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This year's contest will culminate in Portland on June 7 with a final face-off, which will take place before a live audience and also be livestreamed.

HighByte, a fast-growing Portland industrial software startup aiming to win what one of its founders calls a war for tech talent, won the $50,000 grand prize in Gorham Savings Bank's 2021 LaunchPad competition on Tuesday. "I'm actually at a loss for words, for once," Torey Penrod-Cambra, HighByte's co-founder and chief marketing officer, said from the stage when her company was announced as the winner. This year's edition, live-streamed from AV Technik studios in Scarborough, was the first virtual version of the annual pitch contest in a relaunch after last year's cancellation during t...

Out of nearly 150 applicants for Gorham Savings Bank's relaunched LaunchPad competition in 2021, five finalists have been selected to vie for $50,000 in prize money at the June event. The pitch competition is back this year after last year's cancellation because of the pandemic, and will take place via live stream on Tuesday, June 1, at 3:30 p.m. The finalists will compete for a $50,000 grant from Gorham Savings. The 2021 finalists are: Brave Foods, of Portland; Erin Flett/Studio e Flett, of Gorham, whose founder was honored as a 2020 Mainebiz Woman to Watch; HighByte, of Portland; Huga Heat...

Tabitha Swanson, founder and CEO, the Swanson Group Image Tabitha Swanson of The Swanson Group LLC "I started my business a few months before my second child was born. I had a male colleague who would always introduce me to people saying, 'This woman here birthed two children this year — her daughter and her business.' I always think back to how true that was.   "Just like a child, when you start a business, it is in its infancy and you have to nurture it, it requires extra attention and late nights, then as it grows the care you need to give it changes as does the care a child needs alo...

After a forced hiatus in 2020 because of the pandemic, Gorham Savings Bank's annual LaunchPad competition is back this year in a virtual format. Applications are now open for the eighth edition of the annual small business competition, in which promising small businesses will vie for a $50,000 grant from the bank with a livestream event planned for June 1. “We’re truly excited to bring LaunchPad back this year and can’t wait to review the applications. We know we are going to learn a lot about how Maine’s small businesses have adapted and innovated to meet the new reality and addr...