from her share of accomplishments and setbacks building four businesses. So when the pandemic hit, she was ready to turn a challenging time into an opportunity for growth.
Updated: August 9, 2021
Women to Watch: In both law and business, Krystal Williams is blazing trails
Updated: August 9, 2021Attorney and entrepreneur Krystal Williams, who first came to Maine a decade ago to hike the Appalachian Trail, left Maine’s largest law firm last year to start an advisory firm and a nonprofit driving change within Maine's legal community.
Updated: August 9, 2021
Celebrating the 2021 Mainebiz Women to Watch
Updated: August 9, 2021For the 13th year, Mainebiz recognizes a group of remarkable women leaders, from every field of business and the nonprofit world, who are changing the state for the better.
Updated: August 9, 2021
With major new investor, Brunswick rocket-maker bluShift enters a new orbit
August 5, 2021The company is now one of the preferred "launch providers" — along with the businesses of Richard Branson and Elon Musk — for the commercial space division of a Los Angeles engineering firm.
August 5, 2021
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