March 11, 2021 Alumni
Marin Skincare is a Maine story.
It started in 2013 when co-founders Amber Boutiette and Patrick Breeding met on the first day of their first year as biomedical engineering undergraduate students at the University of Maine. Nearly eight years later, the pair has relocated to Portland, launched a specialty skincare product made with lobster glycoprotein, and is now teaming with an established Maine brand, Lukeâs Lobster, to scale their supply chain and meet strong demand for their first product.
Lukeâs Lobster, a seafood company founded by third-generation lobsterman Luke Holden, has been part of the Marin story from the beginning. The Lukeâs Lobster ethos is focused on sustainable, traceable seafood that supports the coastal communities essential to its harvest. Boutiette and Breeding (â17, â19G) were introduced to Holden by Robert Bayer, former director of the UMaine Lobster
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KinoTek Inc., a Portland-based developer of a digital health platform that uses computer-vision technology for body-motion assessment, said Tuesday that it has raised $600,000 in a pre-seed funding round that was oversubscribed.
The company was founded in 2018 by University of Maine students Justin Hafner and David Holomakoff, who won the Greenlight Maine Collegiate Challenge in 2019.
In Tuesday s announcement, KinoTek said it will use funding raised in its first round to launch its first product, called Move.ly, to the public later this year.
Investors include IeAD Sports and Health Tech Partners, Tavistock Group, Maine Technology Institute and independent angel investors.
“Every dollar of this round is what we consider ‘smart money, said Hafner. Each investor adds immense value to our company an allows us to build a strong foundation for future growth.” He also referred to the closing of the first funding round as a testament to the team s hard work throughout the p