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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Maine tech startups land seed grants

By Brendan Lynch

The Maine Technology Institute reports it has given out a round of seed grants to Maine technology companies.

The MTI gives up to $12,500 in awards six times a year. The MTI requires a one-to-one match of funds, staff time, equipment or other resources from the startups.
 

The following projects were awarded seed grants:

Kenway Corp., Augusta: $25,000 in two seed grants to develop laminates, conduct fire testing at a certified laboratory and conduct structural testing of transportation paneling.

Griffin LLC, Brunswick: $11,300 to file a patent application for an energy-efficient propulsion system for submarines. 

McCabe & Associates, Winslow: $8,900 to perform market research, design its product and manufacture sample product sets for a patented mechanics hand tool.  

Maine Conservation Medicine Center, Waterville: $12,500 for patent, product licensing, business development, and trademark assistance for an aquaculture and fisheries drug. 

Hall Web Services, Portland: $12,500 for marketing for its web analytics software.

Refill Management LLC, Yarmouth: $10,400 to complete beta development for its medical software product.
 
Mega Industries LLC, Gorham: $12,500 to develop a radio-frequency circulator that protects expensive radio frequency transmitters from harmful signal reflections.

Discover Motion LLC, Carrabassett Valley: $11,600 to develop an application for its FanMisery.com index for the BlackBerry mobile platform. 
 
RoyallWear LLC, Richmond: $12,300 to hire consultants for its product, a hospital johnny made from plant fiber fabric.

Bazaar Strategies LLC, Falmouth: $11,500 for R&D on a mobile networking platform used for building and managing transactional relationships.
 
Labeling Solutions, South Portland: $12,500 to develop a way to tag agricultural and seafood commodities at their exact harvest or catch location, for tracking.

AXAT Inc., Holden: $12,500 to develop a portable, low-cost remote sensing device to monitor multiple operations in the aquaculture industry. 

Energy Circle LLC, South Freeport: $11,400 to complete development of its software-as-a-service tool intended to improve business processes in the energy auditing and energy efficiency retrofit contracting sector.
 

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