Tag: venture capital
THE RIGHT FORMULA? R.I.’s life sciences sector takes shape, but growth...
In 2023, the General Assembly made its biggest bet yet on Rhode Island’s life sciences industry.
Lawmakers committed $45 million over three years to create...
Cancer vaccine startup comes back to life
In 2016, Dr. Annie De Groot received a cry for help.
A scientific researcher, De Groot had worked for decades on computational vaccinology – the...
Lab space could be a big draw
Rhode Island has gone all in on life sciences, but it still remains to be seen whether the millions of dollars of investment will...
An R.I. success story worth reinvesting in
Investment capital can still be tough to find for startups looking to stay in Rhode Island. But imagine the last 25 years without the...
Rhode Island driving innovation by turning tech into product
Inside Octo Product Development Inc.’s Providence design lab, designers are busy building early versions of technologies that could reshape maritime travel, from all-electric seagliders...
The entrenched venture capital gender gap
Venture capital plays an important role in helping new businesses get off the ground. The field also has a stubborn gender gap.
More than 4...
Blue and green startups avoiding funding crunch
Over the past year, declining investments, layoffs and uncertainty about the future have plagued tech companies throughout the U.S. And while tech giants such...
Thorne Sparkman
Thorne Sparkman is constantly on the hunt.
His quarry? Entrepreneurs with transformational ideas in areas such as health care and energy and the grit to...
George Cobleigh Joins CBIZ as Managing Director
George Cobleigh joined CBIZ as a Tax Managing Director in our Private Equity/Venture Capital Group and works out of both the Providence, RI and...
How the GA-backed investment fund works
This is how the Small Business Development Fund, as approved by the General Assembly, would work: The state would issue up to $42 million in...
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