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Building a business in rural America starts with understanding your local economy. CORI’s Rural Economic Development Tool helps founders use clear, accessible data to answer five critical questions about markets, hiring, capital, and growth.
We’re seeing exciting momentum from Barn Owl Precision Agriculture (BOPA). They’ve completed the initial close of a $3 million funding round and have added new ANT (Autonomous Nano Tractor) leases covering more than 150,000 acres.
Big climate breakthroughs aren’t just happening in big cities. In rural Vermont, Verde Technologies is scaling next-generation solar technology that’s lighter, more flexible, and poised to reshape how the world produces clean energy.
Agile Space Industries, one of CORI Innovation Fund’s portfolio companies, has exceptional momentum. They recently closed a $17M Series A and are well-positioned to lead the next era of commercial and national security space missions.
Rural founders from across the country proved that innovation can happen anywhere at CORI’s 5th annual pitch event. The evening highlighted the bold creativity and entrepreneurial momentum building across small communities nationwide.
For the first time, our uniquely rural pitch event happened in person at the Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship at Dartmouth College and virtually via livestream.
Checking in with four past participants of CORI's annual pitch event for rural tech startups, Small Towns, Big Ideas, to see how the experience helped them on their entrepreneurship journey.
How CORI is planning to support rural Vermont entrepreneurs with the Green Mountain Launchpad, a program that will connect startups to pro-bono legal and financial accounting assistance, potential angel investors, and help developing pitches.
The investment CIF made in Disa in 2021 allowed the company to expand its HPSA technology to commercial scale and led to significant follow-on investment.
