Startup Hub 2023

Maine has a wide range of resources for startups, but it's not always easy to navigate the system. Here is a start.

Crooked Face Creamery owner Amy Rowbottom has used a range of grants, incentive programs and "slow money" financing to build an artisan cheesemaking business that's gaining wider recognition.

While wood fiber insulation is popular in Europe, TimberHP will be the first company to produce it in the United States. The company expects to roll out the first of three planned product lines in April.

MedRhythms has raised $37 million from angel investors, venture capital firms, Maine Technology Institute and private investors.

The Portland startup has raised money from a variety of sources, including pitch competitions, grants and venture capital funding rounds.

With customers like Eastern Mountain Sports and REI, Good To-Go, a Kittery maker of dehydrated meals, has reached a national market.

With backing from Maine Technology Institute, CEI and Camden National, the Gardiner startup has been able to expand operations and find new customers.

Patrick Breeding was a biomedical engineering grad student at the University of Maine when, with his co-founder Amber Boutiette, started working with proteins called glycoproteins found in lobsters.

ORPC was founded in Florida in 2004 by cruise ship executive Paul Wells, John Cooper and Chris Sauer, whose careers focused on developing and operating cogeneration and independent power projects

The journey of a startup can take many forms. It’s easy to get swept away in the stories of certain startups that seem to have it all going for them — the great idea, the polished elevator speech, a shelf full of awards from pitch competitions.