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Due diligence is in progress for the purchase of two buildings in South Portland that would give the shared commercial kitchen and business incubator eight times the space it has now in Portland.
The company, which has developed a digital health platform for body-motion assessment and currently employs a dozen people, says it plans to used the funding to scale and serve a wider range of movement-clinician markets.
Coworking and collaborative workspaces were growing in popularity across the state in 2019, but interest slumped in 2020. This week the state launched a grant program to create more spaces and support entrepreneurship.
GMRI’s Blue Economy Initiative envisions a “Gulf of Maine corridor” from Maine to Boston as a global hub of innovation. The grant aims to enhance the region’s seafood industry, create high-quality jobs, and generate blue economy entrepreneurship.
When overseas business nose-dived and the pandemic shuttered restaurants, Holden expanded the company’s branded grocery line and created an online seafood market to help fishermen have a place to sell their harvest.
In 2015, VanHaren launched pumpspotting, an app designed to connect parents with each other and with breastfeeding, pumping and postpartum support services. The platform now has a virtual community of over 40,000 parents.
Originally from Rwanda, Mwenedata is expanding his business in southern Maine, and giving back half of the company's profits to coffee growers in the country of his birth.
After launching one successful company, Deri set his sights even higher. His Brunswick startup, bluShift Aerospace, is now building commercial rockets aimed at bringing nanosatellites into orbit, as far as 400 miles above the Earth.
Since Kenkel started Springworks Farm in 2014, it's sprung to employ nearly 40 Mainers, and now sells organic lettuce and herbs throughout New England. A third greenhouse, representing a $4 million investment, is on the way.
The two Nexters, who founded MedRhythms Inc., a Portland startup whose digital therapeutics may someday help restore nervous system functioning, discuss the growth of the business and what changes lie ahead.
An agreement will allow MedRhythms to use Universal Music Group's millions of recordings for the MedRhythms digital therapeutics platform, which combines music, software and clinical sensors to help restore neurological function in patients.
A long-time seafood industry expert is working with Maine-based seafood and aquaculture businesses interested in scaling up profitability and market reach. The goal is to expand the industry and create jobs.
Nancy Strojny, assistant director of SCORE Maine and a longtime mentor to businesses from Flowfold to the Holy Donut, said the awards "are a testament to the innovation, diligence and dedication of small business's owners."
The company, called SudShare, is an on-demand service with a different spin on outsourcing laundry.
In 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.
The 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.
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Next year will bring a host of new challenges for businesses looking to add employees to the payroll.
Maine's Paid Family and Medical Leave law will go into effect, which will allow an employee to take paid leave for up to 12 weeks to care for an ill family member or new child, for instance.
The state's minimum wage will increase by 45 cents an hour, to $15.10 (a separate minimum wage provision was approved in Portland that will raise the hourly compensation to $19 within three years).
And rising health care premiums will continue to be a struggle for employers.
For companies that plan to grow, all of these factors will have to be managed.
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