SteveUrvan I often hear people say #Maine is the best place to raise your first $500K. Maine Technology Institute Maine Startups Insider Startup Maine Adam Nyhan Whit The GrowMaine Show Martin Grohman

Not the headline we like to see. But at least the decision to abandon plans to launch from the Maine coast in favor of a Florida launch site sounds like a temporary one in order to secure NASA funding.

Maine ranked 39th in the US for innovation, according to a report from WalletHub, a personal finance site. The report looked at 22 metrics, including share of STEM professionals, R&D spending per capita & tech-company density. Concerning or clickbait? mainestartupsinsider.com/maine-low-inno…

Circa, based in Brunswick & a inaugural member of The Roux Institute Techstars Accelerator, has raised $2M to help it accomplish its mission to reinvent rent. Thanks TechCrunch & Christine Hall for covering this Maine-based startup. Lots of exciting companies being built here. techcrunch.com/2022/04/25/cir…

Andrea Bosoni Same experience. No matter how hard I try to keep to a consistent weekly schedule, I ship my Maine Startups Insider newsletter inconsistently, and often on the weekends, but they still maintain 45%-50% open rates. cc @NickRimsa

We've moved our newsletter to Substack. Here's the latest edition: mainestartupsinsider.substack.com/p/google-backs…

Just sent out a new newsletter. Topics covered include Finetune being acquired, Running Tide Technologies faces scrutiny over plans to bury gigatons of CO2 on ocean floor, and Maine Venture Fund launching the Maine Startup Challenge. mainestartupsinsider.substack.com/p/finetune-acq…

Just published my 262nd newsletter! - Two ME startups picked for new Techstars class - Two ME startups closes $$ rounds - UMaine opens $78M engineering center - What is gourmet foodie mag SAVEUR doing writing about pumpspotting? 🤔 mainestartupsinsider.substack.com/p/techstars-pi…

.The Roux Institute Techstars Accelerator class of 2022 startup Colette Johnson has something super exciting in the works.🙌Here’s a behind-the-scenes sneak peek of what’s to come. Keep an eye on this channel for the big reveal on Monday, December 12! #EmpireStateofMind #startups #entrepreneurs

BREAKING — The Roux Institute at Northeastern is shutting down the Techstars accelerator after two years A Northeastern University representative told MSI the Roux canceled its contract with Techstars because it has "built the capacity to scale this critical work in house." mainestartupsinsider.com/roux-institute…

Funding news: VETRO FiberMap®, developer of cloud-based fiber management software, has raised $7M in growth capital. Existing investors Resolve Growth Partners & Maine Venture Fund led the round. mainestartupsinsider.com/vetro-raises-7…

Exciting news! Back in 2020, Shopify became RunningTide’s inaugural customer. Since then, I've been anticipating this moment to share an incredible update: Running Tide has successfully accomplished the FIRST EVER carbon removal in the open ocean! linkedin.com/pulse/shopify-…

The 'carbon buoys' are designed to capture and sink carbon in a number of different ways. f-st.co/YadWhqZ

New edition of the newsletter went out today. Stories include: 👉 MyHealthMath, which we selected as a Maine Startup to Watch in 2019, merges w/ UK company 👉 WEX launches VC arm to invest in EV infrastructure 👉 MedRhythms gets FDA nod and more... mainestartupsinsider.substack.com/p/maine-startu…

Pumpspotting, a Kittery-based startup offering a breastfeeding-support app and B2B platform, has raised another $2.2M to fund expansion efforts in the retail and healthcare sectors. pumpspotting #startups mainestartupsinsider.com/pumpspotting-r…

The latest MSI newsletter reports on a massive funding round for one of Portland's quietest startups mainestartupsinsider.substack.com/p/running-tide…

Maine-based, climate tech startup RunningTide delivers its first carbon credits & reveals it raised a $54M Series B led by Lowercarbon Capital to continue its mission to use floating (then sinking) kelp farms to remove gigatons of carbon from the atmosphere mainestartupsinsider.com/running-tide-5…