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Portland mapping software co. raises seed round

Maine Venture Fund, CEI Ventures, and members of the Maine Angels and Bangor Angels have all invested in NBT Solutions' first round of financing. The Portland company has raised nearly a million dollars to drive growth of a SaaS mapping platform it’s developed for the telecommunications industry.
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Ben Shaw wins regional Entrepreneur of the Year award

Ben Shaw, founder and CEO of Vets First Choice in Portland, has won the New England Entrepreneur of the Year award from Ernst & Young for the healthcare services category. Shaw founded the company in 2010 to provide online pharmacy services to veterinarians and has built it into one of Portland’s most successful technology companies. It currently employs at least 300 people, the majority of which are in Portland, and has annual revenue somewhere in the neighborhood of $60-$100 million.
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Briefly Mentioned

+ Forager, the Portland startup that's developed an online platform to connect farmers with grocers, was written up in VentureFizz, a website that focuses on the Boston tech scene.

+ Founders of food and beverage startups have a new source of capital. The City of Portland's Portland Development Corp., the Finance Authority of Maine and the Greater Portland Council of Governments have teamed up to offer a $500,000 a year in loans to food and beverage producters. Mainebiz has more.

Jobs

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+ Forager, an early-stage tech startup in Portland with a B2B platform for sourcing local food, is hiring an account manager. 

+ Pika Energy in Westbrook is hiring an office manager and a director of electrical engineering.

+ Visible Logic, parent company of Branding Compass, is hiring a junior- to mid-level designer to work on a large range of projects from logo design to web design to video and infographics.

+ Big Room Studios, a software and web development firm in Portland, is hiring a project manager. 

+ CourseStorm is looking for a software engineer. Bangor-based is preferable, but the company is open to a remote worker if the right candidate was to come along.

+ Rapport is looking to hire a Senior Sales Rep and a Ruby/SQL developer in Portland.

+ BetterLesson, a Cambridge-based edtech startup, is hiring for a few sales and marketing positions. The right person does not need to be based in Boston, according to BetterLesson's Chief Revenue Officer, Betsy Peters, who lives in Freeport. The company is hiring a Director of Sales, Director of Marketing, and an Inside Sales Account Executive.

+ Certify in Portland is hiring a full-stack developer and several sales and marketing positions.

+ NBT Solutions has filled these jobs with the help of this job board! NBT Solutions in Portland is hiring a geospatial developer, a technical SaaS sales lead, a GIS analyst and a marketing programs coordinator to support its VETRO FiberMap product expansion.

+ BlueTarp Financial in Portland is hiring an engineering manager.

+ Academic Merit, an educational software startup in Portland, is hiring a software engineer.

+ Environetix Technology Corp., a wireless sensor manufacturer in Orono, is hiring a RF engineer/RF technician.

+ Dream Local Digital in Rockland is hiring for a host of positions.

+ Vets First Choice still has job listings for several positions at its Portland office, from a UX/UI design to a director of e-commerce.

+ CashStar is hiring a UX designer and full-stack software engineer, among other positions.
 

Calendar

NOTE: In an effort to make this calendar of events more accessible, I've created a shareable Google calendar that I hope to keep updated. You can find the calendar here. Feel free to share it. As always, send me your event or calendar item for possible inclusion. 

Tues., July 11 — Hack Portland hosts Civic Hack Night from 7-10 p.m. at Mechanics Hall on Congress Street in Portland. Civic Hacking is the idea of applying rapid prototyping and modern, open technology to the solution of common civic problems such as voting, budgeting, parking, and community engagement. More details. 

Thurs., July 27 — Global Shapers Portland Hub hosts an event, "Making it in Maine: Getting by in the Gig Economy," at Space Gallery in Portland. 6-8 p.m. More details.
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