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Slater Technology Fund to invest in Alcinous Pharmaceuticals

Health Services 05/15/2020

PROVIDENCE – The Slater Technology Fund, along with private angel investors, will invest up to $600,000 in Alcinous Pharmaceuticals, the nonprofit seed fund announced...

Thorne Sparkman joined Slater in 2000 as executive director of what was then known as the Slater Center for Interactive Technologies. He focuses on the earliest stage of company creation, including working with university-based teams commercializing research. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Support the founders

Business Services 02/14/2020

Thorne Sparkman | Slater Technology Fund managing director As a seed-stage investor, I spend countless hours discovering and courting entrepreneurs, because the founders of today’s...

Piranha Pond pitch contest set for Nov. 13 at UMassD...

Technology 11/05/2019

DARTMOUTH – The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the South Coast Entrepreneurs Collaborative will host a Piranha Pond pitch...

OPEN HOUSE: Sebastian Sheng, left, a first-year graduate student in PRIME, or program in innovation management and entrepreneurship at Brown University, speaks with, from left, Brown sophomores Isamella Espinosa, international relations major; Olivia Tulkoff, public policy major; and Jack Schaeffer, applied math and economics major, at the university’s Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship during an open house to kick off the fall semester.  / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

R.I. has a robust entrepreneurial community, but can it do more...

Cover Story 09/27/2019

For a small state, Rhode Island punches above its weight when it comes to producing promising startups and organizations that help nurture and fund...

SLATER TECHNOLOGY FUND has invested $250,000 in HappyNest, an East Greenwich-based company providing digital services and consumer-facing offerings in the laundry-as-service market.

Slater funds East Greenwich laundry delivery startup

Entrepreneurship 08/21/2019

EAST GREENWICH – The Slater Technology Fund has invested $250,000 in HappyNest Inc., a laundry-as-service company headquartered in East Greenwich, the fund announced this...

Slater Technology Fund invests in Providence ‘e-learning’ startup

Financial Services 08/19/2019

PROVIDENCE – The Slater Technology Fund, a local nonprofit seed fund for business ventures, has invested $25,000 in GoPeer, a Providence-based “e-learning” startup, as...

Five Questions With: Thorne Sparkman

Financial Services 07/08/2019

Thorne Sparkman is the managing director of Providence-based Slater Technology Fund, Rhode Island’s largest venture capital fund, where he is responsible for the firm’s...

Slater Technology Fund announces new board members, chair

Technology 04/02/2019

PROVIDENCE – Slater Technology Fund, the state’s oldest seed-stage investment fund, has added Robert Maccini and Christopher Graham to its board of directors and...

4 R.I. companies chosen for 2018 Cleantech Open Northeast accelerator program

Entrepreneurship 06/18/2018

PROVIDENCE – Four Rhode Island companies were selected for the 2018 Cleantech Open Northeast accelerator program and had their application costs and fees underwritten...