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DOULA DETAILS: Melissa Bowley, founder and CEO of doula service Flourish Collective Inc., doing business as Flourish Care, in her Newport office. PBN PHOTO/DAVID HANSEN

Bowley is connecting mothers with doulas to have successful births

Business Women 09/11/2026

Melissa Bowley took a roundabout journey to become the founder and CEO of doula service Flourish Collective Inc., doing business as Flourish Care, which...

FINDING FUNDS: RIHub Managing Director Annette Tonti, third from left, speaks with, from left, Natalie Hogan, chief operating officer at DataRobot; Lindsay Kuhn, founder at Wingspans; and Trisha Ballakur, co-founder and chief technology officer of Pointz, at RIHub in Providence. Tonti says it’s especially difficult for women entrepreneurs to raise funding. PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Funding tough to access for women, minorities

Entrepreneurship 01/19/2024

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...

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