Startup Maine Stories

In this series, Startup Maine's President, Katie Shorey, discusses valuable insights with thinkers and doers from across Maine. This session she is joined by David Douglas Stone, Executive Chairman and Founder of Forager

In this series, Startup Maine's President, Katie Shorey, discusses valuable insights with thinkers and doers from across Maine. This session she is joined by Helkin Berg, CEO of Strimo.

In this series, Startup Maine's President, Katie Shorey, discusses valuable insights with thinkers and doers from across Maine. This session she is joined by Chris Wolfel, Director of Entrepreneurship at the Roux Institute

In this series, Startup Maine's President, Katie Shorey, discusses valuable insights with thinkers and doers from across Maine. This session she is joined by Chip Terry, CEO & Co-Founder of Oyster Tracker.

As bluShift Aerospace crosses the halfway line to its crowd equity funding goal of $1.07 million, the Brunswick-based company is betting on its development of a small, dedicated launch service to break into a crowded field of companies eyeing the lucrative commercial space flight market.

Twenty years ago, I was the only immigrant involved in the Maine tech startup ecosystem. The fact that still remains largely true, despite the growth of the state’s startup community and large influx of immigrants to the state in the intervening years, is a problem.

UpStart Maine, a coalition of entrepreneur-support organizations in the Bangor region, says the recent award of a $20,000 in grant funding will help the alliance officially launch two business growth programs that were piloted this spring.

A bucketload of money is arriving in Maine from federal and state funding sources — including at least $100 million through the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan — to expand broadband access.

HighByte, a fast-growing Portland industrial software startup aiming to win what one of its founders calls a war for tech talent, won the $50,000 grand prize in Gorham Savings Bank's 2021 LaunchPad competition on Tuesday.

The Cubby, a Waterville startup that helps college students sell art work, won Maine Center for Entrepreneurs' Top Gun Showcase award on Wednesday night.