Featuring pre-seed or seed-stage startups from a variety of sectors, “Small Towns, Big Ideas,” the first-ever virtual pitch event hosted by the Center on Rural Innovation, gave small-town entrepreneurs a national spotlight.
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Today, the CORI Innovation Fund announced an investment in Calypso Continuing Education, a provider of sustainable clean technology for processing and liberation of natural resources.
Today, the CORI Innovation Fund announced an investment in Disa Technologies, Inc., a provider of sustainable clean technology for processing and liberation of natural resources.
Author Maia Patrick Donohue offers five things to know about mentorship that show how it can be so important for rural tech entrepreneurs.
The second part of a three-part series on the infrastructure needed to build digital economy ecosystems in rural America.
Too often, we have conversations with people who believe that agriculture technology is the only innovation that could occur in rural America. But let's be clear: That notion is woefully incomplete.
As part of its efforts to support economic resilience, the Vermont Community Foundation invested $250,000 in a partnership with the Center on Rural Innovation to fund CORI's digital economic strategy services in five Vermont communities.
Shyft Auto founders say they didn’t have a pandemic in mind when they originally developed a tech platform to help car dealerships go “contactless.” Then COVID-19 hit, just as they were launching, and it became even more relevant.
With entrepreneurship assistance from the Black River Innovation Campus (BRIC) in Springfield, Vermont, Kanav Setia channeled his skills into an education and research platform called qBraid he hopes can accelerate the quantum computing revolution.
Today, the CORI Innovation Fund (CIF) announced an investment in ShyftAuto, a provider of solutions for automotive service centers to enable and enhance mobile customer interaction and retention.