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These companies all got their start at the Foster Student Innovation Center. They have since graduated to locations throughout the state of Maine, including several at the Target Technology Incubator.
Consumer Energy Research Corporation, www.heat-safe.com
William Sulinski - wsulinski@heat-safe.com
This UMaine graduate created Heat-Safe 1000, a remote sensing device for home-heating oil tanks that provides oil retailers with remote notification of low-oil and low-temperature alarms. It enables oil retailers to decrease their cost of delivering oil significantly.
Farmers' Group Bio-Energy
Jeremy Labbe & Adam Paradis - jeremy.labbe@umit.maine.edu
Farmers' Group intends to use waste agricultural materials, including cull potatoes, to produce ethanol. Jeremy and Adam were winners of the 2007 Bioproducts Business Competition at the Foster Student Innovation Center. Adam grew up on a potato farm in Frenchville, Maine and recently graduated from UMaine with a degree in agribusiness management. Jeremy is a civil engineering graduate student at UMaine.
Forever Green Laminates, LLC, www.fglaminates.com
Gilliad Munden & Jeffrey Dunham - jeff@fglaminates.com
This company is positioning itself to be an innovator in the manufacturing and installation of Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs). SIPs provide an alternative to traditional, stick-framed housing that is stronger and much more energy efficient. Jeff and Gilliad are working with the help of the Advanced Engineered Wood Composites (AEWC) Center and the Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMC).
Intelligent Spatial Technologies, www.i-spatialtech.com
Chris Frank - info@i-spatialtech.com
IST’s mission is to provide a full range of integrated navigation, wayfinding, traveling, and information services that give the user control of when, where, and what kind of information is provided. The company has a strong background in spatial information research combined with over five years of experience in software design and development, and maintains strong links with UMaine. Chris Frank founded IST in April 2003 as an opportunity to realize the commercial potential of the innovative technology developed during his Master’s research. He was recently awarded Maine’s 2006 Young Entrepreneur of the Year by the Small Business Administration.
Knife Edge Productions, www.kefilm.com
Sheridan Kelley and Nathan Hankla - sheridan@kefilm.com / NHankla@ver0.com
A digital video company founded by two UMaine students, Knife Edge combines the latest video hardware and software with artistic talents and innovative visions. They have worked on a variety of projects including a series of documentaries for the Maine International Trade Center's annual Trade Day Awards ceremony, and recently completed a music video for "Fenway Girls", an original song by Rockland native Eric Wass. They are currently working on a video to accompany the Governor's trade missions overseas in an effort to help Maine attract foreign investments and encourage international business development.
MarginLeft
Sky Mayhew & James Daniels - www.marginleft.com
MarginLeft is developing an innovative new system for delivering online education. This platform allows teachers to easily deliver any form of media to anybody with the Internet. It includes multi-format podcasting, video conversion, and media galleries.
Pell Innovations, www.pell-innovations.com
Jacob Pelletier - info@pell-innovations.com
2003 UMaine graduate Jacob Pelletier formed Pell Innovations to serve as a vehicle for the commercialization of new ideas and innovations for a healthier planet.
RE Consulting
Rory Eckardt - rory@rec-llc.com
RE Consulting LLC is a forestry business specializing in forest operations and transportation. The purpose of the services provided by RE Consulting LLC is to enable and support informed decision making in forest operations and transportation activities (i.e., all activities involved with processing and transporting trees from the forest location to the milling location: harvesting, product break-down, loading and unloading, and transport).
RyanBeaumont.net, www.ryanbeaumont.net
Ryan Beaumont - info@ryanbeaumont.net / 207.735.6181
Ryan offers engineering design automation solutions by developing custom add-ons and third-party applications for CAD, CAM, Finite Element (FE), and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software.
SymBio
Jared Worful - jared.worful@umit.maine.edu
SymBio has successfully cultured the “Solar-Powered Sea Slug” Elysia chlorotica, which immediately engages its audience with its brilliant green color and uncanny resemblance to a leaf. The sea slug is unique because, unlike any other group of animals, it is able to live by carrying out photosynthesis with chloroplasts it acquires and retains by feeding on algae. SymBio plans to market the organism to saltwater aquarium keepers.
Version 0, www.ver0.com
Nathan Hankla - NHankla@ver0.com
UMaine graduate student Hankla founded versionZero, a new media development company. The company specializes in multimedia design, graphics, web site development, DVD/CDs, and photo and video editing.
PhotoScan
rhon.bell@umit.maine.edu, 207.299.2386
Rhon Bell
PhotoScan will pick up your photos, negatives, and slides. The company scans and digitizes them onto CD so you can share, enjoy, and preserve your memories forever. Their innovative software restores faded colors, removes scratches, and breathes life back into all your old photos before they are delivered back to you.
Scene Box Productions
Dan Pierce & Jake Williams
New Media students Dan Pierce from Turner and Jake Williams from Bowdoin have started a new venture, a video production company called Scene Box Productions. They specialize in filming events in and around Maine and someday hope to produce their own films. Recent projects have included the Maine Artist Fellowship Awards and Poetry Out Loud. |
