News Category: Portfolio News
Nearpeer raises $400,000 to fuel growth
(Reprint from Maine Startups Insider 1/18/2020) – Nearpeer, a Portland-based edtech startup that aims to improve student retention and graduation, recently closed a $400,000 financing round. Read more here.
Read more »Top Gun accelerator names 44 companies for 2020 cohort
(Reprint from Maine Startups Insider 1/17/2020) – Top Gun, which launched in 2009 as a single class of a dozen entrepreneurs in Portland, will convene cohorts this year in Portland, Bangor, Lewiston/Auburn, Brunswick, and Waterville. Read more here.
Read more »Two Maine startups among finalists to compete for $250,000 at ASU GSV Summit
(Reprint from Maine Startups Insider 1/18/2020) – GSV Ventures, an early-stage venture fund, announced this week the selection of 200 seed and bootstrapped education and talent technology startups—the “Elite 200″—to present at the ASU GSV Summit, taking place March 30-April 1 in San Diego this year. Read more here.
Read more »Covetrus Enters Into Definitive Agreement to Divest scil animal care to Heska
(Reprint from Covetrus Press Release 1/14/2020) PORTLAND, Maine–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan. 14, 2020– Covetrus (NASDAQ: CVET), a global leader in animal-health technology and services, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its scil animal care business (“scil”) to Heska Corporation (“Heska”) (NASDAQ: HSKA) for a purchase price of $125 million in cash,…
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