Tag: Annette Tonti
2025 Rhode Island Startup Week concludes with busiest year yet
PROVIDENCE – This year's Rhode Island Startup Week attracted record-setting attendance and participation, event organizer RIHub reported.
The programming, held in late September, drew more...
R.I. Startup Week returns with broader reach, sharpened focus areas
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island Startup Week has returned with programming that covers greater breadth and depth of Ocean State innovation.
The event, developed by startup...
C10 Labs and RIHub partner on AI innovation
PROVIDENCE – C10 Labs, an artificial intelligence venture studio and investment firm based in Cambridge, Mass., has announced a strategic partnership with RIHub to...
Commerce board members want close eye kept on new venture capital...
When a $2 million proposal to start a state-sponsored venture capital fund to spur more high-potential startups came before the R.I. Commerce Corp. board...
RIHub partners with Auxilium to expand support for R.I., Mass. entrepreneurs
PROVIDENCE – RIHub is partnering with Worcester, Mass.-based innovation studio and accelerator Auxilium to provide entrepreneurs in Massachusetts and Rhode Island with greater access “to...
Entrepreneurial desert in R.I.? Study suggests it, but leaders say no
A recent study indicates that the rate of businesses being created in Rhode Island is lagging behind most of the country, but those involved...
How the Fastest Growing and Most Innovative Companies Utilize Technology for...
As the Managing Director of RIHub, Rhode Island’s Innovation Hub, I have the privilege of working alongside an innovative group of ‘high growth’ business...
RIHub to host inaugural Newport Investor Summit during Startup Week
PROVIDENCE – As RIHub prepares to kick off its fourth annual Startup Week on Sept. 20, an abundance of in-person events, including a celebratory...
New England Female Founders urges investors to ‘Show Her the Money’
NEWPORT – With local venture capital already in short supply, Melissa Bowley, founder and CEO of Flourish Care, found herself facing a particularly steep...
Funding tough to access for women, minorities
Throughout her more than 30 years as a Rhode Island-based entrepreneur and innovator, Annette Tonti has started multiple businesses and raised tens of millions...
